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MANGA Plus debuted its global platform in 2019, and a recent blog post from Shueisha editor Yuta Momiyama updated us on what’s going on behind-the-scenes. Momiyama manages both Shonen Jump+ and MANGA Plus. For starters, he described how it’s characteristic to have the overseas licensing …Read more »
Four years ago Akihiko Kondo held a wedding ceremony where he married Hatsune Miku. It’s not an official marriage, but it made the news, and the Japanese paper The Mainichi caught up with Kondo to see how his wedded bliss is going. And, it turns …Read more »
Voice actress Fairouz Ai was recently interviewed by an internet radio program from Nippon Broadcasting System about playing Jolyne Cujoh in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. Ai’s mom is Japanese and her dad is Egyptian. As a middle school student, she came across the comments …Read more »
Piracy is a major issue hitting the manga and anime worlds, especially during COVID with so many people homebound. Take a look at these numbers: from January to October last year, piracy in Japan bilked creators and publishers out of 800 billion yen (about $6.92 …Read more »
Spirited Away played on Japan’s Nippon TV last week, and Studio Ghibli took the opportunity to tweet answers to questions fans sent to them beforehand. Let’s take a look at what we learned. One person asked, “When it was released overseas, what kind of reaction …Read more »
A voice actor can really bring an anime character to life, so the app Line did a survey asking Japanese teenagers about their favorite voice actors. The survey consisted of 428 high school boys and 413 high school girls who watch anime. They were asked …Read more »
Rozi is a little girl with enormous hair and eyes who lives with her own unique family in the labyrinth. The labyrinth is a mysterious maze of a world where former humans have gotten lost and a mystical queen rules over all. Rozi is taken …Read more »
22-year-old Ayumu Kuroda was a member of the idol group Junon Superboy Anothers, but now he’s been arrested for alleged fraud. Both he and 26-year-old Ryoya Yatsubayashi (who is not a member of the group) were arrested on January 5 by Aichi Prefectural Police’s Toyokawa …Read more »
Voice actor Yuji Mitsuya was recently on the Japanese show Onegai! Ranking on TV Asahi and revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer a year ago. He’s shared the news with some people, but this was his first public announcement of it. He aims …Read more »
Light novel author Kugane Maruyama has been very busy. He started his Overlord series online in 2010, and the fourteenth volume was released in spring of 2020. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the next volume, and Maruyama explained on Twitter that the draft for volume …Read more »
The Pokémon Lapras is the official support Pokémon for Miyagi Prefecture, and the latest quest for tourists has led to the Lapras Café. However, this is not a permanent café coming to the area — blink and you’ll miss it. Well, it might not be …Read more »
King Records was founded 90 years ago, and to mark the prestigious anniversary, it’s holding an art exhibit with anime titles it’s invested in. The exhibit doesn’t cost any money, and it’s currently going on in Tokyo until January 16. After that it will be …Read more »
Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2 is almost here, and there’s a lot of hype around it. The new episode “Danzai” (translated as “Sentencing”) will debut just past midnight on January 9 (which technically makes it January 10). But if that’s still too long …Read more »
The movie Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 hit theaters in Japan on December 24 and has been racking up sales. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time was the most successful film in the Japanese box office in 2021, and it made 4,934,996,800 yen (approximately $42.6 million) …Read more »
Official English readers of Kentaro Yabuki’s Ayakashi Triangle manga will have to skip the 74th chapter of the series. While a reason wasn’t provided, both VIZ Media’s Shonen Jump and Shueisha’s MANGA Plus services won’t be publishing the chapter, and will instead skip the installment …Read more »
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