Boy, it ain’t a bad time to be an anime fan in America. It wasn’t too long ago it took years – yeah, years plural – for new anime films to make their way to the States. Heck, even the 2012 Naruto movie Road to …Read more »
Eschewing calls to put its games on smartphones, Nintendo’s instead looking for three properties to boost its flagging profits this holiday season – Smash Bros. , Pokemon , and a new product category called amiibo. Amiibo, which launched last month, probably need no introduction among …Read more »
Photo credit: Guilhem Vellut Most fans interested in doujinshi – self-published amateur comics – are likely familiar with the name Comic Market, or Comiket, the twice-annual Tokyo meetup devoted to buying and selling doujinshi. It’s been around since 1975, and with over 500,000 attendees per …Read more »
Anyone who’s been to an anime convention knows that when you get thousands of otaku in one place at one time, cell phone reception goes down the drain. So in a bit of good news for visitors to this December’s Comic Market, it appears Japanese …Read more »
Some anime/manga-related films opening in the next few months are definitely not for kids, it seems. First, there’s the Psycho-Pass movie, which has been given an R15+ rating, according to a tweet on the official Psycho-Pass Twitter account. R15+, as you might have reasoned, is …Read more »
If you asked me what the best manga-to-live-action adaptation of the year was, I’m preeeeetty sure I’d go with Rurouni Kenshin films 2 and 3 (I did like that Parasyte though). Anyway, I mention this because it’s been announced Keishi Otomo, director of the live-action …Read more »
The original Digimon Adventure anime is 15 years old? Are you kidding? Time flies when you’re Digimoning around, man… Anyway, some new deets have been announced about the 15th anniversary Digimon Adventure anime. It’ll be called Digimon Adventure tri. and will feature character designs from …Read more »
"Katsuhiro Otomo" by uzaigaijin The details aren’t yet clear, but it appears Katsuhiro Otomo is at work on a new live-action film. This will be the third live-action film for Otomo, the manga artist-turned-director who created Akira and helmed films like Memories , Steamboy , …Read more »
Fans of director Mamoru Hosoda ( Summer Wars , Wolf Children ), will be jumping for joy with the news his next film has been announced. It’s called The Boy and The Beast ( Bakemono no Ko ) and is set to be released in …Read more »
A significant percentage of Japan’s population are self-proclaimed otaku, according to a report by the Yano Research Institute . The research firm polled 10,080 men and women aged 15-69, 23% of whom said they consider themselves otaku. In a bit of bad news for the …Read more »
Evangelion The Real 4D is, you may recall, an upcoming attraction at Universal Studios Japan that promises to immerse guests into the world of Evangelion . It’s set to open alongside Attack on Titan , Resident Evil and Monster Hunter events as part of USJ’s …Read more »
The 15th Midwest Furfest, a furry convention held in Rosemont, Illinois, was evacuated last weekend when the convention was apparently the target of a poison gas attack. Hazmat authorities cleared out a chlorine apparatus from the hotel’s ninth floor stairwell and evacuated the building. 19 …Read more »
We’ve posted a few times the last month or so about the new sci-fi anime film Expelled From Paradise , written by Gen Urobuchi ( Madoka Magica ). They’ve been busy over at the movie’s official YouTube page, posting behind-the-scenes clips and previews. But the …Read more »
Godzilla saw his first cinematic outing in a decade earlier this year with the release of the Gareth Edwards-helmed Godzilla , but in Japan, he’s been in cinematic slumber since 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars . That’s set to change, with the announcement from Godzilla studio …Read more »
Matt Schley
