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Fuminori Kizaki, the director of Afro Samurai and Basilisk, will announce a new film at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo March 22, Funimation has announced. Funimation says it’s “a new sci-fi, cyberpunk film project… that explores the role of humanity in Tokyo, Japan of …Read more »
Live orchestra concerts for anime are nothing new in Japan, but they’re starting to spread in other countries as well. Now the Wild Faery Company is offering the “Attack on Titan – Beyond the Walls World Tour” in 2025, and it will hit 23 cities …Read more »
AnimEigo is bringing the Riding Bean OVA to TVOD platforms (such as Google Play, YouTube, and Amazon) and giving it a home release on Blu-ray. Pre-orders have begun, and the street date is September 10. If you get it here through the MediaOCD store, they’re …Read more »
Anime studio Kinema Citrus is cooking up something new, and so far two original projects have been revealed. The announcements came out of Chicago convention Anime Central 2024, where Kinema Citrus unveiled Goodbye, Lara and Ninja Skooler. Goodbye, Lara is a modern-day-Japan take on Hans …Read more »
Japanese rock band MAN WITH A MISSION is officially embarking on a new North American tour. The band has teamed up with Crunchyroll to announce the Kizuna no Kiseki tour, which will take them through a handful of cities throughout the United States and Mexico …Read more »
YOASOBI, which just performed at Coachella — as well as the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles and The Warfield in San Francisco — has announced more concerts, this time in New York City and Boston. Before they get to those two metropolises, …Read more »
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Mamoru Oshii’s 2004 follow-up to Ghost in the Shell, is hitting North American theaters this summer in 4K. The rerelease is courtesy Gkids. The 4K version will debut at Chicago Critic’s Film Festival in May before it heads out …Read more »
Multi-faceted artist TiaCorine just released her major-label debut EP Almost There from Interscope Records and is about to be headlining a tour. The reason she’s here at Otaku USA is because she’s a major anime fan, and anime has influenced her music, art and aesthetics. …Read more »
Coachella just put out a long list of this year’s performers, and one of them is none other than twin-tailed Vocaloid Hatsune Miku! Hatsune Miku was tapped to take part in the 2020 Coachella event, but that all got thrown off because of the pandemic. …Read more »
If you’ve been rocking it to Attack on Titan music, you might be interested to know that SiM (Silence iz Mine) , the band behind Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 2‘s opening theme song “The Rumbling,” will have its very first headlining North …Read more »
Panda Mony Toy Brands, LLC, which was founded by Ryan Magnon, has teamed up with Studio Entertainment Graphic Innovation (a.k.a. ENGI), a company backed by KADOKAWA, Sammy Corporation, and Ultra Super Pictures, for the graphic novel series Tankdrome. Tankdrome is set to debut in 2024, …Read more »
If you’re a fan of both My Hero Academia and the National Basketball Association, then this ought to be of interest! There’s a lot of merchandise out there for anime favorites, and now My Hero Academia, TOHO Animation, Crunchyroll, the NBA, NBALAB and HYPERFLY are …Read more »
Japanese rock band RADWIMPS most recently returned to the world of director Makoto Shinkai for a third collaboration, this time with his new anime film Suzume, and now they have their sights set on North America. The band announced a multi-city North American tour for …Read more »
The movie Gekijō-ban Utano☆Princesama♪ Maji Love ST☆RISH Tours hit Japanese theaters in September, where it played in more than a hundred different locations. If you don’t live in Japan and were feeling left out, there is some good news: the movie will have a limited …Read more »
The girls of Japanese rock band SCANDAL are marking their 15th anniversary as a group, and they’re doing so in style this year. The band revealed plans for a North American summer concert tour, which kicks off in Toronto on July 9 and also coincides …Read more »
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