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News Round Up: New cast from Hakuouki drama, Hakuouki anime OVA , Ouran stageplay and more!

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screenshot of the teaser which is region-locked

Here are the additional cast members of the live-action TV drama adaptation of Hakuouki. Kotoko Wakayanagi bested 200 applicants for the role of Chizuri. Film and TV actor Masato Yano plays Saito Hajime while stage actor Sonde Kanai plays Okita Soji. Source: ANN.



The Hakuouki anime franchise gets a new OVA and a new character Sakai Hyogo. Source: ANN


Ouran High School Host Club gets a stageplay musical adaptation which will run on January 2022 in Tokyo and Osaka. Source: ANN



Check out the cast of the Collar x Malice stageplay adaptation which will run on September in Tokyo. Source: Official Twitter

final episode commemoration video

Fruits Basket is getting an anime spin-off in 2022 titled Kyо̄ko to Katsuya no Monogatari (Kyо̄ko and Katsuya's Story). This is backstory of Tohru's parents. The manga will also get a stageplay adaptation in 2022. Source: ANN (Not a reverse harem, see Levels of Reverse Harem)


Seven Seas has licensed My Next Life as a Villainess Side Story: Girls Patch. It's a yuri manga anthology by various creators featuring Katarina and the lovely ladies. The manga will be out in May 2022. Source: Seven Seas 


Seven Seas has licensed The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior light novel and manga. The light novel will be out in February 2022 while the manga will be out in March 2022. Source: Seven Seas (Not a confirmed reverse harem)

Pride Royal Ivy is only eight years old when she realizes that she’s been reincarnated, destined to become the future wicked queen and final boss of an otome game. She’s got it all in this new life: razor-sharp wit, boss-tier powers, and influence over the kingdom as crown princess. Determined to sow despair and destruction across the land, she… Wait, what kind of a rotten future is that?! Princess Pride decides to drop the maniacal villainess plan and protect the male love interests instead, cheating her way to saving everyone she can! Will this final boss end up earning the adoration of her kingdom?

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I found some reverse harem dramas...again. I'm going to try at least three episodes. I'll post First Impressions if I see the reverse harem potential if not I'll just update these post. 


Please Classmate cdrama / Release Date: April 23, 2021/ on WeTV  

Senyong High School is composed of literacy students in North Campus and sports students in South Campus who dislike each other. The two campuses have been living together as rivals for many years. This year, the school decided to merge the two campuses. This news causes a great flutter. What’s worse, Yuan Cai Xi and Ning Ze Yu from North Campus and Li He from South Campus who are both star students in their realm are divided into the same class, and even become deskmates. Since then, Senyong High School has opened a new era of "flammable and explosive" co-classes. From "antagonism" to "understanding", the young people grow up together and join hands to fight for honor.

 

 Young and Beautiful cdrama /Release Date: May 14, 2021/on WeTV  

In the year 2008, Liu Wen Jing was just a 19-year-old girl from a mountain village in Shanxi. Wanting to change her fate, she travels to Shanghai where she meets Hua Hua, Xu Wei, Xing Tian Ming, Qiao Hai Feng and Yan Liang Kun. They are a group of young men and women who are all struggling to make it in the big city. Liu Wen Jing is smart and hardworking. Through the help of Xing Tian Ming, she is admitted to college and also finds a job selling red wine. Alas, her family situation is unforgiving. With both her parents being old and sickly, Liu Wen Jing is desperate for money to the point that she was deceived several times and had to rely on her friends to help her. Liu Wen Jing's insecurities only grew as she began dating Ye Hui. Wrong turns in life lead to dire consequences. She and Yue Hui have a falling out, Xing Tian Ming lands in prison and worst of all, her mother dies. Looking around at her friends who continued to fight for their ideals, Liu Wen Jing gets a wake up call as she decides to pick up the pieces and start over.


Sweet Blood kdrama/Release Date: March 24, 2021/on WeTV  

Born between a human mother and a vampire father, Yeon Seo is a 118 year old half-vampire who wants nothing more than to live an ordinary human life. With natural beauty and a slew of vampire abilities, Yeon Seo could be anything she wanted, but she has chosen to blend in with those who appear closest to her age. As a result, Yeon Seo now finds herself faced with one of life’s most difficult challenges: graduating from high school. Fighting back her more vampiric urges, Yeon Seo does her best to blend in at school; a task that, for the most part, has been fairly easy. But when the sweet blood of her classmate, Song Meo Roo, attracts the attention of vampires and werewolves alike, things get a little more complicated. Trying desperately to ignore the siren call of Meo Roo’s blood, Yeon Seo takes it upon herself to protect her classmate from those who hunt him. As Yeon Seo and Meo Roo run for their lives, the blood in his veins calls to her. Torn between family duty and the desires of her own heart, a war within Yeon Seo rages. Will she be able to embrace her humanity and resist the temptation of this boy’s sweet blood or will her vampire side rise victorious in the end?

Love Alice or Not tdrama/ Release Date December 16, 2020/on Viki 

Li Si, aka Alice (Ivelyn Lee) is a 28-year-old graduate student who is obsessed with the story of “Alice in Wonderland,” but keeps her love for it a secret, as she worries it may be embarrassing. She is a lifelong singleton, and has never even had a boyfriend. But one by one her friends are getting married, and asking her to be their maid of honor. A friend warns her that if she is a bridesmaid three times, she will never marry herself. Then, one night, she has a dream where she is handed a magic magnifying glass that has the power to reveal key truths about the men she meets – a particularly handy tool, as she fears starting a relationship with a man who pretends to be nice, but then turns out to be a sleazeball. She also learns that she must find true love within the space of a year. When she wakes, she decides to do just that, and embarks on a mission to find a worthy suitor. But she soon discovers that her eligible male friends and the men she meets at university are not unlike the characters from “Alice in Wonderland.” The elusive White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Dodo, and the Dormouse – all shape up to be possible candidates...but which, if any, of them will win this modern-day Alice’s heart?

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