Fans of Sailor Moon will remember the Silver Crystal, used by Queen Serenity to send the Sailor Senshi to earth. Now the Japanese market is getting a moisturizing face powder based on the Silver Crystal. Prepare to put some moon magic on your face! The …Read more »
You know that feeling when an anime really grosses you out… but you can’t stop watching? These Japanese fans sure do. They’ve taken to ranking site Goo to list anime’s most grotesque series and films, and here are the top 20: 20. Shiki 19. The …Read more »
Remember that famous anime character who was on TV in the US back in the 60s? The little robot boy who flew around and saved folks from bad guys? Yes, I’m talking about Mighty Atom. Er, Astro Boy. Right. Astro Boy’s American renaming has made …Read more »
The animation by MAPPA isn’t the only worthwhile aspect of the show, Nina and her co-stars are a delightful group that play off of each other very well. If you watched the first series, Genesis. there’s no reason not to continue with Virgin Soul. If …Read more »
Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe is getting in on the Blade Runner 2049 hype in an exciting way. With the sequel coming to theaters this fall, Watanabe has been put in charge of writing and directing a tie-in anime short called Blade Runner Blackout 2022. …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Fathom Events From Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is considered by many to be his masterwork — and there are few films, animated or otherwise, of such sweeping scope and grandeur. Set in a devastated future …Read more »
Grimoire of Zero is the result of what might happen if you combined anthropomorphic animals with The Familiar of Zero and Berserk. With that said, it’s not exactly my cup of tea, nor the type of series I’d normally seek out (even though Berserk is …Read more »
Ranma 1/2, the gender-swapping martial arts comedy by Rumiko Takahashi, may be long-since finished, but the series’ popularity has never really abated in Japan. Case in point: these hip new Ranma 1/2 shirts and pouches made in collaboration retailer Village Vanguard. There are a total …Read more »
Universal Studios Japan continues to make itself a prime destination for the otaku crowd. The Osaka-based theme park has previously hosted attractions based on Neon Genesis Evangelion, Resident Evil and Attack on Titan, among others. Now for 2018, it’s adding the classic anime and video …Read more »
UPDATE 3/25/18: Sword Art Online’s season 3 release date has been announced for October. UPDATE 10/1/17: Indeed SAO’s third season was officially confirmed, as well as well as a spin off series based on the Alternative Gun Gale Online novels. Click here for more details. Back …Read more »
I recently heard about an anime-style novel contest that was held in Japan. While this by itself isn’t significant, the stipulations on the contest were. The first, “no alternate realities,” and the second, “the protagonist cannot be a teenage male.” The hopes were to eventually …Read more »
If you’ve been looking forward to a chance to catch director Naoko Yamada and writer Reiko Yoshida’s A Silent Voice anime film, advanced tickets are now on sale for the U.S. theatrical release. The feature opens nationwide on October 20, and you can see a list …Read more »
The dark fantasy realm in which the current anime adaptations of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk unfolds is a turbulent existence, where it’s a struggle for heroes to survive each day as they’re relentlessly assailed by ceaseless hordes of malevolent beings fixated on their destruction. In a …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Even if you fancied yourself a pretty cool person in high school, there’s no way you could ever hope to match up to the sheer smoothness of Sakamoto. He’s not just the coolest dude in his class, or even his school; he might …Read more »
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