The RPG Tales of Arise will be released in Japan on September 9 and in the West a day later. Three trailers have been released. Two are general trailers letting you listen to their respective English and Japanese voices, and the third is an environmental …Read more »
A new ad in Japan puts Luffy and the gang from One Piece in the real world. The ad is for a takeout app called “menu,” and you can see how excited Luffy is for the food he ordered. The commercial is debuting in Japan …Read more »
Toonami has announced its lineup for May 15 and is happily pushing the return of Dr. STONE. “The Stone Wars are about to begin! Toonami is proud to announce the newest show returning to our Saturday night lineup. Dr. Stone, season 2, premieres May 15th …Read more »
If you were one of the few but proud that played NieR when it made its way to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in 2010, you’re probably still talking about it to this day. The version we got in the west featured a different …Read more »
Haru’s Curse is a story about grief and the love that comes after grief, and it manages to discuss these topics soberly but without being weighed down with gloom. Natsumi’s younger sister, Haru, dies at the age of 19 after chemotherapy treatments are unable to …Read more »
One of the biggest OPs of the year already belongs to the To Your Eternity anime adaptation. The new series kicks off with Hikaru Utada’s “PINK BLOOD,” and the creditless version was recently shared via the series’ official YouTube account. Both it and the ED—Masashi …Read more »
Not long ago, we compiled a short list of fun time travel anime to keep you going when your internal clock is off. Now we have more… but these have a twist! Or, rather, several unique twists. Rather than just straight-up temporal adventures, we’re looking …Read more »
A game series as full of puns, wordplay, and contradictions as Ace Attorney requires a solid localization. Fortunately for all of us, it does! And not just a serviceable one… one that actually preserves as much of the original meaning and mood as possible. With more …Read more »
Earlier this month we posted about singer Masayoshi Oishi, who needed to have vocal cord surgery to remove polyps. The surgery was planned for April 21, and the 41-year-old singer took to his official Twitter account shortly after to report that the surgery was a …Read more »
Actress Megumi Hayashibara is putting on a virtual concert as her Slayers character Lina Inverse. Called the Lina Inverse 3D Concert, it will stream on XWorld VR Chat on May 7, and it costs about $30 to attend. The next day it will stream on …Read more »
The Pokémon Fossil Museum wants to teach kids about how fossilization works. But it’s not going to be using real fossils, or models of ancient creatures who have become fossilized. Instead it’s being creative and using Fossil Pokémon. SoraNews24 explained, “Side-by-side comparisons show how knowledge …Read more »
Anime News Network interviewed Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto about his manga and the upcoming anime adaptation. “I always wanted to serialize in [Shonen] Jump,” Fujimoto said. “So I had the feeling that if I drew a serialization there, there was the risk that my …Read more »
Jujutsu Kaisen continues to have soaring sales, which have especially been boosted by the 2020 anime. At the end of March we were able to report that the original manga series had more than 40 million copies in circulation. It’s less than a month later, …Read more »
In March Yuu Watase revealed that she and Weekly Shonen Sunday had decided when they’d be resuming publication of Arata: The Legend, which had been on hiatus since 2015. However, they said they’d give that date at a later time. Well, that time has arrived, …Read more »
There is sad news as we learn of the passing of animator and manga creator Fumino Hisamitsu, who was 77. Hisamitsu made his manga debut when he was only fifteen, publishing Chikyū Ayaushi. It was the start of a long line of creative work. He …Read more »
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