Here’s a toast to the success of Cells at Work! Champion Sake award-winning brewing company Aizu Homare has come out with a special Cells at Work! themed sake meant to celebrate both the culmination of the manga, and the new season of the anime. The …Read more »
It won’t be much longer before American fans get to watch Earwig and the Witch! GKIDS just announced that the Studio Ghibli movie will become available on digital platforms March 23. In addition, they’re releasing both a Limited Edition Steelbook and a Blu-ray +DVD combo …Read more »
The fourth season of Food Wars! (a.k.a. Food Wars! The Fourth Plate) is being released on Blu-ray February 23. With the release a little under a month away, Sentai has revealed a dub clip about a minute and a half long, plus information on the …Read more »
Ninety-five people (mostly bookstore workers) looked at 216 different manga titles to decide which they think should be nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho awards (a.k.a the Cartoon Grand Prize). In order to qualify, the manga had come out in 2020 and have eight volumes …Read more »
The Titan’s Bride anime is getting an English dub through Ascendent Animation, the company that has acquired the nine-episode series. Actors have not yet been announced, but some members of the staff have. Kiba Walker, the President and COO of Ascendant Animation, is directing and …Read more »
Professional cosplayers in Japan might soon see laws change that involve their line of work. According to Anime News Network, the Japanese government is mulling over “rules that will allow copyright holders to regulate cosplayers for income earned from cosplay activity.” So far nothing has …Read more »
Mangaka Gege Akutami has reason to celebrate. Oricon released its rankings for the 50 top-selling manga in Japan for the time period of January 11-17, and Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen manga placed from second place to sixteenth. And since there are exactly 15 volumes of the …Read more »
Academy Award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto shared news in English and Japanese that he has been diagnosed with rectal cancer. “I was relieved after the throat cancer that I had in 2014 went into remission after six years,” he wrote. “However, unfortunately, I have been diagnosed …Read more »
Resident Evil Village will become available May 7, and a new trailer gives us an idea of what to expect. The atmosphere is dark, the mood is tenable, and there’s a little bit of NSFW language. Resident Evil Village marks the eighth release in the …Read more »
The anime Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul and Inuyashiki have received legal bans in Russia after the decision of a St. Petersburg court yesterday. The bans relate to websites where these anime can be watched. The prosecutors argued for this ban on the grounds of protecting …Read more »
Author Rifujin na Magonote, whose light novel series Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation has been turned into a new anime being streamed by Funimation, responded to critiques that the perverted main character remained a pervert after being reincarnated. The author gave some lengthy tweet threads in …Read more »
Six different anime movies have been submitted for Oscar consideration: Earwig and the Witch, Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, Lupin III THE FIRST, ON-GAKU: Our Sound, Ride Your Wave, and A Whisker Away. In total, 27 films are vying …Read more »
The Japanese convenience chain store Lawson has teamed up with Evangelion for special ATMs that were meant to coincide with the movie Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time coming out in theaters. The movie’s debut has been held up because of COVID, but Lawson is …Read more »
In November all the nominees for the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards were announced, and yesterday the winners were revealed in Japan. The Best Children’s Manga category had two winners: Duel Masters by Shigenobu Matsumoto, and Chocolat no Maho (translated as The Magic of Chocolate) by …Read more »
Want to up your Hellsing collectables? Some limited edition artwork might be up your alley. Vendor Anique is offering twelve examples of artwork from original mangaka Kouta Hirano as well as from Ryoji Nakamori, who did the character designs for the anime. There are options …Read more »
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