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The Asia Society Southern California is putting on a virtual (and free!) event tomorrow, Friday November 20. Called “Hollywood’s New Anime Gold Rush,” it will be a panel consisting of founder and CEO of Sentai Filmworks John Ledford, president of Production I.G USA Maki Terashima-Furuta, …Read more »
Tokyo Babylon 2021 has released a new trailer, new visuals, and new information on the cast and crew. First up is the trailer, which is almost three minutes long and gives us more of a look at the iconic characters (minus the 90s ridiculously broad …Read more »
The 2020 Game Awards nominees are here! It’s no surprise that Final Fantasy VII Remake has been nominated for Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, and Best Role Playing. But Final Fantasy VII Remake is …Read more »
Earlier this week former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe received the Olympic Order award for his work toward the (unfortunately postponed) Tokyo 2020 Olympics. There was another former Japanese prime minister at the event: Yoshiro Mori, who had convinced Abe to dress like Super Mario …Read more »
In honor of the debut of the Wandering Witch – The Journey of Elaina anime, Anime News Network interviewed original light novel author Jougi Shiraishi. Shiraishi said that he first began trying to becoming a professional writer at 14. After some years went by and …Read more »
COVID-19 may have thrown off Japan’s major doujinshi convention Comiket this year, but the people putting on the con are already making plans for next year. According to SoraNews24, the next Comiket is scheduled for May 2-5, 2021, and it’s supposed to be a live …Read more »
Shoko Nakagawa, the presenter of Pokémon Sunday and singer of the Gurren Lagann theme song, often goes by her nickname Shokotan. This got her talking on the Japanese show Gutto Luck! about a new policy in many Japanese elementary schools where nicknames are forbidden. The …Read more »
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot game’s “New Power Awakens – Part 2” DLC launches today, and yesterday Bandai released a trailer to let us know what the game is all about. Right at the beginning we see a very iconic scene from the anime that’s been …Read more »
The UK’s Cloud Matsuri convention is digital this year, allowing people around the world to take part, and they just revealed a new panel about the anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki for Adult Swim. Ahead of its 2021 @AdultSwim premiere, we're delighted to announce …Read more »
Content warning: Mention of possible suicide. There is sad news coming out of Japan with the passing of 43-year-old actor Akira Kubodera. An official cause of death has not been released, but preliminary investigations have led those involved to believe it was possibly suicide. Over the …Read more »
Publisher Seven Seas is opening a new light novel imprint called Airship. Seven Seas publisher Jason DeAngelis explained, “We’ve been publishing light novels from Japan since 2006, when there were only a handful in the North American market. But in the last several years, we’ve …Read more »
There’s going to be a creative change for future volumes of Boruto. The Naruto spinoff was originally created and supervised by Naruto mangaka Masashi Kishimoto, but had Ukyo Kodachi writing. Now Kishimoto himself will step out of his supervisor job and become the series’ writer. …Read more »
Live concerts are pretty much a no-no right now, but Funimation is streaming FLOW’s “FLOW CHOKAIGI 2020 – ANIME SHIBARI RETURNS” concert that occurred earlier this year in Japan. The band FLOW has done a number of anime theme songs, including ones for Naruto, Naruto …Read more »
Funimation is currently streaming Moriarty the Patriot simultaneously with its Japanese release. Meanwhile, over in Japan we got two new videos to watch about the series — a second promotional video, and an ad for the Blu-ray and DVD release. The promotional video is a …Read more »
Director Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World is four years old. The historical drama won the 40th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Animated Film, and Katabuchi took to Twitter to discuss his thoughts on the movie’s anniversary. In a translation provided by …Read more »
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