If you’ve watched any anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara, you know two things to be true. One, his stuff is wild. Two, there’s no such thing as canon. Yurikuma Arashi, Sarazanmai, and more changed hugely from manga to anime. And Revolutionary Girl Utena in particular has changed …Read more »
Handbag and luggage company LeSportsac Inc. is feeling the Totoro love. Its new collection is inspired by Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro movie, and the merchandise goes on sale March 10. The official theme for each of these is “It was a dream, but it …Read more »
The comedy manga General Manager of Baby is getting an anime adaptation. The story follows a 47-year-old general manager who transforms into a baby but is still able to keep his intelligence, and therefore his job. The anime will debut shortly after midnight on March …Read more »
Dallas’ anime convention A-Kon will not be holding an event this year, virtual or otherwise. “One year ago, we wrote to you all that the developing situation with COVID-19 meant that we needed to take precautions and postpone A-Kon 31 until we felt that it …Read more »
The movie site /Film recently interviewed Hollywood designer Nilo Rodis-Jamero after comments he made about a possible live-action movie adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Domu: A Child’s Dream back in the 90s. Lucasfilm, which had hired Rodis-Jamero to work on Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, …Read more »
The third season of the Kingdom anime will be hitting Japanese TV in April and receiving a simultaneous stream from Funimation. The anime had been delayed because of COVID, with part of the third season playing last year and the rest being postponed. But an …Read more »
Ahead of the anime’s debut this July, Peach Boy Riverside shared a brief promotional video that lets us listen in on dialogue and hear some of the actors who have been hired. Haruka Shiraishi plays Sally, Nao Tōyama plays Mikoto, M.A.O plays Frau, Toshiki Masuda …Read more »
Writer Homura Kawamoto and illustrator Toru Naomura’s Kakegurui manga has already had its fair share of adaptations, and another is on the way in the form of the live-acton web drama adaptation of the Kakegurui Twin series. This eight-episode take on the prequel story is …Read more »
The long-awaited Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time was recently hit with a new opening date of March 8 in Japan. As long as the ongoing State of Emergencies cooperate, that’s still going to happen, but if you’re not in Japan you don’t have to …Read more »
Matthew Emblidge recently got his name in the Guinness World Records for his amazing Cardcaptor Sakura collection, consisting of 4,873 items. It’s a collection that would make many a collector drool, but it didn’t happen overnight. Emblidge spoke to Otaku USA with his words of …Read more »
Another veteran of the voice acting world has left us, with news of Masako Sugaya’s passing arriving via talent agency Arts Vision. Sugaya—who passed away during a medical treatment for an undisclosed illness—was 83 years old. Masako Sugaya has a long and impressive list of …Read more »
We first got word of Hollywood’s attempt at a Hello Kitty movie in 2019, when a movie deal was struck between Sanrio and Warner Bros. Entertainment. By January of 2020 a script was in the works, and now we have our directors. According to the …Read more »
Fifteen years ago, visionary directory Satoshi Kon released his fourth and final film. Based on the novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, Paprika has become a modern classic, and inspired filmmakers around the world. Here in 2021, we’re still very much in love with it. Honestly, we don’t …Read more »
Good news, SSSS.Gridman fans: Trigger’s followup, SSSS.Dynazenon, is set to blast its way onto screens on April 2. Helming SSSS.Dynazenon is the same team who brought us Gridman: Director: Akira Amemiya Screenwriter: Keiichi Hasegawa Character designer: Masaru Sakamoto Music: Shiro Sagisu Animation: Trigger/Graphinica And here’s the …Read more »
The final Rebuild of Evangelion movie is — fingers crossed — landing on March 8. That could change, but it seems like it’s for really real this time. And you know what that means… time to start wild mass guessing! Throughout the history of the series …Read more »
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