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If you looked at the top spots for Japan’s Oricon’s comic sales list covering the week of October 19-25, you might think there was a mistake. But there wasn’t — the Demon Slayer manga is doing so well that its 22 volumes fill up every …Read more »
The Jujutsu Kaisen manga, which debuted in March 2018, currently has more than 10 million copies in circulation. This includes both print and digital copies, and Jujutsu Kaisen’s Japanese Twitter account shared the news, calling for a celebration.
Mamoru Hosoda, the director behind Summer Wars, Wolf Children and more, has just finished the storyboards for his latest film. Said Hosoda in an interview with Oricon News: “We’re working on it right now. I just finished all the storyboards. We’re now going into serious …Read more »
A new manga from Fujino Omori, the creator of DanMachi (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?), is headed our way this January. The manga is called Tsue to Ken no Wistoria (The Wistoria of Wands and Swords), and it’s …Read more »
Nisio Isin’s Monogatari series of light novels has maintained huge popularity since it first debuted. Now, with the tenth volume of the manga adaptation of the series’ first installment, Bakemonogatari, on shelves in Japan, the series hit another new milestone. The adaptation features illustrations by …Read more »
The 23rd Pokémon anime film, Pokémon the Movie: Coco, was originally set to premiere in Japan on July 10, but was hit with a delay due to the spread of COVID-19. Now, according to the latest issue of Monthly CoroCoro Comic, the movie has been …Read more »
Studio Colorido’s latest project is the anime film A Whisker Away, written by Anohana and Maquia‘s Mari Okada and directed by Sailor Moon‘s Junichi Sato. The movie is set for a worldwide Netflix launch on June 18, and you can see more of its adorable …Read more »
Last week saw the confirmation of a July premiere for Fire Force season 2, which will have Tatsuna Minamikawa taking over the director role from Yuki Yase. The rest of the staff and cast are coming back for more, and the latest to join the …Read more »
This week saw the Japanese government cancel the State of Emergency early in 39 prefectures throughout Japan, with the exception of Tokyo Capital Region, Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto, and Hokkaido. Just prior to that, select movie theaters in 11 prefectures announced plans to reopen, and there …Read more »
It was back in August of 2018 that The Seven Deadly Sins manga author Nakaba Suzuki said the series had about a year left to go until its conclusion. While it’s been more than a year since then, that prediction ended up being pretty on …Read more »
Do you love the sisters of The Quintessential Quintuplets? Well, if you love them so much, why don’t you marry them? Actually, you can do just that thanks to a new church event that’s celebrating the final installment of Negi Haruba’s manga. For the reasonable …Read more »
We regularly get news about major Japanese properties making the transition to Hollywood, but one of the most interesting doesn’t fall neatly into the anime or manga categories. We’re talking, of course, about Sanrio and its lovable set of mascot characters, which will eventually be …Read more »
This year’s Oscars may have snubbed anime and excluded any potential titles from an official nomination, but at least the Japan Academy Awards got it right. The Japan Academy Film Prize Association announced its nominees for this year’s 43rd Japan Academy Prize, including five anime …Read more »
The God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka—creator of Astro Boy, Black Jack, Phoenix and more, and pioneer of the anime art form—passed away back in 1989. Despite that small hangup, there’s a new Osamu Tezuka manga in the works, and it’s all thanks to the artificial intelligence technology of Japanese …Read more »
You just can’t stop a classic, and that’s evident in the success of the latest entry in the sprawling Gundam franchise, Mobile Suit Gundam NT (Narrative). Oricon released the list of best-selling Blu-ray and DVD releases in Japan for the first half of 2019, and Narrative came out on top …Read more »
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