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Ticket sales for The Super Mario Bros. Movie dropped 41% since its opening weekend, but that doesn’t mean it’s doing poorly. It was the number one movie in the box office for the second weekend in a row, bringing in another $87 million and crushing …Read more »
The spring anime season is just around the corner, and you know what that means… new simulcasts! Tons of fresh new anime are on the way, and we can’t wait to dive into them. But alone with those new shows are some returning titles. And …Read more »
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale is one of this season’s sweetest treats. Based on the light novels by Miri Mikawa and aki, it follows a young sugar sculptor named Anne Halford as she aims to win the kingdom’s highest honor for her art. Along the way, …Read more »
As the end of year 2022 approaches, we’re looking back on memorable moments in anime! Lots of series began, others ended, and others came back for the first time in decades! We’d love to hear your favorite big events from this year in anime. For …Read more »
It's time to turn the entertainment industry on its head with a side of romance in Lover Pretend, the latest visual novel from publisher Aksys Games! Help Chiyuki dream big in her adventure on Nintendo Switch, now available to order in both a standard and …Read more »
There are plushies and then there are plushies. The latest Demon Slayer plushies are serious plushies, and though the characters were created with chibi proportions, they’re far from being small. In fact, these plushies are just under forty-two inches in height and about twenty-five and …Read more »
Animate is Japan’s biggest chain of anime stores, and while there are Animate shops all around the country, the biggest is found in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. In fact, after its grand reopening this March 16, it’ll be the world’s biggest anime shop, according to Animate. The …Read more »
Uchi no Kaisha no Chiisai Senpai no Hanashi (lit “Story of a Small Senior in My Company”), a manga about a small senpai with some, uh, big assets is getting the anime treatment. The manga, by Saisou, has been serialized online since 2020. It currently …Read more »
Heritage Auctions, the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer, is getting ready to return with something very special for anime fans and animation collectors alike. The Art of Anime and Everything Cool Volume III is an auction that will be held from September 23-26, and among the …Read more »
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) has announced it’s giving its second annual Tom Spurgeon Award to translator, writer, and Osamu Tezuka interpreter Frederik L. Schodt. Schodt is the man on the far right in the above manga drawing (from Stone Bridge Press’ The Osamu Tezuka Story …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con 2022 just wrapped up, and there were some great moments for manga creators. Moto Hagio was finally inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame by the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and Junji Ito received the Eisner Award for …Read more »
Every night, I wake up in a cold sweat, the following question on my trembling lips: why did old anime characters have such big chins? Now, thanks to veteran animator Kenji Yokoyama, I can finally sleep through the night. Sez Yokoyama in a recent tweet: …Read more »
One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda and Detective Conan creator Gosho Aoyama are two giants in the manga industry who, until recently, had never met. But that’s all changed now that the two bestselling creators have completed a joint interview. A teaser has been released for …Read more »
A lot went down during Anime Expo 2022 over the weekend, but of all the reveals no one saw coming, the biggest had to have been at Trigger’s panel. On hand at the panel were Trigger’s Hiromi Wakabayashi and Yoh Yoshinari, and they were joined …Read more »
One Piece Film: Red is coming to cinemas in Japan on August 6, and Crunchyroll just announced plans to bring it to theaters throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand this fall. Now that some of us outside of Japan can get appropriately …Read more »
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