The anime film adaptation of Kazumi Takayama’s trapezium novel is set to open in Japan on May 10, and ahead of that we can now get a taste of how it all begins. Aniplex started streaming the first four minutes of the feature, including a …Read more »
Earlier this month, Elck Itsumo’s sports manga Two on Ice took its final bow. Clocking in at 28 chapters, the series followed self-taught figure skater Hayuma as he chased after Kisara, whose skill led him to pursue a life on the ice. As they venture into …Read more »
There are lots of polls in Japan asking people about their favorite things in regards to anime, like favorite characters or theme songs. TV Asahi decided to do something a little different, and asked 1,740 individuals outside of Japan what their favorite anime theme songs …Read more »
YOASOBI, which just performed at Coachella — as well as the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles and The Warfield in San Francisco — has announced more concerts, this time in New York City and Boston. Before they get to those two metropolises, …Read more »
Writer Yumi Hotta and illustrator Takeshi Obata (Death Note) serialized their Hikaru no Go manga in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1998 to 2003, previously inspiring a TV anime adaptation. Now its next stop is the stage with the reveal of Utaemaki ‘Hikaru no Go’ Jyo …Read more »
Author HundredBurger’s Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi (Ninja and Assassin Living Together) manga is officially bringing its antics to the screen. An anime adaptation was announced for the series along with the launch of an official website and Twitter account. Details are light at the …Read more »
When Yuu Toyota started Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! as a short webcomic, she had no idea how successful it would be. Now it’s a whole manga series (with ten volumes currently out in English), a live-action show and …Read more »
A NEW DAWN is an original anime film that’s being made as a Japanese/French co-production between companies Asmik Ace and Miyu Productions. Garden of Words and Your Name. background artist Yoshitoshi Shinomiya is writing and directing the film and providing the original work, with Utsushita …Read more »
The That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation has been on hiatus for a while, and now it’s going to end prematurely. Micro Magazine’s Comic Ride magazine announced plans to end the series earlier this month as a result …Read more »
The weekend is over, and we can check out the box office results! First place went to Civil War, which nabbed $11.12. Second place went to Abigail, and Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire came in third with earnings of $9.4 million. Worldwide, it’s made …Read more »
Makoto Kimura, who has been involved professionally in the anime world since 2007, revealed that he’s left MAPPA Studios, where he was working most recently, to found his own business called Blue Rights. He said goodbye to MAPPA last month. Blue Rights sounds like a …Read more »
Tsai Kun-lin, a Taiwanese manga publisher, helped bring about the country’s manga explosion in the 1960s. Now The Boy from Clearwater, a new graphic novel series from author Yu Pei-yun and illustrator Zhou Jian-xin, shares his incredible true story. Volume two drops on May 7 …Read more »
Baku Yumemakura’s Garouden martial arts novels are officially getting an anime adaptation. Netflix announced plans to premiere Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf around the world on May 23, and you can see the first English-subtitled trailer below. The Garouden anime is being directed …Read more »
When something gets a huge amount of hype, it’s natural to wonder if all that hype is really warranted. Take Kaiju No. 8. Based on the hit manga by Naoya Matsumoto, the new anime from Production I.G and Studio khara has been one of the season’s most …Read more »
Back in February, we reported that 10 titles had been nominated for the annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Now we’ve learned which manga won the coveted award, named after the Godfather of Manga himself. The lead prize went to PLINIVS, the historical manga by Mari …Read more »
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