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After crushing the competition at the Japanese box office for twelve weeks, Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train fell to second place on weekend thirteen. Gintama took the lead then, but it didn’t last long. By the next weekend, Demon …Read more »
Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, which recently won for Best General Manga in the Shogakukan Manga Awards, is approaching its conclusion. Weekly Big Comic Spirits has confirmed the manga is in its last arc. We can still expect to see Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction …Read more »
The Japanese government has been contemplating changing its laws on cosplay, trying to find a balance where creators can earn money for their copywritten material but cosplayers can also be able to do what they love. “There are many people hearing this news who may …Read more »
The Japanese confectionery business Tohoen, which has been making sweets for more than a century, has come out with some pretty unique candy in time for Valentine’s Day. Instead of your typical hearts, these candies all have a COVID-19 theme. Tohoen wrote on its site, …Read more »
With Japan planning to extend its state of emergency until March 7, it’s going to be a while before it’s safe for Super Nintendo World to open. But other outlets are allowing Japanese fans to express their joy for all things Super Mario, including a …Read more »
Having a child is something fairly common in this world, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy, and that doesn’t mean it always gets talked about authentically. Mangaka Ayami Kazama, who has previously published romance and autobiographical manga, gives a very honest portrayal of her path …Read more »
During his prolific lifetime as a manga creator, Osamu Tezuka declared his best work was Phoenix. The manga remained unfinished when he died and the English adaptation is unfortunately out of print (though you can read it digitally). However, not all is lost: Media Blasters …Read more »
What do you do when you’re stuck at home because of COVID? Many otaku are increasing their manga reading, but unfortunately, that includes pirated manga. The Authorized Books of Japan publishing industry group (a.k.a ABJ) have crunched numbers, and they don’t like what they see. …Read more »
The remake anime of Fruits Basket is drawing close to the end. It was just announced that the last season (referred to as Fruits Basket the Final) will debut on Japanese TV in April. In addition to this announcement, a new visual was released. So …Read more »
Otakon, a Washington, D.C.-based anime convention that boasts in or around 30,000 attendants a year, is struggling because of COVID-19. Brooke Zerrlaut, who is the president of Otakorp, the organization that puts on Otakon, said this in a newsletter: “We use the proceeds from each …Read more »
Spirited Away is Japan’s most successful film (until recently, at least), and part of its international reach is thanks to American businessman Steve Alpert, the “resident foreigner” of Studio Ghibli. Alpert’s Ghibli memoir, Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man, is a fascinating, informative and …Read more »
Japan is about to get a new Death Note book — Death Note Short Stories. This is the first non-reprint of a Death Note book in almost fifteen years. The book is 226 pages long, and it consists of one-shot chapters spanning over 17 years …Read more »
Funimation has spread into bringing anime to Latin America, but soon you won’t have to be living there to enjoy Spanish and Portuguese dubs and subs. Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Tokyo Ghoul and Assassination Classroom are all receiving dubs in these two languages, …Read more »
Japan’s state of emergency response to COVID means that the opening of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan has been postponed (again). But a Mario-themed train that was meant to coincide with the expansion’s opening has chosen to start up its side of the …Read more »
Under the Air is a collection of short works from the prolific Osamu Tezuka, known as the “God of Manga,” originally published in the 1960s and 1970s. In his afterword Tezuka wrote that these short stories were “jumbled together” by the publisher and calls them …Read more »
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