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Sentai Filmworks announced a new acquisition over the weekend with the addition of Psychic Detective Yakumo , a 13-episode mystery anime based on Manabu Kaminaga's novel. Bee Train produces the series, with Tomoyuki Kurokawa ( Murder Princess ) directing, Hiroyuki Kawasaki ( Blade of the …Read more »
The anime Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms started on October 3, and now Pony Canyon has dropped a subtitled “climax trailer.” Mecha-Ude:Mechanical Arms Climax Trailer The anime is being made at TriF Studio, with creator Sae Okamoto helming the project as director. The person handling series scripts …Read more »
The anime A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! (or Yokai Gakko no Sensei Hajimemashita! in the original Japanese) has revealed it will premiere on October 8, right in the middle of Halloween season. It also took this opportunity to say the series will play as …Read more »
The manga Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction (that’s a lot of Ds) is getting an anime movie adaptation that will be released in two parts. The first movie will hit Japanese theaters on March 22, and the second one will follow on April 19. Ahead …Read more »
The manga Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction is getting a two-parter anime movie that is scheduled to come out next year. Ahead of this many cast members have been announced, though they’re waiting to unveil the actors who play the two main characters. According to …Read more »
Tetsuya Imai’s Break of Dawn manga is coming to the big screen in Japan on October 21, and a new short clip recently arrived to tease its story some more. Watch as Yuma and his friends follow their autopet Nanako, which is supposed to be …Read more »
Tetsuya Imai’s sci-fi manga Break of Dawn—known in Japan as Bokura no Yoake—is getting the anime film treatment, and now we know when to expect it. According to the latest preview, the feature is officially set to open in theaters in Japan this October. Also …Read more »
What would you do if you lived in a regime with heavy censorship that appeared to kill off otaku culture? That’s the premise of the anime Rumble Garanndoll (or Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shōjo: Rumble Garanndoll in Japanese). The anime will make its debut a …Read more »
Well, makes sense. Last year, we reported on the announcement of a game Scarlet Nexus. We were pretty pumped for the game due in part to its anime-looking graphics—and now it’s landed an anime adaptation. Funny how that works. The anime will be produced by …Read more »
Regardless of who enjoys it, we tend to describe anime and manga by demographic. By now we’ve all heard of shonen and shoujo series and know what they mean. But for some, josei is a less common term. So what exactly is the meaning of josei in terms …Read more »
The live-action version of popular franchise Touken Ranbu is due out January 18. To get the hype machine rolling, Toho Cinemas has revealed a few stills taken on the set of the film. The film stars the cast of the Touken Ranbu stage play, which …Read more »
Pretty swords-as-pretty boys franchise Touken Ranbu is getting a big-screen live-action adaptation, and we’ve got our first peek via a poster revealed today. The poster features actor Hiroki Suzuki as Mikazuki Munechika. Suzuki played the same role in the stage play based on the franchise. …Read more »
Touken Ranbu, the popular video game franchise about swords anthropomorphized as hunky guys, is getting a live-action film adaptation. It’s set to be released in 2019. The film will feature many actors who have appeared the Touken Ranbu stage plays, including Hiroki Suzuki (Mikazuki Munechika), …Read more »
The tragic trajectory of Yakumo’s flashback follow its natural arc in the third volume of Descending Stories as he and adopted brother Sukeroku move beyond their long apprenticeship to define themselves not just as shin’uchi – rakugo performers in their own rights – but as …Read more »
Read Austin’s review of the manga’s first volume here! While the second volume of Haruko Kumota’s Descending Stories manga delves more deeply into Yakumo’s tragic past and so into more sensitive psychological territory than the first volume did, it still retains the coarse emotional framework that …Read more »
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