There was a big hoopla when someone stole 20 volumes of Demon Slayer from Onsen no Mori hot spring and the facility responded by asking nicely on social media for the books to be returned. Time passed and at least 190 copies of Demon Slayer …Read more »
Digital Manga Inc.’s imprint LILYKA publishes independent yuri manga, and one of their creators is Mintaro, who has a line of fairy tale influenced comics. Mintaro also maintains a YouTube page where she posts some drawing videos to help aspiring artists. LILYKA shared this information …Read more »
Norah Jones is releasing a digital deluxe version of her album Pick Me Up Off the Floor, and she’s teamed up with mangaka Rumiko Takahashi for a new music video for her song “I’m Alive.” “We’re all human, and we experience many things in life, …Read more »
Shu Uemura, a high end makeup brand in Japan, has previously released Super Mario and Pokémon inspired makeup for their holiday collections. According to Japanese site grape, this year their holiday collection will be all about One Piece makeup. Someone put time into coming up …Read more »
American Steve Alpert spent a decade and a half working for Studio Ghibli and he wrote about the experience in his memoir, Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli. The book was released earlier this year by Stone Bridge Press, …Read more »
Instead of having a season four for Sailor Moon Crystal, the Dead Moon arc is being released as two movies. A trailer for Pretty Guardians Sailor Moon Eternal The MOVIE has dropped, along with a new poster and information on the cast. Shouta Aoi, Satoshi …Read more »
Japan has a thing for specialty cafés, including the Studio Ghibli Museum’s Straw Hat Café. The other day Studio Ghibli founders Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki attended to their café like any other customers, and they shared a video of it. Along with the two …Read more »
Rent-a-Girlfriend is doing so well it’s gotten its own exhibition. The exhibition is currently in Tokyo until Monday, October 26, and after that it goes to Osaka for a December 24-January 4 run. As Japanese site grape reports, the exhibition opens with an autographed message …Read more »
Yen Press is re-releasing the original Haruhi light novels through their Yen On imprint. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya will both come back out in January 2021. Following that, two more Haruhi books will be released each month until …Read more »
Yūta Momiyama, the deputy editor-in-chief of Shonen Jump+, sent out a chain of tweets about how MANGA Plus is doing around the world. MANGA Plus is an app that allows people to read select titles from Shonen Jump. Noting that there was a conference on …Read more »
Los Angeles Comic Con, which was supposed to take place December 11-13, has been scrubbed. Rather than doing a virtual con as some other conventions have done (like San Diego Comic Con and New York Comic Con), LACC made plans to be back next year …Read more »
Bandai has come out with a fancy new life size Demon Slayer sword (that talks!). But YouTuber Tsukuru-san has made a name for himself making anime and manga weapons out of cardboard, so that’s the way he went for his own Demon Slayer sword. Tsukuru-san …Read more »
Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel III. spring song, which debuted in Japan earlier this year, will be played at Fathom Events in America on November 18. In addition to that, Fathom Events be playing the two previous films, Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel and Fate/stay night: Heaven’s …Read more »
The final season of Attack on Titan will involve the company MAPPA, a switch from the previous company WIT STUDIO. In a new issue of Newtype, AOT producers explained why. “While season 3 was in production, we consulted with WIT STUDIO, and it was decided …Read more »
In conjunction with the release of Violet Evergarden: The Movie, director Taichi Ishidate recently shared with Newtype his thoughts on making the sequel. “In the TV series, whether Gilbert lives or dies isn’t shown, but even if Violet were to never meet him again, she …Read more »
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