All good things must come to an end, and that includes The Quintessential Quintuplets. The Negi Haruba manga is wrapping up in two short chapters, and to pay tribute to the popular sisters, Bessatsu Shonen Magazine is featuring them on its cover. But they’re not …Read more »
Earlier this week we posted about Interspecies Reviewers, the racy anime Funimation licensed, localized, streamed, and then promptly removed due to it not meeting their standards. They’re not the only ones having issues with the adaptation of Amahara and masha’s manga, because Kanto-based TV station …Read more »
Every year, the Tokyo Anime Award Festival asks anime fans to vote on the best anime of the previous year. Today the results, which came from a total of 551,491 ballots, were released. Without further ado, here are the winners: Best Film: Weathering With You …Read more »
Boichi—the Korean manga artist who’s made a major name for himself in the world of manga—is currently riding high on his success with Dr. STONE, which he works on with writer Riichiro Inagaki. He’s still staying busy outside of the Stone World, though, and his …Read more »
Funimation announced a new co-production with Yomiuri-TV Enterprise LTD, and this one is the first of its kind. MARS RED is the first anime in history to be based on a dramatic stage reading, which comes from playwright and theatre director Bun-O Fujisawa, and it’s …Read more »
A second season was previously revealed for the Ascendance of a Bookworm TV anime—which adapts the light novel series by Miya Kazuki—and now a premiere date has been announced. Ascendance of a Bookworm season 2 is set to premiere in Japan on April 4, starting …Read more »
Okay, Summer Wars fans: this is news that’s going to make you want to hop on a plane to Tokyo. The hit Mamoru Hosoda film, which turned 10 last year, will to cap off its 10th-anniversary celebrations with an orchestral concert featuring its score. The …Read more »
Have you been missing Trevor, Drac, and the rest of the stars that make the heart of Netflix’s Castlevania animated series beat? You won’t have to wait too much longer for more, because Netflix officially announced Castlevania season 3 for a March 5 premiere. The …Read more »
Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo is back again to rank the current season of anime, with more than a little help from all the Japanese fans out there. This time it’s the Winter 2020 anime season, for which the fans cast 79,943 votes during …Read more »
Last time we posted about the Studio Ghibli theme park, it was set to open in 2022, and it looks like that timing is still on track. There is a cool update, though, with the introduction of more concept art that shows some of the …Read more »
Ryohgo Narita and illustrator Suzuhito Yasuda’s Durarara!! light novel series is making the leap to the stage in Japan, with performances set to kick off in Tokyo this April. Ahead of that, the adaptation lifted the veil on some of its costumed cast members, and …Read more »
Fans of the Gundam Build anime saga now know when to expect the continuing mecha adventures. The official site revealed more plans for Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE season 2, which kicks off on the franchise’s YouTube channel at 8:00pm Japan Time on April 9. Once …Read more »
What happens when the worlds of Sword Art Online and Persona 5 collide? We’ll find out soon thanks to a new collaboration between Persona 5 Royal and a pair of Sword Art Online mobile games: Memory Defrag and Integral Factor. The event was previously announced …Read more »
Considering how heated the battle for streaming anime dominance can be each season, it’s not too surprising that some companies might be snatching up titles they haven’t looked into closely enough. Whether that’s the actual case with Funimation is anyone’s guess, but the company recently …Read more »
If there’s one thing anime is great at, it’s transforming the ostensibly mundane into the exciting. Anime can take any sport, no matter how mundane, and turn it into an electrifying matchup for the ages, and while it may not be a sport, this definitely …Read more »
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