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After the terrible 2011 earthquake in Japan, VIZ Media and Autodesk released the digital art anthology Art for Hope with all of VIZ’s proceeds going to disaster relief. Now, several months after the approximately 8 magnitude April earthquake in Nepal, VIZ and Autodesk have teamed …Read more »
Hopefully you’re feelin’ lucky, because it’s time to return to the wild world of the Undead Unluck anime! The series adapting the hit manga by Yoshifumi Tozuka is back for more, and you can now own Undead Unluck, Part 2 on digital. As if the …Read more »
Shiro Usazaki’s career was off to a promising start with her working as an illustrator for the popular manga act-age. However, act-age’s author Tatsuya Matsuki got caught in 2020 committing sexual assaults against underage girls, and this led to the cancellation of the series. Usazaki …Read more »
The April 1 premiere of the Spice and Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf anime is almost upon us, and now we know who will be opening and closing the new episodes. The opening theme song will be “Tabi no Yukue” (“The Journey’s Destination”) by …Read more »
Lonely Castle in the Mirror is playing in select American theaters June 21 and 22. In the fantasy film, adolescent Kokoro is terrified of going to school, and finds a mirror to a castle where other children are dealing with the same school phobia. Director …Read more »
Megumi Ogata is a prolific voice actress and musician, and she recently added author to her credentials with the publication of her autobiography, Saisei (Kari), which has been published in Japan by Kadokawa Corp. Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun interviewed the Evangelion voice actress about …Read more »
Godzilla Singular Point is coming to Netflix June 24, and director Atsushi Takahashi and writer Toh Enjoe talked to Anime News Network about it. “They [the kaiju] are not simply villainous kaiju that wreak wanton destruction over and over; we depicted them as living creatures …Read more »
Studio Ghibli recently joined Twitter, and they shared an image for the New Year. The Year of the Ox stomps what appears to be a representation of COVID-19. Studio Ghibli also gave a message, and SoraNews24 supplied a translation: “We would like to extend our …Read more »
The Asahi Shimbun interviewed Makoto Tezuka (sometimes written as Macoto Tezka) about adapting his father Osamu Tezuka’s manga Barbara into a live action movie, Tezuka’s Barbara. Osamu Tezuka wrote the provocative and mature Barbara in the 70s, when his son was a child. “I think …Read more »
In September, a news story spread in Japan about 20 volumes of Demon Slayer being stolen from the bath house Mori no Onsen. The bathhouse’s response, which was to kindly ask on social media for the manga to be returned, made the story go viral. …Read more »
We don’t have too much longer to wait for the return of the Mr. Osomatsu anime, which has everyone’s favorite sextuplets coming back to TV this October. With season three right around the corner, a new piece of character art has all six decked out …Read more »
The wait keeps getting shorter and shorter for Final Fantasy VII Remake, which hits PS4 on March 3, 2020. Well, the first part does… there’s still no word on how many parts there will be after the retooled Midgar section. Still, with the release on the …Read more »
Back in in July we reported on the Russian artist Ahriman, who takes shots from Western action films and redraws them in the style of 90s anime. They’re so well executed, it really makes you wish you could see them animated, and it seems Ahriman …Read more »
There’s a lot of anime centered around the arts. While we’ve seen plenty about pop stars and even a few about anime and manga themselves, I think this might be the first one to be about rakugo. Rakugo is a traditional Japanese form of entertainment …Read more »
Actor Garry Chalk is best-known for playing Optimus Prime in Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Cybertron, and Transformers: Energon, as well as in Beast Machines: Transformers, where he also played Optimus Primal. He was additionally Optimus Primal in Beast Wars. Right now he is in the news …Read more »
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