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The Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association got started a year ago with the aim to help people in the anime industry. And a survey just released by the group shows there’s a long way to go in terms of making working conditions better. Japan’s …Read more »
The nominees for Kodansha’s 48th Manga Awards have been revealed! Let’s take a look at who’s in the running. The awards are narrowed down by category. For the Best Shonen Manga category, the titles competing are The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity by Saka Mikami, …Read more »
Square Enix sells a lot of merchandise related to its popular video game series like Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest. Now the company is expanding into merchandise themed for your beloved pets. The items were created under the supervision of character designer Tetsuya …Read more »
In You and I Are Polar Opposites, teen Miya Suzuki is chatty, perky, and concerned with what people think. Her crush, Tani, is mild-mannered, likes to read, and doesn’t concern himself with what people think. In other words, as the title indicates, they are polar …Read more »
Netflix has gotten the rights to stream writer/director Makoto Shinkai’s highly successful anime movie Suzume in 169 countries. And, yes, the United States is one of them. Netflix also notes it will be offering the film to even more nations in 2025. The streaming service …Read more »
If you were going to guess which anime you think is the most popular in the world right now, what would you say? Well, according to the Guinness World Records, that honor currently goes to JUJUTSU KAISEN! It dethroned Attack on Titan by a narrow …Read more »
A trailer has dropped for the third season of the Kimi ni Todoke – From Me to You anime, and it lets us know that new episodes will become available globally on Netflix this August. Netflix is already offering the previous seasons both subbed and …Read more »
Before You Discard Me, I Shall Have My Way with You is a long title, but it does get across the basic premise of the story. Agnès has been engaged to Prince Lucilleur since they were kids, and he’s someone who’s sometimes kind — but …Read more »
On June 11, the movie Digimon Adventure 02 The Beginning will become available in a Blu-ray+DVD Combo Pack, as well as becoming available digitally. This is through a deal between Toei Animation and Shout! Studios. A press release from Shout! Studios explains: The highly collectible …Read more »
Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama and Yuki Kaji, the voice of main character Eren in the Attack on Titan anime, are working together on a one-shot manga. And before you get your hopes up, no, it has nothing to do with Attack on Titan. …Read more »
Nekokurage, who is adapting The Apothecary Diaries light novels into a manga series, has been indicted by the Fukuoka Regional Taxation Bureau. The allegations are that she failed to declare her income of about 260 million yen (approximately $1.7 million), and she evaded paying an …Read more »
The new season of My Hero Academia is fast approaching! Crunchyroll will be streaming season seven, just as it’s streaming the previous seasons, and it gave us dates to circle on our calendars. First up is the four-part My Hero Academia: Memories. The first debuts …Read more »
At midnight on April 1, the X (Twitter) account for the Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo manga unveiled an April Fools’ prank: that there would be a Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo stage play. Everyone could get a good laugh at the idea, but later in the day there was a …Read more »
The twenty-seventh Detective Conan movie — count ’em! — is scheduled to hit Japanese theaters on April 12. The new movie is called Detective Conan: Hyakuman Doru no Michishirube, and its official English title is Case Closed: The Million-dollar Pentagram. An English-subtitled trailer has dropped. …Read more »
This month the Oxford English Dictionary is adding 23 Japanese words, including isekai and tokusatsu! OED’s website explains: Isekai is a Japanese genre of science or fantasy fiction featuring a protagonist who is transported to or reincarnated in a different, strange, or unfamiliar world. The …Read more »
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