As recently revealed, Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket manga is getting a brand new anime in 2019. Per the author’s request, this series will tell the entire story from the beginning with a completely different staff and cast, some of which were revealed along with the …Read more »
As we reported a few months ago, shockingly, China has never had official releases of Studio Ghibli films. That’s being rectified this month, with the theatrical release of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro (a mere 30 years after its release in Japan). While the original …Read more »
Ao-Chan Can’t Study!, the racy comedy manga by Ren Kawahara, is setting an anime series. The manga, which is about a high school girl whose obsession with studying is interrupted by her first encounter with the opposite sex, is being adapted by Silver Link, with …Read more »
Shaft, the anime studio behind many fan favorites, has been hired by the Tokyo district of Ikebukuro. The studio is creating a promotional video that’s meant to appeal to anime fans from both inside and outside Japan. The full video is set to premiere January …Read more »
The results are in for Japan’s 2018 karaoke song rankings, and the number one song in the anime/tokusatsu/game category should come as no surprise. Taking the top spot is Neon Genesis Evangelion theme song “A Cruel Angel’s Thesis,” which is up three spots from last …Read more »
Dragon Ball Super: Broly‘s January 16, 2019 North American premiere is right around the corner, and now it’s time to take a look at the English dub cast. Funimation shared a video and a full cast lineup ahead of the English debut, so see who’s …Read more »
Being a Virtual YouTuber isn’t all fun and games, unless you’re a member of the One Piece anime’s voice cast, that is. The iconic voices behind Luffy and Usopp previously tried their hands at being VTubers, and now it’s Zoro and Brook’s turn. Watch as Kazuya …Read more »
A new trailer has arrived for revisions, an original sci-fi TV anime that has an unlikely group of survivors transported over 300 years into the future along with a chunk of Shibuya. Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass, Planetes) directs the series, with anime studio Shirogumi handling …Read more »
What do you get when you revive a generations-old legacy straight from the world of Ken Akamatsu’s Negima! series? You get the exciting saga of UQ Holder!, which follows the grandson of a famous hero as he unwittingly begins an adventure of his own. Now …Read more »
Kei Sasuga’s Domestic Girlfriend manga is getting a TV anime adaptation, and the official website has updated with a start date. Anime studio diomedea’s take on the series’ romantic complications will premiere as part of the Animeism block on MBS and TBS in Japan on …Read more »
A new trailer and key visual popped online for the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Arrow of the Orion anime film, which brings Fujinori Omori and illustrator Suzuhito Yasuda’s light novels to the big screen in Japan on February …Read more »
Mirai—the latest acclaimed anime film from director Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, Summer Wars)—recently made its U.S. theatrical debut, and there’s still time to see it for yourself. The next set of showings are scheduled for this week, with subtitled screenings …Read more »
We hear it a lot around here: the number of anime series goes up every year, but the actual number of animators doesn’t (no small wonder, with the money they get paid). That means production delays, wonky animation and sometimes flat-out cancelations. One group of …Read more »
We Never Learn, the upcoming anime series based on the manga by Taishi Tsutsui, is on its way, and now we’ve got a teaser video for the series. The romantic comedy centers around Nariyuki, a high school student who agrees to tutor two fellow students …Read more »
It turns out Broly won’t be the only Dragon Ball character to be canonized by Dragon Ball Super: Broly. The film, which comes out December 14, is the first official appearance by Broly, making him a part of the Akira Toriyama Dragon Ball canon. But …Read more »
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