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Tokyo’s Science Museum has some serious otaku credentials with its current Gundam Next Future Science Exhibit. It put out an official statement on social media: [Announcement] “GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE SCIENCE Exhibition ~For a prosperous future life~” will be held at the Science Museum from Thursday, …Read more »
The Japanese government has unveiled the names of 21 people who will receive this year’s Person of Cultural Merit honor, and two of them are beloved by otaku. First up is none other than Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. Tomino got his start working under Osamu …Read more »
Thanks to an update on the official website, we now have a few more details about the upcoming Layton Detective Agency ~Katrielle’s Mystery Solving File~ TV anime, based on the game by Level-5. The latest news has Johnny & Associates idol Tsubasa Imai making his …Read more »
In Japan, the second Monday of January is Coming of Age Day, when everyone who’s turned 20 over the previous celebrates coming into adulthood. The occasion has inspired a wave of nostalgia on Twitter in Japan, as anime fans celebrate the anime that also turn …Read more »
Right Stuf's Nozomi Entertainment announced release plans for Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket , the six-episode OVA that originally premiered in 1989. The DVD collection is officially set to launch on January 3, 2017. Fumihiko Takayama ( Orguss 02 , Patlabor WXIII …Read more »
Tokyo-based band BACK-ON has been making high-energy music for anime openings and themselves for a little over a decade now. After breaking onto the scene with “Chain,” the opening song for 2006’s Air Gear , they’ve since gone on to create openings and endings for …Read more »
Japanese learners, here’s a useful one for you: ojisan , which can mean both uncle and “middle-aged dude,” basically (an official translation will nab you “old man,” but most people who get called ojisan aren’t that old). It’s the young whippersnappers who usually get top …Read more »
It wasn't quite clear whether or not the Gundam Build Fighter anime would follow suite with Gundam Age before it and make its streaming episodes unavailable in North America. Thankfully that's not the case, as Bandai and Gundam.Info are now streaming the series …Read more »
The history of giant robot/super robot/mecha/whatever-you-wanna-call-it anime is long and full of cool-lookin’ robots. But ranking site Goo decided to sharpen the focus for their latest poll, which asked Japanese fans to choose the coolest mecha of the current decade, from 2010 to now. Let’s …Read more »
Horror mangaka Junji Ito and a majority of Japanese entertainers have recently expressed their concern about AI, and the upcoming anime The Genes of AI imagines what a future would be like when one tenth of humans are actually artificial intelligence. The series, which is …Read more »
Bungo Stray Dogs season 4 is set to pit the Armed Detective Agency against the Hunting Dogs when it premieres in January 2023, and the combative new key visual above has been revealed along with two more cast members. The latest to join the adaptation …Read more »
Kentaro Waki, the compositing director for Sword Art Online: Alicization and Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, is also involved with the Girls’ Frontline anime. He just revealed on Twitter that he was in charge of directing, storyboarding and editing the opening theme video. You can check …Read more »
Wherever you are in the world, Coffee Day is sometime this week! The official international holiday is October 1, but the United States and a few other countries celebrate earlier every year on September 29. That means lots of your favorite cafés may be giving away free …Read more »
Japan’s Heisei era, which began in 1989, comes to a close this May 1. As you might expect, there are all sorts of rankings and best-of lists marking the occasion, including this one, in which Goo has asked its readers to rank: The best anime …Read more »
One of the greatest tragedies in anime history is the untimely death of director Satoshi Kon. In his relatively short career, spanning just four feature films and one TV series, Kon produced a remarkable body of work, showcasing an intelligence and consistency of vision that …Read more »
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