Yoshitada Fukuhara, producer at the anime studio 8million, has been sharing insider information on the world of anime budgets through Twitter. In 2019, according to Crunchyroll, Fukuhara tweeted that it typically cost around $142,000 to make an episode of anime. That’s 15 million yen. Now, …Read more »
After Act-Age writer Tatsuya Matsuki was arrested over accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault toward junior high school girls, Shonen Jump put out an official statement that they were canceling the series. We also got a statement from fellow shonen mangaka Taishi Tsutsui of …Read more »
LEGO has sets of everything from Star Wars to Minecraft, but isn’t it about time there’s a set based off an anime or manga? Naruto fans David and Diego Escalona, aka the DadiTwins, have made their own Naruto ramen shop LEGO set, which they’re hoping …Read more »
It’s been about a month since Act-Age writer Tatsuya Matsuki was arrested over accusations of sexual assault and sexual harassment of junior high school girls. Taishi Tsutsui, the mangaka behind another shonen series, We Never Learn, gave his thoughts on Twitter. He shared his sympathy …Read more »
The Millionaire Detective Balance: UNLIMITED anime, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel The Millionaire Detective, began playing in Japan this year and streaming in America. It’s not too often we get behind-the-scenes looks at anime, but grape Japan has published an interview with the series’ producer, …Read more »
Nanoka is a precocious fourth grade girl who loves to read and who wants to understand what happiness means. She tries to get out of things at school that make her uncomfortable, but her teacher patiently explains, “It’s not always a good thing to try …Read more »
A lot of people have extra free time during the days of COVID-19, and one 78-year-old Japanese man is putting that to good use. Trained as a woodworker, he’s been making tiny but usable furniture for his daughter’s anime figurines. According to SoraNews24, his mad …Read more »
Hello Kitty is on everything from notebooks to jewelry, but she’s continuing to expand her adorable feline empire with Hello Kitty themed hotel rooms opening this October. The new Asakusa Tobu Hotel, which is located in Tokyo, aims to offer two rooms dedicated to the …Read more »
Nagabe, the mangaka behind The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún and The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms, is back with the stirring short story anthology Love on the Other Side. There’s an element of fairy tales to these stories, and …Read more »
In Kaori Tsurutani‘s BL Metamorphosis manga, 75-year-old widow Ichinoi muses about how fast time slips by. When a café she’s been visiting for years is abruptly shut down, she finds herself wandering into a bookstore. The cookbook section she goes to is now the manga …Read more »
Mega company Sony is busy releasing movies, music, and video games, and it’s getting ready to really push its anime and challenge the likes of Netflix and Disney for sales. Netflix has been increasing their anime load, and Disney . . . well, anyone aware …Read more »
Bleach may be over, but its creator Tite Kubo is still making manga, including stories occurring in the Bleach universe. Kubo published the one-shot manga Burn the Witch two summers ago and told the story of witches Noel Niihashi and Nini Spangle, workers at the …Read more »
While COVID-19 is causing many events to be cancelled, it’s also showing how creative people can be in what they’re doing to make up for public events. Because Comiket—Japan’s major convention for doujinshi (self-published manga)—is a potential breeding ground for COVID, we’re instead offered Comic …Read more »
If you’re a big fan of the Platelets from Cells at Work! and can’t wait to see their escapades in the upcoming Cells at Work! film, then this manga spinoff might just be what you need to get you through. Like the other spinoffs Cells …Read more »
Many things are being done differently as we move through the COVID-19 pandemic, and that includes voice-over work in Japan for the latest anime. Anime News Network interviewed Seiichi Nakayama, a sound engineer from the production company G-angle, to see how things are being handled. …Read more »
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