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The Way of the Househusband anime is getting a little something extra on the side. The original title in Japanese is Gokushufudō, and the extras will be titled Gokufūdō (meaning The Way of the Household Tools). Instead of being animated and starring former yakuza member …Read more »
Episode one of the dubbed version of World Witches Take Off!, which is a spinoff of the Strike Witches series, becomes available on Funimation today. As per usual, Funimation took this time to officially announce the dub cast and crew. Cherami Leigh plays Yoshika, Stephanie …Read more »
Media site Polygon posted an interview this morning with production contractor Justin Sevakis from Discotek Media about the process of releasing older, niche anime and hidden gems for people to physically own instead of streaming. “If you’re actually going to take the effort to buy …Read more »
The Secret Urban Legends manga is a horror short story collection that features young women in high school or middle school. Betrayal of friendship is a common theme, as is finding darkness in people and places you associate with innocence. Because of the ages of …Read more »
A new teaser trailer for Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story 2nd Season -Eve of Awakening- was just released on Twitter, and in it you can hear opening theme song “Careless” being performed by ClariS. Though you don’t hear it here, ending theme …Read more »
Takeshi Natsuno at Enjin01 Open College in Nagaoka, in 2011. Photo by Joi Ito The president and CEO of manga publishing giant Kadokawa, Takeshi Natsuno has received heavy criticism in the past week for comments perceived as pro-censorship. On July 21st at an Abema Prime …Read more »
Is France’s President Emmanuel Macron an otaku? The world leader recently flew into Japan for the Olympics and to talk to the prime minister, but his trip has also included some real otakudom. In addition to getting an original illustration of One Piece from creator …Read more »
The last two Anime Expo events have been online because of COVID, and the convention has just announced its plans to return to an in-person event next year. “For the 2ndyear in a row, Anime Expo was held online due to the Covid pandemic, but …Read more »
Mangaka Anashin has announced she’s putting her new manga series on hiatus, but thankfully she isn’t sick or hurt — she’s going to give birth in August! She’s not getting a very long break, though, as her new manga, Unmei no Hito ni Deau Hanashi, …Read more »
The second season of the Restaurant to Another World anime will debut in October, and a teaser trailer has been released ahead of this. According to the trailer, Shinobu Ookawa is doing Prop Design, Kenji Kato is Art Director, Tatsue Ohzeki is Color Key Artist, …Read more »
Last week, One Piece author Eiichiro Oda sent a special original illustration to French President Emmanuel Macron, with a note in French dedicating it to Macron and all the One Piece fans in France. One Piece is the world’s bestselling manga, and France has a …Read more »
The protagonist of the light novel series My Seatmate Alya Sometimes Becomes Really Lovey-Dovey While Talking in Russian (Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san in the original Japanese) is getting a new “job” as a VTuber. The books, which are by SansanSun and …Read more »
Athletes taking part in the Tokyo Olympics triathlon were treated to the view of the huge RX-0 Unicorn Gundam as they cycled. Japan’s hopes for tourism during the Olympics has been quashed with COVID, but they did incidentally get a big plug for future tourists …Read more »
Anime conventions and other types of cons have been struggling during quarantine, and now that quarantine is being lifted but COVID is still around, they’re struggling with what to do. Gaming convention PAX West, which will take place in Seattle, Washington on September 3-6, is …Read more »
Things are really different at this year’s Olympics because of COVID, but it appears the Tokyo Olympics might have been even more different if the pandemic hadn’t begun. And by that I mean different in a good way and very exciting for otaku. Anime News …Read more »
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