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Sony is a major corporation, and in recent years it has bought Funimation, Crunchyroll and Right Stuf, making it a serious player in the international and North American anime business. However, Sony has seen its profits slip significantly this year. In 2022, their fiscal first …Read more »
Ichikawa Ennosuke is famous in Japan for being a Kabuki actor, but now he’s in the news because of two indictments. Police think that Ennosuke helped his parents kill themselves in a suicide pact. The day of the incident, back in May, a Japanese magazine …Read more »
Sometimes people get crushes on fictional characters, like ones from anime and manga. More rarely, sometimes people get unofficial marriages with these characters. Akihiko Kondo, a man who unofficially married Vocaloid Hatsune Miku, has created a group called Association of Fictosexuality. It is a place …Read more »
The final chapter of the Girlfriend, Girlfriend manga was just published in Japan in May 2023, and while that journey may have ended it’s now time to look ahead to Girlfriend, Girlfriend season 2. The anime is set to return to the airwaves as part …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 »
A thief or thieves broke into a specialty shop in Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan and stole about 600 Pokémon cards. If these cards had been properly sold, the store would have made around 6.5 million yen (which is about $48,000). Among the cards is one …Read more »
The Arts Workers Japan, an association in Tokyo, sent an appeal to the country’s Agency for Cultural Affairs about protecting entertainers from losing their jobs or copyrights due to AI. This includes entertainers who work as voice actors in anime. “The advancement of AI under …Read more »
It’s no secret that as a country Japan is very interested in bringing in foreign tourists, though that endeavor obviously took a hit from COVID-19. However, an article at the Japanese paper The Mainichi notes that tourism is beginning to rise again, including in the …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. Movie has officially raked in more than one billion dollars in less than a month, and the worldwide blockbuster just opened in Japan. Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario’s original creator, spoke with the Japanese press about the movie. “At first, I drew him …Read more »
Dealing with COVID has had a lot more people at home watching anime, but it’s also led to a lot more piracy of anime. The Content Overseas Distribution Association, a watchdog located in Tokyo, crunched numbers on how online piracy has affected video, books, video …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. franchise is on fire! In addition to breaking global opening records with the Super Mario Bros. Movie, it was just announced that the “Super Mario Theme” (a.k.a. the “Ground Theme” according to composer Koji Kondo) has been included in the U.S. …Read more »
Musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has spoken publicly about battling cancer, has passed away at age 71. Last summer he said he had stage IV cancer. He wrote a series of articles called “How Many More Times Will I See the Full Moon?” to …Read more »
The manga series Barefoot Gen, based on the life of creator Keiji Nakazawa, is about what a boy and his family experience from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It’s been used as an educational manga and as a warning for the dangers of nuclear bombs. …Read more »
Most artists don’t make a lot of money or have a lot of free time to take care of things around the house, and this includes manga artists. As a result, a rent-free shared house called “Manga-so” has popped up in Tokyo to give mangaka …Read more »
Some changes are coming to Sentai Filmworks. The company just revealed that in the near future Distribution Solutions (DS) — which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliance Entertainment Corporation — will be in charge of distributing Blu-ray Disc and home entertainment products that are …Read more »
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