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Image: Otakon Earlier this year Otakon asked for donations, saying they might have to permanently close because of the constraints put on them by COVID. In 2020 Otakon held a virtual convention, and this year they returned to an in-person con with 25,543 attendees. Their …Read more »
Japanese sword expert Paul Martin wants people to understand what’s so special about Japanese swords. He’s curated the Japanese section of the British Museum; works with Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to promote sword tourism; and he’s hired master craftsmen in Japan …Read more »
It’s officially happened: Sony’s Funimation Global Group has acquired Crunchyroll. Sony paid $1.175 billion to AT&T for the purchase. While Crunchyroll has been quite a moneymaker, AT&T wanted to sell it to help pay off its debts. The different companies involved put out statements, sharing …Read more »
Japan got in its share of otakudom for the Tokyo Olympics, like their video game music opening, their watching Gundam (not Transformer), and their concluding Demon Slayer song. But sometimes the athletes brought in the otakudom, like Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou and America’s Payton Otterdahl. And …Read more »
The new Bleach one-shot is out in America and Japan, and it’s free to read digitally here on VIZ’s website! The main series officially concluded back in 2016, but 2021 marks twenty years since the manga made its debut. As a result, creator Tite Kubo …Read more »
The Animator Dormitory Project is an organization that educates people on the less than stellar ways anime animators are often treated, and works to making things better for them. Their newest video, which contains an English dub, is about low wages and how this leads …Read more »
It’s generally taken publisher Kadokawa six months to a year to get its books published in English, but now it’s looking at digital simultaneous publishing to get things moving faster. At the weekend’s Crunchyroll Expo panel, they mapped out plans to get their books published …Read more »
The Tokyo Olympics have officially concluded, and the Paralympics are set to begin on August 24. While Japan didn’t get as much otaku-related tourism as it wanted, there were still quite a few otaku moments, like the video game music of the opening ceremony and …Read more »
I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School is a delightfully warped romantic comedy. The main character, Unoki, acknowledges on the first page that he’s always been a wimp, and he’s bullied all the time. But, none of that prepared him for the ultra bully …Read more »
The Girls’ Frontline smartphone game, which made its debut in 2016 in mainland China, is receiving an anime adaptation that’s produced by Warner Brothers Japan. It just released a full trailer and more information on the staff, as well as news that the anime adaptation …Read more »
Japan might not have gotten all the otaku-oriented tourism it wanted during the Tokyo Olympics, but some of its otaku sites are still making their way into the news. That includes the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam statue, which is just under 65 feet tall and located …Read more »
Last year Nintendo’s profits boomed during the COVID quarantine. This year, as quarantines are being lifted in many places, Nintendo has likewise seen a drop in sales. “In regard to business risk, the extended impact of both COVID-19 and the global semiconductor shortage creates a …Read more »
The BL mystery manga The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window by Tomoko Yamashita is published in America by SuBLime, and an anime version is coming out in October. Ahead of this a trailer has dropped that includes more information on the cast. According to this …Read more »
The Tokyo Babylon 2021 anime was cancelled after concerns of plagiarism, and GoHands, an anime studio that worked on it, is suing entertainment company King Records for allegedly not paying them for their work. The lawsuit put forth states that the two companies entered into …Read more »
Singer LiSA and her singer/voice actor husband Tatsuhisa Suzuki (a.k.a. vocalist Ta_2 from OLDCODEX) have both announced hiatuses. The couple shared the news of their marriage last year, at the very beginning of 2020. Mental and physical fatigue are listed for LiSA’s reasons for the …Read more »
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