How do you encourage more people to recycle? If you’re in Oita City in Japan, you use mega franchise Attack on Titan. Japan has rules about recycling, but sometimes people still dump their trash into deposits that are meant for recyclables only. One case where …Read more »
Kazuki Takahashi’s Yu-Gi-Oh! manga is celebrating 25 years since it kicked off in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, and the latest product to mark the occasion will be familiar to longtime fans. Konami announced plans to release Kaiba’s iconic briefcast from the series, complete …Read more »
Fans of Sword Art Online will get to re-experience the Aincrad storyline in the form of the Sword Art Online Progressive movie—Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night—which opens in Japanese theaters on October 30. The feature is also bringing a …Read more »
Shinka no Mi ~Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei~—the comedic series of parallel world light novels written by Miku and illustrated by U35 that’s also known as The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made—is coming to Japan this October, and …Read more »
It looks like some series, like the upcoming Komi Can’t Communicate anime, are starting to figure out how to break out of Netflix Jail. Based on the Weekly Shonen Sunday manga by Tomohito Oda, the adaptation will stream weekly outside of Japan on Netflix starting …Read more »
Following the sudden passing of Berserk creator Kentaro Miura in May, publishers were left wondering what they should do with his ongoing series. In addition to Berserk, Miura was working on the Duranki manga, featuring production by Studio Gaga, and both the studio and the …Read more »
The anime comedy The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Hey, How About Treason?) (or Tensai Ōji no Akaji Kokka Saisei Jutsu – Sō da, Baikoku Shiyō in the original Japanese) will launch on Japanese TV early next year. While fans …Read more »
If you’re a fan of the Aria franchise, then Right Stuf and Tokyopop have some exciting news for you. Right Stuf explained on its website: “Many fans missed the opportunity or were unable to complete their set of the fabulous series during the last printing. …Read more »
The Kumamoto Prefectural Takamori High School in Takamori, Japan, hasn’t been doing so well in recent years, and the Kumamoto Prefectural Board of Education has a unique way of trying to change this. They’re planning to create a high school “manga studies” department, which is …Read more »
The Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai TV anime is entering its second year, and U-Treasure is marking the occasion with a pricey Dragon Quest chess set. When we say pricey, we really mean it this time, because this high-quality silver set will be priced …Read more »
J-Novel Club LLC just held a Twitch livestream that revealed their acquisition of four new light novels plus a manga adaptation of one of those light novels. Each of the light novels will have parts 1 and 2 from the first volume made available online …Read more »
Netflix continues to show it’s very interested in being involved in anime, with almost forty new anime titles poised to be released by it in 2021. It was also just announced that it’s made an anime creators’ lounge at its offices in Tokyo, called The …Read more »
Ahead of the The IDOLM@STER: Million Live! anime adaptation, franchise producer Yozo Sakagami (a.k.a “Gami P”) is talking about the secrets of his success: making things personal to people. In fact, he’s publishing a whole book on this in Japan called Shunjinkо Shikо (translated as …Read more »
The TV anime adaptation of author Junpei Inuzuka and illustrator Katsumi Enami’s Restaurant to Another World light novel series is set to return soon, and a new key visual recently arrived for another appetizer. While we wait to see what Restaurant to Another World 2 …Read more »
If you enjoyed the first season of the Shadows House anime, you’ll be happy to learn that Shadows House season 2 has officially been confirmed. The adaptation of somato’s manga had its simulcast run on Funimation, and while information is light on the continuation, a …Read more »
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