Production I.G, the studio behind anime like Ghost in the Shell , Psycho-Pass and Blood: The Last Vampire , will open a store based around their properties in hip Tokyo neighborhood Shibuya, reports Anime Anime. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to visit. The …Read more »
Anime and manga company Viz Media has announced it will partner with Hollywood talent agency United Talent Agency, or UTA, to create live-action content based on its anime and manga library. “We are excited to start this partnership to push the boundaries of storytelling, innovation …Read more »
With Viz Media bringing the 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime adaptation to DVD and Blu-ray, an English dub is currently in the works. Viz revealed the main members of the dub cast during their panel at this past weekend's C2E2 event, so see who's playing …Read more »
The Tokyo Anime Award Festival, the snazzy Oscars of anime, has announced the results of its Anime of the Year Grand Prix, given annually to the best television series and film of the year. Which 2015 anime won? You will just have to click the …Read more »
Today new promotional videos for the upcoming anime adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable hit screens across Japan. Three screens, that is. The videos debuted on large screens outside major train stations across the country, causing impromptu meetups for JoJo’s fans wanting to …Read more »
Get your pencils ready. Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli on every film since 1997’s Princess Mononoke , will go open-source and available for free starting March 28. The software, renamed OpenToonz, will contain the custom Ghibli Edition developed by the legendary anime …Read more »
Viz Media, publishers of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, announced plans to stream David Production's anime adaptation. Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable is set to premiere this spring, and Viz will stream the new series, as well as parts I-III, on Viz.com . #C2E2 …Read more »
For the first time, a Japanese court has ruled computer-generated images can be considered child pornography, sentencing a creator of such images to a one-year prison term, says Tokyo Reporter. The court rejected the defense’s claims that the works were art and simply representations. Akashi …Read more »
A second season of KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!! has been given the go-ahead, according to the staff of the series, the first season of which wrapped this week. For fans of the series, this news is truly subarashii . The second …Read more »
The Saekano anime, based on the light novel series by Fumiaki Maruto, is set to continue with a second season. We'll have to wait a bit for the follow-up, though, because it's currently planned for an April 2017 debut on Fuji TV's noitaminA anime block. …Read more »
Remember when a "super big announcement" was teased for Haruichi Furudate's Haikyu!! manga? The reveal is here in 2016's 16th issue of the Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump , and while it might not surprise everyone, it's certainly big enough. A third season of the Haikyu!! …Read more »
Gekijōban Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei , or The Irregular at Magic High School The Movie , will bring an original story by light novel author Tsutomu Satou when it premieres in Japan. Aniplex has a quick sample of the big-screen action to come in the …Read more »
The Japanese media is starting to take note of America’s presidential race, and they’re particularly fixated on a certain unconventional candidate who’s had some not-so-nice things to say about Japan. This week Masaaki Sato, a political cartoonist for the Tokyo Shinbun, had a bit of …Read more »
As we reported a couple weeks back, IBM Japan is hard at work at bringing Sword Art Online to life with a virtual reality MMO called Sword Art Online: The Beginning . Some more information and photos came out at an event this weekend, along …Read more »
It’s an ERASED kind of month. The popular manga-turned-anime known in Japanese as Boku dake ga inai Machi is having a busy March. The manga, which started its run in 2012, came to a close this month, as did the spinoff novel series. The anime …Read more »
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