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The administrator of the manga piracy website Manga-Mura was recently sentenced to three years plus major fines after costing the manga industry $2.93 billion in damages. However, since his arrest other manga piracy sites have popped up and exploded during COVID-19. The Japanese news outlet …Read more »
It was recently announced that hololive Virtual YouTuber Kiryu Coco was graduating (retiring), and now her fellow hololive YouTubers Akai Haato and Murasaki Shion have made announcements of their own. Haato noted that she’ll be paying attention to Coco’s graduation event, and that she’ll be …Read more »
Anime Expo Lite, which will take place virtually on July 3-4, has announced several new panels in addition to the recently revealed Star Wars: Visions panel. One panel will be hosted by VTuber talent agency VShojo and star their VTubers Ironmouse, Projekt Melody, Nyanners, Silvervale, Zentreya, and …Read more »
The Demon Slayer movie is out to buy in Japan, and it’s already broken records. The day it was released it sold 218,000 regular-edition DVDs and 268,000 limited-edition Blu-ray Discs. Regular edition Blu-ray Discs and limited edition DVDs were also released. These numbers add up …Read more »
GKIDS and Fathom Events will be behind Ghibli Fest 2021, where it will air the Miyazaki movies Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle in the Sky and My Neighbor Totoro in theaters. The movies will only be in theaters for a limited time. Spirited Away …Read more »
There’s been an increased amount of attention on Hideaki Anno lately with the release of his movie Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, which just snagged the top of the box office again. And it was just announced that National Art Center, located in Tokyo, …Read more »
Funimation is bringing the movie Josee, the Tiger and the Fish to select American theaters in both dubbed and subbed versions. It will be a very limited showing, only being available July 12-14. In the English dub, Howard Wang plays Tsuneo and Suzie Yeung plays …Read more »
The Nintendo Direct E3 2021 presentation has dropped a lot of announcements, including the fact that the game Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will become available to play on the Nintendo Switch this fall. Currently, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot can be played on Xbox One, PlayStation …Read more »
Donguri Closet from Donguri Republic has come out with three outfits influenced by the iconic Ghibli movies Kiki’s Delivery Service, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and The Secret World of Arrietty. The outfits are supposed to be relax wear, so you can hang around and …Read more »
The movie Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time opened at first place in the Japanese box office when it premiered on the weekend of March 8, then fell out of the top ten two weekends ago. However, this past weekend it shot back up to …Read more »
The live-action American series The Flight Attendant, which stars Kaley Cuoco and is based on the book by Chris Bohjalian, took inspiration from Cowboy Bebop for its opening sequence. According to Variety, motion graphics director Jim Jones and senior motion graphics designer Taka Ikari were …Read more »
Homura Kawamoto, the creator of Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler, is coming out with a new manga series called Isekai Tenseisha Goroshi -Cheat Slayer- (translated as Killing the People Reincarnated into the Other World -Cheat Slayer-). The manga is illustrated by Aki Yamaguchi and being published …Read more »
Pokémon manhole covers have been popping up all over Japan, but central Tokyo only now just got in on the action! The manhole covers are of Tyrunt and Baltoy. Because Tyrunt is clearly inspired by a T-Rex, it’s located right by the National Museum of …Read more »
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, is coming out with the real-world AR mobile game TRANSFORMERS: Heavy Metal. “This will be a Transformers game unlike any other, an AR game where you’ll get to team up with the likes of Bumblebee and the Autobots in …Read more »
There are three life-size Gundam statues in the world, and Bandai Namco says it’s not enough. The company has put forward plans to make a fourth statue, as confirmed by Bandai’s Chief Gundam Officer Kōji Fujiwara. We’re told we’ll get more information this coming autumn …Read more »
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