Assassination Classroom, the live-action film based on the manga of the same name, revolves around a fantasy that’s run through the head of every junior high school student at least once: killing their homeroom teacher.

In Assassination Classroom, though, the teacher is a human-sized, bright yellow monster with tentacles for arms and a ceaselessly beaming smiley face for a head, and the killing of said teacher is officially sanctioned by the government, lest the teacher/monster destroy the world.

Someday, there will be a week we squeak by without reporting on any live-action anime adaptations. But it is not this week.

The rights to the Hollywood-produced live-action version of the Hollywood-produced anime mashup Robotech has switched hands from Warner Bros. to Sony Pictures, reports Variety.

Not a week goes by, it feels, that we’re not reporting on some anime or manga that’s being turned into a live-action film. Though it’s not a particularly new phenomenon, the pace seems to be increasing as studios bank on nostalgia to drive ticket sales and CG technology gets good enough to to replicate the visuals of fantasy and sci-fi anime.

But don’t dare try to live-actionize these anime, say 500 Japanese men and women polled by Freshers Research this February. Their top five list of “leave it alone!” reads like this:

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony’s American filmmaking subsidiary of recent hacking infamy, registered several domain names all relating to Attack on Titan Tuesday. The eight domain names are all some combination of “Attack on the Titan” and half of them also include “movie.”

Attack on the Titan? What does it all mean? Click for our speculation.

While things have been moving lately for the live-action Ghost in the Shell film, the same can’t be said for Akira.

In a brief interview over at Collider, director Jaume Collet-Serra, who is attached to the long-gestating live-action Akira project, says there has been no progress on the film since last year.