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It’s been a while since the TV anime adaptation of The Idolm@ster Million Live! was first announced—19 months, for those of you keeping track!—but we finally have confirmation that it’s still in the works. THE iDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! 8thLIVE Twelw@ve concert was held at Tokyo’s …Read more »
With events like the World Cosplay Summit and Comiket coming up, the summer cosplay season is on here in Japan. Site Cosplayers Archive has attempted to figure out what will be getting the most costumed representation this summer with a poll asking Japan’s cosplayers which …Read more »
Believe it or not, 2016 is almost at an end, and while most anime fans are looking forward to the series coming in 2017, one fan’s look back at 2007 has caused a giant wave of nostalgia on Japanese twitter. The tweet by user @YEBIS_AKI, …Read more »
Japanese polling site Charapedia is getting inventive. For its 114th anime-and-manga-related poll, it’s asked its readers, “what two characters from totally unrelated shows have you always thought would make a good couple?” Or, in short, Charapedia has officially sanctioned some serious shipping. What characters did …Read more »
Tokyo Anime Award Festival, the yearly awards show for the anime industry, is currently holding a poll to determine the greatest anime series of 2017 (or, to be more precise, October 2016 to October 2017). The poll doesn’t close until December 24, but the current …Read more »
DARLING in the FRANXX, the new series from Studio Trigger and A-1 Pictures, may have a bizarre name, but frankly, it’s looking pretty good. After a few months of teaser visuals, we’ve finally got a proper look at the series via a 3.5-minute trailer. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x68a75e …Read more »
Believe it or not, we’re almost 20 years into the new millennium. Toyo Keizai, a Japanese finance magazine that also reports on pop culture, has assembled a list of 20 anime titles that have defined the first two decades of the 2000s. In chronological order, …Read more »
There are plenty of polls about Japan’s favorite characters, but what about the voices behind those characters? Good old Charapedia just released a list of Japanese fans’ favorite voice actresses, so let’s take a look at who’s been pleasing Japan’s earbuds lately. 19 (tie). Yui …Read more »
The changing of the season means the birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and most importantly, the titans are attacking. Both in Japan and America, there’s little doubt the second season of Attack on Titan is spring 2017’s most hotly-anticipated anime series. But what …Read more »
For those of you out there who might harbor the illusion Japan is a magical land where everyone loves anime and no one cares if you’re a grown man who watches shows meant for young girls, this list might be a hard read. Japanese site …Read more »
Ukami's Gabriel Dropout manga follows an angel who graduated at the top of her class only to turn lazy after getting sucked into online gaming on Earth. An anime adaptation is on the way, and a new trailer is here to preview some footage and …Read more »
Feels like whenever we bring you a bit of industry insider news on this here website, it’s usually pretty bleak. Broke animators, lack of innovation – name the problem, and the anime industry seems to be facing it. So for a nice counterbalance, here’s some …Read more »
Studio Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura (actually, ex-producer, as he made sure to point out in his apology) kicked up a ruckus last month when he declared that women are “realistic” as compared to “idealistic” men, making the former unsuitable for directing Ghibli films. Never mind …Read more »
Anime Busience, a Japanese magazine that covers the business and science behind the anime industry, has published a fascinating graph showing the difference in taste among Japanese and American anime viewers. The graph, created with viewership stats from Japan’s Niconico and America’s Crunchyroll, shows series …Read more »
Our favorite polling site Charapedia is back at it. This week they asked their readers to rank anime and manga’s best bands or musical groups, and the results are in. Now, to be clear: these aren’t real-life bands or groups that’ve made music for anime. …Read more »
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