Another top 20 list from our favorite pollsters Charapedia – they’ve asked their readership to rank anime’s coolest middle-aged gentlemen, scariest females, and now anime’s most pitiable heroines. What anime girls have Japanese fans saying, “aww, poor blahblah-chan”? Let’s find out: 20. Nagisa Furiuawa ( …Read more »
When Hayao Miyazaki retired in 2013, he mentioned that while he was done with feature filmmaking, he still had plenty of projects up his sleeve, including potential animated shorts for the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. Miyazaki is making good on that promise, and now …Read more »
There’s no shortage of Sailor Moon merchandise out there. In just the past year or so, we’ve featured a high-quality replica of Usagi’s Moon Stick and loungewear inspired by the series’ sailor uniforms. If all that merchandise still wasn’t enough Moon for you, check this …Read more »
We’ve been waiting on the edge of our seats over here at OUSA HQ for any word on the new Godzilla film, so we were thrilled this morning to get word of the film’s title – which, as it turns out, is literally New Godzilla …Read more »
For many American otaku, it’s The Dream: Move to Japan, learn the language, and work in animation. 20 years ago, New Orleans native David Roy did just that. We sat down in his apartment in Shibuya to discuss his life and times in the anime …Read more »
It’s been about two and a half years since the initial announcement that Berserk – the 36-plus volume manga series about a wandering swordsman named Guts – would be the subject of an ambitious adaptation by Studio 4°C. Unlike the original, well-regarded 90s anime series, …Read more »
When we last left our heroes at the end of the first Attack on Titan live-action film, Eren had discovered his unique transformational ability and was in the midst of a battle a group of bloodthirsty Titans. Meanwhile, tasked with creating their own ending for …Read more »
When we last left our heroes at the end of the first Attack on Titan live-action film, Eren had discovered his unique transformational ability and was in the midst of a battle a group of bloodthirsty Titans. Meanwhile, tasked with creating their own ending for …Read more »
An animated Kuroko’s Basketball film is in the works. That’s the word from the official Kuroko’s website, following an event on Sunday in which several of the voice actors from the series appeared. Following the event, the site was updated, letting fans know that a …Read more »
Yutaka Yamamoto, the director of series like Wake Up, Girls! and Fractale and the founder of animation studio Ordet, has been tweeting up a storm recently. Yamamoto, whose Twitter account had basically been dormant since March of 2014, exploded into action a few days ago, …Read more »
If there’s one clear trend we’ve seen over the last few years in Japan, it’s a rise in the number of live-action adaptations of anime and manga. It’s to the point where over half of the films we review here at Japan HQ aren’t even …Read more »
Polls, polls, polls. The Japanese internet can’t get enough of them, and truth be told, nor can we. It’s just so fun to see what those folks in Japan are thinking about, y’know? This week Charapedia asked its readers to pick the top 10 anime …Read more »
Final Fantasy Adventure , the Game Boy Final Fantasy sidequel that launched the Mana series, is getting a mobile remake, announced Square Enix Thursday. The remake will hit iOS, Android and PS Vita this winter. For those readers too young to have played Final Fantasy …Read more »
Matt Schley
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