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AnimeJapan is the annual industry event in Tokyo where anime distributors, producers, journos and fans alike gather to marvel at reveals, previews, cosplay, cardboard cutouts and more. AnimeJapan 2024, set for March 23 and 24, has just revealed its new key art for this year. …Read more »
A recent survey of elementary schoolers in Japan that asked “who do you admire?” had many of the results you might expect: mom, dad, teacher, a friend. But there were also some surprising entries. In third place was Ai Hoshino, the singer from the manga …Read more »
Comic Natalie, a major Japanese site dedicated to manga, has now been on the web for 15 years. To honor this occasion, it asked Japanese readers to submit their favorite finished manga from the same timeline. In other words, a manga could have begun at …Read more »
It’s been a while since we heard about the new Overlord anime film, which was first announced back in 2021. According to a television special about the project, the feature is currently penciled in to open in Japan sometime in 2024. The special was hosted …Read more »
Japan gets all the good stuff. This time, it’s a tie-up promo campaign between Godzilla and McDonald’s, complete with a logo that looks right out of a Godzilla film. There’s a nice 30-second add, too. The main object of the campaign seems to be a …Read more »
A recent Japanese survey pitted otaku vs. otaku to see which type of fans spend the most time and money on their hobbies. The report, put together by Yano Research Institute, surveyed men and women who either consider themselves otaku or have been labeled as …Read more »
Yahoo! Japan (yes, Yahoo is still a commonly used search engine in Japan) has just released its Search Awards for 2023 — a list of pop culture faves that received the most searches for the year. The search award for anime went to Oshi no …Read more »
Yuto Yotsuba and Ryo Ogawa’s Ya Boy Kongming! manga previously inspired a TV anime adaptation, and now that take on the material is headed to the big screen. A compilation film has been announced for the series, with Ya Boy Kongming! Road to Summer Sonia …Read more »
Studio TRIGGER’s anime adaptation of Ryoko Kui’s Delicious in Dungeon manga is set to premiere in January 2024, but fans in Japan will get a chance to see it early. A three-week limited advance screening is set to run in 41 theaters throughout Japan, with …Read more »
Writer Takahiro and illustrator Yohei Takemura’s Chained Soldier manga has an anime adaptation on the way, and now a date has been put in place. According to the official Twitter account, the series is set to premiere in Japan on January 4, 2024. This follows …Read more »
It used to be that manga were only read as physical books, but as technology has advanced, reading manga digitally has grown. Oricon ME recently did an internet survey in Japan to see who is reading the most digital manga, and it might not be …Read more »
Actor and comedian Beat Takeshi, whose real name is Takeshi Kitano, was recently at Tokyo’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan to talk about his upcoming historical movie Kubi, which he wrote, directed, and acts in. He also got to talking about the Japanese entertainment business …Read more »
Turns out there are consequences to John Wick being such a popular series: aside from two live-action spinoff series, it looks like there’s going to be an anime, too. That’s the word from John Wick director Chad Stahelski on the podcast The Discourse, who said: …Read more »
The Japanese press reported that bassist HEATH (a.k.a. Hiroshi Morie) from the band X Japan had passed away, and at first the band didn’t say if this were true or not. Several days have passed, and now X Japan has acknowledged that the report is …Read more »
McDonald’s Japan wanted to advertise its Yoru Mac (translated as Night Mac), which is what they call their special menu for evenings. So what did they do? Anime ads, of course. McDonald’s Japan has been putting out a series of them, starting on September 20. …Read more »
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