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Publisher Shueisha has referred to 2021 as “My Hero Academia Year,” and it’s no wonder. The fifth season just debuted, its third movie will come out in a few months, it’s getting its own art exhibit, and now we’ve learned that it has more than …Read more »
Megumi Hayashibara is something of a Renaissance woman. She’s been a voice actress in countless anime franchises, including Evangelion, Ranma ½, Love Hina, Cowboy Bebop, Slayers, Pokémon and Shaman King. She’s coming out with a new book from Yen Press titled The Characters Taught Me …Read more »
The release of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, the reboot of the movie franchise based on the video game, has had its proposed release date changed from September 3 to November 24. A reason for this change has not been given. Variety, which reported …Read more »
The Puppet Princess anime is a 40-minute OVA that originally came out in 2000, but is getting its first Blu-ray release now from Media Blasters. Taking place in feudal Japan, it follows Princess Rangiku, a very innocent and sweet-natured princess who is, ironically, out for bloody …Read more »
Publisher Shogakukan became aware of someone posting dialogue from their manga on a “spoiler website.” Allegedly this person posted almost all the text from sixty-three manga chapters of Kengan Omega by Yabako Sandrovich without permission. Shogakukan took this to court, wanting to figure out who …Read more »
It was recently announced that Samurai: Deadpool, which can be read on the Shonen Jump+ app, is Marvel’s bestselling comic this year. The series is written and illustrated by Sanshirou Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi and takes place in feudal Japan. Deadpool has met up with …Read more »
Japan’s Shuppan Kagaku Kenkyujo (a.k.a. Research institute of publication science) has crunched the numbers and says that print and digital sales of manga in 2020 were phenomenal. Manga brought in more than 600 billion yen (a little under 5.5 billion dollars) during the year, breaking …Read more »
Sailor Moon has had multiple stage musical adaptations. The most recent one, Kaguya-hime no Koibito, was supposed to premiere in 2019. It got bumped to 2020, and then 2020 happened, so of course it got bumped again. But today it was revealed that a new …Read more »
One of the reveals at AnimeJapan 2021 was that mangaka Natsuki Takaya is making twelve special drawings of characters that will air during the credits of Fruits Basket the Final. While we’ve been told to expect such characters as Yuki, Kyo, and Akito Sohma, so …Read more »
Jujutsu Kaisen has been keeping up its amazing sales, and publisher Shueisha revealed that there are more than 40 million copies of the manga out in circulation. This counts both physical editions and ebooks. At the beginning of last October, there were eight and a …Read more »
The English dub for the first two episodes of Wonder Egg Priority becomes available through Funimation today. As a result, Funimation released information on the cast and crew. Mikaela Krantz plays Ai, Dawn M. Bennett plays Neiru, Anairis Quiñones plays Rika, Michelle Rojas plays Momoe, …Read more »
Kagawa prefecture is continuing to show its love for its Pokémon ambassador Slowpoke. Along with coming out with official merchandise, it has Slowpoke involved in the local mail. A Slowpoke-themed mailbox was recently unveiled, with a person in a Slowpoke costume there to help. But …Read more »
The Japanese company Filmmarks recently did a survey asking people in Japan what anime they’re most looking forward to this season. The countdown for “Most Anticipated 2021 Spring Anime Ranking” goes like this: 20. Osamake: Romcom Where The Childhood Friend Won’t Lose 19. Odd Taxi …Read more »
The bus stop Mekki, located in Toyama, the capital of Toyama Prefecture, has unwittingly gotten itself involved with Demon Slayer tourism. It’s for a reason non-Japanese speakers wouldn’t guess, but its characters are the reverse of how to write “Kimetsu” in Japanese. According to Japan’s …Read more »
There are special Kirby cafés dedicated to the little pink alien in both Tokyo and Hakata. April 27 marks Kirby’s 29th birthday, so of course the cafés are celebrating. The main part of this celebration will be special birthday cakes available throughout the month of …Read more »
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