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The Japanese convenience chain store Lawson has teamed up with Evangelion for special ATMs that were meant to coincide with the movie Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time coming out in theaters. The movie’s debut has been held up because of COVID, but Lawson is …Read more »
In November all the nominees for the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards were announced, and yesterday the winners were revealed in Japan. The Best Children’s Manga category had two winners: Duel Masters by Shigenobu Matsumoto, and Chocolat no Maho (translated as The Magic of Chocolate) by …Read more »
Want to up your Hellsing collectables? Some limited edition artwork might be up your alley. Vendor Anique is offering twelve examples of artwork from original mangaka Kouta Hirano as well as from Ryoji Nakamori, who did the character designs for the anime. There are options …Read more »
Demon Slayer is back on top! For twelve weeks the Demon Slayer movie was at the top spot at the Japanese box office (and sometimes in the world), and then it got replaced by the Gintama movie during week thirteen. It appeared as if Demon …Read more »
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko got his start back in 1970, animating for Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Productions. In 2021, he’s getting the Japan Academy Film Prize Association’s Special Award for lifetime achievement, occurring at the 44th annual Japan Academy Film Prizes in March. That’s because between 1970 and …Read more »
Heritage Auctions’s Comics & Comic Art Auction event brought in some serious money and broke records. And we have Pokémon to thank for that. The Pokémon First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Box (released in 1999) sold for a whopping $408,000, and that’s put it …Read more »
Assassination Classroom creator Yusei Matsui and Astra Lost in Space creator Kenta Shinohara will both be debuting new work in Shonen Jump this year. Matsui’s new manga is called Nige Jōzu no Wakagimi (translated as The Young Lord Who is Skilled at Escaping) and it …Read more »
Students in Tokyo taking standardized university entrance exams this past weekend were under strict guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID. All were required to wear masks, unless they had a medical reason not to do so, in which case they’d be placed safely in …Read more »
The Cells at Work! manga has received a few spinoffs, and now it’s spawned off into a medical reference book aimed at children. Being released by Kodansha, the same publisher of the manga, the textbook has the long title of Learn Correctly About Infectious Diseases! …Read more »
The Knights of Sidonia franchise is getting an addition to it with the movie Knights of Sidonia: The Star Where Love is Spun (Sidonia no Kishi: Ai Tsumugu Hoshi in Japanese). The first full trailer dropped today. The movie will come out in Japan on …Read more »
Last year the Tokyo arcade Taito Station Fuchi Kururu won the Guinness World Record for having the most crane games in a single place, with an astonishing 454 crane games in their establishment. But 2021 is a new year, and Taito Station Fuchi Kururu already …Read more »
Spanish luxury fashion company LOEWE, which has been around since 1846, has teamed up with Studio Ghibli for LOEWE x My Neighbor Totoro. LOEWE describes it as a “limited-edition capsule collection of bags, ready-to-wear and accessories celebrating Studio Ghibli’s 1988 masterpiece.” LOEWE x My Neighbor …Read more »
Publisher Seven Seas is asking for your opinion! The Seven Seas Reader Survey is up for January 2021! Suggest licenses, answer questions, and enter to win a FREE paperback! Plus, @BOOKWALKER_GL will give you a coupon code for our ebooks. (How do we use these …Read more »
The Japanese man known on Twitter as Yukidaruma Shokunin Toshinyan doesn’t just play in the snow — he makes amazing art in the snow. In fact, his name in English is “Snowman Artist Toshinyan.” In the past few weeks he’s been pretty busy making snow …Read more »
High-Rise Invasion, the Netflix anime based on the manga published by Seven Seas Entertainment, will debut on February 25 in Japan. Netflix released both a Japanese and an English trailer. The opening theme song “HON-NO” — performed by EMPiRE — can be heard in both …Read more »
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