The second confirmed case of the Omicron COVID variant has been found in America, and the man who was diagnosed attended Anime NYC right beforehand. He was at the convention between November 19-21, and his symptoms appeared November 22. The Omicron variant was first detected …Read more »
Japan continues to look toward ways to attract tourism, often tapping into otaku interests. Minamata in Kumamoto Prefecture has tapped mangaka Hisashi Eguchi as their first ever tourism ambassador. Eguchi, 65, is a native of Minamata, and his first manga came out in 1977. He’s …Read more »
Animators in Japan tend not to make much money, so the Animator Dormitory from Jun Sugawara is here to help change that. The group helps animators with housing and is also trying to set up a new system where animators are paid and treated better. …Read more »
The Ghibli Museum is beloved to many anime fans and has been a big tourism site, but it’s struggling under COVID. Earlier this year the museum asked for financial help and received it, but once again it’s put out a call for help. “Since opening …Read more »
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean debuts on Netflix today, and in episode two we learn that the ending theme song is “Distant Dreamer” by Duffy. While most anime opening and closing songs are done by Japanese artists, Duffy is Welsh, and her song originally came …Read more »
In the CUE! smartphone game, you get to act as a manager for a voice-acting agency and work with sixteen women who want to be voice actresses. The game is getting an anime adaptation that will debut on January 7, and in the meantime a …Read more »
Beginning tomorrow in Japan, all Donguri Kyowakoku stores in the country are getting new vending machine capsule toy collections. The Donguri Kyowakoku chain is all about selling Studio Ghibli merchandise, and these latest products are from the iconic movie My Neighbor Totoro. A brief, musical …Read more »
Wonder 3 mixes Osamu Tezuka’s penchant for showing the darkness of humanity, as well as his penchant for humorous kids’ comics, and it blends well. The setup has three aliens sent to Earth to stay there for a year to see if it’s worth keeping …Read more »
How do you sell locally produced apples, with the intent of especially advertising to women between the ages of 30 and 40? That’s easy: you just make advertising posters with sexy anime men. The Iwate Prefecture branch of ZEN-NOH (which is abbreviated from the Japanese …Read more »
If you’re in Japan and feeling hungry, there are new Demon Slayer foods to eat, and not just at the Demon Slayer restaurant in Universal Studios Japan. Now that we’re close to December, Japanese brand Priroll is rolling out a line of officially-licensed Demon Slayer …Read more »
Elections tend to have public service announcements and activists reminding people to vote, and the Honduras presidential election got an unusual person involved: Light Yagami from Death Note. This is not in any official capacity from the creator or publisher, and Light doesn’t suggest any …Read more »
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (or Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro in the original Japanese) is getting an anime adaptation that will come out July 2022. Ahead of this a teaser trailer has been released that also tells us more about the staff and cast. On the …Read more »
Bandai Namco Group sounds really intent on helping with sustainability, and they’ve tapped their enormously successful Gundam franchise as a vehicle to use in this process. One of the things they’ve been up to is asking people to donate their runners, which are the plastic …Read more »
Who is Ed Sheeran’s favorite Pokémon? It’s Squirtle, who’s all about wearing sunglasses for the special collaboration going on between the pop star and the pop culture sensation Pokémon GO. “A Special Ed Sheeran performance will be available through the Pokémon GO app,” Pokémon GO …Read more »
The Attack on Titan Manga Gallery made its debut this past weekend at Anime NYC, but that won’t be the last of it. Its next stop is the Anime Frontier con in Fort Worth, Texas, which takes place December 3-5. The convention is really pushing …Read more »
Danica Davidson
