The Spice Girls had multiple bestselling albums, a comedy movie titled Spice World, and an anime in development. Wait, what’s this about an anime? The Spice Girls anime, which was supposed to be called Girl Power: The Anime, never actually ended up happening. However, the …Read more »
Game site itch.io recently “deindexed” its NSFW content, pointing to payment processors and pressure from the pro-censorship group Collective Shout for the action. On July 28, itch.io gave an update on what’s going on, including a non-exhaustive list of subjects now banned. Partly explaining the …Read more »
Over the weekend at San Diego Comic Con, horror manga creator Junji Ito received a major accolade when he was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame. VIZ Media, Ito’s main American publisher, shared a subtitled video of the creator sharing his …Read more »
Crunchyroll took the opportunity of San Diego Comic-Con to talk about the establishment of their monthly Crunchyroll Anime Nights. Every third Monday of a new month, a different anime movie will be screened at select theaters from the following chains: AMC Theatres, Regal, Alamo Drafthouse, …Read more »
The Horrors of Noroi Michiru contains 10 horror short stories that are provocative, sinister, sometimes erotic, always fascinating. While some stories are more effective than others, as a whole it’s a very strong horror collection. Michiru likes to twist and contrast things. In the first …Read more »
After Steam pulled a bunch of video games due to receiving pressure from credit cards like Visa and Mastercard (who in turn were receiving pressure from pro-censorship groups like Collective Shout), game website itch.io has also been affected. “We have ‘deindexed’ all adult NSFW content …Read more »
In May, Otaku USA reported on a new law in Japan meant to protect women from coercive practices at host clubs. There were 207 criminal investigations into host clubs in 2024, and these revolved around cases where, for example, host clubs pressure customers who owe …Read more »
Charles Martinet spent years voicing the characters Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi, but was recast and put into a different role as “Mario Ambassador.” That’s far from the only voice change in the Super Mario Bros. video game franchise, though, as we now have new …Read more »
Gaou, an artist known especially for his light novel illustrations, is in hot water after saying in a livestream that he did some sort of sexual acts with a 14-year-old girl. According to Japanese law, the age of consent is 16. The girl, who was …Read more »
The upcoming movie Aikatsu! x PriPara THE MOVIE -Deai no Kiseki!- (translated as Aikatsu! x PriPara THE MOVIE -The Miracle of Encounters!-), has dropped its very first trailer, and it’s a musical one. The movie is a mashup of the Akari generation of Aikatsu! and …Read more »
The upcoming movie With Alice in Wonderland -Dive in Wonderland- (a.k.a. Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland- in Japanese) dropped a trailer that’s a bit under two minutes long. In it you can hear the movie’s theme song “Zukan” (translated as “Guidebook”) …Read more »
Steam recently announced that the platform will reject “Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.” The issue of credit card …Read more »
The second season of A Couple of Cuckoos (a.k.a. Kakkō no Iinazuke in Japanese) began on July 8, and for those still holding out for the dubbed version, the wait is over! Crunchyroll, which is streaming the subbed version, is starting to offer the dub …Read more »
In late 2024, it was revealed that the manga My Awkward Senpai (Bukiyō na Senpai. in Japanese) would receive a 2025 anime adaptation. Now a whole lot of goodies dropped at once: a trailer, a visual, news on the cast and crew, and confirmation that …Read more »
The 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election took place yesterday, and ahead of this some manga creators expressed concerns about language used by political party Sanseito related to anime, manga and games. Sanseito, a new party with the slogan “Japanese First,” listed its policy measures …Read more »
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