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Vulture has put together a list of “The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation,” and anime plays no small role in the rankings. Vulture explained part of its criteria in the decision process: “Since this list is for an American audience, entries skew toward what influenced …Read more »
The Super Nintendo World extension to Universal Studios Japan was meant to open up this year for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, but got postponed because of COVID-19. However, we’ve gotten an update from Universal Studios Japan on the matter, and they say that part …Read more »
The new sports anime The Gymnastics Samurai will be simulcast by Funimation starting on October 10. The theme of the anime has caught the attention of Kohei Uchimura, a gymnast and 7-time Olympic medalist, who released a short video about it. “Hello, everyone, I’m Kohei …Read more »
Giving blood isn’t much fun, but it’s a vital thing to help out the health community. That got the Natori City Health Centre in Miyagi Prefecture thinking, and they’ve come up with a very successful idea: have a cute, fanged virtual YouTuber nurse anime girl …Read more »
The Harvey Awards have announced their 2020 winners. Kodansha’s Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama has won in the Best Manga category, beating out H.P. Lovecraft’s at the Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe, The Poe Clan by Moto Hagio, The Way of the Househusband …Read more »
The science fiction manga Spriggan, which debuted in 1989, is getting a Netflix anime. The series is scheduled to debut next year and some information on the crew has been shared. Hiroshi Kobayashi, who was an episode director for Kill la Kill and assistant director …Read more »
There are Hello Kitty themed hotel rooms. So why not have anime hotel rooms? The EJ Anime Hotel in Tokorozawa, north of Tokyo, is here to fill that gap. According to SoraNews24, the hotel boasts guest rooms that give themes for the anime Uzaki-chan Wants …Read more »
The first episode of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime landed on October 2 and is available streaming on Crunchyroll. To help fans get ready, VIZ Media is offering the first seven chapters (in other words, the first volume of the manga) for free online. Get a …Read more »
The long awaited Inuyasha spinoff anime Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon debuted on Saturday, and Japan is celebrating. Next month a whole retrospective exhibition on Inuyasha will be up and running in Tokyo, and they’ll be offering fans a lot of Inuyasha merchandise while they’re at it. …Read more »
One Piece had delays earlier this year because of the coronavirus, and Weekly Shonen Jump recently announced that there will be no new chapter in the next issue because of creator Eiichiro Oda’s “sudden illness.”
Netflix may not have released the numbers of its bestsellers, but content marketing company NeoMam Studios has done some interesting research. Utilizing Google’s Keyword planner and Flixable, they got an idea of which Netflix-produced anime were getting the most searches in 2019. NeoMam’s client Budget …Read more »
Kichiku Uchi, a Japanese typing game, has gone viral in Japan after Twitter user @mk_momota thanked it for giving her such enviable typing skills. But Kichiku Uchi (translated as Devil Typing) isn’t your usual ho-hum typing game. It’s a BL typing game made for fujoshi. …Read more »
How can we get more anime out in the world? Anime Fund, a Japanese company that officially gets its start on November 3, has an idea to crowdfund anime. According to Anime News Network, it will use the crowdfunding model to get more cartoons from …Read more »
Content warning: This article discusses sexual harassment and assault. Singer ELISA, who has sung theme songs for Nabari no Ou, A Certain Scientific Railgun and Hayate the Combat Butler, has accused her former manager of sexual harassment and assault. The story was broken by Japanese …Read more »
There’s some employment shifting going on in Kadokawa, the Japanese publishing giant. Anime News Network explained that the company is changing its six departments to thirteen groups, and the thirteen groups all have their own chief officer. This includes the position of Chief Anime Officer. …Read more »
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