My Hero Academia is one of the most popular franchises out now, and we have the numbers to prove it. Last Friday, February 3, the official Twitter account for the My Hero Academia manga said that there are now more than 85 million copies of …Read more »
The light novel series Isekai One Turn Kill Nee-san: Ane Dо̄han no Isekai Seikatsu Hajimemashita (translated as One Turn Kill Sister in Another World: I Started Living in Another World with My Older Sister) is receiving an anime adaptation with a slightly different and shorter …Read more »
Netflix recently put out an anime short from WIT Studio on its Japanese YouTube channel. The anime, titled “Inu to Shonen” (translated as “The Dog and the Boy”) has a very unique feature: the backgrounds are AI-generated, using concept art done by people and getting …Read more »
The anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-Hen in Japanese) will debut in April, but some teaser goodies have just been released in the meantime. A Demon Slayer livestream event talked about the anime arc’s opening theme …Read more »
Masayuki Ishikawa, the mangaka behind Moyashimon and Maria the Virgin Witch, has some complaints about the dress code at his daughter’s school, and his complaints struck a chord with people online. Ishikata tweeted this (translation provided by SoraNews24): “I used to think high school girls …Read more »
Professional cosplayer Enako was recently on the Japanese TV variety show Honma Dekka!?, and it wouldn’t be Enako if she weren’t dressed up like a character with otaku ties. She decided to dress as Yor Forger from SPY x FAMILY, and you can see her …Read more »
For years there have been ongoing and abortive attempts to make a Hollywood live-action Akira. Jordan Peele was one of the people approached to possibly direct it, and he recently talked about the theoretical movie again. For background, in 2017 Peele revealed he’d been approached …Read more »
This June 20, the live-action Whisper of the Heart will become available through video on demand. But not everyone has to wait that long to see it. Capelight Pictures, a distributor from Berlin, is going to offer it in select theaters this Friday, but only …Read more »
The manga Blue Thermal -Aonagi Daigaku Taiiku-kai Kōkū-bu- (translated as Aonagi College Sports Festival Aviation Club) was turned into the anime film Blue Thermal, and American fans got their first look at it last month at Anime Frontier. But if you weren’t there, the movie …Read more »
The two-parter Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie (Gekijōban Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Cosmos in Japanese) won’t be coming out until June, but the people behind the films are already going heavy on advertisements. Two weeks after sharing a trailer, and one week after …Read more »
A new teaser video has dropped for the Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku anime, showing us upcoming characters and their actors. According to the trailer, Chikahiro Kobayashi plays Yamada Asaemon Shion, Yūsuke Kobayashi plays Yamada Asaemon Tenza, Makoto Koichi plays Nurugai, and Daiki Yamashita plays Yamada Asaemon …Read more »
Forbes’s Ollie Bardie conducted a lengthy interview with Shinichiro Watanabe, talking about his beginnings, his work on the anime Cowboy Bebop, what he thought of the Netflix live-action Cowboy Bebop, and his experiences working on The Animatrix. The interview brings alive much of Watanabe’s life …Read more »
Crunchyroll has been busy releasing and revealing the English dub casts for the second season of By the Grace of the Gods, Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World, and the second season of BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get …Read more »
A new trailer for the anime adaptation of the manga series A Galaxy Next Door (or Otonari ni Ginga in Japanese) lets us know that the show will debut on April 8. And it lets us listen to a clip of the opening theme song …Read more »
The anime adaptation of the light novel series My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1 (or Level 1 dakedo Unique Skill de Saikyō desu in Japanese) has dropped a trailer. It lets us know about the cast and crew and the fact …Read more »
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