THE iDOLM@STER series has some live concerts planned for later this month, but the specifics have changed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Bandai Namco announced an update to the schedule, highlighting the fact that these events will be online-exclusive streams performed without an audience. …Read more »
Five years ago, on January 12, 2017, the first episode of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid hit the airwaves. The show, animated at Kyoto Animation and based on the manga by Coolkyousinnjya, was a slice of life comedy about an office worker and a dragon who …Read more »
Insomniacs After School, the manga about insomniac high school students by Makoto Ojiro, is getting both TV anime and live-action film adaptations. That’s the word from the latest volume of the manga, its eighth. Insomniacs After School launched in the pages of Big Comic Spirits …Read more »
A day doesn’t go by that I don’t see photos of anime-themed cafes or video game-inspired theme parks in Japan on my Twitter timeline. I’m always “wow”ed by the creativity, but completely envious of our Japanese counterparts. Insert the “it’s not fair, Japan gets all …Read more »
It may not sound as nice and clean as a top 10 title, but JUJUTSU KAISEN 0‘s latest achievement is nothing to sneeze at. The film continues to sell tickets in the days since its December 24 premiere, and it’s now the 80th highest grossing …Read more »
Four years ago Akihiko Kondo held a wedding ceremony where he married Hatsune Miku. It’s not an official marriage, but it made the news, and the Japanese paper The Mainichi caught up with Kondo to see how his wedded bliss is going. And, it turns …Read more »
Voice actress Fairouz Ai was recently interviewed by an internet radio program from Nippon Broadcasting System about playing Jolyne Cujoh in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. Ai’s mom is Japanese and her dad is Egyptian. As a middle school student, she came across the comments …Read more »
Thanks to a recently published court document, we know that a pair of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers were fired for a handful of reasons, primarily centered on playing Pokémon GO on the job. Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were being investigated for a …Read more »
Writer Quantum and illustrator Hana Amano’s I’m Quitting Heroing light novels—known in Japan as Yusha, Yamemasu—is coming to the screen in an anime adaptation this April. Featuring direction by Yuu Nobuta and Hisashi Ishii, with EMT Squared on animation production, the anime’s latest update is …Read more »
Trailing quickly behind the news of the anime adaptation, we have word that the MF Ghost manga is getting an English release. Shuichi Shigeno’s followup to hit racing series Initial D is on the way via Kodansha Comics and ComiXology, who plan to release the …Read more »
A new manga is on the way from Yuki Kodama, the author of the Blood Lad manga. Shokan Suru Sekai (Summon World) was revealed in the February issue of Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shonen Magazine over the weekend, and the manga is officially set to launch in …Read more »
Piracy is a major issue hitting the manga and anime worlds, especially during COVID with so many people homebound. Take a look at these numbers: from January to October last year, piracy in Japan bilked creators and publishers out of 800 billion yen (about $6.92 …Read more »
Spirited Away played on Japan’s Nippon TV last week, and Studio Ghibli took the opportunity to tweet answers to questions fans sent to them beforehand. Let’s take a look at what we learned. One person asked, “When it was released overseas, what kind of reaction …Read more »
This weekend marked the premiere of cosplay-themed anime My Dress-Up Darling, which is based on Shinichi Fukuda’s rom-com manga of the same name. Cosplayer and famous Japanese TikToker Akari Akase made her singer debut with the anime’s ending theme, “Koi no Yukue” (“Where does love …Read more »
Yesterday marked the premiere of Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2, which picks the story up with episode 76. Just before it aired, the official Pony Canyon accounts shared videos for the opening and ending themes, with the former coming from SiM and the …Read more »
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