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Kodansha began the Noma Publishing Culture Award last year, where it awarded your name.’s director Makoto Shinkai, author Keigo Higashino, models Mai Shiraishi and Erika Ikuta, and publishers Ribon and Nakayoshi. This year the award goes to Demon Slayer creator Koyoharu Gotouge, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: …Read more »
Inuyasha creator Rumiko Takahashi just received Japan’s esteemed “Medal with Purple Ribbon, awarded to individuals who have contributed to academic and artistic developments, improvements and accomplishments.” As Japanese site grape explains, this medal is given out twice a year, and Takahashi is only the tenth …Read more »
The mega hit Demon Slayer was recently brought up . . . by the current Japanese prime minister during budget committee. According to Japanese site grape, working on reports from Asahi Shimbun, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan member Kenji Eda was talking with newly appointed …Read more »
The Attack on Titan Final Season starts December 7, and today the anime’s Twitter handle shared more information on the actors hired to play the warrior candidates in the Japanese version.
The Simpson’s new Treehouse of Horror included a segment called “Into the Homerverse,” where Homer accidentally makes a tear in the space-time continuum while trying to get Halloween candy out of a strange machine at the power plant. Homers from other universes show up, including …Read more »
If you looked at the top spots for Japan’s Oricon’s comic sales list covering the week of October 19-25, you might think there was a mistake. But there wasn’t — the Demon Slayer manga is doing so well that its 22 volumes fill up every …Read more »
One Piece is about to reach a historic event: its one thousandth chapter! Its finale is still a few years away and Netflix is coming out with its own version of One Piece, and publisher VIZ Media feels like celebrating the chapter milestone in the …Read more »
Junji Ito loves creating horror manga, and he also loves cats. The creator of Cat Diary: Yon & Mu teamed up with Crunchyroll earlier this year for a video of him reacting to cats in anime. As a followup, Crunchyroll released a new video of …Read more »
The Jujutsu Kaisen manga, which debuted in March 2018, currently has more than 10 million copies in circulation. This includes both print and digital copies, and Jujutsu Kaisen’s Japanese Twitter account shared the news, calling for a celebration.
It might not be here in time for Halloween, but Netflix is adapting the violent survival horror manga High-Rise Invasion into an anime. The anime will begin streaming this coming February, and Netflix shared a trailer in Japanese with subtitles. According to Anime News Network, …Read more »
The My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising movie is now available in America through Funimation. In honor of this, Anime News Network did a video interview with two members of the dub cast that voice key My Hero Academia characters: Justin Briner (Deku) and Clifford Chapin …Read more »
The new Assassin’s Creed game, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, just got the manga treatment thanks to Vinland Saga mangaka Makoto Yukimura. Now Netflix has announced that Assassin’s Creed is getting its own anime. According to Deadline, Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft has inked a deal with Netflix …Read more »
To coincide with the TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You anime, Anime News Network interviewed original mangaka Kenjirō Hata about his creation. Topics included why he decided to focus on romance, if his pop culture jokes translate across cultures, and how his manga Hayate the …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks is looking toward 2021, and they’ve revealed a list of anime they’ll be releasing in January on Blu-ray disc. First up is the infamous Blade of the Immortal (the manga is also being re-released). It comes out on the 19th and is 600 …Read more »
Hiraku spent his twenties working for a terrible company. He spent his thirties sick in bed. At 39, he died. But then God gives him another chance. God (in this manga, vaguely pictured in a humanoid form) offers to send Hiraku to another world, so …Read more »
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