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Shinji Higuchi, the co-director of Shin Godzilla and the director of Shin Ultraman, is helming Bullet Train Explosion, a remake of a 1975 Japanese classic, for Netflix. The film is set for 2025. The original 1975 film is about a bullet train that will explode …Read more »
An iconic voice is no longer with us as it has been revealed that singer Noboru Kimura has passed away. According to the singer’s official X (formerly Twitter) account, he had been undergoing medical treatment before passing away at the age of 72. The account …Read more »
Marvel manga has already given us a wealth of wild “what ifs.” What if Deadpool led a Japanese-based Avengers team? Or what if Spider-Man met Ultraman? Next month, there’s a new possibility on the table: what if Doc Ock was a Japanese schoolgirl? Spider-Man: Octo-Girl …Read more »
Save up your money and get ready to drop some pre-orders: Titan Manga has announced its October 2024 slate! New and returning titles will populate the manga shelves in autumn. And some of these releases just happen to have ties to popular anime! Peruse the …Read more »
King of Thorn and Dimension W author Yuji Iwahara is getting another manga adapted into anime. This time it’s Clevatess, which was recently announced along with a teaser trailer, key visual and some of the main cast and staff members. Kiyotaka Taguchi (Ultraman Blazar) directs …Read more »
Netflix went all out at this month’s AnimeJapan, releasing an absolutely packed 2024 slate. There’s lots to be excited about, from the final season of BEASTARS to the continuation of Delicious in Dungeon to new Gundam and Ultraman. With so many big titles coming to the streaming juggernaut, it’s understandable …Read more »
This month the Oxford English Dictionary is adding 23 Japanese words, including isekai and tokusatsu! OED’s website explains: Isekai is a Japanese genre of science or fantasy fiction featuring a protagonist who is transported to or reincarnated in a different, strange, or unfamiliar world. The …Read more »
Legendary Japanese singer Yoko Takahashi is well known for providing the iconic theme song to the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime, and now Evangelion will be the subject of her 30th CD single. EVANGELION ETERNALLY is due out in Japan on May 10, delivering her first …Read more »
Sad news in the world of Japanese film today. Sadao Iizuka, whose optical effects work graced legendary tokusatsu titles from Godzilla to Ultraman, has died at the age of 88. Iizuka’s cause of death was pneumonia. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Iizuka worked on effects …Read more »
Production I.G is working away on its anime adaptation of Kaiju No. 8, and we can’t wait! Of course, we’ll have to… we still have a bit of time before it reaches our screen. But as we follow along with the manga and the production news, the …Read more »
Hideaki Anno has a number of job titles under his belt, including creator, director, and writer. And he also likes to do actor cameos from time to time. He has previously cameoed in the movies Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan, Funky Forest: The First Contact, …Read more »
It’s been a huge year for anime films, from December 2021’s JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 to November 2022’s Suzume. Those are just two of four films that sit atop the list of Japan’s top 10 highest-grossing domestic films in 2022, and both JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 and …Read more »
It’s time once again to see what Google has deemed to be the most-searched topics of the year, and 2022 has certainly proven to be the year of Chainsaw Man. Denji leads the pack in the list of most-searched TV anime in Japan, while Makoto …Read more »
November is coming to an end. Tomorrow, the holiday season begins in earnest, and we make our way to the end of 2022. But this week, the Internet is focusing on one thing: their Spotify Wrapped results. The viral marketing campaign takes note of which …Read more »
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