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Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal manga will be leaping off the pages in a live-action feature film, which is set to premiere in Japan on April 29, 2017. Ahead of that we have the first teaser from the official website , briefly introducing cast …Read more »
Hiroaki Samura has built his career on one seminal manga: the 30-volume samurai fantasy epic Blade of the Immortal , a cult hit in the US as well as in Japan. Launched in the early 90s, Blade ended just a few years ago, freeing Samura …Read more »
The Manga Taishō, also known as the Cartoon Grand Prize, is a yearly award given to the author of a relatively new manga (eight volumes or less). The 2016 edition is on its way, and 11 titles have been announced nominees for the prize. The …Read more »
Cult director Takashi Miike will helm a live-action version of Hiroaki Samura’s manga Blade of the Immortal , it was announced today. Main character Manji will be played by Takuya Kimura ( Redline , Space Battleship Yamato ). The manga, which ran from 1993 to …Read more »
This week it’s a dash of this and a dash of that as we get a couple books from a number of different publishers. An anthology, some shonen, some boys’ love, some science fiction and whatever Hayate the Combat Butler is classified as – there’s …Read more »
Season 2 of The Witcher grows ever closer. Soon we’ll rejoin Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer, and Ciri in their generations-spanning adventure. This is the point at which we say we’ll give you some anime to watch in the meantime… but a lot of people have already gone …Read more »
Minare Koda is mad. She’s mad about the breakup with her boyfriend. She’s so mad she decides to go drinking and rant to the stranger sitting next to her. It turns out that stranger works for the radio. And he records her whole rant. And …Read more »
COVID-19 is affecting everyone differently, and one of the big sectors of entertainment that’s suffering at the moment are live performances like stage plays and musicals. Voice actor Tomokazu Seki (Evangelion‘s Toji Suzuhara, G Gundam‘s Domon Kasshu) has a theatrical company known as HeroHeroQ Company, …Read more »
The anime adaptation of Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal manga has been exclusive to Amazon Prime Video since its debut… until now! A new key visual, which you can see above, has debuted to celebrate the series’ next destination: Japanese TV. Blade of the …Read more »
Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal manga ended back in 2012, so the new anime adaptation will be a full telling of the saga. The Liden Films production kicks off on Amazon Video this October, and ahead of that we have the reveal of six new cast …Read more »
Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal manga is getting another go at an anime adaptation, and the official website came through with some fresh details. The series is being produced at LIDEN FILMS, with Hiroshi Hamasaki (Shigurui: Death Frenzy) directing and Makoto Fukami (Latest Berserk anime) overseeing scripts. Other …Read more »
After a breakup, Minare Koda drowns her sorrows with a group of strangers. The next morning she remembers nothing, but in the middle of her shift as a waitress she hears her own voice coming through the radio, a drunken ramble recorded the night before. …Read more »
Takashi Miike’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure movie may have been bad enough to force our own Matt Schley to swear off seeing manga adaptations in the theater, but maybe his next movie will make up for it. Based on the manga by Hiroaki Samura, Blade of …Read more »
In the Tokugawa period, sardonic swordsman Manji wanders the countryside getting into fights. Thanks to a run-in with the mythological 800-year-old nun Yaobikuni, Manji is infected with symbiotic “bloodworms” that repair every injury, rendering him immortal. As penance for all the deaths he caused in …Read more »
Looking for some fresh new manga to sink your eyeballs into? You could do worse than checking out the just-announced list of manga up for 2017’s Manga Taisho . Nominees for the award, which was established in 2008, are selected by bookstore staff members who …Read more »
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