There’s more live-action Kakegurui on the way! Kakegurui Twin, a manga spinoff of the original Kakegurui, will be getting the live-action treatment in 2021. A prequel to the original, it’ll star Aoi Morikawa as Mary Saotome. Morikawa also played Saotome in the original live-action version. …Read more »
KonoSuba: Fantastic Days, a mobile game set in the KonoSuba-verse, is headed worldwide in 2021. Here to promote the upcoming release are two of the stars of the series: Jun Fukushima (Kazuma) and Sora Amamiya (Aqua). The two VAs appeared in English-subbed promo videos to …Read more »
What do Better Call Saul, Pen15 and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! have in common? They’re all among the best TV shows of 2020, according to The New York Times. The newspaper of record has just released a list of the best TV shows of …Read more »
SaGa Frontier Remastered, an updated take on the RPG from 1998, is set to hit multiple consoles next summer. The remastered version of SaGa Frontier is set for PlayStation 4, Switch, PC, iOS and Android. Says Square Enix: The 1998 classic is back: SaGa Frontier is …Read more »
I Shaved My Beard Then Picked Up a High School Girl (Hige o Soru. Soshite Joshi Kousei o Hirou.) is coming to screens April 2021. That’s the anime based on the light novel written by Shimesaba and illustrated by booota about a 26-year-old man named …Read more »
Publishing company Simon & Schuster, previously owned by ViacomCBS, will be sold to Penguin Random House for a little over $2 billion, it was reported today. What does that mean for manga, exactly? A lot, potentially. S&S distributes manga released by Viz Manga. Meanwhile, Penguin …Read more »
There’s a lot of talk about live-action adaptations lately, from rumors that a Demon Slayer show is in the works to casting news for the upcoming Cowboy Bebop series. But for some fans, a live-action adaptation stomps all over the memories of their favorite anime. …Read more »
Remake Our Life! (Bokutachi no Remake), a series of light novels about time travel, has landed an anime series. The series will air in 2021. The Remake Our Life! novels, which have won praise from places like Kono Light Novel wa Sugoi, center around Kyoya …Read more »
Macross Frontier fans are in for a treat. The first Macross Frontier concert in a decade is set to hit the stage of Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo next February. Frontier songs have been featured in various Macross events over the years, but this is the …Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit a lot of businesses in Japan hard. That includes a shop in Nara specializing in plastic model kits which closed due to the effects of the pandemic. But now its owners are finding a new way to do business by …Read more »
Sui Ishida, the manga-ka behind Tokyo Ghoul, has a new manga on the way called Chojin X (Superhuman X). On Twitter, Ishida revealed that he had finished the finished the “names,” or storyboards, for the manga. He also revealed a sexy sketch giving us a …Read more »
If you’re looking to feast your eyes on some incredible animation today, look no further than Puparia, the new short by Shingo Tamagawa. Tamagawa, an animator who’s worked on shows like Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt and Valvrave the Liberator (and an alumnus of the animator …Read more »
It’s Christmas for anime industry numbers geeks: the Association of Japanese Animations is prepping to release its yearly report on the industry. The full report will come later this month, but the AJA has released some interesting deets already. The topline takeaway for 2019: growth. …Read more »
We’ve known for a while now who’s set to play the main characters on Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation. Now the ‘flix has revealed some additional cast members, rounding out the Bebop universe. They are: Geoff Stults as Chalmers, Jet’s ex-partner Tamara Tunie as Ana, Martian …Read more »
Good ol’ ranking site Goo is back with a list that asks this simple question: who are anime’s sexiest heroines of all time? Hey, man, sometimes you just need some sexiness. About 4,000 fans answered the call and added their sexy opinions to the list. …Read more »
Matt Schley
