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Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Series Gets Live-Action Movie Based on Louvre Story
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The live-action series inspired by live-action series will return for the movie. The movie's official website opened on Wednesday and unveiled a trailer and visual:
City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes) is also returning as Kyoka Izumi, Rohan's editor.
P.I.C.S. are producing.
Rohan's actor Takahashi states that this film can also be considered the series' "ninth episode." He also revealed that they are currently filming in , after having finished scenes in Japan alongside the two most recent episodes.
The live-action series' two most recent episodes premiered on December 26 and 27.
The first three episodes debuted in December 2020 for three consecutive nights on the NHK General channel. The second installment of three episodes streaming the first three episodes.
The manga's 11th Ultra Jump magazine in April 2022, with its second part premiering that May.
The anime studio screened the overseas premiere of "Fugō Mura" at its Crunchyroll Expo event in August 2019. The studio david production then produced two new episodes, "Zange-shitsu" (Confessional Room) and "The Run," which played at nine screenings at six cities in Japan between December 2020 and March 2021.
North American graphic novel publisher NBM Publishing released the 128-page Rohan at the Louvre full-color manga in February 2012. NBM describes Rohan at the Louvre:
Rohan, a young mangaka, meets a beautiful mysterious young woman with a dramatic story. Seeing him draw, she tells him of a cursed 200 year old painting using the blackest ink ever known from a 1000 year old tree the painter had brought down without approval from the Emperor who had him executed for doing so. The painting meanwhile had been saved from destruction by a curator of the Louvre. Rohan forgets this story as he becomes famous but ten years later, visiting Paris, he takes the occasion to try and locate the painting. Little does he know how violently powerful the curse of it is until he has the museum unearth it from deep within its archival bowels…
Araki originally created the manga for the "Le Louvre invite la bande dessinée" ("Cartoons - The Louvre Invites Comic-Strip Art") exhibition at 's famed Louvre art museum in 2009.
Sources: Kishibe Rohan Louvre e Iku film's website, Comic Natalie
