Square Enix put an interview on its website where Final Fantasy VII Remake Co-Directors Naoki Hamaguchi and Motomu Toriyama talk about the Yuffie chapter that’s soon to be released. “It’s very much the same Yuffie we all know and love that appears in Midgar,” said …Read more »
It’s been five years since Haro Aso’s manga Alice in Borderland concluded, and we just got news that the mangaka is up to a new project. Aso will be working with Shiro Yoshida (who did the manga adaptation of Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress) on …Read more »
It’s pretty clear Netflix is very interested in being involved in the anime market, and they’ve jumped on the virtual YouTuber bandwagon as well with VTuber ambassador N-ko Mei Kurono. N-ko just made her debut in Japan, and will release new videos about anime on …Read more »
Last year fans were psyched to see a giant moving Gundam in Yokohama, and now there’s another giant Gundam for fans to see! The Freedom Gundam is a statue (meaning it doesn’t move like the one in Yokohama) and it is located in Shanghai, China. …Read more »
VIZ Media recently released Lovesickness, a new manga from horror master Junji Ito. The company put together a video letting you read a little bit of the manga (with creepy music in the background), and the video is both introduced and concluded by Ito himself. …Read more »
The winners for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize have been announced! The prizes are given yearly to manga creators who follow the tradition laid out by Osamu Tezuka. The Grand Prize, which comes with a bronze statue and approximately $19,000 in cash, goes …Read more »
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Kodansha Publishing have teamed up to use Cells at Work! in the fight against COVID-19. Creator Akane Shimizu finished her Cells at Work! series about anthropomorphic cells with a chapter about COVID-19. This chapter, plus a new …Read more »
The picture book Riku wa Yowakunai came out in 2020 and has about 22,000 copies in circulation. A teaser trailer for the anime film adaptation has been released. The book was written by Shinobu Sakagami, who has fourteen dogs and four cats. The illustrator, Kunihiro …Read more »
A brand-new trailer has dropped for the live-action Chinese movie Dynasty Warriors. Dynasty Warriors is based on the video game of the same name from Japanese company KOEI, and the video game in turn is inspired by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by …Read more »
The live-action series Night Head played in Japan in the early 90s, and it led to the anime and manga Night Head Genesis more than a decade later. The franchise is getting a new anime series titled Night Head 2041 that’s debuting this July, and …Read more »
Shingo Natsume, who directed One-Punch Man and Space Dandy, is coming out with a science fiction anime called Sonny Boy that he conceived, wrote and directed. The story follows 36 students who find themselves in an alternate dimension and also discover that they have special …Read more »
A trailer for Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- has been released ahead of its July debut. It’s based on the novels by Kei Azumi, and helmed by Shinji Ishihira, who directed Fairy Tail. It also revealed more of the cast. Saori Hayami plays Emma, Shinpachi Tsuji plays …Read more »
Knights of Sidonia: The Star Where Love is Spun hits Japanese theaters May 14, but moviegoers don’t have to wait that long to see the opening. The first several minutes of the movie has been released on YouTube as a teaser. It’s in Japanese, but …Read more »
VIZ Media is publishing the Demon Slayer manga in America, and it’s pretty excited to see how well the movie has been doing, especially now that it’s broken records at the U.S. box office. The VIZ Media blog wrote, “To say people are hyped for …Read more »
The BL film Twittering Birds Never Fly ~The Clouds Gather~ will make its debut on HIDIVE Monday, May 3 at 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST. The movie is licensed by Sentai, and HIDIVE shared Sentai’s trailer along with the news. They gave this description …Read more »
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