Last week, the Tokyo Bar Association issued a sexual orientation discimination warning to the Tokyo Detention House. Reportedly, the detention center had been refusing an inmate access to manga which depicts homosexual acts, while other inmates enjoyed unrestricted access to manga depicting heterosexual sex acts. …Read more »
New Hampshire parents are raising concerns after a "death note" book was discovered at Nashua High School North, naming 17 students with citations of how they wronged the anonymous author and the dates and times in which they allegedly would die. The notebook was of …Read more »
Hollywood director Guillermo del Toro ( Pacific Rim , Pan's Labyrinth ) has finally put to words a thought that's been running through gamers' heads for quite some time. While wrapping up an interview last week on his new film Crimson Peak , del Toro …Read more »
You've likely already seen the photos released of Kaede Aono dressed as the Major for the Ghost in the Shell Arise: Ghost is Alive stage play hitting Tokyo in November, but what about the rest of the cast? The play's official website announced most of …Read more »
Back in July, JR West announced the deployment of a Neon Genesis Evangelion -themed variant of their series 500 bullet train, designed by Eva mech designer Ikuto Yamashita. Exterior concept renderings were released, but the interior look of the trains remained a mystery. Recently, Japanese …Read more »
It was tough to miss the loud accusations of whitewashing leveled at Dreamworks earlier this year when their live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost In the Shell was announced, placing Scarlett Johansson in the lead role of Major Kusanagi. The news this week is that …Read more »
Just to clarify: there is no Legend of Zelda movie in the works at this time. However, in a recent MTV interview, Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka (producer of A Link To The Past and Wind Waker ) fielded questions about how they would like …Read more »
GREE, one of the largest mobile game platforms in Japan, announced a new RPG called Another Eden this weekend at Tokyo Game Show 2015. Described as a "time travel adventure game", it's scheduled to launch in the spring of 2016. Chrono Trigger scenario writer Masato …Read more »
If you're eagerly awaiting Keiji Inafune's new Mega Man -inspired indie sidescroller Mighty No. 9 , then you have both lost and gained ground this week. On Wednesday, developer Comcept confirmed speculation that the release of Mighty No. 9 had been delayed till 2016. "As …Read more »
In July of last year, world-renowned musician Ryuichi Sakamoto was diagnosed with mesopharyngeal carcinoma . He had to cancel all of his ongoing work to undergo cancer treatment, including a position as both director and performer at the 2014 Sapporo International Arts Festival. Sakamoto's fame …Read more »
There are some exciting things going on these days with indie PC games in the West, but due to the greater emphasis on developing for consoles in Japan, it can be difficult to get one's fix of Japanese games this way. For the next five …Read more »
Production I.G. opened a website today announcing their adaptation of Saki Nakagawa's Attack on Titan: Junior High comedy spinoff manga. Airing on Japanese network MBS in October, it will actually arrive before the second season of the original Attack on Titan TV series. The official …Read more »
China has been on a comics censoring spree this year, banning 38 manga and anime from the country last month, and 62 more back in April, issuing warnings and fines to remove this content from popular Chinese websites. You'd never know it if you're a …Read more »
The latest issue of Otaku USA Magazine, the October 2015 issue, hit newsstands yesterday with a big, blue Show by Rock cover. Editor-in-chief Patrick Macias has the scoop on what's in it: "Based on the subjects and themes popping up in our features this time, …Read more »
Anime often gets a bad rap where realism is concerned. Characters are born with unnaturally-colored, gravity-defying hair, they are capable of ridiculous feats of strength betraying their often-modest physique, and they use technology and fighting techniques with no logical way of practically working. In some …Read more »
Julian Gnam
