Delve into the history of Japanese marketing and it won’t be long before you come across the phrase “media mix.” Simply put, it’s the practice of spreading content across multiple platforms. When Pokemon was released 20 years ago, for example, it was simultaneously a game …Read more »
The Tokyo Anime Award Festival, the snazzy Oscars of anime, has announced the results of its Anime of the Year Grand Prix, given annually to the best television series and film of the year. Which 2015 anime won? You will just have to click the …Read more »
Today new promotional videos for the upcoming anime adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable hit screens across Japan. Three screens, that is. The videos debuted on large screens outside major train stations across the country, causing impromptu meetups for JoJo’s fans wanting to …Read more »
Get your pencils ready. Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli on every film since 1997’s Princess Mononoke , will go open-source and available for free starting March 28. The software, renamed OpenToonz, will contain the custom Ghibli Edition developed by the legendary anime …Read more »
Winter is slowly coming to a close, and that means out with the old and in with the new. New anime, that is. So what if the weather’s warming up? The Japanese fans who filled in this list for pollsters Charapedia will be happily sitting …Read more »
For the first time, a Japanese court has ruled computer-generated images can be considered child pornography, sentencing a creator of such images to a one-year prison term, says Tokyo Reporter. The court rejected the defense’s claims that the works were art and simply representations. Akashi …Read more »
About 95% of directors of so-called eroge, or erotic Japanese video games, throw in the towel, and 10% of those within a week of getting the job, says Akabeisoft 2 president Kei Mimasu. Mimasu shared those and other interesting stats in a series of tweets …Read more »
A second season of KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!! has been given the go-ahead, according to the staff of the series, the first season of which wrapped this week. For fans of the series, this news is truly subarashii . The second …Read more »
The Japanese media is starting to take note of America’s presidential race, and they’re particularly fixated on a certain unconventional candidate who’s had some not-so-nice things to say about Japan. This week Masaaki Sato, a political cartoonist for the Tokyo Shinbun, had a bit of …Read more »
As we reported a couple weeks back, IBM Japan is hard at work at bringing Sword Art Online to life with a virtual reality MMO called Sword Art Online: The Beginning . Some more information and photos came out at an event this weekend, along …Read more »
It’s an ERASED kind of month. The popular manga-turned-anime known in Japanese as Boku dake ga inai Machi is having a busy March. The manga, which started its run in 2012, came to a close this month, as did the spinoff novel series. The anime …Read more »
The life of a kid isn’t supposed to be tough. Normal children shouldn't have to do more than be cute, go to school, do their homework and stuff like that, right? These kids, on the other hand, are out there battling Super Saiyan, capturing Pokemon …Read more »
Dōkyūsei ( Classmates ), the theatrical anime adaptation of the boys’ love manga by Asumiko Nakamura that debuted in Japan this February will get a limited theatrical release in the U.S. courtesy Aniplex starting May 6. Dōkyūsei will hit 20 American cities starting May 6, …Read more »
Best-selling J-pop singer/songwriter Utada Hikaru is set to return to the Japanese music scene after a five-year hiatus. Utada, whose last album, This is the One , was released in 2009, is one of Japan’s best-selling artists. Born and raised in the U.S., Utada’s debuted …Read more »
Macross Delta , the latest series in the long-running Macross series and the first in eight years is set to debut this April 3 on Tokyo MX. Delta , which is set eight years after the events of Macross Frontier , follows a female idol …Read more »
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Matt Schley
