Have you ever been curious about the history of anime in North America? The YouTube documentary series The Anime Business, brought to us by anime distributor AnimEigo and parent company MediaOCD, will interview influential people in the North American anime industry. Its first episode, coming …Read more »
Hatsune Miku has teamed up with a lot of companies and groups, so why not team up with McDonald’s, the restaurant chain that keeps showing its love for otaku interests? A few days ago, McDonald’s Japan shared an image on social media that was clearly …Read more »
Mondo, a company that creates posters, vinyl soundtracks, collectibles and the like, has teamed up with none other than Yu-Gi-Oh! for a new collection with a high-end soft vinyl figure and large-format screen prints. The launch party took place at Los Angeles’ Funko Hollywood Store …Read more »
Two new Me & Roboco trailers have dropped ahead of the anime movie’s release. The movie has a whole multiverse storyline going on, so two of those storylines get a sneak peek. The first is the “from a Showa-era gag manga worldline” Roboco trailer, and …Read more »
Using comics as a means of political spoof has a long history in both America and Japan, and Baki Rahen, the latest in the Baki the Grappler franchise, recently went after President Donald Trump and DOGE’s Elon Musk. Keisuke Itagaki, the creator of Baki, also …Read more »
Chinese scientists recently found a new variant of deepwater tilefish, and it’s been officially dubbed Branchiostegus sanae in honor of Princess Mononoke character San. This is because the fish has markings on its face that look reminiscent San’s face paint. There’s deeper meaning, too. Deepwater …Read more »
Duncan Sheik of Spring Awakening is writing the music and lyrics for a musical stage play adaptation of the award-winning manga Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen. The manga was created by Moyoco Anno. Musicals based on manga are nothing new in Japan, and some of them, …Read more »
A new season of the live-action adaptation of Gannibal will be here in just under a month, on March 19. The actors from season one are reprising their roles, and new cast members for the second season were announced. A number of these actors have …Read more »
Two beloved franchises are coming together with Magic: The Gathering bringing out a Final Fantasy set. While there have been little teases about it over the years, we finally have a first look at the cards and an official 2025 release date. The cards, which …Read more »
Hell Is Dark with No Flowers is a creepy mystery series involving yokai. The main character, Seiji, is a useless NEET who’s about to be homeless, but he has something important going for him: sometimes he sees people as yokai, or monsters. This really scares …Read more »
Pokémon Go might soon have new owners. That’s according to a report at Bloomberg, which spoke with employees at Niantic Inc., the owner of the game. None of the employees wanted to publicly share their names, and it was also acknowledged that the deal might …Read more »
The results are in for Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK’s limited screening in U.S. theaters. The movie was originally supposed to only be out for a day, though Crunchyroll eventually expanded it because of high demand, putting it on the big screen between February …Read more »
Animation studio Chiptune has been obtained by Kadokawa and will now be a subsidy of the larger company. Chiptune, which was originally called 8-Bit Rocket, does a lot of things like background art, in-between animation, and CG animation. It got its start in 2012, and …Read more »
Fans of the popular series Hunter x Hunter and video games have a reason to be excited, because it was just revealed that the game HUNTER x HUNTER: NEN x IMPACT is coming out on July 17! A trailer has dropped for people to check …Read more »
It was revealed in September that the light novel series Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (a.k.a. Shibō Yūgi de Meshi o Kuu in Japanese) is getting an anime adaptation. Now, a few months later, we have more information, including the fact …Read more »
Danica Davidson
