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Keiko Yamamoto. who had a long career in the anime voice acting industry, has sadly passed away. The delayed announcement was made via the official Aoni Production website, which stated that Yamamoto passed on April 18, 2024 at the age of 83 due to sepsis. …Read more »
Sazae-san: it’s never really made inroads Stateside, but in Japan, it’s been a television staple since 1969. Now its voice actors are set to take a break amid COVID-19 concerns. That’s the news from voice actress Midori Kato, who plays Sazae Fuguta on the show. …Read more »
Fuji TV continues to be in hot water from the sexual assault scandal that’s rocked it. Otaku USA readers might recall that in December 2024, Japanese magazine Weekly Bunshun reported that Masahiro Nakai from the boy band SMAP — who was a TV host on …Read more »
Check out the anime rankings in Japan, and the shows you consider best of the season will likely weigh in at #4 max. Why? Because a trio of old reliable titles always takes the top three. Detective Conan, Sazae-san, and Chibi Maruko-chan will consistently outrank even One Piece — …Read more »
The One Piece anime adaptation has been around an extremely long time. Like, there are grown adults walking around today who have never known a world without Luffy. Deciding you’re going to watch it from the beginning is an Undertaking. Considering it’s been running for 23 years …Read more »
When you think of “popular anime,” where does your mind go? Possibly to titles like One Piece, BORUTO, or the soon-to-end Attack on Titan. And while all of those are pretty big names in the world of anime, none of them is in Japan’s standard Top Three Titles! …Read more »
TV Asahi asked 150,000 Japanese people what manga titles they consider to be the best. The results have been tallied, and some of them are huge titles here as well, while others have never been licensed in North America. Here’s the list: 1. One Piece …Read more »
Tokyo: Day By Day gives ideas for 365 things to do in Tokyo, one for each day of the year. It was probably written in mind for tourists going to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Because of unfortunate circumstances, the Olympics and pretty much any tourism …Read more »
Sazae-san is Japan’s longest running anime, with the adaptation of Machiko Hasegawa’s 1946-1974 manga first airing back in 1969. The series recently went on hiatus, marking its second break in history, and now it’s about to return to Japanese TV on June 21. The first …Read more »
Classic anime like Doraemon, Crayon Shin-chan, Sazae-san, and Chibi Maruko-chan all have one thing in common: Iconic houses with memorable floor plans. Do those big and attractive family dwellings translate to equally inflated real estate appraisals, though? Japanese journalist Ayato Nishikido decided to investigate, and the results might surprise you. …Read more »
Ever watched an anime and thought, “man, it’d be great if that cute animal were my pet?” Sure you have. So have 12,476 readers of Japanese site Anime Anime, who ranked the anime creatures they’d most want around the house. Here are their top 10 …Read more »
The new Baki anime is preparing to bring 26 intense episodes to Netflix this summer in Japan. This time around the show is covering the Most Evil Death Row Convicts arc of Keisuke Itagaki‘s manga, and the latest promo reinforces the deadliness of these challengers. …Read more »
When it comes to adaptations of popular manga and novels, the original is usually considered the holy grail—but every so often, an anime that tops the original appears. Pollsters Goo asked their readers to list these original-topping anime adaptations, and the top 20 were as …Read more »
Nodame Cantabile 's Megumi: not marriage material? Last week, we brought you a poll in which Japanese fans answered the question “which anime character would you most like to marry?” Now ranking site Goo has asked its readers just the opposite: what character would you …Read more »
“I think I might’ve talked too much about American comics.” So says director Hiroshi Nagahama at the end of an hour-long discussion at Seattle’s Sakura-Con, and while too much is entirely subjective, Nagahama, who is decked out in a Spider-Man T-shirt and Daredevil hoodie (“the …Read more »
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