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If there’s one thing past Comiket events have proven, it’s that the Fate franchise is one of the most popular subjects for doujinshi circles. This summer’s Comiket 96 has been no different, and the series has had no trouble topping the list as the most represented among …Read more »
Kazuma Kamachi’s A Certain series of light novels—including A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun—has inspired plenty of additional media, the latest of which is the A Certain Magical Index Imaginary Fest smartphone game. To promote the upcoming Japanese release, the official website recently kicked off a character popularity poll, …Read more »
In what may be one of the more inspired promotions of late, voice actor Kenshō Ono (Tetsuya Kuroko in Kuroko’s Basketball) has been visiting a very appropriate location to hype up the My Roommate is a Cat anime, in which he voices Subaru Mikazuki. The …Read more »
We learned back in October that A Certain Magical Index spinoff A Certain Scientific Railgun would be getting a third season. Now, thanks to an interview with creator Kazuma Kamachi, we’ve learned the third season is set to air in 2019. That’s in addition to …Read more »
This is certainly some big news. The long-awaited third season of A Certain Magical Index just started airing, but it looks like that’s just the tip of the Certain iceberg. It’s now been revealed that A Certain Scientific Accelerator, one of the franchise’s many spinoffs, …Read more »
Redheads. Some folks are into ‘em, some aren’t. But these Japanese anime and manga fans, polled by Charapedia, definitely fall into the former category. Charapedia recently asked its readers to rank their favorite anime and manga redheads—here are the top 10. 10. Red Blood Cell …Read more »
Long before Kuroko’s Basketball (and heck, even a year before Slam Dunk) there was Dear Boys, the oddly-named but super-popular basketball manga by Hiroki Yagami. Yagami has basically devoted his entire career to Dear Boys: the manga debuted in Shonen Magazine back in 1989 and …Read more »
The My Hero Academia: Two Heroes anime film opens in Japan on August 3, but they’re not done adding cast members to the project. The latest to join the cast is Ryohei Kimura (Ryota in Kuroko’s Basketball), who will play the young version of film-original …Read more »
You know the type. You can count the number of times they speak on one hand, but when they do, their lines are always memorable. Ranking site Goo recently asked readers to rank anime and manga’s best silent types, and here’s who they chose: 20. …Read more »
If you’re suffering from the lack of new Kuroko’s Basketball, suffer no more: basketball manga Ahiru no Sora is getting a TV anime adaptation. The manga, by Takeshi Hinata, has been running in Weekly Shonen Magazine since 2004, and tells the tale of young basketball …Read more »
A new anime series based on the Legend of the Galactic Heroes novels by Yoshiki Tanaka is set to blast off April 3. The series, which is evidently not a remake of the earlier anime adaptation, is directed by Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko’s Basketball) with script …Read more »
The upcoming anime adaptation of Tadahiro Miura’s Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs manga officially has its male lead. As revealed in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, Yuuki Ono (Taiga in Kuroko’s Basketball) has been lined up to voice protagonist Kogarashi Fuyuzora. We …Read more »
If you follow general Japan news, you know the country held an election this weekend. While here in the real world, it looks like Shinzo Abe will keep his job as prime minister for the time being, pollsters Charapedia used the opportunity to ask readers …Read more »
Excepting series with fantasy or sci-fi settings, etc., it’s fair to say the majority of anime is set in Japan and populated by Japanese characters. But every so often, these Japan-set anime throw a character from abroad into the mix. In the latest poll from …Read more »
This seems like such an obvious poll question, I’m surprised we haven’t featured it yet. Japanese anime news site Anime Anime have just released the results of a poll that asked readers: which anime character would most you like to marry? To be more accurate, …Read more »
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