Remember how I talked a while back about Neko Rahmen, a 4koma comic strip whose anime had been released subtitled on VUZE a while back and which is now getting a live-action adaptation? Yes/no (circle one and return to me in 5th period!)

Well, it’s once again appeared in the news, tangentially anyway: anime!anime! reports that another work of Sonishi’s, a similar gag manga called Inu Gaisha that features dogs working in an office, is getting made into an anime as well. (It was also made into a live-action series in 2007.

Like Neko Rahmen, it’s going to be a Flash anime; unlike it, the production companies are different. Neko Rahmen was developed as part of THINK Corporation, but Inu Gaisha (literally “Dog Company,” btw) is being developed by indeprox. You can watch a mini-episode-thinger (or maybe a full episode is going to be like that?) at the official website.

So since his works keep coming up these days, I spent a small amount of spare time which I don’t have to look into him, only to find…not a lot of information! What I did find is after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, the first time I’d even heard of Neko Rahmen* was when Azureus VUZE got the exclusive rights to air a subbed version of the flash anime adaptation on its ‘net TV program, but now TokyoGraph reports that the 4koma strip is now being developed into a live-action flick.

The film is going to be called Neko Rahmen Taisho and follows the surreal adventures of a cat running a ramen shop. Minoru Kawasaki, director of the ‘93 Silent Mobius live-action flick, among others, will helm the film.

* Okay, Neko Ramen probably makes more sense, but in the official website they romanize it “Rahmen,” and I try to go with the official when I can.