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Last week came the news that Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop would not receive any further seasons. In previous articles we covered how Japanese netizens at first generally seemed unenthused by early imagery from the adaptation, then some of them began to warm up …Read more »
As fans of Love Live! Sunshine!! are aware, the series takes place in the real-life city of Numazu in Shizuoka, Japan. Thanks to Sunshine!!, the city has had a lot of new visitors, and has paid tribute to this new interest by recently installing custom …Read more »
Another day, another light novel that gets the anime adaptation treatment. This time it’s Fuse and Mitz Vah’s That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, which is currently being published in English by Yen Press. The announcement comes from an early look at volume …Read more »
For yet more proof that critical acclaim and box office results have little to do with each other, look no further than Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. The film, which is referred to as SayoAsa in Japanese, has been getting good reviews, but ended …Read more »
Otaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (“Love is Hard for Otaku”), an award-winning manga about the trials and tribulations of otaku love, is getting an anime adaptation this April. The series will be animated at A-1 Pictures, and star Arisa Date, Kent Ito, Tomokazu Sugita, Miyuki …Read more »
NisiOisin’s series of Monogatari novels—which kicked off with Bakemonogatari in 2006—continue to inspire anime adaptations. Next up is news that the Zoku Owarimonogatari novel will be getting its own anime adaptation next year. Though many novels have followed since, Zoku Owarimonogatari originally concluded the series’ …Read more »
Violet Evergarden, the new series from Kyoto Animation, finally debuts this January, and sakuga fans are pretty excited about the high quality of the series’ animation. As a post on popular anime blog Yaraon pointed out today, the improvement in the level of Kyoto Animation’s, …Read more »
A Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend theatrical film is on the way. That’s the news from a event centered around the series Sunday, where an exhibition featuring art from light novel illustrator Kurehito Misaki was also announced. So far, no additional details about …Read more »
The upcoming Cardcaptor Sakura -Clear Card- TV anime previously added Maaya Sakamoto as the opening theme performer after performing the same duty for the 1998 anime. She’s on the new opening “CLEAR,” and the latest update has Saori Hayami performing the ending theme. Hayami’s new …Read more »
You may have heard tales of Japan as a country where adults and children alike openly read manga without fear of criticism, and while adult comic readership is certainly higher than that in the west, grownups do sometimes get chided for sticking with their childhood …Read more »
It’s no secret that not all TV anime is created equal, and many blunders make their way on air before being fixed for later home video releases. Former Gainax president Toshio “Otaking” Okada has had some fun criticizing anime in the past, and he recently …Read more »
As we've all learned over the years, there are no limits to anime. That beautiful reality extends to the cutthroat world of competitive sidecar racing, which is the subject of original TV anime Two Car . The series follows two high school girls, Yuri Miyata …Read more »
The live-action adaptation of mega-hit manga/anime series Gintama hit theaters in Japan this past weekend, and while it opened in third at the box office and seems to be getting decent reviews from fans online, one professional viewer was not amused. The reviewer for weekly …Read more »
Reports about Japan’s low birthrate, and its young people’s seeming lack of interest in sex, is practically an genre unto itself. The latest entry in that genre is a short documentary by the BBC entitled “Sexless in Japan,” which introduces the idea that hobbies like …Read more »
Mari Okada, the prolific screenwriter behind series like anohana and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans , will make her directorial debut with a feature film that will be released next February, reports Newtype magazine. The film is titled Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana …Read more »
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