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The picture book Riku wa Yowakunai came out in 2020 and has about 22,000 copies in circulation. A teaser trailer for the anime film adaptation has been released. The book was written by Shinobu Sakagami, who has fourteen dogs and four cats. The illustrator, Kunihiro …Read more »
A brand-new trailer has dropped for the live-action Chinese movie Dynasty Warriors. Dynasty Warriors is based on the video game of the same name from Japanese company KOEI, and the video game in turn is inspired by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by …Read more »
The live-action series Night Head played in Japan in the early 90s, and it led to the anime and manga Night Head Genesis more than a decade later. The franchise is getting a new anime series titled Night Head 2041 that’s debuting this July, and …Read more »
Shingo Natsume, who directed One-Punch Man and Space Dandy, is coming out with a science fiction anime called Sonny Boy that he conceived, wrote and directed. The story follows 36 students who find themselves in an alternate dimension and also discover that they have special …Read more »
A trailer for Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- has been released ahead of its July debut. It’s based on the novels by Kei Azumi, and helmed by Shinji Ishihira, who directed Fairy Tail. It also revealed more of the cast. Saori Hayami plays Emma, Shinpachi Tsuji plays …Read more »
Knights of Sidonia: The Star Where Love is Spun hits Japanese theaters May 14, but moviegoers don’t have to wait that long to see the opening. The first several minutes of the movie has been released on YouTube as a teaser. It’s in Japanese, but …Read more »
VIZ Media is publishing the Demon Slayer manga in America, and it’s pretty excited to see how well the movie has been doing, especially now that it’s broken records at the U.S. box office. The VIZ Media blog wrote, “To say people are hyped for …Read more »
The BL film Twittering Birds Never Fly ~The Clouds Gather~ will make its debut on HIDIVE Monday, May 3 at 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST. The movie is licensed by Sentai, and HIDIVE shared Sentai’s trailer along with the news. They gave this description …Read more »
There are almost 160 Pokémon manhole covers across Japan, serving as tourist attractions. The manhole covers started out in less popular places to lure in tourists, but so many people are enjoying them that they’re getting placed in cities that already bring in plenty of …Read more »
Yoshinori Ono used to work for CAPCOM, but he left the company back in 2020. During his time there, he worked as a sound manager and sound director for Street Fighter III—as well as a producer of Street Fighter IV—and then produced Onimusha: Dawn of …Read more »
A new, lengthier trailer has been released for the English version of the Netflix anime Yasuke. It’s almost two and a half minutes long and lets us see more visuals and hear more of the voices. More of the cast has also been disclosed. Takehiro …Read more »
Fans of mangaka Suehiro Maruo have a reason to celebrate, because he’s working on a new, long manga. Maruo hasn’t said too much about it yet, but he disclosed some teasers on Twitter. So what do we know? We know that the manga will take …Read more »
There’s been some movement over at American comics publisher Dark Horse, a company that licenses some manga titles, including Elfen Lied, Hellsing and Blade of the Immortal. Randy Lahrman, who joined Dark Horse in 2019, is the new Vice President of Product Development and Sales. …Read more »
Studio Ghibli has many characters it can use for merchandise, and while plenty of Totoros have been made, there are other, lesser-known characters that can also be inspiriting for making goods. Like the little soot sprites that you get to see in Spirited Away and …Read more »
Hana-chan is a little girl who follows her own heart and imagination, no matter what adults say, and sometimes gets herself into dangerous situations. But even in these dangerous situations everything works out in the end, as if she knew it would. Another kid might …Read more »
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