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Since the arson attack on Kyoto Animation in summer of last year, all eyes have been on the anime company as it rebuilds. The latest business news is that Kyoto Animation absorbed its affiliate studio Animation DO. According to Anime News Network, the affiliate studio …Read more »
Polygon conducted an email interview with horror manga master Junji Ito, asking him everything from portraying cats’ personalities to his thoughts on America making live-action adaptations of anime and manga. “This goes without saying, but America is the foremost country when it comes to producing …Read more »
Heidi, Girl of the Alps is one of those iconic retro anime series that even people who claim not to know about anime would recognize. Now more than 40 years after its release, Japan continues its celebration of Heidi with the “Heidi’s Hill” (Haiji no …Read more »
It’d be hard not to choose the new Pokémon Air toy that lets you ride around on an inflatable rubber Pikachu. While it’s designed for kids, many adults can also catch a ride, as it can handle up to 220 pounds sitting on it. According …Read more »
Each Cells at Work! spinoff has its own flavor while keeping the style of the original. So if Cells at Work! Baby is cute and Cells at Work! and Friends is about foibles, then Cells at Work! Bacteria is . . . well, gross. But it’s …Read more »
Anime News Network released an interview they did with three people from the anime Deca-Dence: director Yuzuru Tachikawa, Cyborg designer Kiyotaka Oshiyama, and designer Hiromatsu Shu. Asked about character designs, Oshiyama replied, “Whenever I think of designs for an original work, there’s a feeling of discovery …Read more »
Seika Kyomachi is a green-garbed town anime mascot for the Seika in the Kyoto Prefecture, whose catchphrase is the popular “I will erase the hometown tax deficit!” Besides being used to educate people on how they can lower their taxes, she’s a draw for tourism. …Read more »
Sanrio recently got a creepy makeover with cute toys you can disembowel, but the kawaii company isn’t done with its flair for gross/cute stuff. Sanrio’s theme park Harmonyland is getting all decked out for Halloween. According to the Japanese site grape, the Halloween theme rolled …Read more »
There are boys’ love anime, manga, light novels, and now there’s a special BL card game that takes you through your own “choose your own adventure” storyline in a school setting. According to SoraNews24, it’s called “Minna de Making! BL,” which translates as “Making a …Read more »
Japanamerica author Roland Kelts recently wrote a piece for The Japan Times about how COVID-19 is affecting anime conventions. Cons have been canceled all over this year, and one issue is that the conventions want to get cancelled for safety reasons, but they could lose …Read more »
This week starts with some sad news as we report the death of actress Sei Ashina, who was only 36 and two months short of her 37th birthday. She was discovered in her apartment by family. While an official cause of death has yet to …Read more »
The Sanrio website will let you know that their kawaii penguin character Tuxedosam always wears a tux, he owns 365 bow ties, and he speaks Penguinese. Apparently that bow and tux part got people thinking of weddings, because now there are Tuxedosam engagement and wedding …Read more »
She can sing, she can entertain, and now she can help in the fight against the COVID spread. I’m talking about Hatsune Miku, who is now an official Coronavirus Countermeasure Supporter for the Japanese government’s Office for Novel Coronavirus Disease Control. According to SoraNews24, she’ll …Read more »
The manga Mienai Watashi no Koi wa Fujiyū (translated as I Cannot See, and My Love is Impaired) by Bunny Urasawa deals with the issue of Low Vision, a condition that can’t be fixed by glasses or surgery. It’s a subject not many people know …Read more »
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! is a shonen comedy that debuted in Japan this summer and has been quite a success. FUNimation has been hard at work on the dub, and yesterday they revealed part of their cast and crew. Ricco Fajardo of My Hero …Read more »
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