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The nominees for the Game Awards 2024 have been announced! A number of the titles in the running are Japanese-made games, and that includes multiple games for the biggest category, Game of the Year. Among those vying for Game of the Year are Final Fantasy …Read more »
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members, the light novel series with the ridiculously long name, …Read more »
The Horry County School has officially banned Assassination Classroom from its district after a mother made a complaint. Jennifer Hannigan, the mother, learned about Assassination Classroom after her high school daughter brought it home from the school library. “Even if I didn’t have children, I …Read more »
Some people involved with a flea market in Japan came up with an unusual way to bring in customers: offering a “seppuku contest.” Seppuku, a.k.a. harakiri, was a traditional form of samurai ritual suicide that involved disembowelment and maybe beheading. Why would something like this …Read more »
The anime Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! is getting a special edited compilation screening in Japan. A trailer for it has dropped, and in it you can hear the new ending theme song “Love Candle” being performed by the …Read more »
The anime Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms debuted in October, and it just recently dropped a climax trailer to get fans hyped. For people who want to physically read the manga version, there’s some good news: it’s been licensed by Graphix, the graphic novel imprint of Scholastic. …Read more »
AnimEigo and MediaOCD are bringing the anime Time of Eve to Blu-ray. Pre-orders have begun, and the Blu-ray becomes available on December 10. Time of Eve got its start in 2008 as a web series consisting of six episodes. Two years later it got a …Read more »
The lengthily-titled anime I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! dropped a trailer that lets us know its start date, more of the cast and crew, and what the opening theme song will sound like. Take a look: …Read more »
Live orchestra concerts for anime are nothing new in Japan, but they’re starting to spread in other countries as well. Now the Wild Faery Company is offering the “Attack on Titan – Beyond the Walls World Tour” in 2025, and it will hit 23 cities …Read more »
Another Japanese business is being affected by Western credit card companies. Melonbooks, a chain store that sells doujinshi, will cease taking Visa and Mastercard payments on December 16. After this, people can still use things like American Express or JCB to make purchases. Melonbooks wants …Read more »
In late October, veteran anime voice actor and director David Wald accused Crunchyroll of opening his private mail, tossing out his letters, and giving the gifts fans sent him to Crunchyroll workers. Crunchyroll responded that it was investigating the situation, and hasn’t said anything further. …Read more »
Kana is a new imprint from Abrams ComicArts that’s all about publishing manga in English, and tomorrow, November 12, it’s dropping the first volume of Eden of Witches by Yumeji. The publisher described the story as a “lushly illustrated coming-of-age story takes place in a …Read more »
The light novel series The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows (which has the lengthy original Japanese title of Isshun de Chiryō Shiteita no ni Yakutatazu to Tsuihō Sareta Tensai Chiyushi, Yami Healer to Shite Tanoshiku Ikiru) is getting an anime adaptation! It’s going …Read more »
The party game Murder Mystery of the Dead is getting an anime adaptation, and a trailer has dropped for it. While watching the bloody footage you can hear the opening theme song “Kyozo” (translated as “False Image”) being performed by Virtual YouTuber idol project Mixstgirls. …Read more »
The anime Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms started on October 3, and now Pony Canyon has dropped a subtitled “climax trailer.” Mecha-Ude:Mechanical Arms Climax Trailer The anime is being made at TriF Studio, with creator Sae Okamoto helming the project as director. The person handling series scripts …Read more »
Danica Davidson
