Lotte is Japan’s third largest confectionery company, and they’re celebrating big time with a 70th anniversary project. One of the contributing pieces is a four-minute anime short titled “Baby, I Love You-daze,” centering on a chance encounter at a Lotte store between a junior high …Read more »
Netflix has been going pretty buckwild with Christmas specials, and they’re not keeping anime out of the time-honored tradition. The adorably hard-workin’ and hard-rockin’ Retsuko is getting her own special in the form of Aggretsuko: We Wish You a Metal Christmas, which officially hits Netflix …Read more »
Tomohiko Ito is a busy director. Known for helming anime adaptations like Sword Art Online and ERASED, Ito’s next project takes things in an original direction. There aren’t any story details, but HELLO WORLD is a sci-fi love story anime film that puts Ito back …Read more »
The 14th anime film is on the way for One Piece, and the feature will be celebrating the anime adaptation’s 20th anniversary. While we’ll have to wait on staff and plot information, the movie is titled One Piece Stampede and is set to open in Japan …Read more »
Disclosure: Cartooner‘s co-designer Jason Thompson is the manga editor for Otaku USA magazine. Around this time last year we posted about Cartooner, a tabletop game that promised an American comic-themed followup to the manga-drawing game Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics. The …Read more »
Godzilla returns to the big screen for another Hollywood flick on May 31, 2019, and a new trailer officially went up for the sequel. Godzilla: King of the Monsters features the likes of Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah—as well as smaller-scale human stars such as …Read more »
Is this how you imagined the silhouette of a real-life Sonic? Sega revealed the first teaser poster for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie, and it’s certainly something! What that something is is ultimately up to you, but the shadowy figure on display offers a …Read more »
About a month and a half from now, Osaka will host its yearly women’s marathon. This time around, its official character was designed and illustrated by none other than manga master Naoki Urasawa. He of 20th Century Boys, Monster, Billy Bat and other thrillers is …Read more »
The Nisekoi – False Love live-action film hits Japanese theaters December 21, and to get fans hyped up, Naoshi Komi is set to create a bonus chapter of the manga for Shonen Jump. The chapter, which will appear in the December 17 issue of Jump, …Read more »
Baki, the anime that adapts Keisuke Itagaki’s manga Grappler Baki, hits Netflix December 18 in regions outside Japan, and the streaming service is hyping the series with an English-subtitled trailer. The Baki anime series premiered on Netflix in Japan back on June 25, and is also …Read more »
With the anime adaptation of Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu’s The Promised Neverland manga right around the corner, it’s time for another lighting-fast commercial. The previous spot previewed the anime’s opening theme by UVERworld, so it’s only fitting that this one puts the spotlight on …Read more »
In case it slipped your mind since the initial announcement, the Megalobox anime is about to make its English broadcast debut on Adult Swim’s Toonami block. The premiere of the series—which reboots the classic Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe) manga—is set for this Saturday, so …Read more »
As recently revealed, Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket manga is getting a brand new anime in 2019. Per the author’s request, this series will tell the entire story from the beginning with a completely different staff and cast, some of which were revealed along with the …Read more »
As we reported a few months ago, shockingly, China has never had official releases of Studio Ghibli films. That’s being rectified this month, with the theatrical release of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro (a mere 30 years after its release in Japan). While the original …Read more »
Ao-Chan Can’t Study!, the racy comedy manga by Ren Kawahara, is setting an anime series. The manga, which is about a high school girl whose obsession with studying is interrupted by her first encounter with the opposite sex, is being adapted by Silver Link, with …Read more »
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