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Netflix India Releases Way of the Househusband, Yasuke, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Anime
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Netflix is listing the following titles for release in India:
- The anime series of Kousuke Oono's The Way of the Househusband (Gokushufudō) manga will release alongside its worldwide debut on April 8.
- Masaaki Yuasa and Science Saru's television anime Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! will release on April 9.
- LeSean Thomas and MAPPA's Yasuke anime.
- The live-action film adaptation of Ching Nakamura's Gunjō yuri drama manga Ride or Die (in Japanese Kanojo) will release alongside its worldwide debut on April 15.
Oono launched the manga on Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch website in February 2018. Viz Media is publishing the manga in English. The manga has inspired a live-action series that premiered in October 2020.
The manga won the Best Humor Publication category at last year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The series was acknowledged as a runner-up in 2019's Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards' web manga category and came in at #9 in last year's Web Manga General Election. The Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook for 2019 ranked the manga at #8 for its top manga series for men. The series also ranked on Honya Club's "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics" lists for 2018 and 2019.
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! premiered on NHK General in January 2020, and ended in March 2020 with 12 episodes.
Sumito Ōwara launched the manga in Shogakukan's Gekkan! Spirits magazine in 2016. The series was nominated for the 11th Manga Taisho awards in 2018, and it won the top Bros. Comic Award in 2017. Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga, and released the first volume in October 2020.
The manga also inspired a live-action film adaptation, which opened on September 25. The film's tie-in six-episode television mini-series premiered in April 2020.
Yasuke will debut on April 29 worldwide on Netflix.
Netflix describes the story:
In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a peaceful existence after a past life of violence. But when a local village becomes the center of social upheaval between warring daimyo, Yasuke must take up his sword and transport a mysterious child who is the target of dark forces and bloodthirsty warlords.The story of Yasuke, the first African samurai who actually served the legendary Oda Nobunaga, will be released to the world.
The story's protagonist is based on the historical figure Yasuke, a samurai of African origin who served under Oda Nobunaga during Japan's Warring States period in the 16th century.
LeSean Thomas (Children of Ether, Cannon Busters, The Boondocks) is credited as creator, director, and executive producer for Yasuke, and Flying Lotus is composing the music and serving as executive producer. Takeshi Koike (Redline) is designing the characters. Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Sorry to Bother You) is voicing Yasuke. MAPPA (Yuri on Ice, Kakegurui) is producing the animation.
Ride or Die (in Japanese Kanojo) will star Kiko Mizuhara as Rei and Honami Satō as Nanae. Additional cast members include Yōko Maki, Anne Suzuki, Tetsushi Tanaka, Sara Minami, Shinya Niiro, Shunsuke Tanaka, and Setsuko Torimaru.
Ryūichi Hiroki is directing the film, Nami Kikkawa is penning the screenplay, and Haruomi Hosono is performing the theme song.
The manga centers on a woman who asks another woman who is in love with her to kill her abusive husband. The manga then follows the two women on the run after the murder.
The manga launched in Kodansha's Morning two magazine and ran for 13 installments, before being suddenly removed from the magazine in 2009. The manga then resumed in Shogakukan's Ikki magazine in April 2010. The manga ended in Ikki in 2012 with three volumes.
Part of the manga is available in English for free on Nakamura's Note website, and Nakamura is planning an e-book of the manga's first volume.
Source: Netflix
