Kazuo Umezz, the famous mangaka behind such titles as Drifting Classroom, Cat-Eyed Boy and Orochi, might be best-known for his horror work, but My Name Is Shingo feels distinctly science fiction. It opens with a robot narrating to us about its birth, and then moves …Read more »
How I Met My Soulmate stars 20-year-old college student Yuuki, who is hoping to find her soulmate. Her friend drags her to a mixer, where Yuuki just ends up hanging around with a drunk guy, trying to help him feel better. Drunk as he is, …Read more »
On November 26, 2023, Rie Takahashi, the voice actress of Ai Hoshino in Oshi no Ko, did a live performance of the anime’s hit opening theme song, “Idol.” This was part of the “Ichigo Production☆Fan Thanksgiving 2023” event, and it turns out, it’s not the …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie, The Boy and the Heron, is continuing its winning streak! It has just been given awards by both The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood (in the form of the Annual Annie …Read more »
Thanks to Anime Limited, the A Place Further Than The Universe Collector’s Edition will be here on April 22, and in the meantime, it’s available for pre-order here. There are a number of goodies and bonuses for the collector’s edition. For starters, it contains all …Read more »
In the latest news revolving around the death of manga creator Hinako Ashihara, Japanese television station NTV released an official apology to her yesterday. NTV was adapting Ashihara’s manga Sexy Tanaka-san into a live-action series, and in January Ashihara wrote online that the company had …Read more »
We’re now hours away from Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night, part of the Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- film series, hitting Crunchyroll. The movie will begin streaming there today, February 15, at 5:00 PM PST/8:00 PM EST, and you …Read more »
The anime Date A Live V, the latest season of Date A Live, will be here in April, and ahead of this a trailer has dropped. In it you can hear the opening theme song “Paradoxes” being performed by Miyu Tomita. You don’t hear it …Read more »
A trailer has dropped for the BL anime Tadaima, Okaeri (translated as I’m Home, Welcome Back). It tells us about the cast and crew, informs us that the anime will debut in April, and lets us listen to the opening theme song “Futatsu no Kotoba” …Read more »
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency inside of the United States Department of Commerce, and its website spotlighted someone who got into science thanks to Pokémon. The person in question is Samuel Márquez González, and he is currently undertaking research …Read more »
A class action lawsuit accused AMC (and through that, AMC+, Shudder, Acorn TV, ALLBLK, SundanceNow and HIDIVE services) of breaking the federal Video Privacy Protection Act by giving private info on its users with third parties. AMC denies any criminal activity, but has agreed to …Read more »
The second season of The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses (a.k.a. Megami no Café Terrace in Japanese) will be here in July! Ahead of this a brand-new trailer has dropped for fans to check out. It’s about 40 seconds long and contains dialogue, though no …Read more »
Two people with ties to the otaku world have put up GoFundMe pages to help with medical expenses. The first is for VA Sean Letourneau, whose acting credits include Set (Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts), Cyrus Rivermoore (Reign of the Seven Spellblades), and …Read more »
Fukuta Kishimoto, a 25-year-old who confessed to threatening voice actor Yui Ishikawa (who might be best known for playing Mikasa Ackerman in Attack on Titan) has received his verdict for his crimes. He will be put behind bars for one year. This is less than …Read more »
Sometimes being an otaku is difficult. My Lovesick Life as a ’90s Otaku opens in 2021, where 42-year-old Megumi is stunned her 16-year-old daughter is able to live so openly as an otaku. Megumi muses that things were different in her day, and then most …Read more »
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