Last week the Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested six people because of how they were operating their maid cafés. It has to do with the Adult Entertainment Business Regulation Law in Japan. So-called regular restaurants can be open at any hour, but a “social” restaurant or …Read more »
The Tokyo Revengers manga is heading toward its climax, and the anime adaptation has been a big success. But we still have the live-action Tokyo Revengers movie adaptation to look forward to, and Warner Bros. Japan dropped a video to let us get to know …Read more »
The video game Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid came out in 2019, but 2021 is getting a Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid Super Edition. The game will receive a physical release this July, and in the meantime it’s available digitally for PlayStation 4, …Read more »
Many beverage companies have seen sales drop during COVID, but DyDo Drinco Inc. from Osaka has had major success selling canned coffee with Demon Slayer characters on it. The Demon Slayer cans have been nicknamed Kimetsu-can, and they’ve sold 100 million units since last October. …Read more »
The Black Clover anime series has concluded in Japan, but if you’ve been waiting to see the last bit on Toonami, the wait is almost over. Adult Swim announced that the fourth and final season of Black Clover will begin playing at 2 AM on …Read more »
The streaming platform GagaOOLala has picked up the live-action movie BL movie Love Stage!! The movie first came out last year, and it’s based on the manga by Taishi Zaou and Eiki Eiki. It’s in Japanese but has different subtitles, including English, available for viewers. …Read more »
Back in March Kodansha came out with some limited edition Attack on Titan manga that were big enough to be read by a Titan. Each manga weighed about 30 pounds and was 1.01 meters tall and 0.71 meters wide. To no one’s surprise, this turned …Read more »
Plenty of people have bad memories of sex education class, whether the class didn’t tell them what they needed to know or spent its time terrifying them about STDs. Sex Ed 120% follows a teacher determined to give the students at her all-girls school accurate …Read more »
This past weekend a fire broke out at the home of mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake. The cause of the fire is still being investigated. Miyatake survived and was hospitalized, but his wife, 60-year-old Tomoko Watanabe, unfortunately died. Miyatake remains in the hospital as of the …Read more »
Yutaka Abe and Jiro Maruden just finished up their manga adaptation of the Detective Conan: Fist of Blue Sapphire movie (twenty-third in the series!), and they’re on to the next project. It was just announced that they’ll adapt the fifteenth Conan movie, Detective Conan: Quarter …Read more »
Mangaka Ruri Kumashika publishes yuri manga through Lilyka. Her series Around The Season of Cherry Blossoms is a story of yearning from a student who loves her female teacher, and the fourth issue was just released. She is also the mangaka behind The Sweet Ring …Read more »
Thigh High: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy is about a private school where “young blossoms enjoy their high school lives.” If that sounds feminine, that’s the point. But it’s an all-male school and all the boys wear women’s clothing. Most of the boys wear miniskirts, but class …Read more »
Pioneering manga creator Ichiro Tominaga has passed away earlier this month from old age. He was 96-years-old. While his name might not be well-known in America, he was an important figure in Japan. His most successful manga series were titled Chinkoro Nee-chan and Sekkachi Neeya. …Read more »
Mangaka Yasunori Mitsunaga recently finished the Princess Resurrection manga franchise with the final volume of Princess Resurrection Nightmare, and the creator is off to work on a new series. Mitsunaga will do the writing, but instead of doing the art as well, Yoshimitsu Iruka has …Read more »
Lyricist Akira Ito has passed away at age 80 from renal failure, after a lifetime writing the lyrics for some of Japan’s best-known jingles and anime openings. He wrote the words for the original Urusei Yatsura opening theme song “Lum’s Love Song,” as well as …Read more »
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