Fans of 2014 anime No Game No Life —based on the light novel series by Yū Kamiya—can look forward to another animated adaptation in the future. As announced during this weekend's MF Bunko Festival, the next stop for No Game No Life is an anime …Read more »
(Almost) too sexy for TV. That’s this week’s theme over at ranking site Goo, where they’ve asked their readers to vote on a list of anime heroines who just skirt the limits of what’s acceptable on broadcast television. Who made the cut by wearing the …Read more »
Death Note is all over the place once more, from the Netflix-destined adaptation by director Adam Wingard ( You're Next , The Guest ) to the new Japanese live-action attempt, Death Note: Light Up the New World . In the case of the latter a …Read more »
Food Wars! has returned. The second season of the series, entitled The Second Plate , has begun airing, causing mass salivation throughout the world. And now the music video for the opening theme, “ROUGH DIAMONDS,” has been released, giving us a chance to rock out …Read more »
Well, that’s pretty cool. Wake Up, Girls! , the anime series about a Tohoku-based production company that forms an idol group, is becoming a stage play that’ll open in January 2017. Okay, anime-based plays are pretty common these days, but here’s the thing: the play …Read more »
Mysterious Girlfriend X is an inexplicably endearing comic. Despite it having debuted in 2006, Riichi Ueshiba's characters have a nostalgic air to them, and while the series is technically proficient, there's a warm, unrefined quality to it that reinforces its '90s aesthetic. It's also a …Read more »
Funimation will be releasing the first film in the live-action Rurouni Kenshin trilogy in the US as Rurouni Kenshin: Origins , with screenings scheduled for August 8-10. With less than a month to go, Funimation busted out a new subtitled trailer promoting the feature's upcoming …Read more »
The next stop for Naoshi Arakawa's Your Lie in April manga is live-action film, with the feature set to open in Japan on September 23 after a premiere screening event on August 3. Takehiko Shinjo ( Paradise Kiss , Kiyoku Yawaku ) directs the film, …Read more »
The third part of the anime film trilogy based on Gamon Sakurai's Ajin: Demi-Human manga is coming to Japanese theaters on September 23. This one will have original story elements, with Kei Nagai attempting to move forward with a plan while Satō is powerless. It …Read more »
Okay, imagine this, but with no Pikachu. Japan: 9 times out of 10, a pretty darn cool place to live if you’re into anime, manga and video games. An anime film is in theaters practically every week, manga is cheap as chips, and Japanese games …Read more »
Now that the summer anime season is underway, Funimation went ahead and rolled out its full lineup of Broadcast Dub shows. 15 series from the summer season will be streaming each week with English dubs, with FIRST LOVE MONSTER set to kick things off on …Read more »
If the budget is any indication, Nintendo’s theme park at Universal Studios Japan is going to be, in the accent of a certain presidential candidate (not to mention Bob Hoskins as Brooklyn-born Mario), ‘uuuuuuge. Like, half a billion dollars ‘uuuuuuge. The theme park, which will …Read more »
...really? It’s a big news week in Japan, with word that Emperor Akihito may abdicate the throne to his son (becoming the first emperor to do so since 1817). That would end the so-called Heisei era, which began in 1989 with the death of Akihito’s …Read more »
“I think I may have been born just to meet you, Shinji Ikari.” This line, spoken by Kaworu Nagisa in episode 24 of Neon Genesis Evangelion , set off decades of speculation, slash fiction and general swooning. Now it’s even inspired a matching set of …Read more »
Oasis Games announced plans to bring Bandai Namco and Tencent's Naruto Online MMORPG to PC in the west on July 20, offering up turn-based browser game action set in the Naruto universe. The officially licensed game follows the story of Masashi Kishimoto's series while adding …Read more »
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