If you have crossover interests that include video games and having a lot of money to spare, you’ll love the latest offering from Gust. The folks behind the Atelier series of RPGs are celebrating the latest upcoming entry, Atelier Ryza 2, with a life-size figure …Read more »
AZONE INTERNATIONAL and acus’ cross-media project Assault Lily Bouquet is coming to TV in an anime adaptation this year, and the broadcast plans have officially been finalized. Featuring direction by Shoji Saeki and production by anime studio Shaft, the series kicks off on various networks …Read more »
The pandemic has been tough on a lot of people, and that definitely applies to events and those who depend on them. In the case of the World Cosplay Summit, the executive office issued an announcement this week that they will be turning to crowdfunding …Read more »
It was disappointing news for many Junji Ito fans that the anime version of Uzumaki is postponed until next year. But we can still see teasers while we wait, like this tweet showing people at work on the series: A look behind the scenes of …Read more »
It’s been a while since Pop Team Epic was last on the air, but we’ll confess… we just can’t stop thinking about Hellshake Yano. Unless, of course, it’s because we’re thinking about Magma Mixer Murata. That goes double this week, considering the epic saga started in …Read more »
Last year Michael Howard, an American who’s been living and working in Japan since 2008, released his humorous memoir The Salaryman, complete with manga style illustrations by Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. This year Howard is releasing a new manga series—The Salaryman: Manga Edition. It continues …Read more »
The Tokyo One Piece Tower attraction has been open since March 13, 2015, but its five-year history is about to come to an end. While the permanent closure is set for Friday, July 31, it’s never too late to acquaint yourself with this amazing slice …Read more »
Anime keeps on growing exponentially, and so does the popularity of streaming services like Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll got its start thirteen years ago, and a decade later, in early 2017, it had gotten more than a million subscribers. But the numbers kept jumping after that. While …Read more »
When you’re creative, lockdown during quarantine can be especially difficult. Some forms of expression are tougher to pull off in isolation, but J-pop legend Utada Hikaru made the most out of the situation with her new music video. The video for “Time” hit YouTube this …Read more »
Studio Ghibli has a long history of making finely crafted anime films, but one area they’re not as well-versed in is full-on computer animation. Goro Miyazaki’s upcoming feature Earwig and the Witch marks Ghibli’s first full-CG film, so it makes sense that Hayao Miyazaki’s son …Read more »
Remember Fragtime, the 2019 anime about a girl who uses time-stopping magic to peek under other girls’ skirts? The studio that animated the project may have disappeared without paying its animators, but not before the project was complete. Now the US is set to get …Read more »
The Japanese fast fashion brand Uniqlo has just revealed a line of T-shirts sure to slay a few readers out there. It’s a lineup of shirts based on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the uber-popular series from Koyoharu Gotōge. The Demon Slayer T-shirts revealed today …Read more »
Rent-a-Girlfriend is a comedy shonen manga based on a real Japanese premise, where girlfriends or even other family members can be “rented.” This is a type of business recently growing in Japan, as a note at the beginning of the book explains. The note also …Read more »
If you read or watched Hunter x Hunter, you know all about the Greed Island arc, which introduces a high stakes card game adventure into the mix. Soon fans in Japan will be able to experience it for themselves thanks to a new escape game …Read more »
There’s often a big difference between your favorite anime of all time and the anime series you could see yourself watching forever. A recent poll on goo Ranking asked 5,000 anime fans in Japan which anime they would be happy to watch for the rest …Read more »
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