The 2016 One Piece movie officially has a title and release date. The announcement comes in the next issue of Weekly Shonen Jump , which reveals the title as One Piece Film Gold and has it set to premiere in Japan on July 23, 2016. …Read more »
Seven Seas Entertainment announced another manga license yesterday afternoon. This time it's Hosana Tanaka's Holy Corpse Rising , which tells the tale of an ongoing war between humans and witches. You'll have to wait a bit for the manga's English debut. Each volume will include …Read more »
A pair of acclaimed anime films received nominations for the International Animated Film Society's 43rd annual Annie Awards . Up for consideration in the new Best Animated Feature-Independent category are Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast and Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There . …Read more »
Spike Chunsoft was already cooking up a new PlayStation 4 and PS Vita game in the Danganronpa visual novel series, but even more related content was confirmed at a project announcement event in Tokyo. In addition to PS4/Vita game New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai …Read more »
Hot on the heels of the Lord Marksman and Vanadis announcement is another pair of acquisitions from North American publisher Seven Seas Entertainment. First up is Reiji Suzumaru's Love in Hell: Death Life manga, a companion series to Love in Hell . Though it's related …Read more »
ONE, the original creator of the One-Punch Man manga—who started it out as a webcomic before teaming up with Yusuke Murata to make it a full-blown manga (and now anime) sensation—is about to have another of his series made into a TV anime. Next up …Read more »
Epic fantasy manga Lord Marksman and Vanadis , based on the light novel series written by Tsukasa Kawaguchi and illustrated by Yoshi ☆ o and Hinata Katagiri, is coming to English courtesy of Seven Seas Entertainment. The manga pairs the story by Tsukasa Kawaguchi with …Read more »
Something big is presumably brewing in the world of Masashi Kishimoto's concluded-but-far-from-dead Naruto . The official Weekly Shonen Jump website kicked off a teaser site that includes a "countdown to the next generation" along with silhouettes of Naruto characters. Whether it's more of Naruto, Boruto, …Read more »
The popularity of Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins manga continues to rise, leading to another manga spin-off in Japan. The series previously inspired a spin-off in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine , in which Juuichi Kugi depicts the cast as high school students. Now there's a …Read more »
Following up on the recent teaser , a concrete premiere date has been revealed for the second season of the Assassination Classroom anime. According to the 53rd issue of Weekly Shonen Jump , the season will make its debut on Fuji TV and Kansai TV …Read more »
FUNimation's industry panel at Anime Matsuri Hawaii included the announcement of the English dub cast for the Date A Live II anime. The home video release is set for March 22, 2016, and you can see who's playing who below. Cast & Crew SHIDO … …Read more »
The second in the Polygon Pictures ( Knights of Sidonia ) produced Ajin - Demi-Human anime film trilogy now has a premiere date and a new cast member. As announced on the official site , the second part, titled Ajin -Shōtotsu- (Ajin Demi-Human: Collision ), …Read more »
Koei Tecmo shared a new trailer for the Omega Force-developed Attack on Titan game, which is currently in the works for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita. In addition to more gameplay and cinematics, the trailer narrows the Japanese launch to February 2016. Stick …Read more »
The TV anime adaptation of Schwarzesmarken , based on the Muv-Luv spin-off light novels by Hiroki Uchida, will make its debut in January, and now we have a 90-second promotional video introducing the anime's main characters. Liden Films and ixtl co-produce the anime, which is …Read more »
In the February 2016 issue of Otaku USA magazine, on sale now, Brittany Vincent took a dive back into the world of Persona for her feature on Persona 4: The Golden Animation . Atlus has made good use of Persona 4 since it debuted on …Read more »
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