We still don’t know when the second season of the new Ranma ½ anime will debut, but it will offer a little sneak peek next month! That’s because on June 22, the movie theater Shinjuku Wald 9 in Tokyo is giving an advanced screening for …Read more »
In Oshi no Ko, Ai Hoshino gives her kids “kirakira” names — Aquamarine and Ruby. Kirakira can be translated as sparkly, shiny, or glittery, and these are unusual names that employ kanji in an irregular way. Kirakira names have been a thing since the 90s, …Read more »
Kindergarten Wars opens with an assassin being given a really cold-blooded assignment: killing a kindergartner because of who his parent is. But the assassin will kill whoever he’s told to kill, and killing a kid sounds easy enough. He goes to the kid’s kindergarten with …Read more »
A trailer has dropped for the upcoming anime Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex (based on the novels known as Zutaboro Reijō wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru). The trailer lets us know that the show will launch on July 4, and you can …Read more »
Naru Narumi is having a busy, successful summer! First off, the creator’s previous and provocatively titled manga Watari-kun’s ****** Is about to Collapse (Watari-kun no xx ga Hōkaisunzen in Japanese) is getting an anime that debuts this July. Secondly, it was just announced that Narumi …Read more »
Universal Studios Japan (a.k.a. USJ) likes to shake things up a bit by bringing in limited-time attractions around popular anime franchises. Starting July 1, SPY x FAMILY and The Apothecary Diaries are getting the USJ treatment. There’s going to be a SPY×FAMILY rally, and people …Read more »
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? has turned into a massive franchise, and that never would have happened if it weren’t for the original light novels by Fujino Omori and Suzuhito Yasuda. The novels’ Japanese publisher, GA Bunko, has …Read more »
The 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards are happening this Sunday, May 21, and it’s debuting a new honor called the Global Impact Award. But you don’t have to wait until Sunday to learn the winner — Crunchyroll already revealed that it’s Attack on Titan. The Global …Read more »
Universal’s Epic Universe in Orlando is debuting its Super Nintendo World and the Donkey Kong Country expansion on May 22, so Nintendo game designer and creator Shigeru Miyamoto (a.k.a. Mario’s dad) spoke about the park, what he’s interested in doing, and a little bit about …Read more »
The movie City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust (a.k.a. Gekijоban City Hunter: Tenshi no Namida in Japanese) debuted in September 2023, and now it’s coming out on Blu-ray in America thanks to Shout! Factory and Anime Limited. The disc is available for pre-order, and will …Read more »
Last year, there were approximately 1,100 host clubs in Japan, with about a third of them in Tokyo. These are supposed to be fun, entertaining excursions, like we see in Ouran High School Host Club (and check out Otaku USA’s interview with Kyoya’s voice actor …Read more »
In 1970, the Japanese island Takaikamishima had 184 residents, and in 2025, that number had dropped to 11. Residents on the island came up with a creative idea to get more people to move there, or at least visit: their own manga school. The Takaikamishima …Read more »
A new, subtitled trailer has dropped for DAN DA DAN Season 2, which will premiere on July 3. In it, we can hear part of the new opening theme song “On the Way” being performed by AiNA THE END. DAN DA DAN Season 2 Trailer …Read more »
Japanese urban legends are infamous for being scary, and Horror Collector dives into a number of creepy stories. In the first tale, “The Boy in the Red Hood,” some schoolchildren are discussing urban legends, with one insisting “You never know when we could be next!” …Read more »
Japan’s economy has shrunk 0.2% in January through March, which was more than experts were anticipating. With the trade war continuing and Japan still not happy with President Trump’s tariffs, more concerns grow that, unless something changes, a recession is around the corner for the …Read more »
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