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A Wake Up, Girls! Festa 2016 Super Live event was held in Japan this weekend, serving up the perfect opportunity for some announcements. Chief among them is the reveal of plans for a new Wake Up, Girls! TV anime, which is currently set to broadcast …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 »
Yutaka Yamamoto, the director of series like Wake Up, Girls! and Fractale and the founder of animation studio Ordet, has been tweeting up a storm recently. Yamamoto, whose Twitter account had basically been dormant since March of 2014, exploded into action a few days ago, …Read more »
When the Wake Up, Girls! anime series debuts on TV this weekend, it will be joined by the Japanese theatrical premiere of the feature film, Wake Up, Girls!: The Seven Idols . As previously reported , the good news for English-speaking fans is that both …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 »
Today it was announced Yutaka Yamamoto, alias Yamakan, director of such anime as Fractale and Wake Up, Girls! , would be discussing recent developments in the world of anime alongside social critic Tsunehiro Uno live on niconico February 25. But the really interesting news, buried …Read more »
Your Name , where art thou? The Tokyo Anime Award Festival has joined the ranks of sites looking back on 2016 and has just published a list of the best anime films of the year as chosen by 480,004 fans. The list is making waves …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks announced a new license earlier today in the form of the Utawarerumono OVA. The fantasy anime will be available through select digital outlets, with a home video release to follow. The Utawarerumono OVA is directed by Kenichiro Katsura (animation director on Wake Up, …Read more »
Hacka Doll the Animation —based on the Hacka Doll app, which delivers customized news feeds generated from questions and personal interests —is set to premiere in Japan on October 2. The app's customization engine is personified as a trio of Hacka Dolls in the anime, …Read more »
With a new season of anime starting, Crunchyroll has kicked streaming announcements into full gear. Last week saw the announcement of a handful of titles to the simulcast lineup, and even more were added over the weekend and the past couple of days. Some of …Read more »
It was announced Monday that director Yutaka Yamamoto ( Kannagi , Fractale ) would be directing a new series entitled Wake Up, Girls! Yamamoto, often referred to as “Yamakan” for short, rose to prominence for his choreography of the now-famous ending dance of The Melancholy …Read more »
After starting out as a web anime, Avex Pictures and Tatsunoko Production’s Pole Princess!! pole dancing anime is getting ready to head to the big screen. A new trailer made its way online this week, showing off more of the feature and revealing plans for …Read more »
Another pole dancing routine is on display in the latest preview for the Pole Princess!! anime, the first episode of which made its debut on YouTube on January 13. This time around we get to check out Aile D’Ange member Sana Murafuji, voiced in the …Read more »
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