Sentai Filmworks started rolling out the English dub cast reveals for Chaika the Coffin Princess , which adapts the light novel series written by Ichirō Sakaki and illustrated by Namaniku ATK. First up is a quick clip previewing Joanne Bonasso as Akari Acura. Chaika the …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans is currently running, but we also have another Gundam anime series to look forward to. Yasuo Ohtagaki's Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga is getting an adaptation, with the official reveal having arrived via a teaser website that opened this week. …Read more »
After the terrible 2011 earthquake in Japan, VIZ Media and Autodesk released the digital art anthology Art for Hope with all of VIZ’s proceeds going to disaster relief. Now, several months after the approximately 8 magnitude April earthquake in Nepal, VIZ and Autodesk have teamed …Read more »
FUNimation is fully embracing the debauchery of Akira Hiramoto's Prison School . The company already streams the J.C. Staff anime adaptation, and now the live-action Prison School drama is on the way. Directed by schlock filmmaker Noboru Iguchi ( Machine Girl , Robogeisha , Zombie …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Humanity once faced the threat of the Gastrea virus full force; the epidemic spread to the point that people were forced to live within Monolith walls made of a Gastrea-subduing metal called Varanium. Despite the fact that humanity wasn't completely wiped out, the …Read more »
Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon is a great example of a show with an interesting premise executed poorly. The anime adapts Tōki Yanagimi’s light novel of the same name, in which the government has a dedicated force of trained witch-hunters to combat magic running …Read more »
Last week, the Tokyo Bar Association issued a sexual orientation discimination warning to the Tokyo Detention House. Reportedly, the detention center had been refusing an inmate access to manga which depicts homosexual acts, while other inmates enjoyed unrestricted access to manga depicting heterosexual sex acts. …Read more »
The month of October stirs strange desires in the breasts of every person who grew up enraptured by Halloween, so what better time is there than now to venture among the cotton cobwebs and the ten cent plastic spiders in the cinematic crypt known as …Read more »
New Game! is a manga by Shōtarō Tokunō that follows Aoba Suzukaze, a high schooler who joins a game company after graduation. Her senior at the company was responsible for making the game she loved as a child, and the four-panel manga centers on the …Read more »
The Tokyo International Film Festival is underway, and like last year, the festival has decided to showcase anime as a part of its lineup. Last year the festival featured the films of Hideaki Anno, and this year, the spotlight is on the long-running Gundam franchise. …Read more »
If the past year or so has taught us anything, it’s not to underestimate angry young men on the internet. The latest victim is Princess Jellyfish author Akiko Higashimura, whose new manga, Himozairu , came under fire for being “derogatory” to men. Higashimura decided to …Read more »
A new screenwriter has been brought in to do an overhaul on the live-action version of Ghost in the Shell , says the Hollywood Reporter. The new writer is Jonathan Herman, who wrote this year’s Straight Outta Compton , the film about hip hop group …Read more »
We reported this so long ago, we kind of forgot it was a thing, but back in early 2013 it came to light Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro was set to direct a live-action adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s Monster for HBO. Fast forward to …Read more »
If you were hoping David Production's anime adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's long-running JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga wouldn't stop at Part III: Stardust Crusaders , some good news arrived this weekend. After a bunch of teasing, production of Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable has officially been …Read more »
Based on the light novels written by Shoji Gatoh and illustrated by Shiki Douji , the Full Metal Panic! anime debuted in 2002 and was followed by a comedy spin-off, a second series, and an OVA. The world of FMP! is gearing up for more, …Read more »
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