Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Oscar winner and, until recently, highest-grossing Japanese film ever, is heading to the stage. It’s being adapted into a play by some top talent, including John Caird from the Royal Shakespeare Company, who will write and direct the play. It’ll open …Read more »
Call in the colons: B: The Beginning: Succession, the second season of B: The Beginning, is coming to Netflix March 18. We got that news along with the first trailer for the series, which hit YouTube today. The trailer features the same fancy multi-audio function …Read more »
The good news: there’s more Zelda coming to Switch. The bad news: it ain’t Breath of the Wild 2, at least not yet. At today’s Nintendo Direct, Nintendo announced an HD port of the game The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for Switch. Aside from …Read more »
Homunculus, the horror manga by Hideo Yamamoto, is set for a live-action film. Now we have some details on that film and a brand-new trailer. The film is directed by Takashi Shimizu, who’s best known for his horror films like Ju-on: The Grudge and Hell …Read more »
Donuts’ smartphone rhythm game Tokyo 7th Sisters is getting an anime film. The film is called Tokyo 7th Sisters -Bokura wa Aozora ni Naru-, and it’s headed to theaters later this month after a COVID-19 delay. While you might not be able to hop on …Read more »
The Slime Diaries, for those who may have forgotten, is the upcoming spinoff of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. Now we know who’s set to perform the show’s opening theme. It’s Akane Kumada, best known to anime fans for “Sunny Sunny Girl,” …Read more »
The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba merchandising just doesn’t stop. The latest Slayer-inspired offering is a set of die-cast cars from Tomica, the Japanese equivalent of Matchbox. There are five vehicles on offer, each of which retails for 880 yen, or about 8 bucks. Here …Read more »
Y’know Hiroyuki Sawano? The composer behind the epic soundtracks from Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, Promare and more? Starting February 12, it’ll be a whole lot easier to listen to the maestro’s work. A full 18 Sawano soundtracks are about to hit all the …Read more »
Have you noticed a larger variety of female voices in your anime in the last few years? If you have, well, good ear! Also, there’s a reason: the number of woman voice actors in Japan has just about quadrupled since 2001. That’s the word from …Read more »
Anime Boston cannot catch a break, man. It was about 11 months ago that we reported the 2020 edition of the convention had been canceled. Now, unfortunately, we’re doing it all over again. The con has made the difficult but inevitable decision to cancel for …Read more »
Back last March, we learned Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was getting a PS4 video game in 2021. Now that it is 2021, we’ve learned a bit more about the game—specifically, the fact that it’s no longer exclusive to PS4. The game, which is called …Read more »
A 42-year-old man in Okayama Prefecture has been arrested for creating unlicensed cards based on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. The cards were made to look like Japanese driver’s licenses, with various characters from the series emblazoned on the cards. The expiration dates are references …Read more »
A few days ago, Netflix teased us with a first look at Pacific Rim: The Black, the upcoming anime series based on Pacific Rim. Now we’ve got a more in-depth look thanks to this full-length trailer. The trailer shows a Kaiju in battle with a …Read more »
My Senpai is Annoying, the upcoming anime adaptation of the manga by Shiro Manta, has revealed some key details. First up, we’ve got the first piece of key art for the series, portraying main characters Igarashi (left) and her annoying senpai Takeda (right). We’ve also …Read more »
Ajin: Demi-Human, the popular manga from Gamon Sakurai, has come to a close. The final chapter of Ajin ran in the pages of the issue of Good! Afternoon magazine released this Friday. The manga, about a high school student who becomes an immortal demi-human called …Read more »
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