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How do you get music fans to sit up and pay attention to your new anime? How about recruiting J-pop legend Hikaru Utada to do your opening theme? That’s the strategy being employed by the upcoming series To Your Eternity. The series just announced that …Read more »
Ikuma Saeki has known Sumika since childhood and he’s adored her the whole time. Now they’re adults and married, with Ikuma working as an app developer and Sumika working as a high school nurse. Despite their history, despite all the time dating, and despite the …Read more »
Fans of Hiroyuki Takei’s Shaman King manga know Joco, AKA Chocolove McDonell, as an American shaman who aims to be the world’s top comedian. He’s back in the new Shaman King reboot, and according to the latest announcement Motoko Kumai will reprise her role as …Read more »
Mushishi fans have a reason to celebrate, because creator Yuki Urushibara will be releasing a new “special short” manga for the franchise. Called “Chikakeru Kage” (translated as “The Shadow That Soars Through Land”), it will be available in the March 25 release of Afternoon magazine …Read more »
The second season of the I’m Standing on a Million Lives anime—which adapts the manga by Naoki Yamakawa and Akinari Nao—is scheduled for July, and now we know who will be performing the opening theme song. Fans of the series can look forward to the …Read more »
Yasuhiro Fukuda’s Cells at Work! Baby manga is a spinoff of Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! series that first kicked off in Kodansha’s Morning magazine in October of 2019. The manga previously went on hiatus last June, and now it’s set to take a three-month …Read more »
If you’re a fan of The Quintessential Quintuplets, based on the manga by Negi Haruba, you’ll want to take a moment to relive some of the scenes from the anime in a special music video. The CD single for the OP theme song, “Gotoubun no …Read more »
The Slime Diaries, for those who may have forgotten, is the upcoming spinoff of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. Now we know who’s set to perform the show’s opening theme. It’s Akane Kumada, best known to anime fans for “Sunny Sunny Girl,” …Read more »
CLAMP has dabbled in a variety of different genres over the years, from romance to magical girl series to gothic horror. Clover, a sci-fi manga that shares some elements with the enduring Chobits, is the closest the team has come to cyberpunk. The elegantly composed …Read more »
CLAMP has produced a long list of hit manga, but in the 2000s, one reigned supreme. After winning over younger readers with Cardcaptor Sakura and the magical girl audience with Magic Knight Rayearth, CLAMP took a different approach and went after teenage boys. Enter Chobits. …Read more »
It’s been a wild ride full of equal parts laughs, action, and education, but the time has officially come for Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! manga to end. We recently posted about the final chapter coming in the next issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Sirius, …Read more »
The new season of The Seven Deadly Sins, Dragon’s Judgement, is currently airing in Japan. But the end of that season won’t mean the end of the story. Today we learned The Seven Deadly Sins is returning with a sequel film called Cursed by Light …Read more »
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko got his start back in 1970, animating for Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Productions. In 2021, he’s getting the Japan Academy Film Prize Association’s Special Award for lifetime achievement, occurring at the 44th annual Japan Academy Film Prizes in March. That’s because between 1970 and …Read more »
Nanashi’s Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro manga is getting a TV anime adaptation this April, and now we finally have our first look at the Miss Nagatoro anime. Tower of God assistant director Hirokazu Hanai is at the helm as director for this one, …Read more »
Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s manga Blue Period won the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize. Now it’s getting an anime adaptation! Yamaguchi released a fresh illustration to celebrate the news. Here’s how Kodansha Comics describes Blue Period: Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and …Read more »
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