A sequel was previously announced for the K anime, but the format wasn't specified. That's since been cleared up, with King Records' Starchild brand confirming the sequel as a "new season." The return of K is currently slated for 2015. K new season is coming …Read more »
Update: FUNimation has since added more cast members to the mix, including Johnny Yong Bosch (Lelouch in Code Geass ) as Makoto Tachibana, Todd Haberkorn (Natsu in Fairy Tail ) as Haruka Nanase, and Vic Mignogna (Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist ) as Rin Matsuoka. …Read more »
It’s now less than a day before VIZ’s uncut Sailor Moon is released on DVD and Blu-ray. To whet your appetites (or, you know, make the wait all the more painful), I spoke with Tuxedo Mask’s actor Robbie Daymond at Detroit’s Youmacon convention. While Daymond …Read more »
Miyazaki with Pixar chief John Lasseter at the ceremony Legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki received an honorary Oscar for his “years of contributions to the motion picture industry” at a ceremony on Sunday. Receiving the award, Miyazaki said, “my wife told me I’m a very …Read more »
Assassination Classroom , the popular manga about a group of students whose assignment is to kill their alien teacher, is set to hit the airwaves January 9. In anticipation, a preview video that reveals some new footage from the series hit the net courtesy Fuji …Read more »
As we noted last week, for a manga that's come to an end, there sure seems to be more new Naruto stuff than ever being announced these days. The latest news, according to ANN, is that a new TV special is set to air December …Read more »
Looks like Aska isn’t the only J-pop artist in trouble for drug use. Kosuke Oba, a composer who has worked with idol groups like AKB48 and on anime like Prince of Tennis and Steins;Gate , was recently arrested for using stimulant drugs. Police were clued …Read more »
In 2013, Youmacon began a tradition of crowning a King of Youmacon, and this year actor, director, producer and writer Tom Wayland received the golden crown. How did he get this prestigious honor? “I guess from having the nastiest sense of humor,” he joked. “They …Read more »
If you’re a giant Evangelion fan and planning to visit Japan in the near future, may we humbly suggest sometime next year between January 23 and May 10? That’s when Universal Studios Japan will be running “Evangelion The Real 4D,” a new attraction based on …Read more »
Apparently Universal Studios Japan, Tokyo Disneyland’s rival down in Osaka, is not content to simply put on a first-of-its-kind, 4D Evangelion event – they’ve also announced "Attack on Titan The Real," an attraction set to feature two life-size Titans. Visitors will be able to see …Read more »
Parasyte , Hitoshi Iwaaki’s early 90s manga about body-snatching creatures who infect humans and attempt to take over the world, is back in a big way this year with an anime series, Parasyte the maxim , and two live-action films, the first of which premiered …Read more »
A lot of comments we got on our post about Gundam Reconguista in G the other day were some variation on “my favorite Gundam is still definitely Gundam Wing !” The mid-90s Gundam series, which ran for 49 episodes, gained a lot of popularity in …Read more »
In celebration (or lament) of the release of Mamoru Oshii's Garm Wars: The Last Druid , we decided to revisit his "Kerberos Saga" by pulling two of Daryl Surat's stories on the subject out of the vault from way back in 2008. For all the …Read more »
This story was originally published in the April 2008 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is the finest Mamoru Oshii film not actually directed by Mamoru Oshii. Although Oshii wrote the screenplay and established the universe, it’s the first (and only) film …Read more »
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Danica Davidson
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