A fourth OVA episode is on the way for Magi: Sinbad no Bouken ( Magi: Adventure of Sinbad ), the spin-off of Shinobu Ohtaka's Magi series. The latest is coming alongside the special edition of the sixth collected manga volume, set to be released in …Read more »
One-Punch Man —Yusuke Murata's manga adaptation of the webcomic by ONE—is officially getting an anime adaptation. The announcement came in this year's 15th issue of Shueisha's Young Jump magazine, and cast and staff will be announced on March 21-22 at the Anime Japan 2015 event. …Read more »
Here we’ve got yet another buried treasure of Japanese animation, bubbling back to the surface thanks to the reticence of a certain King of the A$$holes World, James Cameron. Superstar producer/director Cameron has a lot of irons in the fire, and when he announced his …Read more »
Adult Swim is about to try an experiment similar to the rebroadcasts of Dragon Ball Z Kai that have been running in the 8:00pm slot. Starting this week, the programming block will test out rebroadcasts of the previous week's One Piece episode, slotted to air …Read more »
GKids has a date set for Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There , the anime film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi ( The Secret World of Arrietty ). The feature hits U.S. theaters on May 22, starting in New York and Los Angeles, with an expansion …Read more »
Good news for fans of Studio Khara’s Japan Anima(tor)’s Exhibition : the series of anime shorts is in for a second season. Animator Expo, which debuted online last November, is a series of animated shorts produced by Hideki Anno’s Studio Khara, the studio behind the …Read more »
Japanese anime survey site Charapedia polled 10,000 anime fans for their latest survey, aiming to list the most anticipated spring 2015 anime. Registered users were surveyed between February 26 and March 4, with 55.3% of those surveyed being male and 84.6% in their teens and …Read more »
On the heels of the release of the first episode of Gundam the Origin , Japanese site Buzz+ News popped 200 female readers the question: which Gundam character would you rather marry, Amuro Ray or Char Aznable? The final tally: Char 53%, Amuro 47%. What …Read more »
At first thought, Space Dandy seems like an unlikely candidate for a deck-building card game. What comes to mind when I think of this games, at least, are long-running, dead serious fantasy franchises. On reflection, though, Space Dandy seems like a better bet: after all, …Read more »
Anime studio Trigger's adaptation of Ninja Slayer , with backstory that has it based on the work of authors "Bradley Bond and Philip Ninj@ Morzez," now has more detailed streaming plans. While specific global platforms haven't been listed yet, Ninja Slayer From Animation will come …Read more »
In the mid-1990s, the manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump was at the zenith of its success in Japan, with a per-issue circulation of over 6 million. This astonishing prosperity came during a time when Dragon Ball was concluding—before Naruto and Bleach existed. Eiichiro Oda, who …Read more »
The next Dragon Ball Z anime film, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection of F ( Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F ), is bringing Frieza back to theaters in Japan this April. Toei Animation's latest trailer has a big reveal for the villain, who gets ready …Read more »
Today marks NIS America's premium Blu-ray release of Chronicles of the Going Home Club , so it's the perfect time for an exchange with the anime's director, Hikaru Sato. We took some of our own questions and some from our readers and sent them over, …Read more »
Those looking for more original anime out of the Kickstarter community should find promise in a new project from a group of Toei Animation veterans. Formed two years ago, Phoenix Angels Studios has been hard at work on a project called Devil's Legacy, and the …Read more »
It’s been about a week since animator, character designer and blogger Sachiko Kamimura stirred up a lot of discussion – both in Japanese and English – about the low wages paid to new animators in Japan. Kamimura wrote in her original post that because animators …Read more »
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