The Death Note musical has found its L. The world’s greatest recluse detective will be played by Teppei Koike, member of the singer-songwriter duo WaT. Koike joins cast members Kenji Urai and Hayato Kakizawa, who are double-cast as Light Yagami. “I can’t believe I get …Read more »
There’s plenty of hype to go around for the upcoming release of the next Naruto film, The Last: Naruto The Movie (expect that title to undergo some revision for the western release, amirite?). The film’s set to debut in Japan December 6. Now it’s been …Read more »
Shigeru Miyamoto is revered in Japan and across the world for being the man behind Super Mario Bros. , Legend of Zelda and a key player in dozens of other legendary Nintendo titles. Now the relentlessly genki Miyamoto is branching out – into filmmaking. He’s …Read more »
How the average American pictures jail in Canada. A Canadian man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for watching anime pornography because it depicted the “sex organs or anal regions of characters who looked like minors,” reports Canada's QMI Agency. Regis Tremblay was …Read more »
According to Young Animal magazine, the next chapter of Kentarou Miura’s long-running manga Berserk is set to appear in the magazine September 26. Miura, infamous among fans of Berserk for taking frequent breaks, simultaneously pleased and enraged readers this year by writing a new manga, …Read more »
Big plans are in the works for the debut of ufotable’s Fate/stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works . The new anime series is set to hit in a bit way with simulcast streaming and theatrical premieres in Japan, France, Germany, South Korea, and the U.S. The …Read more »
July saw the changing of the guard at Namco’s Characro – a anime cafe and bar with rotating themes – from Tiger and Bunny to Macross Frontier . Named Nyan Nyan after the Chinese restaurant featured in the show, the Macross Frontier cafe and bar …Read more »
Someone take all these franchises away from Ryuhei Kitamura. He doesn't need 'em. Kitamura, the director of Lupin III , blasted onto the Japanese movie scene with the low-budget zombie martial arts epic Versus . Shot on a budget of what probably amounted to "enough …Read more »
A television broadcast of Evangelion 3.33 last Friday served up a brief teaser of the fourth and final film in the Evangelion remake series. And we do mean brief. After the credits rolled, the words “Next” and “Evangelion 3.0+1.0” appeared on screen. The image subsequently …Read more »
It’s a week packed with Hollywood anime remake news. According to Hollywood news source The Wrap, Australian actor Margot Robbie, who starred in Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonardo Di Caprio, is in talks to play the lead in the live action Ghost in the …Read more »
The Hollywood remake train keeps rollin’. It was announced this week a Hollywood version of Space Battleship Yamato has been greenlit, with a tentative release date of 2017 or 2018. The Space Battleship Yamato film, which may be titled Star Blazers after Yamato’s American dub, …Read more »
The Hunter x Hunter manga, which returned after a two-year hiatus back in June, is... back on hiatus. The problem at hand is the lower back pain being suffered by the manga's author, Yoshihiro Togashi, which, yeah, would make it pretty hard to draw. The …Read more »
Update: Under the Dog has reached its funding goal. Under the Dog , the Kickstarter project from director Masahiro Ando is about to hit its deadline - and it's a nail-biter. The project, which aims to fund an original 24-minute piece of animation, has a …Read more »
Terror in Resonance , the currently-running suspense series directed by Shinichiro Watanabe ( Cowboy Bebop ) is set in present-day Tokyo, and an impressive amount of effort has been put into location scouting and background work to make the show as realistic as possible. After …Read more »
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