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The hundredth volume of the One Piece manga is scheduled to come out before 2021 ends, and the ninety-ninth volume is being released this June in Japan. As a way to celebrate this, one hundred taxis in Tokyo are getting One Piece themed artwork in …Read more »
The manga Kaguya-sama: Love is War by Aka Akasaka is currently being published in Japan by Shueisha’s Young Jump and in America by VIZ Media. Young Jump just announced that the manga will go on hiatus, but thankfully it’s not because Akasaka is hurt or …Read more »
Taiki Nishimura is a pretty successful anime director and has done episode directing for Boruto, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Ergo Proxy, The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of The Gods, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens and more. Four years ago he revealed that, despite his success, he …Read more »
There’s a battle scene in the movie Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time that has characters plummeting through the air while also fighting. Trying to figure out how to animate this the most realistically, director Hideaki Anno came up with an idea: have the staff …Read more »
After Roger Craig Smith had voiced Sonic the Hedgehog for a decade, he and Sega announced earlier this year that he would no longer have the job. This news wasn’t exactly thrilling to many fans, as they already knew Smith’s voice as Sonic from Team …Read more »
It’s become an increasingly known fact that animators in Japan are often paid poorly and have few workers’ rights. Jun Sugawara’s Animators Support and Animator Dormitory is trying to change that, and they’ve just released a new English dubbed video about what they’re up to …Read more »
Japan has a long history of using printed seals called hanko instead of signing names. While in this day and age they could become something of the past, hanko stores are still coming out with special designs to keep people interested. Pokémon hanko have been …Read more »
The blog on the official PlayStation site posted an interview with Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura on the Yuffie Kisaragi chapter in the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. Asked about his headspace when he designed Yuffie for the original 1997 game, he …Read more »
The BL manga Given is licensed in America by SuBLime, and it’s already received both an anime and film adaptation. But the franchise isn’t over yet — it was just disclosed that Given will receive a live-action series as well as a new original anime …Read more »
Last week the Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested six people because of how they were operating their maid cafés. It has to do with the Adult Entertainment Business Regulation Law in Japan. So-called regular restaurants can be open at any hour, but a “social” restaurant or …Read more »
The Tokyo Revengers manga is heading toward its climax, and the anime adaptation has been a big success. But we still have the live-action Tokyo Revengers movie adaptation to look forward to, and Warner Bros. Japan dropped a video to let us get to know …Read more »
The video game Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid came out in 2019, but 2021 is getting a Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid Super Edition. The game will receive a physical release this July, and in the meantime it’s available digitally for PlayStation 4, …Read more »
The Black Clover anime series has concluded in Japan, but if you’ve been waiting to see the last bit on Toonami, the wait is almost over. Adult Swim announced that the fourth and final season of Black Clover will begin playing at 2 AM on …Read more »
The streaming platform GagaOOLala has picked up the live-action movie BL movie Love Stage!! The movie first came out last year, and it’s based on the manga by Taishi Zaou and Eiki Eiki. It’s in Japanese but has different subtitles, including English, available for viewers. …Read more »
Back in March Kodansha came out with some limited edition Attack on Titan manga that were big enough to be read by a Titan. Each manga weighed about 30 pounds and was 1.01 meters tall and 0.71 meters wide. To no one’s surprise, this turned …Read more »
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