Search Results for: Kohaku
The first promo is here for the In Another World With My Smartphone anime, which adapts the light novel series by Patora Fuyuhara. The official website is also live now, offering up a slew of designs for its main characters. First up, the promo: …Read more »
SMAP, one of Japan’s best-known and best-selling boy bands, are calling it quits. The group, which debuted in 1991 and have become a staple of Japanese pop charts, not to mention TV, radio and advertising, have announced they will officially disband December 31, coinciding with …Read more »
Thought you were done with end-of-year lists, did you? Just one more, we promise: this one was too interesting to pass up. We bring you a lot of lists sharing the opinions of your Japanese anime-watching peers, but they’re often limited to rankings of characters …Read more »
Japanese tradition requires – requires! – that on New Year’s Eve the family gather around the tube and watch Kohaku Uta Gassen. Essentially the Japanese version of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Kohaku is an assemblage of the most popular musicians …Read more »
Aside from visiting local shrines and eating boxed meals called osechi, one of Japan’s biggest New Year’s traditions is gathering around the TV on New Year’s Eve to catch Kohaku Uta Gassen, an annual music show where the year’s most notable pop stars break into …Read more »
As usual Sentai Filmworks is at Anime Expo with a handful of anime announcements. Heck, more could be coming in as I type this! Thus far we have the distributor adding Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East season 2, Stella Women's Academy: High School Division …Read more »
Documentary of AKB48 kicks off in a bright, sunny restaurant, where a small fraction of the pop idol collective sits enjoying a meal and some friendly, scattered chit-chat. The scenario promises an intimate portrait of the day-to-day lives of the girls who comprise teams A, …Read more »
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