In the year 2020, much of our entertainment is moving to primarily, if not solely, digital format. While you can still pick up books and discs and box sets to your heart’s content, the ease and accessibility of digital media means we stream or download …Read more »
Remember those Pokémon ASMR videos that made their way online a while back? Charmander, Chespin, and even Grimer were among the feature ‘Mon in those videos, and now the series is back with a fittingly summer-themed followup. Now isn’t the best time for you and …Read more »
Hello Kitty is on everything from notebooks to jewelry, but she’s continuing to expand her adorable feline empire with Hello Kitty themed hotel rooms opening this October. The new Asakusa Tobu Hotel, which is located in Tokyo, aims to offer two rooms dedicated to the …Read more »
Over the years, the anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s Inuyasha manga has become a time-honored classic. The story of Kagome Higurashi and the half-demon known as Inuyasha recently came home on digital and, for the first time ever, Blu-ray, and now Inuyasha Set 2 is …Read more »
There’s nothing that can’t be made better with anime, and that includes ice cream. Häagen-Dazs knows this well, which is why they kicked off an ad campaign to celebrate the launch of their Rum Raisin flavor in Japan. At the center of this campaign is …Read more »
Nagabe, the mangaka behind The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún and The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms, is back with the stirring short story anthology Love on the Other Side. There’s an element of fairy tales to these stories, and …Read more »
The Cells at Work! CODE BLACK anime was previously teased in its first trailer, and now Aniplex of America is back with an English-subtitled version. The spinoff of Akane Shimizu’s original series is based on the manga written by Shigemitsu Harada and illustrated by Issei …Read more »
Dropout Idol Fruit Tart is an upcoming anime series about idol singers trying to prevent their dorm from getting demolished. Today we got a listen to both the opening and ending theme songs (important for a show about music, I think you’ll agree) and learned …Read more »
MAPPA, the studio behind Yuri on Ice and Zombie Land Saga, is bringing the world of gymnastics to anime with Taiso Samurai, a new original series set to land this October. The series centers around male gymnast Shotaro Aragaki, a once-great member of Japan’s gymnastics …Read more »
We’ve got a bunch of new deets on Noblesse, the new Crunchyroll-produced anime based on a Korean manhwa from Jeho Son and Kwangsu Lee. The series, about a Noble named Raizel who awakens after a 820-year slumber, is set to hit the streaming service this …Read more »
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is coming back for a second season in 2021! But, like all good things, we’re going to have to wait for it. As we anticipate the return of the weirdly adorable series, we’re filling some of that time by looking back …Read more »
Fans of the Princess Connect! Re: Dive anime were treated to some great news today, because a second season is officially in the works. The mobile game franchise held a live stream this morning and took the opportunity to reveal season two, which will have …Read more »
Last November saw the suspension of the 11th Kyoto Animation Awards, which was expected since it was to come just months after the arson attack on Studio 1. As for when the awards will be hosted again, Kyoto Animation said they considered doing so at …Read more »
In Kaori Tsurutani’s BL Metamorphosis manga, 75-year-old widow Ichinoi muses about how fast time slips by. When a café she’s been visiting for years is abruptly shut down, she finds herself wandering into a bookstore. The cookbook section she goes to is now the manga …Read more »
Ever want more insight into how anime is made on the production side? Studio Trigger producer Kazuya Masumoto—who has worked on titles like Kill la Kill, SSSS.GRIDMAN, and PROMARE, among others—is here to offer it with a new anime production handbook. Best of all, the …Read more »
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