The PlayStation 2, which went onto sell 155 million units around the world, was released in Japan March 4, 2000, making the console 18 years old today. The PS2, as it was called for short, was released on October 26 of that same year in …Read more »
If you’re going to launch a fashion brand aimed at the geek chic crowd, there are definitely worse titles you could choose than Code Geass. That’s exactly what new brand Respect For Geeks (R4G for short) has done, with Geass apparel that includes shirts, parkas, caps, …Read more »
You thought manga cafes had a lot of comics? Think again. The Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Exhibition, hosted in Roppongi, Tokyo, will have virtually every volume of the magazine available for reading from March 15 to 26. That’s 50 years of shoneney goodness. Meanwhile, a …Read more »
Sword Gai: The Animation, a new Netflix-bound anime series, hits the ground streaming later this month, and today, a new trailer has been unsheathed. Sword Gai, which hits Netflix March 23, is based on a seinen manga written by Toshiki Inoue and illustrated by Keita …Read more »
If you’re suffering from the lack of new Kuroko’s Basketball, suffer no more: basketball manga Ahiru no Sora is getting a TV anime adaptation. The manga, by Takeshi Hinata, has been running in Weekly Shonen Magazine since 2004, and tells the tale of young basketball …Read more »
A new anime series based on the Legend of the Galactic Heroes novels by Yoshiki Tanaka is set to blast off April 3. The series, which is evidently not a remake of the earlier anime adaptation, is directed by Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko’s Basketball) with script …Read more »
We reported back in November that Nobuhiro Nishiwaki, the creator of popular manga Rurouni Kenshin, was facing charges on possession of child pornography. Now it’s been reported that Nishiwaki has been officially fined to the tune of ¥200,000. At the current exchange rate, that’s $1,865. …Read more »
In This Corner of the World, one of 2017’s most acclaimed anime features, will soon be available for steaming on Netflix. The film will hit Netflix in the U.S., Canada, Japan and other countries and territories March 15. Directed by Sunao Katabuchi and partially funded …Read more »
If you’ve ever watched an anime series and wondered how exactly it met broadcast standards, well, you’re not alone. Ranking site Goo asked its readers to rank the TV anime they were shocked actually made it to air, and these are the barely-safe-for-broadcast results: 10. …Read more »
For yet more proof that critical acclaim and box office results have little to do with each other, look no further than Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. The film, which is referred to as SayoAsa in Japanese, has been getting good reviews, but ended …Read more »
Get ready for more Chihayafuru. The popular series about competitive karuta is getting a third season next year. That’s the word from a Chihayafuru-related event held this weekend in Tokyo. It’ll be a while before we get to see Chihaya and her friends back in …Read more »
If you were reading manga in the 1990s, you’ve probably heard of Akimi Yoshida’s Banana Fish. The comic, which ran from 1985 to 1994 is getting an anime adaptation at last, and today we got some of the first details. First up, the cast: the …Read more »
Free! Take Your Marks, the latest film in the Free! franchise, is headed to U.S. theaters March 14, and Funimation has just released an English-subtitled trailer. Take Your Marks is the fourth Free! film (or the second, if you don’t count the Timeless Medley compilation …Read more »
Fans of Btooom! may have felt a sense of dooom when they heard the long-running manga would be wrapping up this year (in choose your own adventure format, no less). Now in zoooms some great news: Btooom! will be getting a spinoff manga from Yuya …Read more »
With the news the Super Mario Bros. would be heading to the big screen, we forgot for a moment that Mario’s speedy blue rival has a head start. The Hollywood take on Sonic the Hedgehog, announced back in 2014, will be released November 15, 2019, …Read more »
Matt Schley
