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Super Nintendo World in Osaka’s Universal Studios Japan has had some hiccups from opening during the middle of COVID, which caused delays and means not as many people will visit as they would otherwise. Despite these setbacks, they’re already going full steam ahead with expanding …Read more »
The Honor Student at Magic High School aired its concluding episode over the weekend, but fans were quickly rewarded with a trailer for the upcoming The irregular at magic high school: Reminiscence Arc. Information on the cast and crew were also revealed, along with the …Read more »
The game Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku came out in Japan last year, and will become available globally later in 2021. But that’s not all that’s going on with this franchise! The “Project Sekai Anniversary Festa 2021″ event revealed that the game is …Read more »
The popular franchise Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku is getting a new OAD. This is the series’ third OAD, and a trailer has been released for it that lets us hear the theme song “Love or Respect” being performed by Arisa Date and Kent …Read more »
French director Jonathan Cordier de Mello, who additionally goes by PINK PLATYPUS, is seeking help through the crowdfunding site KissKissBankBank to make a Macross documentary. “Last February, I published my first documentary film, LA GENÈSE DE GUNDAM, which looks back at the origins of the …Read more »
My Lady Is Living with a Rogue is a Teen Love (TL) manga that comes with an audio book. This is MediBang’s first foray into English-language manga audio books, and it has actors reading the lines and includes some music and sound effects to …Read more »
It’s really, truly happened — the 100th volume of the One Piece manga has been released in Japan. Within the first week, more than a million copies sold. To commemorate this achievement, Japan Forward interviewed creator Eiichiro Oda’s editor at Weekly Shonen Jump and the …Read more »
In Multi-Mind Mayhem Volume 1: Isekai Tensei Soudouki, Oka Sanai Sadatoshi was a samurai during the Sengoku Period (1467 to 1615). He was a great warrior on the battlefield. And he was obsessed with money. He has just died. Masaharu Oka was a high school …Read more »
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S, the second season of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, just finished airing. But the franchise still has more coming. Not only will the Blu-ray and DVD releases include an unaired episode titled “Japanese Hospitality (My Attendant Is a Dragon),” but there’s …Read more »
The Vampire Dormitory manga, from popular shojo mangaka Ema Toyama, appears to be a BL story when it opens. The main character, Mito Yamamoto, is such a pretty boy that he has fangirls following him to work. Unfortunately, he works at a restaurant aimed for …Read more »
Gundam is one of Japan’s most successful pop culture franchises, and the life-sized Unicorn Gundam statue at Odaiba district in Tokyo Bay got some extra attention during the Olympics (even if the BBC did mistakenly call it a Transformer at first). The popularity has led …Read more »
Japan looks to unique ways to bring in tourists, sometimes turning to pop culture. Pokémon, for instance, helps bring in tourism through manhole covers and Pokémon ambassadors, and big franchises like Gundam or Attack on Titan have their own local ways to get people in. …Read more »
COVID has hit arcades hard, causing multiple large arcades in Japan to shutter, including the Silk Hat Ikebukuro arcade, Adores, and the Sega Akihabara Building 2. Yesterday the Sega Ikebukuro GiGO, which debuted in 1993, closed its doors. But it might not be for forever. …Read more »
takt op. Destiny will debut on Japanese TV at midnight on October 6 (technically labeled October 5), and ahead of this a trailer has been released that lets us hear the opening theme song and some of the voices. The opening theme song is called …Read more »
Crueler than Dead is a good early Halloween read. It’s a zombie apocalypse story that opens with a woman waking up in a chaotic, cluttered room. She’s bloody and her hair is a mess. She doesn’t know what’s going on, and the reader is immediately …Read more »
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