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People around the world have different New Year’s traditions, and one in Japan is the New Year’s card referred to as a nengajo. In the previous New Year, Studio Ghibli, which had joined social media, shared their nengajo publicly on Twitter with an image Miyazaki …Read more »
The anime film Suzume (a.k.a. Suzume no Tojimari) from Makoto Shinkai hit theaters in Japan in November and was immediately in the number one spot at the box office. This past weekend saw the movie in second place. About eight and a half million people …Read more »
Nintendo is banking on making a lot of money from the 2023 Hollywood film The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and Hollywood already has a long list of movies based on video games. But what about video games made into anime? This is something that also …Read more »
Because of Vladimir Putin’s ordered invasion of Ukraine, many Ukrainians have fled the country, and some have evacuated to Japan. While the majority of Ukrainian refugees have not been able to find work in Japan, Japanese news site Kyodo News reported on a story of …Read more »
We’re now officially in the New Year, and that means lots of celebrations. Fans of the light novel series The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess (known in Japan as Tensei Ōjo to Tensai Reijō no Mahō Kakumei) have two reasons to celebrate: not only …Read more »
The sequel anime Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown will debut on January 7. The crew revealed that the opening theme song will be “White Noise” and performed by Official HiGE DANdism. But they didn’t just tell us this. They’re letting us listen to it, and watch. …Read more »
The manga series Captain Corinth: The Galactic Navy Officer Becomes an Adventurer is based on web novels. This science fiction story takes place many years in the future, and the main character, Alan Corinth, is in deep space. When something goes awry, he ends up …Read more »
Komura is a fourteen-year-old boy who has a crush on Mie, the girl who sits next to him. But she has this issue of forgetting to bring her glasses, and then she’s as blind as a bat. For instance, she’ll think Komura’s shoes are hers, …Read more »
I Don’t Understand What My Sister’s Friend Is Thinking is a laid-back slice-of-life manga. The main character, a teenage boy, really doesn’t know what his sister’s friend is thinking. His sister, Chie, likes to bring her friend Tsuyu around. Tsuyu stares at the protagonist like …Read more »
My Stepsister Who Tells Me to Die Every Day Tries to Hypnotize Me So I would Fall for Her…! is a manga with a long title that tells you the basic setup. Ichigaya Aoto is a high schooler who moonlights as a light novelist, and …Read more »
The second cours of the anime Play It Cool, Guys is all set to come out on January 2, and a trailer for it has dropped. In it you can hear the new cours’ opening theme song “Warau na!” (Translated as “Don’t Laugh!”) being performed …Read more »
The first cours for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War concluded earlier this week, with episodes twelve and thirteen bundled together for an hour-long special. But don’t worry, this is far from the end of Bleach — the second cours will debut in July 2023. A trailer …Read more »
The anime The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (known as Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsu no Ma ni ka Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken in Japanese) will debut on January 7. To get people excited, the franchise not only shared a new trailer, but …Read more »
Ahead of the NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a anime’s January 7 premiere, a trailer titled “Promotion File 008” has dropped. In it we get a good look at 2B and 9S and the video also tells us more about the crew. According to the trailer, Hirofumi Sakagami …Read more »
A new trailer has dropped for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – Northern War (known as The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki Northern War in Japanese) ahead of its January 6 debut. The trailer, which is just under three minutes, gives …Read more »
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