Featured Spotlight Imagine only being able to retain the memory of your friends for one week. After that, poof, it's all gone and you're forced to start all over again. It's hard enough to make friends in high school as it is, so Kaori Fujimiya …Read more »
When the live-action Attack on Titan films open in Japan, they'll be the first of their kind to offer an immersive "4D" experience with motion seats, scents, and wind effects to go along with the on-screen IMAX action. The official website for the adaptations of …Read more »
With the start of the series imminent, some big Dragon Ball Super (how are we going to abbreviate this series, anyway? DBS ?) news out today. First off, the name of one of the series’ new characters, the purple Beerus-lookin’ guy featured on the new …Read more »
Are you looking forward to the new Death Note series but aren’t sure how you’re going to watch it? Leave it to the crunchy folks at Crunchyroll. The site plans to stream the series in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and, most importantly for Otaku …Read more »
This weekend, Mad Max: Fury Road finally, finally opened in Japan, and to mark the occasion, the morning TV show Mezamashi Doyoubi showed off a neat Japanese connection to the film. As it turns out, anime designer and director Mahiro Maeda ( Gankutsuou: Count of …Read more »
The worlds of Shotaro Ishinomori's Cyborg 009 and Go Nagai's Devilman are getting ready to clash in a Cyborg 009 vs Devilman OVA. The three-episode crossover event will make its debut in eight Japanese theaters this October for a limited time, with two complete Blu-ray …Read more »
Based on the Red Dragon role-playing fiction story—taken from the tabletop gaming sessions of creators like Gen Urobuchi ( Madoka Magica , Fate/Zero ), Kinoko Nasu ( Garden of Sinners ), and others—the Chaos Dragon anime is making its way to TV in Japan on …Read more »
As Father’s Day approaches, Japanese ranking site Goo has released a very timely poll entitled, roughly, “boy, it’d suck if that anime guy were my dad.” For this poll, Goo asked 500 anime and manga fans which father figures they’d just as well avoid, and …Read more »
Black Butler , the manga about revenge, lost souls and demonic butlers has been adapted into three anime series, a live-action film, and since 2009 has been the subject of not one but three musicals. Now last year’s show, "Licorice that Burns in the Ground," …Read more »
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day , the popular 2011 anime series about a group of friends who reunite after a tragedy splits them apart, will be adapted into a live-action TV drama this year. The series will air “this year,” though a more …Read more »
Sabo is getting his own recap TV special in the form of One Piece Episode of Sabo: The Three Brothers' Bond - The Miraculous Reunion and the Inherited Will . Fans can look forward to the events from the Dressrosa arc and other moments as …Read more »
Featured Spotlight Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky debuted as the 15th entry in developer Gust's long-running Atelier RPG series in 2013, making its way to PlayStation 3 in the west in 2014. It also made the leap to anime that year, …Read more »
June 15, 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Studio Ghibli. Founded in 1985 by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, the studio has created some of Japan and the world’s best-loved animation with films like My Neighbor Totoro , Grave of …Read more »
Earlier this month the official Tokyo Ghoul teased the upcoming Ghoul prequel OVA, entitled Tokyo Ghoul [JACK] , by releasing a boatload of screenshots and announcing fall release period. Now we have an exact release date, plus the identity of the director behind the project. …Read more »
Just the other day, we were kind of sort of mentioning (okay, complaining might be the better word) about the lack of practically any information about the upcoming Dragon Ball Super , which, after all, hits the airwaves in mere weeks. The Super Saiyan Gods …Read more »
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