Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Arc, the latest part of the decades-long Kinnikuman franchise, is not doing as well as creator Takashi Shimada would like. Shimada is half of the manga duo known as Yudetamago, and he shared his thoughts online. A new MyAnimeList ranking put Kinnikuman: …Read more »
Junji Ito’s Uncanny: The Origins of Fear, is out in time for Halloween and a great read for both fans of Ito’s work and fans of horror. In fact, anyone who’s interested in the creative process could get helpful tidbits from this work. Uncanny: the …Read more »
Fans of the manga My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999 have a reason to be excited, because its long hiatus has finally come to an end! The hiatus began in February 2024, due to creator Mashiro’s health. With the manga returning, that hopefully that …Read more »
A husband and wife in León, Mexico recently tied the knot in a Saint Seiya-themed wedding. While many Saint Seiya fans and otaku would give a themed wedding like this the thumbs up, it received the ire of the Archdiocese of León and Archbishop Jaime …Read more »
The Tokyo High Court has declared that Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. This is the same conclusion that the Sapporo High Court made in March 2024. The Tokyo High Court ruling stated in part, “Matters related to marriage and family should take into …Read more »
Matsuda Minoru’s manga He Was My Brother mixes horror and romance, and is currently available on the Mangamo manga app. You can check out Otaku USA’s review on it here. Just in time for Halloween, Minoru did an interview about how Japanese horror films have …Read more »
He Was My Brother stars Kanoko, a teenage girl whose brother Kiichiro passed away after an illness. The manga starts out feeling kind of like a slice-of-slice about a family that’s dealt with grief, but soon supernatural things begin happening, and it becomes clear this …Read more »
Haruna Kojima, who was a member of the massive idol group AKB48 from 2005 to 2017, recently had some drama unfold while she was stumping for her new photo album, Kamoshirenai. She had a launch event at the Shibuya Tsutaya building in Tokyo, and that …Read more »
Kenji Kamiyama’s Tolkien anime movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim will hit the big screen this December, and it will include voice work from renowned British actor Christopher Lee. It makes sense, seeing that Lee was Saruman in the live-action …Read more »
Prolific anime voice actor and director David Wald, whose credits include voicing Hannes in Attack on Titan and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu in My Hero Academia, has accused Crunchyroll of illegally opening his mail and more. In a post seen more than seven million times on X …Read more »
Japanese publishers are getting more aggressive going after piracy sites, and in one case publisher PCR Distributing is taking legal action against the site nHentai. Quite a bit of PCR Distributing’s adult work ends up on nHentai, where the piracy site is offering it for …Read more »
Expo 2025 Osaka world’s fair, to be located on Yumeshima Island, begins on April 13, 2025, and it will include the full-size RX-78F00/E Gundam. But you don’t have to wait until April to get a peek at the latest full-size Gundam in Japan, and the …Read more »
The anime BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- premiered on Netflix in 2022. But if you want to have it on home video instead of streaming, there will soon be an option for you! Sentai Filmworks will come out with BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-’s first …Read more »
Mitsuo Fukuda, whose credits include being the director of Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM, noticed that “cancellation” was trending on Japan’s X (Twitter), because some fans were wondering if After War Gundam X had been canceled. Fukuda, being more in the know on these things, …Read more »
Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite, the new manga from Kamisama Kiss creator Julietta Suzuki, opens with Hina, a vampire shut-in living in Romania. Her father, worried about her, gives her an anime to watch. And Hina, in true otaku fashion, becomes absolutely obsessed with the anime …Read more »
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