It’s not really even a movie, but Gundam GQuuuuuuX Beginning won at the Japanese box office this weekend. Beginning, which is essentially the first few episodes of the upcoming series Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX cut into one 81-minute feature for theaters, took 599 million yen …Read more »
Do you remember Macross: Do You Remember Love?? The film turned 40 last year, and now it’s getting a theatrical and 4K Blu-ray rerelease in Japan. The movie is out in theaters January 25, and the Blu-ray comes out January 29. Do You Remember Love?, …Read more »
Studio 4°C, the folks behind some of the most inventive anime films out there, are back with a new feature. It’s called ChaO, and apparently the studio has been quietly working on it for seven years! Studio 4°C describes the film like this: A future …Read more »
Game over. The Square Enix Cafe in Akihabara, Tokyo is set to close for good on March 31 after eight years in operation. The cafe was home to all things Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and more in the heart of Tokyo’s otaku mecca since it …Read more »
It’s a match made in… well, the minds of AidaIro, the team behind Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun, and Mai Tanaka, the creator of A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!. A new visual has been released that pairs the titular Hanako-kun with Haruaki Abe, said Terrified Teacher. Why? …Read more »
The anime adaptation of Sentenced to Be a Hero, the light novel series by Rocket Shokai, will hit screens this year, we learned today. We also got a new piece of key art, and some new cast announcements. Joining the cast are Yohei Amazaki, who …Read more »
Hey folks in and around New York: get thee to a screening of The Colors Within next week. Why? Not only will you be able to see the latest film by Naoko Yamada, you’ll also get to see the director herself in person. Yamada is …Read more »
My Melody and Kuromi, two characters from the popular Sanrio lineup, will star in a new series on Netflix, it was revealed today. Appropriately, the series is titled My Melody & Kuromi, and it is animated in stop motion. Along with the announcement, Netflix revealed …Read more »
Slayers, the seminal fantasy series that started life as a series of light novels before being turned into a popular anime, just turned 35. The first volume of the long-running series of adventures starring sorceress Lina Inverse by author Hajime Kanzaka was published on January …Read more »
The live-action adaptation of Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure spinoff manga by Hirohiko Araki, seems to be quite the hit. The series, starring Issei Takahashi as Rohan, has had multiple episodes of television and even a movie, which was released in 2023. …Read more »
Okay, this news is a couple weeks old, but, y’know, holidays. Anyway, exciting stuff: the third annual Niigata International Animation Festival is set to feature a retrospective on Satoshi Kon, one of the all-time great anime directors. The festival, which takes place from March 15 …Read more »
Alita’s back, baby! After a 10-month hiatus, Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle has revealed a new chapter on the digital Comic Days platform. The chapter is the 52nd overall. The manga, which kicked off in 2014, is the third manga in the Battle …Read more »
Fermat no Ryori (Fermat’s Cuisine, or Cuisson dans le Fermat if you’re feeling fancy) is cooking up an anime series. That’s the word from the cover of an upcoming issue of Monthly Shonen Magazine, where Fermat no Ryori runs. The Yugo Kobayashi manga, which kicked …Read more »
The Exit 8, the creepy indie Japanese horror game that made waves this year, is getting a live-action film adaptation. The game, which came out on Windows last year and various consoles this year, is a first-person game in which you must escape from a …Read more »
Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray is getting ready to trot its way onto screens this April. That’s the word from a new teaser trailer for the series. The teaser also reveals that none other than Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell) is composing the music for …Read more »
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