The anime adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s epic Kingdom manga is officially set to continue with the reveal of Kingdom season 6. The anime’s official website and accounts went live with the news that a continuation is in the works, with a premiere planned for this …Read more »
Alma-chan Wants to Have a Family is the upcoming anime adaptation of the manga by Nanateru. It was first announced back in January, and now we know who’s set to star. Protagonist Alma-chan will be played by Hika Tsukishiro, while Enji Kamisato will be played …Read more »
Some fascinating news: Michael Arias, the director of Tekkonkinkreet, is adapting another manga from the legendary manga-ka Taiyo Matsumoto. This time, Arias is tackling Sunny, Matsumoto’s manga about a foster home in 1970s Japan. The film is listed as being in Japanese and produced by …Read more »
Next week sees the releases of the fighting game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, the latest entry in the long-running Fatal Fury franchise. To help promote the game, legendary animator Masami Obari (who directed 1994’s Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture) has created a new …Read more »
There is sad news coming out of Japan with the word that actor Mizuki Itagaki, who acted in a number of live-action movies based on manga, has passed away. He was only 24 at the time of his death, and would have turned 25 this …Read more »
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members (deep breath) is a light novel series by Shisui …Read more »
Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair, or KYOMAF, is the largest event dedicated to manga, anime and games in western Japan. Now KYOMAF has revealed some details about the 2025 event, including dates and key art. This year’s KYOMAF will take place September 20 and 21 …Read more »
The arrests of four people by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police this week made news as the first arrests of its kind. The people had been selling pornographic posters made by AI, but because they didn’t cover up or pixilate the woman’s private parts, they got …Read more »
How would you like to take a course on anime in a college or vocational school? That’s one of the many ideas being pushed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, a section of the Japanese government. Right now Japanese content (which includes anime, manga, movies, …Read more »
Rent-a-Girlfriend season 4 is on the horizon this summer, so it’s time to look ahead to more dates. The latest date visual centers on Ruka, who will be joining the group on a Hawaiians trip. You can check out the appropriately summery piece of art …Read more »
MAPPA, the studio behind productions like Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen and the currently airing Lazarus, has just added two new corporate officers to its organization. The first is Yuichi Fukushima, who will join MAPPA as a non-executive director, or outside director (shagaitorishimariyaku). Fukushima is known as …Read more »
Sales of Blu-ray and DVD discs have really plunged over the years as streaming becomes more popular. Sony even declared that it was halting its manufacturing of BD and minidiscs this past February. But the news website Japan Forward suggested that otaku can still keep …Read more »
The anime Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii debuted in 2024, and today Crunchyroll will begin offering an English dubbed version of all 12 episodes. Let’s take a look at the cast and crew for the dub! Here are the actors involved: Molly Searcy …Read more »
You want more updates ahead of Kyoto Animation’s anime adaptation of Keiichi Arawi’s CITY manga? You got it! The series is set to premiere this July, and two more cast members have been revealed alongside a third concept visual. Yuko Goto (Georgie in Miss Kobayashi’s …Read more »
The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows anime is officially underway as part of the spring 2025 anime season, and some fresh news is here in its early days. A new voice drama short has been published, giving the folks behind it a nice …Read more »
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