Synecdoche’s Plus-Sized Elf manga has been running since December 2016, and now it’s officially getting an anime adaptation. Publisher Akita Shoten announced the plans on Monday along with a key visual, main cast member and a 2024 premiere window. Elfuda will be voiced by Ayasa …Read more »
More Seishun Buta Yaro anime is on the way. Thanks to a Special New Year live stream for the series, we now have the promo video for the “University Student Arc” adaptation, which was first announced in December. More information will be revealed at a …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron just became the first anime to win a Golden Globe, and now an anime has won an Astra TV Award for the first time. Can you guess which one? It was Attack on Titan, which took home the …Read more »
Japan experienced a major 7.6 earthquake on the first day of the year, followed by fires and other problems, and one of the buildings damaged was the Go Nagai Wonderland Museum, which honors the work of mangaka Go Nagai, whose creations include Mazinger Z, Devilman, …Read more »
If you know, you know; if you don’t, you’re about to have a chance to find out. 23 years after its debut for the Game Boy Advance, classic JRPG Golden Sun is getting a Nintendo Switch port. Alongside its continuation, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, it’s a fondly …Read more »
The first film in the upcoming Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club trilogy is set to hit Japanese theaters September 6, 2024. The trilogy will conclude the Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club story, which kicked off in 2020 with the first season …Read more »
Kamitsubaki City Under Construction, a mixed media project that’s been running since 2019, is getting both a TV anime series and a rhythm game. The projects were announced this weekend. The anime series is set for 2025, while the rhythm game is scheduled for this …Read more »
Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation, the new anime based on the one-shot manga by Eiichiro Oda (One Piece) hits Netflix next week. That’s the word from a new trailer for the anime, which also revealed the following cast and crew: Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ryuma Kana …Read more »
Have you had a chance to check out the live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series yet? The adaptation premiered on Netflix around the world on December 14, and the streamer recently shared a video that takes audiences behind the scenes of the production. Yoshihiro Togashi’s Yu Yu …Read more »
Let’s be real — isekai may come and go, but in the long run it’s here to stay. While one season may have fewer titles in the ever-growing genre, anime fans just really love stories about people traveling to other worlds. (Whether or not they …Read more »
Nintendo is getting ready to bring a pair of classic Game Boy Advance RPGs to its Nintendo Switch Online service. The latest addition is the duology of Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age, both of which will be available to everyone who has …Read more »
Honobu Yonezawa’s Shoshimin light novel series—known in English now as How to Become Ordinary—are officially getting an anime adaptation. A trailer made its way online along with July 2024 premiere plans and info on the cast and staff, so check out everything we know so …Read more »
A new cast member is here for The Apothecary Diaries, the anime adaptation of Natsu Hyuuga and Touko Shino’s light novel series that just kicked off its second cour this month. The latest is Kouki Uchiyama (Tomura Shigaraki in My Hero Academia), who’s getting in …Read more »
AnimeJapan is the annual industry event in Tokyo where anime distributors, producers, journos and fans alike gather to marvel at reveals, previews, cosplay, cardboard cutouts and more. AnimeJapan 2024, set for March 23 and 24, has just revealed its new key art for this year. …Read more »
Fans of old-school anime and manga, rejoice: Kia Asamiya is about to launch a new manga series. It’s called Captain Symphonica, and it’s set to debut on Web Comic Gamma this month. According to Asamiya’s Twitter/X account, it’s a “retro future sci-fi action” series about …Read more »
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