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The latest movie from producer Genki Kawamura, who recently made a major splash with the hit anime film your name., is getting ready to hit US theaters. Fireworks is a sci-fi-tinged tale of star-crossed teenage romance, and tickets are available now for a special three-day …Read more »
Benio Hanamura is unlike many of the other girls her age. For a young lady in the Taisho era of 1918 Japan, this 17-year-old bucks tradition in favor of a tomboyish attitude and time spent hanging out with her friends Tamaki and Ranmaru. As progressive …Read more »
If you were to engage in some anime matrimony, who would you choose as your partner? That was the question site Anime Anime! put to its readers last week, and the results have now been revealed. Which female characters would make a good wife? Let’s …Read more »
Live-action adaptations of manga and anime are common—the reverse, not so much. The live action-to-anime adaptation is a rare beast indeed, but one that seems to be of particular interest to popular indie director Shunji Iwai, who, in 2015, used animation to create a prequel …Read more »
Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden anime series now has a streaming home both in and outside of Japan. Its Netflix debut within Japan will coincide with its January airing on TV, with worldwide streaming on Netflix to follow next spring. The first episode already …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks announced a trio of new anime licenses today, including Battle Girl High School , Made in Abyss , and Vatican Miracle Examiner . All three are coming to streaming services, with home video releases to follow at a later day. First up, …Read more »
Though fans can be “meh” on live-action manga and anime adaptations, studios seem to love them, probably because A) they take a lot less time to make than animated films and B) they can cast popular actors in lead roles and bring in viewers who …Read more »
Though Shunji Iwai is a relative newcomer to the world of anime, he’s one of Japan’s most beloved independent filmmakers. Now the auteur behind films like Love Letter , Swallowtail Butterfly and All About Lily Chou-Chou is bringing his classic short film Fireworks, Should We …Read more »
Rumors have been buzzing about lately regarding a live-action JoJo's Bizarre Adventure film, and they were confirmed during a joint press conference held by Toho and Warner Brothers Japan. More specifically, films are in the works to adapt the fourth arc of Hirohiko Araki's series, …Read more »
Shokugeki no Soma: The Second Plate , the highly-anticipated continuation of Food Wars! , is set to hit screens in July, and the musical groups handling the opening and ending themes have now been announced. SCREEN mode will perform the opening, which is titled “Rough …Read more »
There’s an old maxim in screenwriting that goes “write what you know.” The idea is that if you write about situations in which you have some personal experience, your stories will carry a certain sense of reality. And what do anime creators know more than …Read more »
It’s December, and that means end-of-year lists are starting to crop up everywhere. Japan’s no exception, and leading the pack is Kono Manga ga Sugoi! ("This Manga is Great!"), a yearly mook (not a magazine, not yet a book) that polls Japanese writers, illustrators, manga …Read more »
Sei Hatsuno's "musical instrument youth mystery" novels, HaruChika: Haruto to Chika wa Seishun Suru , are getting an anime adaptation in January, and the official website is here with the first promo. HaruChika follows high schoolers Haruta and Chika, each members of a wind instrument …Read more »
Do you like Death Note ? How about Bakuman ? The creators of both those hit manga, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, are teaming up for a third time with the new manga Platinum End , and now it’s been announced the English translation with …Read more »
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