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The 2024 Anime Awards will take place on March 2, and the nominees have been unveiled! From best series based on category – to best actors based on language – to which character you have to protect the most – there’s a lot going on …Read more »
The Final Fantasy VII Remake project’s second game, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, is scheduled to come out on February 29, or “Leap Day.” Ahead of this, two versions of the same one-minute trailer have been released. One is in English, and the other is in …Read more »
If you’ve been waiting for the Solo Leveling dub, the time is nearly here! Crunchyroll has announced that the dubbed first episode will hit the streaming service on January 20, and it also released an English trailer. Let’s take a look at the cast and …Read more »
On the first day of the year, Japan suffered a major magnitude 7.6 earthquake, referred to as the Noto Peninsula earthquake. About 100 people are reported to have died as a result of the quake, and rescue efforts continue. Several big names in otaku culture …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have just been nominated for several awards, and sometimes they’re in competition with one another. First off, The Boy and the Heron and The Super Mario Bros. Movie are …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron just became the first anime to win a Golden Globe, and now an anime has won an Astra TV Award for the first time. Can you guess which one? It was Attack on Titan, which took home the …Read more »
Japan experienced a major 7.6 earthquake on the first day of the year, followed by fires and other problems, and one of the buildings damaged was the Go Nagai Wonderland Museum, which honors the work of mangaka Go Nagai, whose creations include Mazinger Z, Devilman, …Read more »
GLAY is a major Japanese rock band, and 2024 marks a major milestone for them: 30 years since their major debut in 1994. As a result, GLAY is offering its GLAY EXPO this year. A big event like this needs a visual image to go …Read more »
The popular manga series Golden Kamuy is getting a live-action movie that will hit Japanese theaters on January 19. Ahead of this, multiple videos have been released to get fans excited. This first video both shows scenes from the movie, as well as behind-the-scenes shots …Read more »
No Face is one of the most iconic and mysterious characters from Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning anime movie Spirited Away. Kinyo Roadshow (translated as Friday Roadshow) is a weekly Friday-night movie segment on Japan’s Nippon TV, and while playing Spirited Away last week, it tweeted some …Read more »
AI voice technology company Replica Studios (a.k.a. Replica) just made an agreement with The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (a.k.a. SAG-AFTRA) about the use of artificial intelligence in the voiceover world, and some anime actors are not fans. SAG-AFTRA …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki just won a Golden Globe for The Boy and the Heron, the first time an anime has received such an award. The next question many people are asking: can The Boy and the Heron, or another anime movie, take home an Oscar? The …Read more »
The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror XXXIII” Halloween special, which included a segment spoofing Death Note (titled “Death Tome”), has officially received an Emmy for its good work! It competed against Bob’s Burgers episode “The Plight Before Christmas,” Netflix’s Entergalactic special, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal episode “Shadow …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s birthday was on January 5, and on the same date his Oscar-winning movie Spirited Away played on Japanese television. During the film’s ad time, a special commercial played — a Suburu commercial featuring Spirited Away’s Chihiro and Yubaba. Technically, you only hear their …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki, whose movie Spirited Away was the first anime to win an Oscar, has just gotten his name in the anime history books again. His new movie, The Boy and the Heron, received the Golden Globe for the category Best Motion Picture – Animated. …Read more »
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