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Arifureta: From Commonplace to World‘s Strongest, a popular light novel series about a high school student who gets transported to another world, is getting an anime adaptation in 2019. Now we’ve got a look at what that series will look like courtesy a key visual …Read more »
Is it wrong to make a spinoff of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? ? Not if it looks this cool, it ain’t. Sword Oratoria , the spinoff to the dungeon-crawling series that goes by DanMachi for short, is …Read more »
A lot of folks around Otaku USA HQ are big fans of Kyoto Animation, so we were excited to see the first trailer for their next series, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid , hit the internet. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid , which premieres January 11, is …Read more »
Politics and pop culture have been colliding the past week in Tokyo, with idols and anime characters playing a role in the city’s upcoming gubernatorial election. Politics and entertainment have plenty of crossover in the States, too, with presidential runners announcing their candidacy on talk …Read more »
Documentary of AKB48 kicks off in a bright, sunny restaurant, where a small fraction of the pop idol collective sits enjoying a meal and some friendly, scattered chit-chat. The scenario promises an intimate portrait of the day-to-day lives of the girls who comprise teams A, …Read more »
Back in October we learned the anime adaptation of Katsuhisa Minami’s award-winning manga The Fable would be premiering in April. The hot news today is that The Fable will run continuously for two cours worth of content (24 episodes, give or take). That’s a lot …Read more »
Back in September we learned that the opening theme for the original mahjong anime Pon no Michi will be “Pon Popopon” by former Nogizaka46 member and pro mahjong player Kana Nakata. Now we have a sample of the theme thanks to the second full trailer, …Read more »
If you haven’t noticed, the results are in…Spotify Wrapped is here. Which song and artist topped your Spotify Wrapped list? It’s probably not hard to imagine our most listened-to songs include some of anime’s greatest hits from this year, as well as a few classics. …Read more »
Back in July it was revealed that Katsuhisa Minami’s award-winning manga The Fable would be receiving a TV anime adaptation. Now it’s been set for a Spring 2024 premiere on NTV in Japan, and a handful of designs were released alongside the news. You can …Read more »
Kana Nakata is currently a professional mahjong player, and she also used to be one of the members of girl group Nogizaka46. With that pedigree in mind—which includes running a mahjong-themed café in Tokyo’s Minata Ward and being part of the Professional Mahjong League—it’s only …Read more »
Katsuhisa Minami’s The Fable manga is an award-winning series that has over 22 million copies in circulation and previously inspired a pair of live-action films directed by Kan Eguchi. Now it’s getting a TV anime adaptation, with veteran director Ryosuke Takahashi (Armored Trooper VOTOMS) lined …Read more »
A new original TV anime is on the way from animation production house OLM, and this one has some big names behind it. Tatsuma Minamikawa is directing and handling the screenplay for Pon no Michi, which is an all-girls mahjong anime featuring original character drafts …Read more »
A few months ago, we learned that we’d be getting a film set in the Gridman universe—called, appropriately enough, Gridman Universe—in 2023. Now we know exactly when Gridman Universe is set to hit Japanese theaters: March 24. That’s thanks to a new teaser for the film, …Read more »
The new anime series Urusei Yatsura has just dropped its second full promotional video. In it we learn that the opening theme song is called “AIUE” (“A-B-C-D”) and the ending theme song is “Tokyo Shandy Rendezvous.” Both of these are performed by MAISONdes. Minami and …Read more »
The Kakegurui Twin anime, the spinoff of Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler, will begin streaming on Netflix August 4. Ahead of this, an English subtitled trailer has been released. In it you can hear the ending theme song “Queens Bluff” being performed by i☆Ris. Looking toward …Read more »
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