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BELLE director Mamoru Hosoda recently appeared to throw some shade at Hayao Miyazaki, but a recent survey put Hosoda in competition with Your Name director Makoto Shinkai, not Miyazaki. Japanese company 1Screen questioned survey respondents whether they liked Mamoru Hosoda’s or Makoto Shinkai’s films more. …Read more »
The Tokyo Olympics have officially started, and if you caught the opening ceremony, you might have thought the music sounded familiar. During the Parade of Nations a medley of music from Japanese video games was played. Here’s what you heard: “ Overture: Loto’s Theme” …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda’s new movie BELLE will become available for American audiences this winter when GKIDS releases it dubbed and subbed. In the meantime, the insert song “Kokoro no Soba ni” (translated as “Beside the Heart”) is available to listen to on YouTube. It’s sung by …Read more »
After some holdup, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is set to officially open on September 30. Located at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in L.A., the museum will naturally be concentrated on the history of the Oscars. And some of their …Read more »
Keita Ito can’t believe that he’s allowed into the revered all-male Bell Liberty Academy, also known by the tongue-in-cheek name BL Academy. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by beautiful boys, with more than one of them openly crushing on him. He gets sent …Read more »
Japanese-American journalist Roland Kelts’s pioneering book Japanamerica has been translated into several languages across Asia and Europe, including Japanese. Now thanks to Odaiba Ediciones in Spain, it’s getting a new officially licensed Spanish translation. Anime and manga are very popular in Spain and throughout Latin …Read more »
The anime The Tatami Galaxy is based on a novel published in 2004 by Tomihiko Morimi. While the anime can currently be streamed on Funimation, the novel has remained unlicensed until now. It was just revealed that HarperVia, HarperCollins’ international imprint, will be publishing the …Read more »
A retro game collector in Japan known as @corner_mask on Twitter showed off his collection of 1,053 Nintendo Famicom cartridges. That’s every game commercially released for the Nintendo Famicom, the console that made its way to the west as the Nintendo Entertainment System! He shared …Read more »
COVID-19 has changed many people’s lives, either temporarily or permanently. Continually wearing a mask is one such change, and a new manga in Japan centers on romance while wearing masks. The manga is titled New Normal, and its first volume was just released in Japan. …Read more »
Slowpoke is staying busy as the Pokémon ambassador for Kagawa Prefecture! Previously Slowpoke graced its image on mail boxes and mail trucks in the area, and from July 2 until August 31 there is going to be a special Slowpoke bus! The bus only goes …Read more »
The Tokyo Mew Mew New anime is coming out next year, and an English-subtitled trailer for it has just dropped. In it we can hear the song “bitter sweet darling,” which is sung by the cast unit Smewthie. Speaking of music, the trailer also revealed …Read more »
Sony Music Group (Japan) is auditioning for the VTuber project VEE. “VEE is the largest virtual talent development and management project in history, to be launched by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. or SMEJ, in 2021,” Sony explained. “We aim to debut over 50 virtual …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki has been working on his movie adaptation of How Do You Live?, but it might be another three years before we see the finished product. We have less of a wait to read the original novel, written by Genzaburo Yoshino and originally published …Read more »
Tamagotchi is turning 25 this year, and it’s marking the occasion with Tamagotchi smart watches. But that’s not the only thing they have going on, and they’ve teamed up with Kamen Rider, which is also celebrating an anniversary this year. Kamen Rider has been around …Read more »
Kyokai Senki (a.k.a. War Machines on the Borderline) will debut on Japanese TV in the early morning hours of October 5. If that’s too long for you to wait, you do have an opportunity for an extended sneak peek: Bandai Spirits is offering the first …Read more »
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