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The live-action City Hunter movie dropped on Netflix on April 25, and the streaming service proudly announced that during the April 22-28 time period, it took first place in Netflix’s list of Global Top 10 non-English films. It was watched about 5.3 million times, and …Read more »
There’s a news story coming out of Japan about a member of the yakuza (the Japanese mafia) getting caught for an alleged crime that doesn’t exactly live up to the yakuza’s image of badass criminals: he’s accused of being a Pokémon card thief. And the …Read more »
38 North, a program from the Stimson Center think tank that analyzes what’s going on in North Korea, recently reported that North Koreans animators have been working on shows in other countries, including U.S. shows and anime in Japan. The reason this is news is …Read more »
The English dubbed version of Black Butler -Public School Arc- has just begun to stream on Crunchyroll. J. Michael Tatum and Brina Palencia are reprising their roles as Sebastian Michaelis and Ciel Phantomhive, respectively. (Coincidentally, the same two actors are also reprising their roles in …Read more »
Last year someone sent a slew of nasty, threatening messages to Nintendo, and as a result Nintendo called off some events out of safety concerns. Now police have announced that they believe they have the culprit. Beyond the threats, the man is in trouble for …Read more »
Tomorrow, April 26, the SAND LAND game will become available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam. Ahead of this a trailer for the dubbed version has dropped. The SAND LAND franchise originated as a manga by Akira Toriyama, the …Read more »
More than 290,000 audience members have witnessed the Royal Shakespeare Company’s My Neighbour Totoro stage play during its two seasons at the Barbican in London. Both seasons were sold out, and ticket sales broke new records. Next the play is going to be performed at …Read more »
Manga creator Akira Toriyama, who passed away last month, will be remembered for his prolific outpouring of internationally beloved work, including the Dragon Ball franchise, Dr. Slump and Sand Land. But there’s also a unique thing he did shortly before he died that ties him …Read more »
There are lots of polls in Japan asking people about their favorite things in regards to anime, like favorite characters or theme songs. TV Asahi decided to do something a little different, and asked 1,740 individuals outside of Japan what their favorite anime theme songs …Read more »
YOASOBI, which just performed at Coachella — as well as the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles and The Warfield in San Francisco — has announced more concerts, this time in New York City and Boston. Before they get to those two metropolises, …Read more »
When Yuu Toyota started Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! as a short webcomic, she had no idea how successful it would be. Now it’s a whole manga series (with ten volumes currently out in English), a live-action show and …Read more »
The weekend is over, and we can check out the box office results! First place went to Civil War, which nabbed $11.12. Second place went to Abigail, and Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire came in third with earnings of $9.4 million. Worldwide, it’s made …Read more »
Makoto Kimura, who has been involved professionally in the anime world since 2007, revealed that he’s left MAPPA Studios, where he was working most recently, to found his own business called Blue Rights. He said goodbye to MAPPA last month. Blue Rights sounds like a …Read more »
Tsai Kun-lin, a Taiwanese manga publisher, helped bring about the country’s manga explosion in the 1960s. Now The Boy from Clearwater, a new graphic novel series from author Yu Pei-yun and illustrator Zhou Jian-xin, shares his incredible true story. Volume two drops on May 7 …Read more »
The first time we got word of Donkey Kong Country coming to Universal Studios Japan — as part of an expansion of Super Nintendo World — was in 2021. Then, late last year, it was revealed that we could expect the Donkey Kong Country section …Read more »
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