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It was just announced that the upcoming anime Sword of the Demon Hunter Kijin Gentosho will debut with an hour-long special on June 27. A new visual and a bit more info on the cast came with this news. Here is the visual. As for …Read more »
In 2023, the Japan Society screened Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano’s anime Angel’s Egg (a.k.a. Tenshi no Tamago in Japanese) in New York City. That was the first time the 1985 OVA had an official watch in the West. But now there’s word of a …Read more »
Joe Hisaishi is best known for composing music for Studio Ghibli films, including My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and most recently The Boy and the Heron. This has made his music popular around the world, but …Read more »
A Pokémon card collection belonging to someone in Nottinghamshire, England, has made news for how much the stash went for at the The Lichfield Auction Centre. According to the BBC, the auctioneer thought the cards were perhaps worth about £25,000, but they ended up selling …Read more »
Monkey D. Luffy’s birthday just happened on May 5, and Monkey D. Luffy himself celebrated it. And by that I mean his actor in the highly successful live-action Netflix adaptation of One Piece, Iñaki Godoy, celebrated the birthday. And, wait, is that a teaser? Check …Read more »
In her past life, the main character of The Villainess’s Guide to (Not) Falling in Love was a woman in her 30s who obsessively played the dating game Cinderella and the Kingdom of Magic. She didn’t have any real relationships to speak of, so the …Read more »
One Piece is getting a new, official One Piece Café, but it’s not located in Japan. For the first time, it’ll be in America! That’s right — starting on May 11, if you go to 5600 Spring Mountain Rd Ste A in Las Vegas, there …Read more »
The Hollywood Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise has been doing quite well for itself, and now we can say the same for the limited series Knuckles. Knuckles began streaming on April 26 on Paramount +, and it’s already broken records for the streaming service. For …Read more »
People working at the Kyoto District Legal Affairs Bureau are supposed to be upholding the law, not breaking it. But an employee recently filed a damage report, alleging that another worker physically assaulted him — over giving away spoilers for Oshi no Ko! According to …Read more »
Gold House, which describes itself as “a cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions Asian Pacific leaders to power tomorrow for all” has released the names for its 2024 Most Impactful Asians A100 list. Included are some people definitely of interest to otaku. Writer …Read more »
Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Orlando is scheduled to open next year, and ahead of this new information and visuals have been released. Super Nintendo World is part of the Epic Universe expansion, which also has segments for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter …Read more »
Manga creator Yoshihiro Togashi has been posting stuff on Twitter that gives the impression he is back to working on his popular series Hunter x Hunter. First, Togashi shared this tweet with the words “I’m doing No.405. Moon healing escalation!”
The live-action City Hunter movie dropped on Netflix on April 25, and the streaming service proudly announced that during the April 22-28 time period, it took first place in Netflix’s list of Global Top 10 non-English films. It was watched about 5.3 million times, and …Read more »
There’s a news story coming out of Japan about a member of the yakuza (the Japanese mafia) getting caught for an alleged crime that doesn’t exactly live up to the yakuza’s image of badass criminals: he’s accused of being a Pokémon card thief. And the …Read more »
38 North, a program from the Stimson Center think tank that analyzes what’s going on in North Korea, recently reported that North Koreans animators have been working on shows in other countries, including U.S. shows and anime in Japan. The reason this is news is …Read more »
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