With Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympics on the not-so-distant horizon, it’s only right that there be some thematically appropriate anime available around the same time. Kyoto Animation is on top of it, because a brand new Free! anime film has officially been revealed for summer of …Read more »
Voice actress Yūka Morishima currently has a role as Gripen in the Girly Air Force TV anime, based on the light novels written by Kōji Natsumi and illustrated by Asagi Tousaka. With the series currently on air, Avex Pictures took the opportunity to promote it …Read more »
One of the ongoing delights of the last two cours has been the anime adaptation of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, which is about to add another new cast member. The latest to get in on the fun is Takahiro Sakurai, who …Read more »
In/Spectre, AKA Kyokousuiri, is a series of super natural light novels written by Kyo Shirodaira, with illustrations by Hiro Kiyohara. The story follows a young woman imbued with supernatural powers after a run-in with the spirit world, and the main staff has been announced for …Read more »
Kengan Ashura, the upcoming adaptation of the hit manga by Sandrovich Yabako and by Daromeon, has found its opening band. That band is My First Story, who will perform the series’ opening theme, called “King & Ashley.” My First Story first got together in 2011, …Read more »
Ensemble Stars!, a smartphone game in which players produce the careers of male idol singers, is getting the anime treatment. Now we’ve learned that series will be airing in July. The news was announced at a concert in Tokyo January 13, which also included the …Read more »
It’s January, meaning we’re being hit with an onslaught of 2018 in review pieces, polls and more. We really like this one, though: it’s a look back not at any anime in specific, but the most memorable pieces of anime news. Here’s what the anime …Read more »
GKIDS has another limited theatrical release for an anime film on the way this April. The latest is Okko’s Inn, a 2018 movie known in Japan as Wakaokami wa Shogukasei!, directed by Kitarō Kōsaka and produced by MADHOUSE. Based on the children’s books written by …Read more »
A few days ago we posted about some teasing from Soichiro Yamamoto, the author behind the Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san (Teasing Master Takagi-san) manga. If you guessed that the tease had to do with the reveal of a second season, you win! Following up on …Read more »
If you’re looking to spend some quality time with the idols of Love Live! Sunshine!!, an official YouTube upload is here to help. The Kazuo Sakai-directed, Sunrise-produced Love Live! Sunshine!! Movie Over the Rainbow anime film opened in Japanese theaters on January 4, and now you can …Read more »
The hits keep coming for the Dragon Ball Super: Broly anime film, which is hot off earning a whopping 3.3 billion yen at the Japanese box office. The latest milestone is about to be made once the new feature hits theaters in the United States, …Read more »
If you’ve been reading OUSA long enough, you know we’re pretty skeptical about the quality of live-action adaptations. There are some manga and anime, though, that lend themselves better to these kinds of films than others—and the zombie genre has produced some good results in …Read more »
Pekeko is the author behind Phantasy Star Online 2 Comic, an official web manga that takes the audience through a more relaxed version of Sega’s Phantasy Star Online 2 MMORPG. Now it’s been turned into a web anime in Japan called Anime PSO2 Comi, with …Read more »
The world of theatrical anime showings in the U.S. has really blown up in the last few years, and the latest is about to take us on a journey back to 2013. That’s the year Japan saw the opening of the Hunter x Hunter: The …Read more »
The latest theatrical outing for Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball franchise has been no slouch in the Japanese box office. According to the latest update, Dragon Ball Super: Broly has pulled in a whopping ¥3,354,780,500 (about US $30,837,498) from a total of 2,604,870 tickets in the …Read more »
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