Your Bad Box Office in April. Okay, jokes aside, this is some pretty depressing (though unsurprising) box office news. Compared to April 2019, Japan’s movie theaters pulled in 96.3% less yen. In total, the country’s theaters made just 688 million yen—about $6.4 million. Thanks, COVID-19. …Read more »
Netflix is hard at work on live-action adaptations of Cowboy Bebop and One Piece—or as much work as they can do during a pandemic, anyway. Producer Marty Adelstein recently had an interview with SyFy Wire in which he let us in on how both shows …Read more »
Both fans of the 1998 classic and those who have never seen it, rejoice: Cardcaptor Sakura is headed to Netflix. The series will begin streaming in the US and Canada on June 1. Cardcaptor Sakura aired in Japan from 1998 to 2000, but the road …Read more »
Nintendo Switch has been out for a little over three years, but it didn’t even take three months for Animal Crossing: New Horizons to become the system’s best-selling game of all time in Japan. In that region alone, the game has sold around 3.9 million …Read more »
We recently posted about some of the behind-the-scenes key animation the official My Hero Academia anime Twitter account had been posting. A couple more made their way online since then, this time focusing on the awesome season 4 battle between Hawks, Endeavor, and Nomu. If …Read more »
We’re just a few days away from the May 22 debut of Ultra Instinct Goku in Dragon Ball FighterZ. The most powerful addition to the fighter yet will be available to purchase alone or as part of the pass, and Bandai Namco’s new launch trailer …Read more »
The Blu-ray release of Makoto Shinkai‘s Weathering With You anime film is about to hit stores in Japan on May 27, but ahead of that, the director decided to tease what he’s working on next. Shinkai took to Twitter to update on his progress, saying …Read more »
Neon Genesis Evangelion is never far from the mind of anime fans. The franchise, now 25 years old, is still a perennial favorite, as evidenced most recently by the huge number of streams each of the films pulled in on YouTube last month. Japanese public …Read more »
Now that’s dedication. A YouTuber in Japan with the username Tarue Totsugeki is praying for the return of Yoshihiro Togashi’s manga Hunter x Hunter in his own special way: by throwing 1,000 karate punches every day. On his channel, the user promises “one thousand thankful …Read more »
The first part of the upcoming Date A Bullet anime adaptation—which is based on Yuichiro Higashide‘s Date A Live Fragment: Date A Bullet series of novels—officially has theatrical plans for Japan. In addition to Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet kicking things off for the …Read more »
The new Love Live! TV anime has been gradually trickling out information as we build toward its release. The latest preview not only introduces the five main school idols and their names, it also gives us the name of the school itself. The story this …Read more »
If you’re familiar with the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime—both in its original TV form and the Rebuild movies—you know Misato Katsuragi loves to down some cold brews at home. Considering how stressful her job is, not to mention the responsibilities that come along with minding …Read more »
One of the staple looks of the star of the Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! anime—which is on the way to adapt Take’s busty slice-of-life manga of the same name—is Uzaki-chan’s SUGOI DEKAI shirt. Considering her body type, having what essentially boils down to “Amazingly …Read more »
The only thing better than one electrifying TRIGGER anime is two mashed together, and that’s exactly what we got in a new visual to celebrate a recent Q&A session with BNA: Brand New Animal director Yoh Yoshinari and writer Kazuki Nakashima. The latter was also …Read more »
Looking for something new (new to you, that is) to watch? You could do worse than ticking some films off this list. Straight from the folks at the British Film Institute, it lists the best Japanese film of the year for each year starting in …Read more »
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