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If you’ve ever thought some food in an anime looked especially good, you’re not the only one. BAKE ANIME, written by Emily J. Bushman and published by Simon & Schuster, is out to help you make your own anime baked goods. Bushman talked to Otaku …Read more »
It’s that time of year again! The annual Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (translated as This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook has listed off the most popular manga in Japan for the previous year. It’s separated into lists of female and male readership. Here is the list …Read more »
The upcoming SPY x FAMILY stage musical recently dropped a trailer, where we could see images of the actors cast as Loid Forger, Yor Forger, Yuri Briar, Sylvia Sherwood, Henry Henderson, Franky Franklin, and Fiona Frost. Anya Forger was conspicuously missing, but the play said …Read more »
The fourth season in the anime Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? has the arc Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV Late Arc: Disaster (or Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa …Read more »
In August 2021 it was announced that director Shinsuke Sato had been tapped to direct Legendary Films’ Hollywood live-action adaptation of My Hero Academia. More than a year later, we just got more information on the upcoming movie, namely that it will be written by …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s early work Shuna’s Journey finally received an English release, thanks to graphic novel publisher First Second Books. Alex Dudok de Wit, who has written a book about Grave of the Fireflies published by the British Film Institute, worked as the translator. He spoke …Read more »
The hotly anticipated SPY X FAMILY musical stage play is set to debut this spring, starting in Tokyo on March 8. In April it will move on to Hyogo Prefecture and in May it will be over in Fukuoka. That’s still some time away, and …Read more »
Shueisha Inc.’s JUMP FESTA 2023 will take place on December 17-18 at the Makuhari Messe convention center near Tokyo. But even if you can’t be there in person, Shueisha has some good news for you: they’re offering their first-ever livestream of stage performances on their …Read more »
A clip from the upcoming 2023 The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been released. In it you can hear Chris Pratt as Mario and Keegan-Michael Key as Toad. There are homages to pipes and coin boxes from the original video games, and we get a …Read more »
It won’t be too much longer before the anime adaptation of the light novel series Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte comes out. Ahead of the January 6 debut (which HIDIVE will stream simultaneously), a third promotional trailer has been released. …Read more »
Many people in the anime world know—or at least know of—Shawne Kleckner, the president and co-founder of anime retailer Right Stuf. Kleckner was there when Right Stuf officially launched in 1987, was part of the 2007 creation of its Nozomi Entertainment production label, and is …Read more »
Akira Toriyama is best known for his mega successful Dragon Ball franchise, but that’s not the only manga he’s worked on. He debuted with his first serialized manga in 1980 with Dr. Slump, which is also fairly well known. But it’s his short Sand Land …Read more »
Content Warning: Discussion of suicide. Jason David Frank, best known for playing Tommy Oliver (the Green Ranger and White Ranger) in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, passed away in November, and preliminary reports said it was strongly believed to be suicide. Frank’s wife, Tammie Frank, has told …Read more »
We just learned from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which anime are qualified to be nominated for Best Animated Feature Film. All of these anime movies had to have played in a major U.S. metropolitan area sometime this year. So which films …Read more »
Chainsaw Man is one of the biggest anime out right now. Toru Kitajima, a.k.a. TK from the rock band Ling tosite sigure, is behind the ending theme “first death.” An official music video for the song was released today, and to coincide with this, TK …Read more »
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