It’s not every day a manga turns 50, so people are ready to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Doraemon. According to Anime News Network, the Doraemon anime will be celebrating the manga that came before it with three episodes that will air this Saturday. Gen …Read more »
There’s a set of toys in Japan with the English name “Who Are You?” where you start out with a colorful fluff ball and you have to wash it for it to turn into the actual toy. Once washed, you can see if you have …Read more »
Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is no stranger to winning awards, and they keep on coming. On August 26, he took home the 38th annual Kawakita Award from the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute. The award itself was created in honor of Nagamasa Kawakita, a Japanese …Read more »
We all know that Eiichiro Oda’s bestselling manga One Piece will be coming to an end in the next four or five years. But that leaves the question: what will Oda do next? Twitter user Sandman says that according to a recent Japanese interview with …Read more »
Artistic otaku can use social media to show off their creations, from dioramas to officially approved fan art. Just take a look at Twitter user annkoromoti (@ufjmFR0BF7t5Jq7) and this shared image of a Valkyrie from Macross:
If you’ve ever wondered what income is like for a professional manga creator, mangaka Ryōma Kitada tweeted information and even a chart on how it is for him. His harem manga SUPER HXEROS, which will be released in America next year by Seven Seas Entertainment, …Read more »
Do you like playing crane games to get a toy for yourself or your sweetheart? Then your next destination might be the brand-new Tokyo arcade called Taito Station Fuchi Kururu, which boasts an impressive 454 crane games. That’s so many that the business has already …Read more »
There’s more sad news for otaku following the death of 23-year-old mangaka Kōsei Eguchi. Actress and model Ruri Shinato, who was only 31, died on August 28. According to Anime News Network, a clear cause of death has not been given, but it can be …Read more »
Yesterday the Harvey Awards announced their lineup of 2020 nominations. The Best Manga category, which was first implemented in 2018, goes as follows: H.P. Lovecraft’s At Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe (Dark Horse Manga) The Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu …Read more »
Lots of families like to have family portraits, where everything has to be just so. Then there are cosplaying families, where their family portraits are just so and amazing pop culture imagery. According to SoraNews24, a man who goes by the name @xMiCaNx on Twitter …Read more »
Japan is known both for its ancient culture and its mastery of all things hi-tech, so why not put shuriken machines in arcades and call them Ninja Trainer Arcades? It’s the brainchild of dart-making company DARTSLIVE and none other than Sega. According to SoraNews24, the …Read more »
My Broken Mariko is a heavy duty josei manga about friendship, abuse, and loss. Shiino is eating a meal at a restaurant when she hears the news that her best friend, 26-year-old Mariko, committed suicide. It’s pretty clear from the pains Mariko went to that …Read more »
Sakuta Azusagawa, a high school boy with a cutting wit and no use for cell phones, is at the library one day when he notices a young woman walking around in a Playboy Bunny outfit. It’s Mai Sakurajima, the famous actress and his senpai (hence …Read more »
Satoshi Kon was one of the most successful anime directors of all time, and France is one of the countries where manga is most popular abroad. So it comes as no surprise that a French documentary about Kon has been made. The documentary is called …Read more »
The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud is a collection of short manga stories written during the 1960s to 80s by Kuniko Tsurita, the only female mangaka to habitually contribute to Garo magazine during its early days. Garo, like Tezuka’s COM, was a magazine …Read more »
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