If you saw and loved Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You anime film, there’s a chance you also loved the scooter Natsumi puttered around in throughout the feature. Well, thanks to a partnership between the Weathering with You production committee and Honda, a limited range of …Read more »
It was previously announced that My Hero Academia HERO FES 2020 will take place online this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. That hasn’t stopped promotion for the event, which kicks off on October 3 and is now featured in the very colorful …Read more »
Did you know that Ken Akamatsu, the mangaka behind such hits as Love Hina and Negima!, is sometimes asked to advise the Japanese government on manga-related issues? Just recently he was called before the Diet and talked about how manga can succeed in the next …Read more »
Rent-A-Girlfriend, the new anime about, well, renting a girlfriend, kicks off in Japan tomorrow, July 10. For a final bit of pre-broadcast enticement, Shonen Magazine has published a photo spread with popular cosplayer Enako dressed as the show’s main squeeze, Chizuru Mizuhara. In the series, …Read more »
Isekai light novel series Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation is getting the anime treatment. Announced last year, the series is set to hit screens in 2021. In the meantime, a new trailer for the series, and some casting, has just been revealed. The cast members announced …Read more »
Minare Koda is mad. She’s mad about the breakup with her boyfriend. She’s so mad she decides to go drinking and rant to the stranger sitting next to her. It turns out that stranger works for the radio. And he records her whole rant. And …Read more »
Munou no Nana, AKA Talentless Nana, is a manga written by Looseboy and illustrated by Iori Furuya, and it’s coming to TV in Japan this October. Shinji Ishihara is directing the adaptation at production house Bridge, and you can watch as the superpower-tinged murder mystery …Read more »
If your introduction to Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- was via the anime, you can be forgiven for getting completely the wrong idea about it. Anyone looking at the art and figures would assume it’s a typical isekai series, where a random Joe courts a variety …Read more »
If you guys are like me, you’ll take any good news you can get these days. Well, here’s some: the development team for the next Final Fantasy VII Remake game are not feeling a big impact from COVID-19. That’s the word from head honchos Yoshinori …Read more »
There’s more Seitokai Yakuindomo on the way! Seitokai Yakuindomo 2, originally set for July 2020 until this whole COVID thing happened, will now hit Japanese theaters January 1, 2021. The film has all the main cast and staff members returning, with Hiromitsu Kanazawa (Princess Lover!) …Read more »
It wasn’t that long ago that Studio Ghibli’s next movie was revealed as Earwig and the Witch, which has Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill, Tales from Earthsea) at the helm and Hayao Miyazaki on planning. Based on the children’s novel by Howl’s Moving …Read more »
A building in Tokyo that once housed multiple mangaka, including Osamu “God of Manga” Tezuka, was taken down in the early 1980s. However, so many people have wanted to see what it looked like that a new museum duplicating it has been created, called the …Read more »
We’re loving “Eden,” the new ending theme for the second season of Fruits Basket. The nostalgic rock tune comes from MONKEY MAJIK, a four-person group that’s been present in the Japanese music scene but just under the radar for many. If you like their sound, you’ll …Read more »
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was one of the most successful video games of 2019. So, in 2020, we have the manga Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying. The manga opens with war and power-hungry leaders in the Sengoku Period of Japan. If you look at …Read more »
It’s safe to say Re:ZERO season 2 is one of the most anticipated anime of the Summer 2020 season, especially coming off its previous delay. Heck, Japan voted it at the top in a recent poll, so there’s no such thing as a bad time …Read more »
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