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Nippon TV wants to get more into anime. The massive Japanese company, which already has Tatsunoko Production and Madhouse as subsidiaries, has created an Anime Department inside its Business Development division. Managing Director of International Business Division Kako Kuwahara has been given a promotion to …Read more »
Dark Horse is re-releasing Blade of the Immortal as a deluxe hardcover edition, and the first omnibus volume comes out this month. In honor of the event, Dark Horse shared an article written by Senior Editor Philip R. Simon on the localization of the fan …Read more »
Yesterday Aniplex of America and Toonami said that the final season of Sword Art Online: Alicization War of Underworld is coming to Adult Swim next month. The first episode will air at 12:30 in the morning of November 8, as part of their November 7 …Read more »
The Demon Slayer franchise has a new feather to put in its cap: of all the movies playing across the globe last weekend, Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train was the most successful. From its release on Friday until Sunday, Demon Slayer sold 3.42 million …Read more »
Hestia of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? has a new job: to help people navigate. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? III and MAPLUS have teamed up for their own version of …Read more »
Sega has been celebrating its 60th anniversary with Sonic the Hedgehog taiyaki, and now it’s announced that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Nights into Dreams can be played free on Steam. This has gotten many fans excited, but Sonic’s lead programmer, Yuji Naka, is not …Read more »
There was a big hoopla when someone stole 20 volumes of Demon Slayer from Onsen no Mori hot spring and the facility responded by asking nicely on social media for the books to be returned. Time passed and at least 190 copies of Demon Slayer …Read more »
Digital Manga Inc.’s imprint LILYKA publishes independent yuri manga, and one of their creators is Mintaro, who has a line of fairy tale influenced comics. Mintaro also maintains a YouTube page where she posts some drawing videos to help aspiring artists. LILYKA shared this information …Read more »
Norah Jones is releasing a digital deluxe version of her album Pick Me Up Off the Floor, and she’s teamed up with mangaka Rumiko Takahashi for a new music video for her song “I’m Alive.” “We’re all human, and we experience many things in life, …Read more »
Shu Uemura, a high end makeup brand in Japan, has previously released Super Mario and Pokémon inspired makeup for their holiday collections. According to Japanese site grape, this year their holiday collection will be all about One Piece makeup. Someone put time into coming up …Read more »
American Steve Alpert spent a decade and a half working for Studio Ghibli and he wrote about the experience in his memoir, Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli. The book was released earlier this year by Stone Bridge Press, …Read more »
Instead of having a season four for Sailor Moon Crystal, the Dead Moon arc is being released as two movies. A trailer for Pretty Guardians Sailor Moon Eternal The MOVIE has dropped, along with a new poster and information on the cast. Shouta Aoi, Satoshi …Read more »
Japan has a thing for specialty cafés, including the Studio Ghibli Museum’s Straw Hat Café. The other day Studio Ghibli founders Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki attended to their café like any other customers, and they shared a video of it. Along with the two …Read more »
Rent-a-Girlfriend is doing so well it’s gotten its own exhibition. The exhibition is currently in Tokyo until Monday, October 26, and after that it goes to Osaka for a December 24-January 4 run. As Japanese site grape reports, the exhibition opens with an autographed message …Read more »
Yen Press is re-releasing the original Haruhi light novels through their Yen On imprint. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya will both come back out in January 2021. Following that, two more Haruhi books will be released each month until …Read more »
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