Studio david production, whose credits include Fire Force and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, is coming out with its very first original anime, Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse. Rather than being a title based on a manga or video game, etc., it has an original concept created by …Read more »
On May 2, lawyers for Nintendo of America filed paperwork with the United States District Court for the Central District of California against accessory maker Genki’s parent company, Human Things. In the section about the Nature of the Action in the 27-page filing, it explains, …Read more »
Even as anime gets more popular, otaku sometimes still have to deal with people’s inaccurate perceptions on the medium. Producer and executive Marisa Balkus, whose background includes working at Crunchyroll and Netflix, gives a long talk about her career and the anime industry, and part …Read more »
Detectives These Days Are Crazy! opens with a scene of Nagumo’s glory days, when he was a genius teen detective. Now he’s 35 and feels past his prime. But Mashiro, a high school girl who wants to be a detective, is determined to become his …Read more »
President Trump has announced new tariffs that could have a major effect on the anime industry: 100% tariffs on movies made out of the United States. President Trump referred to movies made outside of America as a National Security threat and propaganda. Here is the …Read more »
There are many Japanophiles out there, and that includes students from other countries who choose to go to the island nation for school. The Japan Student Services Organization disclosed its numbers for the Study on the Enrollment Status of Foreign Students, and it made some …Read more »
The second season of I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability just dropped a promotional video, a visual, and some important information. For starters, the new season will be here on July 9. In this …Read more »
Fuji TV has been struggling since it was caught up in a sexual assault scandal. As a refresher, Fuji TV host Masahiro Nakai, who was once part of the band SMAP, was accused of sexually assaulting a woman who also worked there. Allegedly there were …Read more »
In You Talk Too Much, So Just Shut It Already, Hiiragi is a middle school girl who was born deaf and who has started at a new school. The teacher tells the students that she can read lips, and from there Enomoto, the boy who …Read more »
Otaku references continue to pop up in the American professional sports world, and this time around we can thank Shohei Ohtani’s wife Mamiko Tanaka for the Sailor Moon nod! Dodgers Station in Los Angeles held Women’s Night “to champion the women in our lives and …Read more »
Kaya-chan Isn’t Scary is a mixture of cuteness and horror. The titular Kaya-chan is a kindergartner who is seen as a problem child at her school. She’s different, and gets into trouble all the time. And no matter what happens, she blames “ghosts.” Chie becomes …Read more »
Unfortunately, crimes related to Pokémon continue to happen. In one recent case, a 38-year-old Australian man agreed to sell his PSA 9 Base Set holo Charizard, estimated at $8,000 in Australia, which would be a little over $5,000 in the United States. The man, who …Read more »
Popular manga titles often bring tourism to Japan, but one controversial manga is reducing tourism. Watashi ga Mita Mirai (translated as The Future I Saw) by Ryo Tatsuki was originally published in 1999, and it’s about Tatsuki’s dreams. She alleges that sometimes her dreams come …Read more »
The game 9-nine- is getting an anime adaptation titled 9-nine- Ruler’s Crown and its first promotional video just dropped. Along with giving us almost two minutes of footage, it announces that we can expect this series to debut in July. On top of that, we …Read more »
Japan’s Mount Fuji is a famous place to hike, but there is an official hiking season for it, and that begins in July. For a lot of the year, the mountain is not properly staffed by people who can help if anything goes wrong. So …Read more »
Danica Davidson
