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The Girls’ Frontline anime, which is based on the smartphone game, will come out in January 2022. This and more was announced in its new trailer, which also lets us hear the ending theme song “HORIZON” being performed by TEAM SHACHI. You don’t hear it …Read more »
The One Piece anime debuted on October 20, 1999, and in 2021 it’s about to reach its 1,000th episode! There’s plenty of celebration going on for this milestone, with most of it taking place in Japan. But now Funimation has announced it’s teamed up with …Read more »
Blue Reflection: Second Light came out yesterday in Japan and will come out in America next month. The Gamer interviewed illustrator Mel Kishida about it, seeing as how he supervised and designed the characters for the game. He ended up talking about the meaning of …Read more »
A 66-year-old Japanese man might be in hot water for selling mask covers with images of characters from Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen. A police officer stumbled across the case while doing cyber patrol, and then looked further into the situation. Police believe that the …Read more »
The “Volume S” Blu-ray Disc and DVD for Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S will be released in Japan in January and will contain an unaired episode. The episode in question is called “Nippon no Omotenashi (Attend wa Dragon Desu),” which is translated as “Japanese Hospitality …Read more »
Virtual YouTubers have really taken off in recent years, but how many of these anime avatars are posting content on YouTube? The Japanese data analysis firm UserLocal decided to find out. It began crunching the numbers, seeing not only how many VTubers there are, but …Read more »
Yesterday Netflix dropped a teaser called “Lost Session” for their live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation, which comes out November 19. The teaser is 2 minutes and 40 seconds long, and we get to see and hear John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, and Daniella Pineda in action. So …Read more »
There is sad news that voice actor Chris Ayres lost his battle to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He had been diagnosed with end-stage COPD four years ago, and in 2017 Anime Twin Cities set up a fundraiser to help him pay for his medical bills. …Read more »
The 59-foot tall Gundam statue in Yokohama is offering something special on November 3. This is the Culture Day holiday in Japan, and Gundam Factory Yokohama is using the opportunity to teach people more about sustainability. The Gundam franchise is owned by Bandai Namco Group, …Read more »
The manga Fantasy Bishojo Juniku Ojisan to (translated as With a Fogie Reincarnated as a Pretty Fantasy Girl) hasn’t been licensed in America, but it’s doing well enough over in Japan that it’s getting an anime adaptation. Its first trailer just dropped. According to the …Read more »
We all know that Demon Slayer is doing crazy well, with the manga and its anime adaptation getting fans all over the world. But how much money has it made? The Japanese business news outlet Toyo Keizai crunched some numbers on Demon Slayer’s merchandise, and …Read more »
COVID has caused many arcades in Japan to shutter, and in September it appeared that the Sega Ikebukuro GiGO arcade was joining those ranks. The arcade, which had been around for 28 years, closed amid throngs of well-wishers, and the manager said, “From tomorrow, Sega …Read more »
Lately the Chinese government has gotten stricter about censoring entertainment, and many platforms in the country are pulling things that could be considered forbidden. The genre of Boys’ Love or BL has been put under the microscope, with BL online games recently prohibited. But an …Read more »
The “Women in Anime” event at the 17th annual LA Femme International Film Festival had international producer Jinko Gotoh, who is the vice president for Women in Animation, interviewing Minako Fujiyoshi. Fujiyoshi is the first female producer at TMS Entertainment, and has worked on MEGALOBOX …Read more »
Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt are professional voice actors in hits like Naruto and Boruto, coauthors on two books about voice-over (Voice-Over Voice Actor: What It’s Like Behind the Mic and Voice-Over Voice Actor: The Extended Edition), and also husband and wife. And they’re about …Read more »
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