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Stardust Pictures Establishes Manga Imprint for Eventual Live-Action Adaptations
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Film production company Stardust Pictures has founded a new manga imprint named BeSTAR Comics on Friday. The label intends to publish manga that have the potential to eventually have live-action film adaptations.
The label intends to leverage the Stardust Promotion group of companies' (of which Stardust Pictures is a part) ability in publishing and creating film projects to produce manga that will go through various planning stages, eventually reaching a potential live-action film adaptation. The first two manga under the label are Minato Takano and Futonchirashi's Kara-chan to Shito-san to (Kara-chan & and Shito-san &), and Hiraku Nakamura and Bull's Yadokari (Hermit Crab).
Kara-chan & and Shito-san & follows the food-loving Kara and the sauna-loving Shito as they visit private saunas across Japan.
Yadokari centers on Kentarō, a young man with a strong sense of justice who aims to be a politician. He trades places with the heinous gangster Ryūji.
Takano wrote the scripts for the live-action Kakegurui and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, both based on manga. Bull is the pseudonym of manga creator Hirokazu Fukuda.
Sources: PR Times, Comic Natalie
