The Sailor Moon play titled Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live is receiving more overseas performances, including multiple ones in North America! Texas is especially getting a lot of performances. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live is also going to England, where from …Read more »
The upcoming movie Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to be Loved (a.k.a. Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon: Samishigariya no Ryū in Japanese) dropped a trailer and more information. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to be Loved Trailer Along with …Read more »
100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death is a creepy horror anthology narrated by an elementary school boy. The manga opens with the boy, Yuuma, getting ready to kill himself. His classmate stops him and asks him, “Ever heard of the hundred …Read more »
Earlier this month, Fortnite Festival hinted that none other than Vocaloid Hatsune Miku would be getting involved with the video game franchise. Now the cat’s out of the bag as the official details are being released! Fortnite’s website explains that Miku is the Icon for …Read more »
There are some updates in the legal case involving publisher PCR Distributing and adult manga site nHentai. PCR Distributing alleges that nHentai has been pirating the publishers’ work and ignoring their demands to take it down. The adult site fought back, alleging that PCR Distributing …Read more »
Mike McFarland, a prolific anime voice actor and director, recently had emergency surgery after a tumor was discovered in his brain. Thankfully, the surgery did what it needed to do. Now McFarland is going to need time and aid to recover, so anime voice actors …Read more »
A case of murder in New Zealand has taken a new turn involving anime. In 2017, Gabriel Hikari Yad-Elohim — whose birth name appears to be Jung Hoon Song — viciously murdered 69-year-old Michael Mulholland. Yad-Elohim, who is now 36, had recently been discharged from …Read more »
Kana, a new manga imprint from Abrams, is publishing the first volume of Silence by Yoann Vornière on January 14 in bookstores and January 15 in comic shops. Otaku USA gets the first exclusive look with these preview pages, following our exclusive look at some …Read more »
A trailer has dropped for the upcoming The Rose of Versailles movie, focusing on character Oscar. At the same time, more members of the cast were announced. The Rose of Versailles Trailer Here are the just-revealed cast members: Fumi Hirano (Hana in DAN DA DAN) …Read more »
The anime Übel Blatt has launched, and if you’re thinking any voices might sound familiar, more members of the cast have been announced. Let’s take a look. Gen Sato (Minato Wataya in Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!) plays Zeffi …Read more »
In BLEND-S, Maika is in a desperate search for a part-time job so that she can afford to study abroad. Ever since she was five, she’s been obsessed with foreign cultures, especially in Europe (and she developed a crush on a statue of Colonel Sanders). …Read more »
Eden of Witches is published by Kana, a new imprint of Abrams that specializes in manga. The environmental fantasy story opens with an idealistic beginning, where plants and animals live in harmony. However, then humans show up, and their cruel behavior leads to plants and …Read more »
The Association of Japanese Animations (a.k.a. AJA) had some interesting findings for its Anime Industry Report 2024. The report looks at global sales numbers in 2023. During that year, the anime business brought in 3.3465 trillion yen, which is approximately $21.27 billion. AJA started keeping …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, a reedited version of some Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX episodes, is getting none other than Kenshi Yonezu to sing its theme song “Plazma.” You can hear some of it in this trailer.
Does anime make you hungry? The Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion Center (a.k.a. JFOODO) decided to do a survey asking anime fans if watching anime got them interested in eating Japanese food. Just over half, at 51%, said that after seeing certain foods portrayed in …Read more »
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