He Was My Brother stars Kanoko, a teenage girl whose brother Kiichiro passed away after an illness. The manga starts out feeling kind of like a slice-of-slice about a family that’s dealt with grief, but soon supernatural things begin happening, and it becomes clear this …Read more »
Back in June, we learned that Unnamed Memory Season 2 is scheduled for a January 2025 premiere. Now, thanks to a new teaser, we have confirmation that the cast and staff from the first season will be back for the second. Unnamed Memory Season 2 …Read more »
Haruna Kojima, who was a member of the massive idol group AKB48 from 2005 to 2017, recently had some drama unfold while she was stumping for her new photo album, Kamoshirenai. She had a launch event at the Shibuya Tsutaya building in Tokyo, and that …Read more »
Kenji Kamiyama’s Tolkien anime movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim will hit the big screen this December, and it will include voice work from renowned British actor Christopher Lee. It makes sense, seeing that Lee was Saruman in the live-action …Read more »
A live-action film based on I Am Hero author Kengo Hanazawa’s UNDER NINJA manga is set to premiere on January 24, 2025, and ahead of that we have a good look at what’s in store in the first full trailer. Yuichi Fukuda (live-action Gintama, Saint …Read more »
Sakamoto Days fans have plenty to look forward to outside of Yuuto Suzuki’s main manga. In addition to the upcoming anime, the series has inspired spinoffs, including a new novel that’s on the way from Shueisha this December. The novel, titled Sakamoto Days Koroshiya Blues …Read more »
The main staff has been revealed for the Even Given the Worthless ‘Appraiser’ Class, I’m Actually the Strongest anime along with additional cast members and a premiere date. The series, which adapts the light novel series written by Ibarakino and illustrated by Yu Hitaki, will …Read more »
Another set of voice actors have been revealed for the ongoing Tower of God Season 2, which is currently in its second part. Episode 17 aired on Sunday and introduced four more characters, and the voices behind them have since been announced. You can see …Read more »
Eventually, everyone stumbles across the work of Junji Ito in their own way. For some of us, it was The Enigma of Amigara Fault popping up on our Tumblr dashboard at 2am. Others dove in via film or anime adaptations. But for some of you, Adult …Read more »
Prolific anime voice actor and director David Wald, whose credits include voicing Hannes in Attack on Titan and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu in My Hero Academia, has accused Crunchyroll of illegally opening his mail and more. In a post seen more than seven million times on X …Read more »
Japanese publishers are getting more aggressive going after piracy sites, and in one case publisher PCR Distributing is taking legal action against the site nHentai. Quite a bit of PCR Distributing’s adult work ends up on nHentai, where the piracy site is offering it for …Read more »
Expo 2025 Osaka world’s fair, to be located on Yumeshima Island, begins on April 13, 2025, and it will include the full-size RX-78F00/E Gundam. But you don’t have to wait until April to get a peek at the latest full-size Gundam in Japan, and the …Read more »
The manga adaptation of Yui’s Bibliophile Princess light novel series has been on break since May, but it’s officially getting ready to return. According to the December issue of Ichijinsha’s Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine, Yui Kikuta’s adaptation will return from hiatus when the next issue …Read more »
The original Steins;Gate visual novel game, which came out in 2009 and inspired the anime series of the same name, is getting a reboot. The new game, which is titled, appropriately, Steins;Gate Re:Boot, will be produced by Mages, the developer formerly known as 5pb. The Steins;Gate …Read more »
Kumo Kagyu’s Goblin Slayer series has inspired a number of spinoffs and adaptations, including the Goblin Slayer: A Day in the Life manga, which has Kagyu teaming up with Daichi Matsuse. The series first launched in the pages of Square Enix’s Big Gangan magazine in …Read more »
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