Costco is selling Pokémon 151 Blooming Waters Premium Collection packs, but one store got more than it bargained for when people became violent trying to get the cards. You can find all the original 151 Pokémon in the pack, and there might be some special …Read more »
Anime actor and director Mike McFarland had successful emergency brain surgery earlier this month, and both friends and fans are stepping up to help. First voice actors J. Michael Tatum and Brandon McInnis set up a GoFundMe page, and now GalaxyCon is launching a charity …Read more »
Disney has made it clear it wants to get more into the world of anime, like with its Star Wars: Visions work. But fans online noticed something that Anime News Network was then able to substantiate: Disney is censoring the streaming of Macross Dynamite 7. …Read more »
Solo Leveling is a huge international franchise that includes novels, comics and an anime, and it’s about to get even bigger. Its live-action drama adaptation is in development, according to its Korean publisher, Kakao Entertainment. Kakao Entertainment’s media division is engaged with developing, writing, and …Read more »
Kids Valley is a Japanese nonprofit that caters to both kids (as the title suggests) and senior citizens, finding community spaces for them. It opened the Shangri-La maid café Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, where all the maids are senior citizens. To be precise, the maids must …Read more »
Japan Airlines (aka JAL) has teamed up with Universal Studios Japan to show off some of the amusement park’s iconic characters, like Mario and Donkey Kong! The JAL x Universal Studios Japan Jet 2, which will be around through June 2026, displays characters from the …Read more »
It was first announced in August that the With You and the Rain manga is getting an anime adaptation, and now Weekly Young Magazine has shared more info on the cast and crew, as well as when we can expect the show to debut — …Read more »
Kouichirou Itou, an anime producer best-known for working on a number of Makoto Shinkai’s movies, is back in the news because of updates in his criminal trial. Itou was originally arrested in February 2024, almost a year ago, after authorities working on prostitution cases stumbled …Read more »
Fans of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? got thrown in a loop when several episodes of the current season, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V: Goddess of the Harvest Arc, were …Read more »
In December we learned the Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc will be here in April, a year after Black Butler: Public School Arc debuted. Now it’s been revealed that musician HYDE and band Cö shu Nie are joining forces for the anime’s new opening theme …Read more »
It seems that Western credit card companies are again affecting Japanese businesses. This time around it’s about Niconico, which also has a “mature illustration service” called Niconico Shunga. (The title references shunga, a traditional type of Japanese erotica that usually would take the form of …Read more »
What’s it like for young adults dating in Japan? Japanese matchmaking service O-net has been running an annual survey since 2016 to find out. The survey is specifically for people who are 20, because in Japan this age is customarily viewed as the beginning of …Read more »
The Sailor Moon play titled Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live is receiving more overseas performances, including multiple ones in North America! Texas is especially getting a lot of performances. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live is also going to England, where from …Read more »
The upcoming movie Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to be Loved (a.k.a. Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon: Samishigariya no Ryū in Japanese) dropped a trailer and more information. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to be Loved Trailer Along with …Read more »
100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death is a creepy horror anthology narrated by an elementary school boy. The manga opens with the boy, Yuuma, getting ready to kill himself. His classmate stops him and asks him, “Ever heard of the hundred …Read more »
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