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After being announced back in January, we have more info on the Tales of Wedding Rings anime. Based on the manga written and illustrated by creator duo Maybe, the series is set to premiere in January 2024. Along with that news came a couple of …Read more »
In the world of anime and manga, there are few figures as influential as Leiji Matsumoto. It would be difficult to imagine the landscape of the industry, particularly that of overseas fandom, without his creations fueling and shaping it. Sadly, according to an announcement from …Read more »
Tales of Wedding Rings is a manga written and illustrated by creator duo Maybe, and it’s officially getting a TV anime adaptation. Details are light, but Gen Sato will voice Sato and Akari Kito will voice Hime, with both characters featured in the special illustration …Read more »
Last year, it was announced that JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) would be working with anime studios to develop films and Kickstarter projects. Now Studio 4°C has revealed its JETRO collaboration. It’s a film called Future Kid Takara, and it’s centered around the theme of …Read more »
Four new series are on the way to Weekly Shonen Jump magazine over the course of the next four weeks, including a new one from Monogatari series writer NISIOISIN. All four have officially been previewed alongside color artwork for each, with the first to debut …Read more »
The Neon Genesis Evangelion anime hasn’t been out for 30 years—though it’s getting dangerously close!—but it does hold a reign for that period of time in the world of karaoke. Nagoya-based company XING announced the JOYSOUND Karaoke 30th Anniversary Ranking in celebration of its own …Read more »
From the Monogatari series to Pretty Boy Detective Club and beyond, author Nishio Ishin—stylized as NISIOISIN—has transformed the Japanese pop culture landscape in some unique ways over the past two decades. To mark the amazing 20th anniversary milestone of Nishio Ishin’s many works, publisher Kodansha …Read more »
The Fantasia International Film Festival started on July 14 and will continue until August 3, but they’ve already announced that some otaku titles have won awards. INU-OH by Masaaki Yuasa (based on the novel Heike Monogatari: INU-OH no Maki — translated as Tales of the …Read more »
The new anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s classic Urusei Yatsura manga previously announced plans to air over four cours (units of typically 11-14 episodes that make up one seasonal broadcast), and now we know that the first two will air consecutively when the “all-star” anime …Read more »
Masaaki Yuasa’s anime movie INU-OH has been shown in a number of film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival in 2021. It hits Japanese theaters tomorrow, and GKIDS just revealed that it will be coming to American theaters August 12. The movie is based on …Read more »
A new trailer has arrived for Masaaki Yuasa’s INU-OH anime film, which adapts Hideo Furukawa’s 2017 novel Heike Monogatari Inu-Oh no Maki. The world premiere of the film—described as a rock opera—was held at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in September 2021, and now …Read more »
More Monogatari anime has arrived, and while it’s not an actual TV or movie project, it does come in the form of a nicely animated promotional video for the Bakemonogatari manga adaptation by Oh! great. The 16th compiled volume launched in Japan on Thursday, and …Read more »
Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada’s The Heike Story anime—which adapts Hideo Furukawa’s Heike Monogatari novel—has been one of the highlights of the year, and now it’s getting ready to make its TV debut in Japan. In addition to streaming in English via Funimation, the …Read more »
The anime adaptation of Aya Kanno’s Requiem of the Rose King manga is lined up for a January 9, 2022 premiere in Japan, and the latest preview is here to introduce more footage and the first opening theme song. Titled “Ware, Bara ni Insu,” the …Read more »
We already know how popular the Umamusume: Pretty Derby mobile game is. It topped Twitter hashtags in Japan for the year back in August, and now it’s getting more accolades thanks to Google Japan. The Google Play Best of 2021 awards were revealed this week, …Read more »
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