*the image via: the Magazine Pocket website
The official website for Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine announced on March 12 that the production of the live-action film adaptation of suspense manga Real Account created by Okushou (story) and Shizumu Watanabe (arts) had been canceled due to various circumstances. The live-action film project was revealed seven years ago, January 2018.
The statement reads:
Regarding the live-action film “Real Account” that we announced in 2018, we are sorry to inform you that the production has been cancelled due to various circumstances. We are very sorry for keeping fans waiting for a long time without further news.
We sincerely apologize to all those who have been looking forward to the release of this film.
The Real Account manga was first serialized in the publisher’s Bessatsu Shonen Magazine from its February to October issue in 2014, then moved to Weekly Shonen Magazine in the following year and ran until 2019. A total of 24 tankobon volumes were released in Japan, printing over 3.3 million copies by November 2020.
Kodansha USA, which has published an English edition of the manga, describes the synopsis:
Like many of his peers, Ataru Kashiwagi has found himself addicted to the newest social networking service, Real Account. But one day, Ataru and almost 10,000 other people, get sucked into the Real Account Zone, where they have become players in a series of deadly games. The basic rules of these games are simple—if you lose all your followers, you die in real life, and if you die, all of your followers die with you. As these depraved games decimate the players around him, Ataru must use quick thinking and his knowledge of Real Account to win each round and return to the real world. But when true friendship determines whether he lives or dies, can Ataru really survive when the only people he can count on are his Internet friends?
Volume 1 cover
Volume 24 cover
