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Makoto Shinkai's your name. anime film has completely dominated the box office in Japan, and we may not have to wait too much longer to see it in English. According to Variety , Funimation's previously announced acquisition of the license to your name. will include …Read more »
Thanks to daylight savings time, Adult Swim's Toonami block will be getting an extra hour of broadcast to play around with. Not one to let an opportunity slip by, the block announced plans to use that time to air Children Who Chase Lost Voices , …Read more »
Happiness is anything but. Makoto Okazaki, a hapless bullied young man, returns a DVD late one night right after a news report about a man being killed in his area. He is set upon by a mysterious girl who bites his neck, turning him into …Read more »
Newtype, the long-running monthly anime magazine published by Kadokawa, has published the final results of its 6th annual Newtype Anime Awards. Without further ado, the results! Best TV Series 1. Kababeri of the Iron Fortress 2. Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- 3. Macross Delta …Read more »
The utter box office domination of director Makoto Shinkai's your name. anime film continued this weekend in Japan, which marked its fifth week at the top spot. As of September 25, that puts its box office total up to $1.11 billion yen (about US$111 million), …Read more »
Fans of Madhouse's adaptation of ONE and Yusuke Murata's One-Punch Man manga—which itself is based on the original web manga by ONE—will be pumped to learn that season 2 is officially a go. The continuation was announced during a September 25 Fall Festival event in …Read more »
Chichibu, the city used in anohana , is a popular pilgrimage spot. When fans travel to a city or specific location used in their favorite anime series or film, it’s known as an anime pilgrimage. These pilgrimages have brought in a ton of cash to …Read more »
On a dark and stormy night, eight students and a teacher sit in an empty classroom at Kisaragi High School, telling ghost stories. Their tales soon turn to Kisaragi itself, built on the site of another school, Tenjin Elementary, that was supposedly the scene of …Read more »
“I know I’m supposed to hate this guy… but I can’t!” So howled (or so we’d like to imagine, anyway) the fans who filled out the latest poll from data wizards Charapedia, who, for the latest round of anime polling, have asked their followers, “who’re …Read more »
This is a question that’s kept us up many a night, tossing and turning: just who are the 20 hottest guys in anime? Thankfully, pollsters Charapedia have come to the rescue, asking their readers to vote for their favorite hunks. The key point in this …Read more »
Funimation started lining up its anime streaming plans for the summer 2016 season , kicking things off with 14 simulcast titles, some of which will begin on July 2. Many of the titles will also be selected for the Broadcast Dub (near-simulcast English dubbing) program, …Read more »
Tomboys, spitfires, or the plain and simple “girls who kick ass.” However you describe them, the long history of anime and manga is full of these characters, and choosing the top ten is no easy task. Users of ranking site Goo, however, took up the …Read more »
Atom the Beginning is a recent manga by Tetsuro Kasahara ( Rideback ) that acts as a prequel to Osamu Tezuka's classic Astro Boy . The series launched in Shogakukan's Monthly Hero's magazine back in December 2014, and now this year's July issue , out …Read more »
We’ve probably never uttered “Shonen Jump” and “sexy” in the same sentence (the manga magazine is ostensibly for children, after all), but that didn’t stop ranking site Goo from asking its readers: in the long history of Shonen Jump, who have been the sexiest villains? …Read more »
Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace is an interesting series. The original production from anime studio Lerche ( Assassination Classroom , Monster Musume ) came about in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of author Edogawa Rampo’s passing in 1965, and its mysteries are all woven from …Read more »
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