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Koji Shinasaka’s Tohai – Ura Route Mahjong Tohairoku is a mahjong manga that ran in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion magazine from 2006 to 2011, and it’s officially getting an anime adaptation. Pony Canyon announced TV anime plans this week, with the animated version due out …Read more »
Kana Nakata is currently a professional mahjong player, and she also used to be one of the members of girl group Nogizaka46. With that pedigree in mind—which includes running a mahjong-themed café in Tokyo’s Minata Ward and being part of the Professional Mahjong League—it’s only …Read more »
A release month has been revealed for the anime adaptation of Mahjong Soul Online, which is a game developed by Cat Food Studio and managed by YoStar. SCOOTER FILMS will produce the anime—titled Jong-Tama Pong☆—with director Kenshiro Morii (Anime-Gataris, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!) at …Read more »
Publisher Mighty Craft recently brought Sega Saturn game Super Real Mahjong PV to Switch in Japan, but it seems the event scenes that feature nudity weren’t adequately censored. As a result, Nintendo pulled the game from the Switch eShop. Mighty Craft issued a notice about …Read more »
Akagi , Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s manga about a mahjong-playing wunderkind that began in 1992, is set to come to an end next year. The manga, which runs in magazine Kindai Mahjong, will end in February 2018 after 26 years of serialization. Akagi , which so far …Read more »
Not to say it’s exactly all the rage with the kids these days ( Hetalia’s over that way), but in the last couple years Japanese (or riichi, or reach) mahjong has become a very small trend in the Western otaku culture. If you’ve watched Nobuyuki …Read more »
Are you hungry? No? Well get hungry, because it’s National Taco Day. Today we pay tribute to that delicious hand-held dish we’ve loved all our lives. Whether fast food, upscale, or homemade, the versatile food is beloved by kids, grown-ups, and starving college students alike. …Read more »
Manga and anime master Go Nagai has a number of classic titles to his name. From Mazinger Z and Getter Robo to Devilman and Cutie Honey, he revolutionized how we think of many anime genres. And, over the years, these series have gotten a number of adaptations… some wilder than …Read more »
There's a scene in the none-more-otaku gag anime Lucky Star where the anime-obsessed American exchange student Patricia Martin is being asked about her taste in music. She stuns her friends by rattling off a surprisingly diverse list of Japanese pop artists, before it's revealed that …Read more »
These were my personal goals for Otakon 2010: • Give a panel – Failed! (I was wait listed.) • Record a group podcast – Accomplished! (I'll have it online eventually.) • Interview Felipe Smith for my podcast and/or this website – Failed! • Interview Michael …Read more »
You would think having an event devoted entirely to anime smack dab in the epicenter of Japanese pop culture would be more exciting. You’d think. In all honesty, I wasn’t looking forward to visiting Tokyo Anime Fair this year. Last year’s was something of a …Read more »
I don't follow politics, and I don't know how to play mahjong, but I'm a huge fan of Legend of Koizumi , an unlicensed title about world political leaders playing mahjong. Hideki Ohwada re-imagines our world leaders not as feeble old men, but as super-manly …Read more »
In the wild world of manga, every age group and every social class has their own genre and magazine that defines them. For the elementary school kid there are video game based properties like the ones that dominate Shogakukan's Coro Coro magazine. Nothing says office …Read more »
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