Cosplay Universe, a documentary about cosplay and cosplayers, is set to debut at this year’s Anime Expo. The film, shot over a period of six years, was directed by Jonathan McHugh and Jordan Rennert, and “celebrates the rise of the popular costuming sub-culture and explores …Read more »
BIRDIE WING -Golf Girls’ Story- was one of the surprises of this past season with its charming characters and wild golf setups. Now it’s been announced that the series will return for a second season in January 2023. Along with that announcement came a teaser …Read more »
Robotics;Notes, the visual novel that also spawned an anime series, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The game, the second in the Science Adventure series (following Chaos;HEAd and Steins;Gate) hit stores in Japan on June 28, 2012. The new piece of art unveiled to celebrate shows …Read more »
Shibuya, Tokyo is full of visual delights, and one of my favorites is the Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atom piece by the famous street artist Invader. Is? I mean was. That’s because the city removed the piece from its location over a tunnel on June 17. The …Read more »
If there’s two products I’ve always wanted to do a crossover, it’s the arcade classic Street Fighter II and some carbonated water. Okay, it’s not exactly the latest Spider-Man, but this ad, in which Street Fighter II teams up with the bubbly water called The Strong, …Read more »
Chi: Chikyu no Undo ni Tsuite, the church vs academia in Renaissance-era Poland manga by Uoto, is getting the anime treatment over at studio Madhouse. No further details yet, but we’ll let you know as we know! Meanwhile, here’s how Shogakukan describes the manga, whose …Read more »
Some awesome news out for fans of uber-composer Joe Hisaishi. Hisaishi’s Symphonic Suite “Princess Mononoke” 2021 is set for release in Japan this July. As the title implies, it’s a “symphonic suite” version of the soundtrack to Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke. This version, which features …Read more »
Kin no Kuni Mizu no Kuni, a shojo manga that has won several top awards, is getting the theatrical anime treatment. The film will be released in Japan next spring. The manga, by Nao Iwamoto, is a kind of Romeo and Juliet story about two …Read more »
My Home Hero, a manga about a family man out for revenge, is getting a TV anime series. The manga, by Naoki Yamakawa and Masashi Asaki, recently resumed in the pages of Young Magazine after a hiatus. It launched back in 2017, and currently has …Read more »
Back in May, we learned that Rent-A-Girlfriend, the manga-turned-anime from Reiji Miyajima, is set to get a live-action TV adaptation. Now we’ve got some new deets and key art for the series. The show will start airing in Japan on July 2. We previous learned …Read more »
That’s embarrassing. Manga editor Shinichi Aizawa has just tweeted about an incident his colleague would probably just as soon forget. Said colleague, reports, Aizawa, once proposed, in all seriousness, a “manga adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.” The Ghost in the Shell anime franchise is, of …Read more »
Akihabara: Tokyo’s mecca for otaku. Now Akibazens can even get their teeth worked on in otaku style at a new dental clinic in the neighborhood. The main attraction of the dental clinic, located right in the heart of Akiba, is hygienists who dress in maid …Read more »
If you’re a ‘90s kid, you probably spent a decent amount of time sitting around a TV playing GoldenEye, the Nintendo 64 shooter based on the James Bond film of the same name. For many, it was the first fun, accessible FPS with an endlessly …Read more »
Char Aznable, Gundam’s Red Comet himself, is one of Japan’s most recognizable pop culture characters. And now he’s… hamburgers. McDonald’s Japan just unveiled three limited-time hamburgers based on Char: Red Garlic Teriyaki, Spicy Double Cheese, and Newtype White Triple Cheese. The burgers will be available …Read more »
Facebook user and TikToker Phafun “The.Pha” Jantadej is the proud owner of a cat whose fur pattern looks like… well, it’s all in the eye of the beholder. The.Pha thinks the cat’s pattern looks like Vincent van Gogh, but gamers were quick to respond, saying that …Read more »
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