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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 »
Alice-san Chi no Iroribata, the Bunta Kinami manga about a woman who returns to her rural hometown after living in Tokyo for a decade, is getting the live-action treatment. The series will star Fumika Baba as Alice, and premiere on January 7, 2025. Baba is …Read more »
Millions of people have played Pokémon GO since its launch in 2016, and millions have unknowingly helped train AI by doing so. Niantic explained on its site, “When you look at a familiar type of structure – whether it’s a church, a statue, or a …Read more »
Yesterday was an important “birthday” in the world of manga — the 40th anniversary of Dragon Ball’s debut! Yes, it was on November 20, 1984 that the world was introduced to Son Goku, who would continue on through Dragon Ball Z and more, with Dragon …Read more »
Netflix offered up a sneak peek at some of its non-English programming on the horizon, and one of the shows among the list was Alice in Borderland season 3. The live-action adaptation of Haro Aso’s Alice in Borderland manga will continue sometime in 2025. Director …Read more »
BULLET/BULLET was previously announced as an original anime from JUJUTSU KAISEN season 1 director Sunghoo Park, who has been conceiving it over the course of the past decade. Now we know to expect it in summer 2025, exclusively on Disney+, and we also have a …Read more »
City Hunter creator Tsukasa Hojo’s Cat Eye manga is about to come back for more with a new adaptation. In addition to the Disney Twisted-Wonderland news, Disney’s showcase event in Singapore revealed that a new anime adaptation is in the works, eyeing an exclusive debut on …Read more »
More details have been unveiled for the Disney Twisted-Wonderland anime, which was first revealed as an adaptation of the game of the same name back in 2021. Thanks to a showcase event in Singapore, we now know that the anime will run for three seasons, …Read more »
How much do professional manga creators make? That varies, depending on who’s publishing, how well the manga does, and so on, but Weekly Shonen Jump has decided to up its rates. Weekly Shonen Jump is the most successful manga anthology in Japan, and its editorial …Read more »
Right after reporting on the death of Shohei Hino, a voice actor in Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron, another person involved with Studio Ghibli has passed away. This time it’s Shuntaro Tanigawa, a writer, poet, lyricist and translator, who wrote the lyrics for …Read more »
It was previously announced that Re:ZERO Season 3 would be split into two parts, starting with the eight-episode “Attack Arc” in October. That part of the story is a wrap, so it’s time to look ahead to the second set of eight episodes, the “Counterattack …Read more »
This season, school is getting spooky thanks to A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School. Hopeful educator and uniform “enthusiast” Haruaki Abe gets more than he bargained for in his latest teaching job. Thugs were one thing—these are literal monsters! But he soon learns to appreciate them, …Read more »
The AnimeFesta anime adaptation of OUMA’s The Share House’s Secret Rule manga officially has a date. Suiseisha announced that the broadcast is set to kick off in Japan on Tokyo MX and BS 11 on January 5, 2025, and will be simultaneously released in English …Read more »
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3: The Conflict made its way to screens in Japan and subtitled streaming on October 5, and now a date is in place for the English dub in the United States. The dubbed version of the latest set of episodes …Read more »
Shohei Hino, a Japanese actor who appeared in films and on TV for many decades, has died at the age of 75. The actor had suffered a lumbar fracture this summer. Hino may be best known to anime fans as the voice of Great Uncle …Read more »
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