Shohei Hino, a Japanese actor who appeared in films and on TV for many decades, has died at the age of 75. The actor had suffered a lumbar fracture this summer. Hino may be best known to anime fans as the voice of Great Uncle …Read more »
Still can’t believe it: after a decade of Quirky fun, My Hero Academia came to an end this year. Now we’ve got the first look at the cover of the final collected volume, which is due out in Japan December 4. In addition, we’ve got …Read more »
The long-awaited final volume of Land of the Lustrous, the fantasy manga from Haruko Ichikawa, is set for release in Japan this month. To celebrate, publisher Kodansha has unveiled some giant illustrations that will grace Japan’s Shibuya Station, Osaka-Umeda Station and Kodansha’s office in Tokyo. …Read more »
Shinji Higuchi, the co-director of Shin Godzilla and the director of Shin Ultraman, is helming Bullet Train Explosion, a remake of a 1975 Japanese classic, for Netflix. The film is set for 2025. The original 1975 film is about a bullet train that will explode …Read more »
Well, this is a tough one to swallow if you hate people looking at their phones while you’re watching a movie. The upcoming film from the Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- franchise is being billed as Japan’s first “interactive film.” The movie, which opens February 21, …Read more »
Is there any franchise in Japan that hasn’t been adapted for the stage? The latest piece of pop culture to get the stage play treatment is none other than Trials of Mana, the 1995 Super Nintendo RPG also known as Seiken Densetsu 3. Seiken Densetsu …Read more »
For claiming to be so laid-back, Laid-Back Camp is pretty ambitious: The anime adaptation of the manga by Afro has just picked up a fourth season. That’s the word from the franchise’s official X account this weekend. Afro contributed a new illustration to go along …Read more »
Hotel Inhumans, the manga by Ao Tajima about a hotel for assassins, is getting animeized in 2025. The manga, which launched in 2021 and currently has nine collected volumes, centers around a pair of concierges at a high-end hotel for assassins offering services like false …Read more »
My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 is headed to the big screen. The manga by Mashiro, which launched in 2018, is getting a live-action film adaptation that’s set to hit Japanese theaters on March 28, 2025. The film will star Ryuto Sakuma as Akito …Read more »
I Have a Crush at Work, the anime adaptation of the manga by Akamaru Enomoto, is set to hit screens this January. We’ve already had a look at the show via its trailer, but now we’ve got the next piece of the puzzle: the official …Read more »
Kujaku no Dance, Dare ga Mita? (Who Saw the Peacock Dance in the Jungle?), the josei crime manga from Rito Asami, is getting a live-action TV series. The show will star Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note) and Suzu Hirose (Chihayafuru) and will start airing in January …Read more »
Pompo: The Cinephile director Takayuki Hirao and his creative team are back. In 2023, we heard the team was working on a new film tentatively titled Wasted Chef. Now we’ve got our first look at the film via some teaser art. The art shows an …Read more »
Here’s a nice piece of Halloween news: Paul W.S. Anderson, the director behind films like Event Horizon, Mortal Kombat and the Resident Evil series, is set to bring the arcade horror shooter The House of the Dead to the big screen. Production is expected to …Read more »
Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai, the manga by Taro Yuri about a young child with hidden abilities, is getting anime-ified. Along with the announcement came piece of teaser key art and a celebratory illustration from manga creator Taro Yuri. The manga revolves around Kaya, a girl at …Read more »
The original Steins;Gate visual novel game, which came out in 2009 and inspired the anime series of the same name, is getting a reboot. The new game, which is titled, appropriately, Steins;Gate Re:Boot, will be produced by Mages, the developer formerly known as 5pb. The Steins;Gate …Read more »
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