In 2021, 27 animated movies were submitted for Oscar consideration, including six anime movies: Earwig and the Witch, Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, Lupin III THE FIRST, ON-GAKU: Our Sound, Ride Your Wave, and A Whisker Away. Today the …Read more »
Juné Manga, the yaoi imprint of Digital Manga Publishing, teased on March 5 that they had big news coming. pic.twitter.com/KKAx05Aa1U — Juné Manga (@junemanga) March 6, 2021 The news, it turns out, is about their popular yakuza yaoi series Twittering Birds Never Fly. In a …Read more »
Tasuku Saitō was a major player at Toei Animation, working as a producer and planner. He produced the anime Gegege no Kitaro, Tiger Mask: Kuroi Majin, Shonen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru, Tiger Mask Fuku Men League Sen and Hustle Punch. He wrote the lyrics for …Read more »
The Shibuya Station in Tokyo is getting a Jujutsu Kaisen makeover. This is part of the festivities for Jujutsu Kaisen‘s fifteen manga volumes, but the area will only have this art around until March 14. The art also has a tagline to go with it: …Read more »
Tokyo Revengers will debut on Japanese TV in the early morning hours of April 11, and it will be streamed by Crunchyroll simultaneously. Ahead of the premiere, a new trailer was released that tells us more about cast members and lets us hear the opening …Read more »
The Office for Novel Coronavirus Disease Control, which is part of the Japanese government, is looking for creative ways to inform people about health safety and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Recently they’ve enlisted the help of both Hatsune Miku and Ensemble Stars! for special …Read more »
Today the first episode of the Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki English dub becomes available through Funimation. To go along with it, Funimation released a statement on the dub cast and crew. Adam Gibbs plays Tomozaki, Faye Mata plays Aoi, Christina Kelly plays Mimimi, Stephen Fu plays …Read more »
McDonald’s is a very popular restaurant chain in Japan, so it makes sense they’d come out with Happy Meal stickers starring the characters from Demon Slayer, Japan’s current most popular anime and manga. But apparently they’re so popular that not only are stores selling out, …Read more »
Last week Wit Studio announced it was doing another anime adaptation of The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún, this time as a feature length project. They also announced that they would be seeking some of their funding from Kickstarter. If anyone was …Read more »
ICv2 recently had an interview with the VP of Publishing Sales at VIZ Media, where it was revealed that VIZ’s manga sales went up exponentially in 2020. In an interview with Yen Press Publisher and Managing Director Kurt Hassler, ICv2 was able to uncover another …Read more »
Normally opening a movie on a Monday is not a good business move. But opening on a Monday did not hurt Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time at all. In fact, IMAX broke records for best opening day in Japan. So far the movie has …Read more »
The Yo-kai Watch franchise is expanding with the new anime series Yo-kai Watch ♪ (notice the music note). It hits Japanese TV on April 9 at 6:25 in the evening, and a new trailer has been released for it. After some flashbacks over the years, …Read more »
As of March 2021, Marvel’s biggest seller this year is Deadpool: Samurai, which is being published in Japan on the Shonen Jump+ app. Written and illustrated by Sanshirou Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi, it has Deadpool go back in time to feudal Japan. While we’re only …Read more »
Kenji is a deadpan, lethargic high school boy who hangs out with his friends, plays video games, and has bullies in his life. He barely talks sometimes, and he’ll just stare for long segments without expression. At first it’s a little odd. Then you realize …Read more »
As a celebration for the completion of Evangelion, company F:Nex is coming out with large models of Rei Ayanami and an Evangelion. The Rei is just under five feet three inches tall and is supposed to be “the cutest Rei Ayanami.” The Evangelion is about …Read more »
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