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Mobile Suit Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino recently gave an interview where he talked about the anime world in general, and Demon Slayer in particular. Talking about the challenge of getting all the best people to work on an anime, he said, “That’s why when Demon …Read more »
If you feel your gaming setup is missing some Hello Kitty, you’re not alone. The gaming peripheral company Razer Quartz has teamed up with Sanrio for the Razer x Hello Kitty and Friends collection. Razer x Sanrio Characters released some pretty awesome stuff in China …Read more »
Hatsune Miku has been busy in the fight against COVID, but fans want more for her. The Okadama Airport is thinking about ways to build up its business, and it might just change its name to the Hatsune Miku Airport. The Okadama Airport is located …Read more »
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury will become available on Nintendo Switch on February 12, and Nintendo has released a video to give us a glimpse. For the first half of the video things look pretty happy, and then it gets ominous. “Bowser has …Read more »
Rent-A-Girlfriend first brought the Japanese business idea of “renting” a person to many people in the West. The major Japanese paper The Mainichi recently did a whole article about 37-year-old Tokyoite Shoji Morimoto who rents himself to “eat and drink, and give simple feedback, but …Read more »
What’s a way to celebrate the upcoming Tokyo Olympics that merges both Japanese history and modern Japanese pop culture, while also working to bring countries together and educate people about them? If you said, “Personify country flags as anime samurai characters,” you got it. “World …Read more »
Mangaka Gino0808 has published Yukionna to Kani wo Kurau (translated as “Devouring a Snow Woman and Crab”) and Doteibanashi (translated as “Virgin Story”), neither of which has been licensed in America. But if readers have been checking out illegal scanlations or other forms of pirating, …Read more »
There’s sad news coming out of the voice actor world with the report of Brad Venable’s death. Venable did wide work in the video game industry, as well as dubbing anime. His voice can be heard in Final Fantasy VII Remake, as Daz for Attack …Read more »
Akira is what really made a name for manga creator Katsuhiro Otomo, but it’s far from his only work. According to Anime News Network, “The Complete Works Project” for Katsuhiro Otomo is being released in 2021, thanks to Kodansha. The “complete work” refers to his …Read more »
As of the February issue of Kodansha’s Good! Afternoon, Grand Blue Dreaming has been put on temporary hiatus. The manga is created by Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka, and lately Inoue has been experiencing serious back pain because of overwork. The manga is set to …Read more »
Shinji Aoba, the man who admitted to the Kyoto Animation arson that killed 36 people, has maintained that he did this because the company stole from the novel he submitted to them. Kyoto Animation has vehemently denied these allegations. Now Aoba, who has been formally …Read more »
Studio Ghibli’s latest movie, Earwig and the Witch, debuted on Japanese TV last month. But it won’t be much longer before Americans get the opportunity to see it. According to GKIDS, Earwig and the Witch will hit U.S. theaters February 3. It will be aired …Read more »
Kirby Morrow’s Twitter page is still being used by his family, and they shared this news: @Taylorpedia1 was a friend of Kirby’s and they had talked often about mental illness and it’s affects. She is using her amazing story to help others. . We will …Read more »
Slam Dunk is returning to the big screen! The highly successful franchise started out as a 31-volume manga series (currently published in America by VIZ Media). This led to an anime series and some films. Now, twenty-one years after the manga’s debut, a new movie …Read more »
In Japan, they really love cats. So it was really no surprise when Japanese company AmiAmi came out with figurines of the main Naruto cast as felines. They even have a cute name — “Nyaruto” — because in Japanese “nya” is the onomatopoeia for the …Read more »
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