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Asahi Shimbun Publishing and Pixiv have announced that they’re looking for horror stories, and the winner will be crowned in the Asahi Horror Comic Awards. They’ve tapped some important people to be judges, including horror master and Eisner Award winner Junji Ito. Ito won’t be …Read more »
Moo. It has been reported anime studio Asahi Productions have been farming out employees of their branch in Miyagi, Tohoku to… farms. The workers dispatched to farms were hired with funds from a government-sponsored post-2011 Great East Japan earthquake job creation project. From November 2012 …Read more »
The Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association got started a year ago with the aim to help people in the anime industry. And a survey just released by the group shows there’s a long way to go in terms of making working conditions better. Japan’s …Read more »
The Gushing Over Magical Girls anime spiced up the winter 2024 season, but its source material is about to take an indefinite break. According to the accounts of Takeshobo’s Storia Dash manga website, Akihiro Ononaka’s Gushing Over Magical Girls manga will be going on hiatus …Read more »
Four people involved with the major anime piracy site B9GOOD were found guilty and sentenced at the People’s Court of Taizhou Pharmaceutical High-Tech Industrial Development Zone in China. The piracy site was aimed at people in Japan. The names of the people were not given. …Read more »
The currently-airing Gushing Over Magical Girls anime recently debuted its 10th episode, and with it came an updated version of the ending video with two more characters featured. Now Yuka Aisaka (Loco Musica) and Minami Tsuda (Leberblume) have been thrown into the mix. They join …Read more »
Over the years Japan has been putting otaku decorations on manhole covers, and now Minato Ward, located in Tokyo, is joining in with manhole covers featuring Sailor Moon. This was chosen because the characters are involved with Minato Ward’s Azabu-Juban district. While the people who …Read more »
Following a pair of films released in 2020 and 2021, respectively, the study manga known as Kagaku Manga Survival (Science Manga Survival) is now making its way to the small screen in a TV anime adaptation. Asahi Shimbun revealed plans today, with more details to …Read more »
Yesterday two men in Japan were arrested because police believe they committed copyright infringement by stealing pages from Weekly Shonen Jump and posting them online before the chapters were scheduled to come out. The men, whose names were not listed in the report, are not …Read more »
Yesterday the Kyoto District Court sentenced Shinji Aoba to death for the 2019 arson at Kyoto Animation that killed 36 people and injured nearly as many. In response, Hideaki Hatta, the president of Kyoto Animation, stated: In accordance with the rules of law, we have …Read more »
The Kyoto District Court decided not to show any leniency on Shinji Aoba, the man who confessed to the 2019 Kyoto Animation arson that killed 36 people and wounded nearly as many. He has been given the death penalty. Aoba’s defense did not try to …Read more »
With the second part of the Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange anime now live, it’s time to welcome a couple more cast members. The official accounts revealed the addition of Yoko Hikasa (Freya in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a …Read more »
Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen is a certified smash. The manga, which debuted back in 2018, now has over 90 million copies in circulation. To celebrate that, and the release of its 25th volume, an ad has been published in today’s editions of the Asahi Shinbun …Read more »
Today marks the premiere of the Gushing Over Magical Girls anime, which is already live in Japan and will stream on HIDIVE in the form of the “gushing” version. This is one of three versions previously announced for the series, each less censored than the …Read more »
Based on the manga by Masahito Soda and Kuro Tomiyama, the Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange anime is set to continue with its second part starting on January 6, 2024. To get everyone properly suited up for the next set of episodes, a new key …Read more »
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