Fans of The Seven Deadly Sins: the announcement you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. The popular series will get a new season in January 2018, followed by a theatrical film that summer. The new season, which was announced at a fan event for the …Read more »
The live-action adaptation of mega-hit manga/anime series Gintama hit theaters in Japan this past weekend, and while it opened in third at the box office and seems to be getting decent reviews from fans online, one professional viewer was not amused. The reviewer for weekly …Read more »
Reports about Japan’s low birthrate, and its young people’s seeming lack of interest in sex, is practically an genre unto itself. The latest entry in that genre is a short documentary by the BBC entitled “Sexless in Japan,” which introduces the idea that hobbies like …Read more »
Soon, theatergoers in Japan will be able to experience the sights, sounds and smells of last year’s hit series Yuri on Ice in 4D. The entire 12-episode series will get 4D screenings in theaters in Japan starting September 23, it was announced today. The technology …Read more »
Like it or hate it, with entire series and films now being created with 3D animation technology, it’s clear that CG is playing a larger role in anime. Now Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara, media company Dwango and vocational school Aso College have teamed up to …Read more »
If you’re on Twitter and you’re not following Thomas Romain , well, you should probably fix that right now. As a non-Japanese person working in the industry, Romain is also a great source for a behind-the-scenes perspective in English (and French!). Recently Romain sat down …Read more »
Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san , a popular manga about middle school teasing, is getting an anime adaptation in 2018, it was reported today. Just teasing! Wait, no, that was me teasing. It really is coming. I promise. Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san , which literally translates …Read more »
Little Witch Academia , the Studio Trigger franchise that started life as a short before evolving into a crowdfunded film and, most recently, a full-length series, now has its own video game. Now we’ve got an early look at that PlayStation 4 and PC game …Read more »
Quick: who’s your all-time favorite manga-ka? Not an easy question, is it? Still, it’s one thousands of readers of Japanese site Charapedia were willing to tackle the past week, serving up a list of 20 of the country’s most manga creators. Who came out on …Read more »
All good things must come to an end, and that includes Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail , which is set to end soon. in fact, Mashima’s staff have finished their work on the final chapter, according to a tweet from the author July 8. In the …Read more »
Manga to live-action adaptations, with rare exceptions, are not known as the highest-quality films, to put it mildly. But it sounds like viewers at a film festival in Switzerland were impressed with the live-action JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure film, giving it the festival’s Audience Award. The …Read more »
In Mary and the Witch’s Flower , the new anime film from Hiromasa Yonebayashi ( When Marnie Was There ), the main character is a young girl who moves to a new town, befriends a black cat and blonde-haired boy, and saves the latter with …Read more »
With events like the World Cosplay Summit and Comiket coming up, the summer cosplay season is on here in Japan. Site Cosplayers Archive has attempted to figure out what will be getting the most costumed representation this summer with a poll asking Japan’s cosplayers which …Read more »
Netflix’s animated Castlevania series debuts this Friday (jeez, that kind of snuck up on us!) and in the lead-up to the premiere, the English and Japanese-language casts for the video game-based series have been revealed. In English, the cast looks a little like this: Dracula: …Read more »
Mari Okada, the prolific screenwriter behind series like anohana and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans , will make her directorial debut with a feature film that will be released next February, reports Newtype magazine. The film is titled Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana …Read more »
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