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Yasuhiro Irie, the director of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, is back at work on a new project. It’s a TV anime called Healer Girl, and the healer girls in question heal people through their singing. It’s described as “a bold, new form of musical healing animation.”” …Read more »
There’s good news for fans of the Yuki Yuna Is a Hero anime franchise! It’s just been announced that Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru Dai-Mankai no Shō (translated as Yuki Yuna Is a Hero: The Great Full Blossom Arc) will debut this October and …Read more »
The third season of Kiratto Pri☆Chan is currently airing, and we just learned that it will be the final season. The last episode will play in May. However, that doesn’t mean all is over. There’s still going to be a Pretty All Friends Selection show …Read more »
Over in Japan, the takeout app menu has released its second ad starring the cast of One Piece. In the original ad, Luffy stretched his arm out to get food. In the new ad, the cast members are all kids who are scarfing down the …Read more »
The Honey-Blood Beauty and her Vampire takes place in a world where vampires and humans (called pabulum) have found a way to coexist after a history of cruelty toward one another. There’s a rare phenomenon in humans where a few have blood that’s considered so …Read more »
Golden Week has just begun in Japan, and it will end May 5. In the midst of all the holidays going on now, special Sumikko Gurashi desserts have been made. Sumikko Gurashi are adorable characters created by Japanese company San-X, and they’re scheduled to get …Read more »
Discotek makes it a habit of saving anime that might otherwise fall through the cracks, and it was happy to announce that s-CRY-ed is back out on the market. It shared a trailer along with the news. https://twitter.com/discotekmedia/status/1387491988501536769 Discotek also let us know that there …Read more »
How would you like to watch anime in virtual reality? HTC Vive and Bandai Namco are going to be working together on exactly that. Their goal is to get the anime available on the Viveport storefront. And it sounds as if they’ll be making new …Read more »
Square Enix put an interview on its website where Final Fantasy VII Remake Co-Directors Naoki Hamaguchi and Motomu Toriyama talk about the Yuffie chapter that’s soon to be released. “It’s very much the same Yuffie we all know and love that appears in Midgar,” said …Read more »
It’s been five years since Haro Aso’s manga Alice in Borderland concluded, and we just got news that the mangaka is up to a new project. Aso will be working with Shiro Yoshida (who did the manga adaptation of Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress) on …Read more »
It’s pretty clear Netflix is very interested in being involved in the anime market, and they’ve jumped on the virtual YouTuber bandwagon as well with VTuber ambassador N-ko Mei Kurono. N-ko just made her debut in Japan, and will release new videos about anime on …Read more »
Last year fans were psyched to see a giant moving Gundam in Yokohama, and now there’s another giant Gundam for fans to see! The Freedom Gundam is a statue (meaning it doesn’t move like the one in Yokohama) and it is located in Shanghai, China. …Read more »
VIZ Media recently released Lovesickness, a new manga from horror master Junji Ito. The company put together a video letting you read a little bit of the manga (with creepy music in the background), and the video is both introduced and concluded by Ito himself. …Read more »
The winners for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize have been announced! The prizes are given yearly to manga creators who follow the tradition laid out by Osamu Tezuka. The Grand Prize, which comes with a bronze statue and approximately $19,000 in cash, goes …Read more »
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Kodansha Publishing have teamed up to use Cells at Work! in the fight against COVID-19. Creator Akane Shimizu finished her Cells at Work! series about anthropomorphic cells with a chapter about COVID-19. This chapter, plus a new …Read more »
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