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On the first day of the year, Japan suffered a major magnitude 7.6 earthquake, referred to as the Noto Peninsula earthquake. About 100 people are reported to have died as a result of the quake, and rescue efforts continue. Several big names in otaku culture …Read more »
Back when the Pokémon: Black and White anime was airing in Japan, episodes 23 and 24 ended up not airing due to the events of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. While they were initially just postponed indefinitely, they ultimately never saw the light of …Read more »
We have a fresh update on The Legendary Hero is Dead! anime, which is on the way this spring to adapt Subaruichi’s manga series. The latest news concerns the ending theme song, which will be “Kawaikutte Ijiwarushichau” as performed by Yurika Kubo, who voices Marguerit …Read more »
Earlier this year, we learned an anime series based on Subaruichi’s The Legendary Hero is Dead! manga was on the way in spring 2023. Now we’ve learned who’s playing three of the main characters, and we’ve got some fresh key art, too. The newly revealed …Read more »
According to an update on Shogakukan’s Manga ONE app, we now have a release window for the TV Anime adaptation of Subaruichi’s The Legendary Hero is Dead! manga. The anime was announced in April, and according to the listing, it’s set to make its way …Read more »
The 25th anniversary of Pokémon means there are many celebrations going on, but even this huge franchise is facing negative impacts from COVID. A number of Pokémon stores and centers in Japan are shutting down — some temporarily, some permanently. Recently an employee at the …Read more »
This article originally appeared in the April 2020 issue of Otaku USA magazine, on stands now and available online. This is the extended version of the interview, enjoy! Ed Chavez knows manga like no one else. Starting out as a podcaster and blogger (@mangacast on …Read more »
The European Space Agency and Airbus teamed up to develop a spacecraft called the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, with the rocket launch scheduled for June of 2022. It won’t be venturing out on its mission to study Jupiter’s moons alone, though, because it has adopted …Read more »
Yutaka Yamamoto, the director behind Fractale, Wake Up, Girls! and the upcoming film Twilight, has declared bankruptcy. That’s according to a filing from his lawyers dated March 4. The bankruptcy appears to stem from a debt incurred for Yamamoto’s previous anime productions by Ultra Super …Read more »
As we reported a few days ago, Yutaka “Yamakan” Yamamoto ( Fractale , Wake Up, Girls! ) was set to announce a new anime project February 25, and the director did not disappoint. Yamamoto’s next anime project will be Twilight ( Hakubo ) a film …Read more »
What year is it again? Normally the Overfiend graces your average website once every thousand years, but it looks like we're in for a double whammy this week. Hot on the heels of our manga review is news that Tiger Lab Vinyl has opened pre-orders …Read more »
Moo. It has been reported anime studio Asahi Productions have been farming out employees of their branch in Miyagi, Tohoku to… farms. The workers dispatched to farms were hired with funds from a government-sponsored post-2011 Great East Japan earthquake job creation project. From November 2012 …Read more »
Well, that’s pretty cool. Wake Up, Girls! , the anime series about a Tohoku-based production company that forms an idol group, is becoming a stage play that’ll open in January 2017. Okay, anime-based plays are pretty common these days, but here’s the thing: the play …Read more »
Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of. If that’s the case, what then are teenage girls made of? And what must they be to become idols? That’s the million dollar question in Wake Up, Girls! , the new idol-themed …Read more »
The hype for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is pretty strong over here in Japan, with nebuta floats and even rice fields molded into Star Wars shapes in anticipation of the new film. Publisher Kadokawa and anime magazine Newtype have also gotten in on the …Read more »
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