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Members of the crew for the upcoming anime KamiErabi GOD.App attended San Diego Comic-Con and spoke to the press. This included creator Yoko Taro (who is known for working on the NieR franchise), director Hiroyuki Seshita (who helmed Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters) and character …Read more »
The first full trailer for Netflix’s live-action One Piece series was released last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con. Many Japanese fans had previously been scared and annoyed by the teaser image released in May, showing the front of the ship Going Merry. But what do …Read more »
Studio Ghibli made the point of not doing official advertising for its new Hayao Miyazaki movie, How Do You Live?, which is known in English as The Boy and the Heron. That meant no trailers, no cast announcements, no information on the plot, none of that stuff. …Read more »
We may all still be formulating our opinions after seeing the first trailer for the live-action One Piece series, but one thing’s for certain: It’s going to sound very authentic in Japanese! The main cast from Netflix’s series came through with another announcement at Anime …Read more »
Hayamitsu Kikyo is a swordsmith at Kikyo Hayamitsu Japanese Sword Smithy in Aioi, Hyogo Prefecture, and he likes to show visitors the art of making the Japanese sword. And in part because of Demon Slayer, he’s seeing more foreign tourists and women showing up to …Read more »
At this point there are so many sexual abuse allegations against Johnny Kitagawa, the founder of talent agency Johnny & Associates, that it’s reached the highest levels of Japan. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is the head of the Japanese government, has declared he’s holding …Read more »
American animator Henry Thurlow has been working hard on anime in Japan, and he regularly tweets about his experiences working on the One Piece anime. Now he’s making history for the series, confirming on Twitter that he is serving as episode director for episode 1,066. …Read more »
Netflix has revealed an image of their upcoming One Piece live adaptation that shows the front of their ship, Going Merry. Naturally the internet had to give its opinion on this, and according to what SoraNews24 found in a sampling of Japanese online responses, the …Read more »
Everyone makes mistakes, and the mistake made by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, which is part of the Japanese government, is an ironic one. The agency is part of Japan’s multifaceted efforts to fight anime and manga piracy, but for months the website accidentally listed …Read more »
One advantage the Japanese version of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse—the sequel to hit award-winning 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse—has over the rest is a unique theme song, and it’s being sung by none other than anisong superstar LiSA, known for her Demon Slayer: Kimetsu …Read more »
Many anime fans are interested in learning to speak Japanese, whether it’s just a few phrases or they want to be full-on fluent. In fact, right now the most requested languages to learn in America are Spanish, French and Japanese, in that order. Crunchyroll and …Read more »
2023 kicked off with the announcement of a 10th anniversary project for Kyoto Animation’s Tamako Market anime, and the first aspect of that project has been revealed. The studio detailed plans to bring the series and its sequel movie to theaters for a weeklong screening, …Read more »
Nelvana, a producer and distributor of children’s content, has inked a development deal with Polygon Pictures “to deliver stand out Japanese originated animated content for kids.” Nelvana has previously worked with the Japanese properties Bakugan™, Beyblade, and Cardcaptor Sakura. Rika Sasaki, who has worked at …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume anime film has made a major splash around the world, and now its time on the big screen in its home country is getting ready to wind to a close. The film opened in Japan back in November 2022, and it will …Read more »
It’s a match made in heaven — er, Yokohama, anyway. For a three-game series starting June 30, the Yokohama DeNA Baystars baseball team will leave their usual helmets on the bench and and instead don official Pikachu helmets. It’s part of an event dubbed “Pokemon …Read more »
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