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Makoto Shinkai’s anime movie Suzume will be hitting international theaters on April 14, but it turns out the film’s North American debut will occur before that. The New York International Children’s Film Festival (a.k.a. NYICFF), which will take place March 3-19, is now set to …Read more »
Anime continues to become more and more popular, but despite sales numbers and profits, anime dub actors continue to be poorly paid and often denied protections. Multiple dub actors spoke to In These Times for a lengthy article on the matter titled “Anime Voice Actors …Read more »
Creed III will be in theaters on March 3, and Michael B. Jordan, who is both the lead actor and the director, recently discussed how anime is a big influence on the film. “Without nerding out too much…You’ve seen so many fights throughout the Rocky …Read more »
First there was Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Japan, which kept being delayed because of COVID. But it finally opened, and fans can go on an actual Mario Kart ride, among other things. Then there was the announcement that there would be a Super …Read more »
Mamoru Oshii, best known for directing anime like Ghost in the Shell and Blood: The Last Vampire, is offering an online course through the Japanese video on-demand site Narō! The course is more than five hours long, and will be in Japanese with English subtitles. …Read more »
Ballmastrz: Rubicon, the follow-up to Ballmastrz 9009, will be debuting tonight at midnight on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Its animation is done by STUDIO4℃ with Takashi Nakamura working as the animator director. Ballmastrz: Rubicon creator Christy Karacas spoke with Otaku USA about his early interest …Read more »
Author and journalist Roland Kelts’ new book The Art of Blade Runner: Black Lotus is a beautiful coffee table book of artwork from the titular anime. Blade Runner: Black Lotus itself is part of the Blade Runner franchise, and was directed by Shinji Aramaki and …Read more »
Gap Papa: Daddy at Work and at Home is a sweet-natured, idealistic, slice-of-life manga about a father, mother and young daughter. Their names aren’t given. The father goes into work each day where he is serious—so serious, in fact, that the people there think he …Read more »
This past week the Paris Saint-Germain Football Club and the Fußball-Club Bayern München fought hard in the UEFA Champions League match, and the Paris team had a little side help from none other than Luffy. Yes, the main character of One Piece was part of …Read more »
The PSYCHO-PASS PROVIDENCE 10th anniversary movie has dropped a trailer ahead of its May 12 debut. The trailer lets us hear the theme song “Alexithymia Spare” being performed by the band Ling Tosite Sigure, which has worked with the franchise before. We don’t hear it …Read more »
Virtual reality can take you to different worlds, but it can also take you back in time. Toei Animation subdivision Onn’on Studios teamed up with Sony to create a virtual space titled “Nostalgia 1999.” It can be found on VRChat. The nostalgia is specifically otaku …Read more »
Digital manga app Mangamo announced new titles it licensed, which are either already out or will be out soon. Killings Bites by Shinya Murata and Kazuasa Sumita became available on the app yesterday. Mangamo gave this description for it: “Nomoto, a dull young man, is …Read more »
The Saint Seiya manga by Masami Kurumada is receiving a live-action adaptation called Saint Seiya: The Beginning that will be hitting Japanese theaters on April 28. It will be released in other countries sometime this year. A trailer has dropped. According to Yoshi Ikezawa, a …Read more »
The debut of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc anime (a.k.a. Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-Hen in Japanese) is still a couple months off. But if you need something new for Demon Slayer as you count down the days until April, …Read more »
Honey Lemon Soda is an all-out shojo manga. The main character, a shy girl named Uka Ishimori, is new to high school and wants to make her dreams come true. She has no friends, and is painfully awkward around others. Her parents are helicopter parents …Read more »
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