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If you follow general-interest Japan news, you’re probably well aware of the dropping rates of childbirth and marriage affecting the country. Though the problem isn’t limited to – or, as some mainstream outlets would have you believe, because of – otaku, they too are a …Read more »
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Movie PV 投稿者 pKjd Well, this is highly irregular. Not only do we have the first trailer for the The Irregular at Magic High School film, we’ve also got word that both the director and studio have changed since the TV …Read more »
If you’ve been watching anime for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed a mysterious entity called DR Movie keeps popping up in the credits. This is not a human named Movie who has completed a doctorate (though that would be pretty awesome), but a …Read more »
Sword Art Online season 3 is on its way. That’s the report from a test screening of the new Sword Art Online film Ordinal Scale . The news comes from a multiple Twitter users who saw a test screening of Ordinal Scale . One user, …Read more »
Reika Nakayama, known professionally by her stage name Ray, announced her retirement from music in a blog post January 25. Ray, who has released three albums since 2013, is best known in the anime world for her theme songs for series like Waiting in the …Read more »
A user of Japan’s social media site 2channel has unearthed a 2012 interview with Evangelion / Shin Godzilla mastermind Hideaki Anno that’s stirring up a lot of passionate comments. In the interview, which was done to promote Anno’s then-running special effects exhibition , and the …Read more »
Looking for some fresh new manga to sink your eyeballs into? You could do worse than checking out the just-announced list of manga up for 2017’s Manga Taisho . Nominees for the award, which was established in 2008, are selected by bookstore staff members who …Read more »
Anime fans who like both cute girls and camping will be delighted to learn that an anime adaptation is on the way for Afro's Yurucamp manga. The news comes out of early looks at this month's issue of Manga Time Kirara Forward , which reveals …Read more »
If you’re into tropes like cute girls running to catch the bus with toast in their mouths but also Bubblegum Crisis -style powered suits, well, buddy, you are in luck. It’s moe plus powered suits in Frame Arms Girl , a new anime premiering this …Read more »
Last summer, Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia studio Trigger teamed up with alcoholic beverage producer Kirin to produce an internet-exclusive ad for one of Kirin’s drinks. Now that ad has been pulled from Kirin’s official site, apparently due to complaints. The commercial, which …Read more »
Whether intentional or coincidental, this is pretty hilarious. Japan’s Fuji TV ran a short segment Monday morning about a fashion trend that seems to be growing: women dressed like Donquixote Doflamingo from One Piece . Specifically, the outfit that seems to be booming right now …Read more »
Your Name , where art thou? The Tokyo Anime Award Festival has joined the ranks of sites looking back on 2016 and has just published a list of the best anime films of the year as chosen by 480,004 fans. The list is making waves …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name continues to be a mega-hit in Japan and abroad (it just opened huge in South Korea), which means anybody who’s anybody in the world of Japanese cinema inevitably gets asked what they thought of it. That includes Tokyo International Film Festival …Read more »
No way around it: the end (and beginning) of a year is always list-heavy. This one’s a bit different, though, in that it has nothing to do with 2016. Nope, this is something a bit more ambitious. Music and entertainment magazine Paste has put together …Read more »
You didn’t think we’d leave you with just one best-of-2016 list, did you? We couldn’t resist posting this list for a couple reasons: one, it was voted on by users of 2channel, or 2ch for short, perhaps the most hardcore otaku on the net. Secondly, …Read more »
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