Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members (deep breath) is a light novel series by Shisui …Read more »
Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair, or KYOMAF, is the largest event dedicated to manga, anime and games in western Japan. Now KYOMAF has revealed some details about the 2025 event, including dates and key art. This year’s KYOMAF will take place September 20 and 21 …Read more »
The arrests of four people by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police this week made news as the first arrests of its kind. The people had been selling pornographic posters made by AI, but because they didn’t cover up or pixilate the woman’s private parts, they got …Read more »
How would you like to take a course on anime in a college or vocational school? That’s one of the many ideas being pushed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, a section of the Japanese government. Right now Japanese content (which includes anime, manga, movies, …Read more »
Godzilla’s never exactly slowed down in media. But in recent years, more and more creative takes on this monster’s world have been coming out. One of the latest is Godzilla: Skate or Die!, a comic miniseries from IDW Publishing. Released in 2024, the five-issue series will …Read more »
Rent-a-Girlfriend season 4 is on the horizon this summer, so it’s time to look ahead to more dates. The latest date visual centers on Ruka, who will be joining the group on a Hawaiians trip. You can check out the appropriately summery piece of art …Read more »
Yoshitoki Oima’s To Your Eternity manga officially has its sights set on an ending. Volume 24 just hit shelves in Japan, revealing that volume 25 will be the final installment. Oima’s series first kicked off in Weekly Shonen magazine back in November 2016, winning the …Read more »
MAPPA, the studio behind productions like Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen and the currently airing Lazarus, has just added two new corporate officers to its organization. The first is Yuichi Fukushima, who will join MAPPA as a non-executive director, or outside director (shagaitorishimariyaku). Fukushima is known as …Read more »
All good things, both real and virtual, must come to an end. English VTuber Gawr Gura, who is affiliated with Cover Corp’s Hololive English, is set to “graduate” (i.e. retire) on May 1, 2025. The news comes via a statement from Hololive which reads: Since …Read more »
Sales of Blu-ray and DVD discs have really plunged over the years as streaming becomes more popular. Sony even declared that it was halting its manufacturing of BD and minidiscs this past February. But the news website Japan Forward suggested that otaku can still keep …Read more »
The anime Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii debuted in 2024, and today Crunchyroll will begin offering an English dubbed version of all 12 episodes. Let’s take a look at the cast and crew for the dub! Here are the actors involved: Molly Searcy …Read more »
You want more updates ahead of Kyoto Animation’s anime adaptation of Keiichi Arawi’s CITY manga? You got it! The series is set to premiere this July, and two more cast members have been revealed alongside a third concept visual. Yuko Goto (Georgie in Miss Kobayashi’s …Read more »
The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows anime is officially underway as part of the spring 2025 anime season, and some fresh news is here in its early days. A new voice drama short has been published, giving the folks behind it a nice …Read more »
Kanan-sama wa Akumade Choroi, the manga about a student who’s actually a demon hungry for human souls, has landed an anime adaptation. The news comes via the cover of the latest Shonen Magazine, where the manga runs. The anime is set to hit screens in …Read more »
Poupelle of Chimney Town, the 2020 film from Studio 4°C, has a sequel on the way. Today we got our first look at that sequel thanks to a new promo video and illustration. The film is subtitled Yakusoku no Tokeidai (The Promised Clocktower), and it’s …Read more »
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