The Naruto Shippuden x Maeda Coffee collaboration café, which starts tomorrow and lasts through April 13, affects five different Maeda cafés in Kyoto, sometimes with different offerings on their menu. All of the cafés will offer Naruto Shippuden Pound Cake, Naruto’s Swirl Ham Pocket Sandwich, …Read more »
Yama Wayama’s manga titles Let’s Go Karaoke! and Captivated, by You are getting anime adaptations, and the first trailer for the former has dropped. It shares a bit about the cast and also lets us know that both the anime adaptations of Karaoke and Captivated, …Read more »
Senate Bill 20, which unanimously passed the Texas state senate, has some anime fans nervous because its vague wording could lead to anime and manga bans — and potentially even fans behind bars. The Bill appears to chiefly be concerned about stopping AI pornography made …Read more »
Crunchyroll and Aniplex, which are both under the Sony umbrella, are coming together to create a joint venture anime production company they’ve named Hayate. According to Crunchyroll and Aniplex, Hayate is all about “planning, developing, and producing anime content for the Crunchyroll streaming service.” The …Read more »
The Las Cruces Sun-News out of New Mexico reports that the Coalition of Conservatives in Action has put together a list of about 100 books that it thinks shouldn’t be on the shelves of local public schools. The first two volumes of Assassination Classroom are …Read more »
The anime Witch Watch will be here on April 6, and in the meantime a trailer has dropped that lets us hear the ending theme song “Maho Spice” (“Maho” translates as “Magic”) being performed by Aooo. Witch Watch Trailer Meanwhile, the opening theme song will …Read more »
Assassin & Cinderella is bound to be compared to SPY x FAMILY, because it involves a spy and an assassin in a marriage of convenience. In this case, Neneko is the spy, and she’s supposed to figure out the secrets and weaknesses of Omi, an …Read more »
If you’re a fan of the manga Tune In to the Midnight Heart (Mayonaka Heart Tune for the original title) and want to see more of its characters, then there’s good news for you. The series is getting an anime adaptation! Not a lot of …Read more »
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman will start streaming on Amazon Prime on April 6, and ahead of this a trailer with the opening theme song has been released. The opening theme song is titled “HEROES” and performed by Takanori Nishikawa. From Old Country …Read more »
The sexy anime Yandere Dark Elf: She Chased Me All the Way From Another World! (a.k.a. Chotto Dake Ai ga Omoi Dark Elf ga Isekai Kara Oikakete Kita for the original title) will be here on April 6, and ahead of this a trailer has …Read more »
Amazon announced that its Prime Video is going to offer dubbing on 12 licensed movies and series — dubbing made by AI, that is. Amazon says this is to overcome language barriers, and that so far there are two languages available to dub through artificial …Read more »
Abrams recently expanded into the world of manga by launching its own manga imprint, Kana (pronounced con-uh). To learn more about what’s going on and what makes this imprint different, Otaku USA spoke to editor Kristiina Korpus, who filled us in on Kana’s commitment to …Read more »
On February 19, Otaku USA covered a report that Scopely Inc., which has Savvy Gamers Group as a parent company, which in turn is a subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, was allegedly in talks to buy Pokémon Go. It’s now official …Read more »
Deadline exclusively revealed that a live-action TV adaptation of the manga Claymore is being developed. CBS Studios and Propagate Content are working with actor and producer Masi Oka, as well as with original publisher Shueisha. Shueisha and Oka are executive producing, along with Propagate Content …Read more »
As part of its events marking the 40th anniversary of Studio Ghibli, distributor GKIDS is bringing 1997’s Princess Mononoke to the big screen in America and Canada. The movie, which has a new 4K restoration, will exclusively hit IMAX theaters on March 26. GKIDS explained, …Read more »
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