It's hard to believe, but as of August 31, 2017, Vocaloid superstar Hatsune Miku will be a decade old. The synthesized voice we've come to know and love was created using samples of Saki Fujita's singing, and was originally released in the Vocaloid2 Character Vocal …Read more »
Before the live-action Hollywood Ghost in the Shell movie comes out, we'll be able to revisit Mamoru Oshii's classic 1995 anime film that inspired it. Funimation and Lionsgate are bringing the first Ghost in the Shell movie back to 110 U.S. theaters for a limited …Read more »
Looks like we’re in for a blast. Saiyuki Reload Blast , the first anime in the Saiyuki series since 2011, is set to hit screens this July, and we’ve got the first trailer, plus cast and staff details. Saiyuki Reload Blast , which is based …Read more »
In Japan, the second Monday of January is Coming of Age Day, when everyone who’s turned 20 over the previous celebrates coming into adulthood. The occasion has inspired a wave of nostalgia on Twitter in Japan, as anime fans celebrate the anime that also turn …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name continues to be a mega-hit in Japan and abroad (it just opened huge in South Korea), which means anybody who’s anybody in the world of Japanese cinema inevitably gets asked what they thought of it. That includes Tokyo International Film Festival …Read more »
CLAMP and Production I.G's anime series Blood-C is the next to get the live-action treatment. A film adaptation was announced on the Asura Girl Project website, with a Japanese premiere set for early fall. The Blood-C movie will have an original story that follows a …Read more »
Last fall, GKIDS presented a North American theatrical run for director Keiichi Hara's Miss Hokusai anime film. Now it's time to start looking forward to the home video release, which Amazon currently has listed for March 7. Miss Hokusai will be available on DVD and …Read more »
Abi Umeda's shoujo manga Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau ( Whale Calves Sing on the Debris ) released its 8th volume back in October, and there are some big plans in the works for the series. According to manga magazine Mystery Bonita , …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks is bringing Kyoto Animation's 2014 TV anime adaptation of Shoji Gatoh's Amagi Brilliant Park light novels to home video on February 28, so it's time to start meeting the English dub cast. Rather than simply rolling out a few names here and there, …Read more »
No way around it: the end (and beginning) of a year is always list-heavy. This one’s a bit different, though, in that it has nothing to do with 2016. Nope, this is something a bit more ambitious. Music and entertainment magazine Paste has put together …Read more »
You didn’t think we’d leave you with just one best-of-2016 list, did you? We couldn’t resist posting this list for a couple reasons: one, it was voted on by users of 2channel, or 2ch for short, perhaps the most hardcore otaku on the net. Secondly, …Read more »
If you assumed the world’s largest Neon Genesis Evangelion statue would be in the anime’s native Japan, you would’ve been right – until January 3, that is, when a new Eva statue in Shanghai, China was unveiled. The giant figure of Eva Unit-01, which was …Read more »
Bandai Namco Entertainment will be expanding Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 when the Road to Boruto DLC launches in the west on February 3. The expansion will be available both as a standalone retail release ($49.99) and a downloadable update ($19.99), and you can …Read more »
You're already bound to be watching a ton of anime in college, so why not make it part of the actual curriculum? That's what recently went down at the University of South Carolina, which offered "Reading and Writing About Magical Girls" as an English 101 …Read more »
In a fitting move considering the source material, the Kantai Collection: KanColle anime film will be getting 4DX and MX4D screenings in Japan. Kadokawa shared a list of theaters that will support the special screenings, which are currently scheduled to kick off on February 11. …Read more »
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