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Animation studio MAPPA and production company GENCO revealed on Monday the crowdfunding site for their film In This Corner of the World ( Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni ). Based on a manga by Fumiyo Kono ( Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms …Read more »
MAPPA, the animation studio behind series like Yuri on Ice and recent film In This Corner of the World has just revealed its latest series. It’s called Vanishing Line , and it’s set to debut this October. The sci-fi series is set in an advanced …Read more »
Though fans can be “meh” on live-action manga and anime adaptations, studios seem to love them, probably because A) they take a lot less time to make than animated films and B) they can cast popular actors in lead roles and bring in viewers who …Read more »
Japanese crowdfunding has grown up. While the earliest successfully-funded anime ( Little Witch Academia 2 , Kick-Heart ) were financed via America-based Kickstarter, recent months have seen Japanese crowdfunding sites play a bigger role in anime projects. Case in point: In This Corner of the …Read more »
Happy Kanako’s Killer Life, the comedy manga from Toshiya Wakabayashi about an accidental assassin, is getting the live-action treatment. The live-action TV adaptation will star Non (In This Corner of the World) as Kanako and Taisuke Fujigaya (Kis-My-Ft2) as her mentor Sakurai. The series will …Read more »
Pokémon Concierge, the stop-motion animation from Netflix about a Pokémon resort, has revealed an English-language trailer as well as its launch date. In English the show will star Karen Fukuhara as Haru, who’s played by Non (In This Corner of the World) in Japanese. The …Read more »
Those in Kyoto for the Manga Anime Fair (aka Kyo-Maf) September 16 will be able to get a look at the new film from Sunao Katabuchi. The director, best known for In This Corner of the World, will be showing a pilot film of his …Read more »
Laura Post, a voice actor in many anime dubs — including Tower of God, Cells at Work!, Demon Slayer, In This Corner of the World, The Promised Neverland and more — wrote on Twitter: “You may (or may not) have noticed that there is a …Read more »
The MAPPA Stage 2023 event took place yesterday, and it gave us some teaser info on the upcoming anime movie The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black (Tsurubami-Iro no Nagiko-tachi in Japanese) that’s directed by Black Lagoon and In This Corner of …Read more »
Udon Entertainment recently announced a handful of new licenses, including the Robotics;Notes manga by 5pb. and Keiji Asakawa. The adaptation of the third entry in the Science Adventure series is on the way in the form of three 2-in-1 volumes starting in 2023, and that’s …Read more »
A second production preview video has arrived for the latest film from In This Corner of the World director Sunao Katabuchi. The film has yet to announce a title, but you can see some samples of how the CONTRAIL production is shaping up in the …Read more »
The Japan Academy Film Prize Association has made some announcements. For starters, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time snagged the Popularity Award, which was an award that allows actual fans to vote. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, BELLE, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Fortune Favors Lady …Read more »
TW: Bullying, War, Death Anime has the power to uplift us and provide an escape from our realities for 23 minutes at a time. It also has the ability to rip our hearts out and leave us crying for hours. For much longer than I’d …Read more »
Tubi recently inked a deal with Shout! Factory to stream a number of anime movies, most of which are available in both dubbed and subbed versions. The anime now available to watch on Tubi with this new deal are: Millennium Actress; Liz and the Blue …Read more »
Sunao Katabuchi, the director behind In This Corner of the World and Blue Lagoon, is working on a new film. That’s the word from Contrail, a new animation company launched by Katabuchi and others who worked on Corner. Contrail has been tweeting about Katabuchi’s new …Read more »
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