Quick: who’s your all-time favorite manga-ka? Not an easy question, is it? Still, it’s one thousands of readers of Japanese site Charapedia were willing to tackle the past week, serving up a list of 20 of the country’s most manga creators. Who came out on …Read more »
All good things must come to an end, and that includes Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail , which is set to end soon. in fact, Mashima’s staff have finished their work on the final chapter, according to a tweet from the author July 8. In the …Read more »
Manga to live-action adaptations, with rare exceptions, are not known as the highest-quality films, to put it mildly. But it sounds like viewers at a film festival in Switzerland were impressed with the live-action JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure film, giving it the festival’s Audience Award. The …Read more »
In Mary and the Witch’s Flower , the new anime film from Hiromasa Yonebayashi ( When Marnie Was There ), the main character is a young girl who moves to a new town, befriends a black cat and blonde-haired boy, and saves the latter with …Read more »
The Yowamushi Pedal anime fun is set to continue with a fourth season, and it's officially set to kick off in January 2018. This was announced during this weekend's TOUR DE YOWAPEDA 2017 event, which took place at the Maihama Ampitheater in Japan's Chiba Prefecture, …Read more »
Title, subtitle and premise all suggest that Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions is another negligible addition to the isekai fantasy subgenre so prominent in anime and light novels these last few years. “Grimgar” is exactly the kind of name a teenager obsessed with a particularly violent kind of power fantasy might ascribe to the …Read more »
If you were worried we wouldn't see the Black Clover anime debut before the end of the year, you can rest a little easier. While we don't have an exact start date, the August issue of Gakken Plus' Animedia magazine has the adaptation arriving sometime …Read more »
Yesterday we posted about the summer 2018 release plans for the live-action Bleach movie, which has Gantz and Oblivion Island director Shinsuke Sato at the helm. It wasn't long after that we got our very first teaser trailer, and while it doesn't show much, you …Read more »
The No Game, No Life Zero anime film is right around the corner, with a Japanese premiere set for July 15. To get everyone hyped, the official website updated with a third promo and a trio of commercials. Sentai …Read more »
With events like the World Cosplay Summit and Comiket coming up, the summer cosplay season is on here in Japan. Site Cosplayers Archive has attempted to figure out what will be getting the most costumed representation this summer with a poll asking Japan’s cosplayers which …Read more »
More Lupin III anime was announced today at Japan Expo, and this fifth series will be set in France. That's appropriate not just because of Japan Expo's location, but because it just so happens to be the home of Lupin's namesake, gentleman thief and detective …Read more »
Netflix’s animated Castlevania series debuts this Friday (jeez, that kind of snuck up on us!) and in the lead-up to the premiere, the English and Japanese-language casts for the video game-based series have been revealed. In English, the cast looks a little like this: Dracula: …Read more »
Mari Okada, the prolific screenwriter behind series like anohana and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans , will make her directorial debut with a feature film that will be released next February, reports Newtype magazine. The film is titled Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana …Read more »
As previously reported , Studio Trigger announced a trio of anime projects at Anime Expo 2017, one of which is a co-production with Sword Art Online and Blue Exorcist studio A-1 Pictures. That's DARLING in the FRANKXX , and Aniplex followed up the announcement with …Read more »
This past weekend saw the world premiere of the live-action Tokyo Ghoul movie at Anime Expo 2017, and the official website got in on the party with a new visual. The latest poster goes all out with the full main cast of 14 characters, tossing …Read more »
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