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Funimation has big plans for its first co-produced anime film, Sing a Bit of Harmony. The feature is officially coming to theaters around the world in English, including dates in the United States and Canada on January 23, 25, and 26. Tickets for those showings …Read more »
The anime industry is mourning another loss this week with the announcement that director and animator Kinji Yoshimoto—known for directing series ranging from Arifureta – From Commonplace to World’s Strongest to Genshiken 2, Queen’s Blade: Beautiful Warriors, Kekko Kamen, and many more—has passed away at …Read more »
It seems like only yesterday when we found out that two of Gainax’s best and brightest were going on to found Studio TRIGGER. The company has brought us a variety of bright, exciting anime, from Little Witch Academia to Promare. And ten years later, we still can’t …Read more »
Anime maids are everywhere you look. If they aren’t the star of their respective show, they’ll at least show up as a secondary character. Or, bare minimum, the show will have an episode at a maid café so we can work in our quota of …Read more »
I used to be a fan of director Goro Taniguchi in the early 2000s. s-CRY-ed was a solid Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure-inspired series decades before TV adaptations of that began, Planetes was one of the best anime of the decade, and Gun x Sword was a …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda’s BELLE continues to do well, nabbing the top spot of the Japanese box office for the second weekend in a row. So far 1.69 million people have bought tickets and it’s brought in 2,437,411,900 yen (approximately $22.11 million). The live-action Tokyo Revengers took …Read more »
Right now, Godzilla rules over on Netflix! The big lizard is back in action in Godzilla Singular Point, following up on a series of anime films for the streaming service. But he’s been showing up in anime outside Netflix — and before Netflix! If you’re done …Read more »
A longtime veteran of the anime industry is no longer with us, as the influential Asei Kobayashi has passed away at 88. The composer, actor, and activist—known for composing themes for titles ranging from Sally the Witch and Gatchaman to Turn A Gundam and many …Read more »
The Kamen Rider franchise and Super Sentai franchise are both having a big year, together and separately. 2021 marks 50 years of Kamen Rider, and Super Sentai is coming out with its 45th work. That work is the crossover movie Saber + Zenkaiger: Super Hero …Read more »
Despite theaters in Tokyo and other major cities across Japan being closed the last week or two (thanks Covid), Evangelion 3.0+1.0 is still racking up yen. 8.28 billion yen, to be precise. That means 3.0+1.0 has surpassed the 2016 hit Shin Godzilla, which made 8.25 …Read more »
One of the great composers of anime is no longer with us, as Shunsuke Kikuchi has passed away. Known for composing music for everything from Doraemon‘s famous “Doraemon no Uta” theme song the entire Dragon Ball series from the original up to Dragon Ball Z …Read more »
Singer Ichiro Mizuki has a long history of hot-blooded themes across anime and tokusatsu to his name, including the likes of Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Kamen Rider Stronger, Voltron, Voltes V, Godannar, Kamen Rider Black RX, a ton from the Mazinger Z series, and many …Read more »
Couple quick items related to Evangelion 3.0+1.0 and its ongoing success. One: the film has now surpassed 7 billion yen at the box office, making it far and away the most successful Eva film (financially, anyway). At present, 7 billion yen is about $64 million. For …Read more »
More details are here for the anime film adaptation of Nahoko Uehashi’s (Moribito) Shika no O fantasy novel series, AKA The Deer King. Shika no O: Yuna to Yakusoku no Tabi (The Deer King: Yuna and the Promised Journey) was originally slated to premiere on …Read more »
The news outlet Reuters published a piece called “For manga’s striving artists, success lurks online,” showing how sometimes manga first published on the internet will become very successful series. Their main case in point is Kamentotsu, who self-published Koguma’s Cake Shop online and soon had …Read more »
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