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Hayao Miyazaki just won a Golden Globe for The Boy and the Heron, the first time an anime has received such an award. The next question many people are asking: can The Boy and the Heron, or another anime movie, take home an Oscar? The …Read more »
The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror XXXIII in 2022 included a brilliant spoof of Death Note titled “Death Tome,” nailing everything from the opulent music to the animation (using an animation studio that worked on the real Death Note!) to Lisa thinking she’s bringing justice as …Read more »
The numbers are in for the latest box office weekend in Japan, and for the third week in a row the third live-action Kingdom film came out on top. Based on the manga by Yasuhisa Hara, Kingdom: Unmei no Honoo opened in Japan on July …Read more »
What a time to be alive! With anime and manga available right as they’re released in Japan, we rarely have to wait for a new title. The trouble has been older titles. Fortunately, between streaming and home video services, people have been picking up the slack. …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 »
This weekend saw the arrival of the 2023 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, and one of the big winners was the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 film. The Blue Blur’s second theatrical outing took home the award for Favorite Movie during Saturday’s event, which was hosted by …Read more »
My Home Hero, the suspense manga by Naoki Yamakawa and Masashi Asaki, is getting a TV anime adaptation that hits screens this April. Now we’ve got our first look at that anime in action via the series’ first trailer. We’ve also got the word on …Read more »
Back in June 2022, we learned that the crime suspense manga My Home Hero would be getting the anime treatment. Now we’ve got some fresh details on that adaptation, including some key art and cast announcements. The cast members unveiled today are: Koichi Yamadera as …Read more »
In August 2021 it was announced that director Shinsuke Sato had been tapped to direct Legendary Films’ Hollywood live-action adaptation of My Hero Academia. More than a year later, we just got more information on the upcoming movie, namely that it will be written by …Read more »
Companies like Kotobukiya have proven time and time again that you can turn anything into a beautiful girl, from inanimate objects to horror icons like Freddy and Jason. The latest characters the company has turned to both hail from opposing factions of the classic Transformers …Read more »
We get it, we get it. New year, new you. You can tell yourself every morning that you can just choose to do things better. But there’s a new year energy whenever the calendar turns over. We know deep down we’re in danger of losing …Read more »
If the title of Gintama: THE VERY FINAL is true, then the long-running anime adaptation really is done. (Pardon our skepticism, but it’s faked us out before.) So what are we going to do with all this sudden free time? Find a new show to watch, …Read more »
Super Robot Wars 30 is just a few weeks from release, marking the first time one of the series’s main games has gotten an official global release. You’ll be able to command legendary classics like Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and a fleet of Gundams. You’ll also …Read more »
Gundam is one of Japan’s most successful pop culture franchises, and the life-sized Unicorn Gundam statue at Odaiba district in Tokyo Bay got some extra attention during the Olympics (even if the BBC did mistakenly call it a Transformer at first). The popularity has led …Read more »
Japan got in its share of otakudom for the Tokyo Olympics, like their video game music opening, their watching Gundam (not Transformer), and their concluding Demon Slayer song. But sometimes the athletes brought in the otakudom, like Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou and America’s Payton Otterdahl. And …Read more »
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