One of next year's hyped anime projects is Devilman Crybaby , which has acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa ( Mind Game , Ping Pong ) at the helm at Science SARU. It's not coming to Netflix until spring 2018, but we got another preview in the …Read more »
Twitter is a social media service so perfect for Japan, it seems almost like it was created for the country. Take its 140-character limit: while in English it can feel, well, limiting, the compact nature of Japanese means users can fit a ton of content …Read more »
In This Corner of the World , the critically-acclaimed 2016 film about life in wartime Hiroshima, will be released in the States August 11, and Shout! Factory has offered up a new English-language trailer in anticipation. Shout! Factory will release the film August 11 in …Read more »
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival was host to the reveal of a new Mazinger Z anime film, with creator Go Nagai on hand for the debut footage. Now the official website has updated with both the teaser trailer and a new key visual for …Read more »
Who at software developer Type-Moon could’ve imagined back in 2004 that 13 years after the release of Fate/stay night , real-life actors would be suiting up for a stage play based on a Fate/ smartphone spinoff? That’s what’s about to happen, though, as a play …Read more »
The Irregular at Magic High School The Movie -The Girl Who Summons the Stars- is coming Stateside, and from today, you can snap up tickets for the screenings. The film, which will premiere at Anime Expo, is being released courtesy Aniplex, and Azoland Pictures and …Read more »
Naoki Urasawa's Pluto manga is up there with his best work, taking a classic Astro Boy story and expanding it into a complex and engrossing murder mystery. Now it looks like we have an anime adaptation on the way, with a poster on display at …Read more »
No Game, No Life Zero is a prequel movie that's set to premiere in Japan on July 15, and Sentai Filmworks announced its license of the feature earlier today. No Game, No Life TV anime director Atsuko Ishizuka returns to helm the film, with series …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Anime Expo The vaunted Anisong World Matsuri is getting ready to make its triumphant return to Anime Expo 2017, and this year's lineup is the most exciting to date. Concerts will be held on June 30 and July 1, 2017, with acts that …Read more »
Depending on what kind of Godzilla fan you are, you'll either be delighted or disappointed at the look of the Big G in the upcoming anime film trilogy. The official website updated with a new visual this week, offering the first peek at the Godzilla …Read more »
Frequent Otaku USA readers are well aware that it’s a hard world out for young Japanese animators. The industry is awash in profit, but very little of that profit seems to be trickling down, with newbie animators making so little money they have to live …Read more »
This seems like such an obvious poll question, I’m surprised we haven’t featured it yet. Japanese anime news site Anime Anime have just released the results of a poll that asked readers: which anime character would most you like to marry? To be more accurate, …Read more »
A couple days ago we posted about the early reveal of a 2.5D Dragon Ball fighting game from Guilty Gear developer Arc System Works. Bandai Namco made the announcement official during Microsoft's E3 2017 press conference, showing off the first action-packed footage for Dragon Ball …Read more »
Back in February, it was revealed C³ ’s Hazuki Minase would be writing an original manga based on Final Fantasy in celebration of the franchise’s 30th anniversary. Now some plot details for the manga have been revealed, and they involve death, resurrection and a little …Read more »
For folks into both the classics and stuff that’s a little bit “out there,” Discotek continues to be the anime distributor par excellence. The company’s latest batch of announcements includes two of the greatest anime films of all time, an early, whacked-out series from mastermind …Read more »
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