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Last week, Kotaku unveiled a pretty amazing piece of long-form anime journalism about the quest to find a strange piece of 90s anime history—a pilot for an American Sailor Moon. Writer Cecilla D’Anastasio details the making, in the mid-90s, of a pilot based on Sailor Moon …Read more »
It’s time for the modern retelling of the Sailor Moon saga to come to an end with the upcoming Netflix release of the Sailor Moon Cosmos films. The two-part theatrical project originally opened in Japan in June 2023, and now both are on their way …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing, and mangaka Kenichi Sonoda and Hitoshi Ariga have won the esteemed Inkpot Award. Comic-Con explains that this award is “given to individuals for their contributions to the worlds of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, animation, and fandom services.” …Read more »
The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (often referred to as the abbreviation SAG-AFTRA) has officially called for a strike in regards to video game work. The strike is about protecting union actors from artificial intelligence hurting their careers. SAG-AFTRA …Read more »
The A Couple of Cuckoos anime had its hour-long finale back in October 2022, and now it’s time to look ahead to what’s next. A Couple of Cuckoos Season 2 plans have officially been revealed, with the next chapters currently eyeing a 2025 release. While …Read more »
Ash, Goh and Chloe are closer to their goals than ever before, but their greatest challenges still lie ahead. You can follow them as the stakes go sky high in Pokémon: Ultimate Journeys Complete Series, now available to own on DVD! Training is on the …Read more »
Three cast additions have been revealed for the Haigakura anime, which is lined up for a premiere sometime this fall. The official website unveiled designs and the voice actors behind the characters, so let’s take a look at who else is getting in on the …Read more »
VIZ Media had a big news drop during its San Diego Comic-Con panel today with the reveal that a Rooster Fighter anime is in the works. There’s no release date at the time of this writing, but it was confirmed that the anime will air …Read more »
Dr. Vegapunk is one of the central characters of the One Piece anime’s ongoing Egghead Island arc, and his English dub voice actor has officially been unveiled. As announced via a recording of Crunchyroll’s The Anime Effect podcast at San Diego Comic-Con, Kent Williams is …Read more »
The Kyoto Animation arson took place five years ago, on July 12, 2019. 36 people were killed, and many others were injured. A memorial monument has been publicly unveiled to honor the victims. Rather than set up the monument on the site of the old …Read more »
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the most popular franchises in recent memory, so of course Osaka’s Universal Studios Japan wants to highlight Tanjiro and his friends. The park is retiring some of its previous Demon Slayer stuff, but is also adding more …Read more »
A new trailer is here for Mononoke the Movie: Karakasa, which continues from the 2006 Mononoke TV anime when it opens in Japanese theaters tomorrow. The latest preview is full of action and the impeccable style we’ve come to expect from the series, so check …Read more »
MADHOUSE is cooking up an anime adaptation for Uoto’s Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga, and the first trailer has arrived. Following earlier plans to premiere sometime in 2024, the release window has been narrowed down to this October. The main cast was …Read more »
Alley is the latest short story collection from horror icon Junji Ito to be published by VIZ Media. The first story, the titular “Alley,” is a creepy tale where a young man moves into a boardinghouse near an alley and thinks he hears kids. But …Read more »
As manga continues to grow more popular in America and around the globe, additional publishers and imprints are interested in licensing graphic novels from Japan. The latest is HarperCollins’ imprint HarperAlley. HarperAlley started in 2020, publishes about 50 kids’ graphic novels annually, and is under …Read more »
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