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Manga sales exploded globally during COVID, but what’s happening in 2023 now that people are back at school and work and not socially distancing? ICv2 decided to interview Kevin Hamric, the VIZ Media Vice President – Publishing, to find out. Hamric acknowledged that manga sales …Read more »
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is holding Anime at the Modern, which will take place August 4 – 6. It includes movies, cosplay and special food. On August 4, the museum will stream Children of the Sea and Weathering with You. It will …Read more »
It’s been a huge couple of years for anime films, so it should come as no surprise that the songs featured therein have been some of the hottest in Japan. This applies to karaoke rankings too, and Nagoya-based company XING unveiled the results of the …Read more »
THE FIRST SLAM DUNK movie will be hitting American theaters later this summer thanks to GKIDS, but some people will get to see it even earlier. GKIDS and Toei Animation, the studio behind the film, just revealed that THE FIRST SLAM DUNK will receive its …Read more »
The award-winning and record-breaking Toei Animation movie THE FIRST SLAM DUNK is coming to American theaters later this year! GKIDS acquired North American distribution rights and will offer both a Japanese subbed and an English dubbed version to moviegoers. While an exact date hasn’t been revealed …Read more »
Anime can help people around the world through hardships. A Syrian woman identified simply as “Suzan” told the Japanese paper The Asahi Shimbun about how much anime has meant to her and other Syrians. Suzan, originally from Aleppo, stated that during darker moments while surviving …Read more »
THE FIRST SLAM DUNK anime film has been a huge success in Japan, and now that success has translated to a major milestone elsewhere. In addition to becoming the 12th highest-grossing anime film of all time in Japan, THE FIRST SLAM DUNK can now boast …Read more »
CG anime film THE FIRST SLAM DUNK was, to put it as obviously as possible, a total slam dunk at the Japanese box office, raking in over 10 billion yen as of earlier this month. With all that amazing success on the court, Toei Animation …Read more »
THE FIRST SLAM DUNK, the big screen CG anime take on Takehiko Inoue’s classic Slam Dunk manga, has had a mighty run since it opened in Japan on December 3. Now its latest milestone has it crossing the 10 billion yen mark at the Japanese …Read more »
Beyond the heavy hitters like Suzume and One Piece Film Red, the new CG anime film based on Takehiko Inoue’s classic manga Slam Dunk has been making waves of its own in Japan. The latest update has THE FIRST SLAM DUNK entering the list of …Read more »
The Neon Genesis Evangelion anime hasn’t been out for 30 years—though it’s getting dangerously close!—but it does hold a reign for that period of time in the world of karaoke. Nagoya-based company XING announced the JOYSOUND Karaoke 30th Anniversary Ranking in celebration of its own …Read more »
BLITZ, which has been published by Shonen Jump, becomes available in America this month through ABLAZE Comics. The chess-themed series is written by Cédric Biscay and Harumo Sanazaki and illustrated by Daitaro Nishihara, with chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov also involved. Biscay …Read more »
Every night, I wake up in a cold sweat, the following question on my trembling lips: why did old anime characters have such big chins? Now, thanks to veteran animator Kenji Yokoyama, I can finally sleep through the night. Sez Yokoyama in a recent tweet: …Read more »
Shonen Jump: from the pages of this boys’ manga magazine have emerged some of the most iconic manga and anime properties of all time. Now 5,279 Japanese fans have ranked them, creating the definitive (or, y’know, at least one) list of top 10 Shonen Jump …Read more »
Last week, we posted a poll asking readers what they felt was the best sports anime of all time. Over 800 responses poured in very quickly, spread across more than 55 different series, so we’ve organized the results into a top ten list. Before we …Read more »
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