Even if you find yourself in Japan at the moment, there’s no way for you to enjoy the sights and sounds of Mitaka’s Ghibli Museum. Tickets are hard enough to get as it is, but it’s also currently closed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic …Read more »
Funimation announced a new partnership with NIS America to bring a bunch of the latter’s anime to Funimation’s streaming service. Starting with the likes of Cardcaptor Sakura and Toradora! on May 5, the collaboration aims to introduce nearly 20 more shows to Funimation’s catalog. Here’s …Read more »
Late last month, we posted about Evangelion 1.0 pulling in 2 million views in its first day on YouTube. Since then, all three of the Rebuild movies continued to attract tons of viewers, with the 14-day combined total coming to 23.79 million views. The movies …Read more »
Japan’s State of Emergency declaration was scheduled to end on May 6, but the fight to contain COVID-19 continues. As a result, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that the State of Emergency will be extended until May 31. The announcement follows a preliminary message …Read more »
One of the most delightful personalities in all of the KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR anime and manga is Chika Fujiwara. We’ll soon get to enjoy even more of her when her character song debuts on May 27, and you can see a preview for “Tsubasa …Read more »
Tired of showing friends and colleagues blank walls or messy rooms during video calls? Check out these free backgrounds courtesy Tsuburaya Productions, the creators of Ultraman and its various spinoffs. Released today as part of the company’s “Stay At Home With ULTRAMAN” campaign, the backgrounds …Read more »
Surf’s up, dudes. WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!!, a multimedia project centered around, well, surfing, is coming to screens with an anime film trilogy starting this year. The news came with a teaser trailer for those films, showing off the character designs and a few animated scenes. …Read more »
It may be a while before we see the English dub of the Demon Slayer anime film, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, but it’s never too early to kick off the hype. The movie is scheduled to open in Japan on …Read more »
Ryouma Kitada’s ecchi sentai superhero parody manga Dokyuu Hentai HxEROS is coming to the small screen in a TV anime this July. Masato Jinbo is directing at anime studio Project no. 9, and the latest update has four more cast members getting in on the …Read more »
2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of The Prince of Tennis anime adaptation, based on the manga by Takeshi Konomi. To celebrate, an all-new original episode is in the works, showcasing the battle between Hyotei Academy and Rikkaidai Junior High School. The episode is appropriately …Read more »
Three new installments in the Fafner in the Azure saga are scheduled to head to theaters in Japan sometime this year, so a new promo is here to preview the chapters to come. Episodes 7, 8, and 9 pick up where 2015’s Fafner in the …Read more »
Hot on the heels of the recent Evangelion Tamagotchi, another pocket pet is here to collaborate with the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba series. The popular demon-slayin’ saga now has its own line of Demon Slayer Tamagotchi, giving fans a chance to raise their Demon Slayers …Read more »
Megumi Ogata is a famed voice actress known for key roles like Shinji Ikari in the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime, and she’s currently hoping to fund an audience-free concert. The “Hang In There, Dears!” performance will be held on June 6 in place of her …Read more »
The Tiger & Bunny anime is returning with the appropriately titled follow up series, Tiger & Bunny 2, which is currently set for a premiere sometime in 2022. That may seem like quite the wait, but at least we have some more news to tide …Read more »
Golden Week, a series of national holidays, just kicked off in Japan, and many denizens will no doubt be tempted to skirt the country’s voluntary COVID-19 lockdown. Many companies are offering at-home entertainments in order to keep folks safe and indoors. As of today that …Read more »
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