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In the CUE! smartphone game, you get to act as a manager for a voice-acting agency and work with sixteen women who want to be voice actresses. The game is getting an anime adaptation that will debut on January 7, and in the meantime a …Read more »
Slow Loop is about to adapt the manga of the same name by Maiko Uchino, which is currently running in the pages of Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine. The latest update is here to reveal a new trailer along with a new key visual …Read more »
Hiro’s manga series AKEBI’s Sailor Uniform is on the way to the small screen, and the folks at CloverWorks are here with a preview. Due out in January 2022, the series is offering a quick peek at the adaptation to come in the form of …Read more »
A 45-year-old woman in Tokyo recently landed in some hot water after selling a suspiciously expensive bootleg Evangelion poster. The officer worker by day managed to sell one of the bootlegs for ¥7,900 (about $76) to a 60-year-old man at a flea market, and now …Read more »
Remember Fragtime, the 2019 anime about a girl who uses time-stopping magic to peek under other girls’ skirts? The studio that animated the project may have disappeared without paying its animators, but not before the project was complete. Now the US is set to get …Read more »
It doesn’t quite have the Stateside name recognition of, say, Shonen Jump, but Shonen Sunday, the weekly manga magazine that’s been running since 1959, has produced its share of classics. But what are the best of the best from those 60 years of manga? That’s …Read more »
Remember that teen movie Clockstoppers, where a high schooler has the power to stop time? Okay, imagine that, but anime. That’s the premise of Fragtime, which, despite its title, is not about Quake III matches, but a high school girl named Misuzu Moritani who uses …Read more »
Making games is no small feat, but with the right team behind it, any project has a chance at success. This may not always be the case with Tamaki Honda and her friends, but they’re doing their best, and you can watch the antics that …Read more »
The Takakura siblings—triple protagonists of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Mawaru Penguindrum—have inherited a broken world. As heirs to the leaders of the Kige terrorist group that bombed Japan’s subway lines some 16 years ago, they have been left little by their vanished parents’ beyond their onerous reputations …Read more »
Based on the dark sci-fi manga by Gantz author Hiroya Oku, the Inuyashiki anime is gearing up for an October debut. Ahead of that we have a new promo for the adaptation, which follows a middle-aged man who accidentally finds himself turning into a cyborg …Read more »
Romance manga-turned-anime One Week Friends is getting a live-action film adaptation, and some brand-new stills have just been revealed. One Week Friends ’ two main characters, amnesiac Kaori Fujiyama and her one-week friender Yuki Hase are played by Haruna Kawaguchi and Kento Yamazaki, respectively. Kawaguchi …Read more »
The blurb on the back of Inio Asano's latest manga calls it "an intense teen romance." The intense part, that's true. And I suppose you could call it a romance—that is, if you could call Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood a romance. Which it's not. And …Read more »
Pixiv Zingaro, the Tokyo gallery co-run by art-sharing site Pixiv and pop artist Takashi Murakami, has been the sight of many anime and manga-based exhibitions since it opened up in otaku paradise Nakano Broadway a few years back. The latest, which runs from May 12 …Read more »
The magical boys of Cute High Earth Defense Club Love! are getting ready for their big return! Previously announced last August, the second season—which is appropriately titled Cute High Earth Defense Club Love! Love! —is now set to make its debut in July. New cast …Read more »
If there’s one thing that anime sorely lacks, it is weirdness. And I’m not talking about the kind of weirdness that is the hallmark of spectacularly crazy anime like M.D. Geist or Crystal Triangle (weird only because of the haphazard approach to plot construction), or …Read more »
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