Revered Studio Ghibli co-founder and director Isao Takahata passed away last month at age 82, and the staff of his studio gathered to remember the late creator at a farewell ceremony. The ceremony was held on Tuesday at the Ghibli Museum, where Hayao Miyazaki shared …Read more »
The Tokyo Ghoul:re anime is getting a CD single release for its opening theme song, “asphyxia,” which features the band Cö shu Nie. Since original Tokyo Ghoul manga author Sui Ishida personally chose the band to perform the opening, it’s only fitting that he came …Read more »
We’re not too far off from the July 2018 premiere of the Angolmois TV anime, based on the historical seinen manga by Nanahiko Takagi. The series follows a band of samurai as they face the overwhelming 1274 ACE Mongol invasion of Japan, and you can …Read more »
Studio Colorido is adapting Tomihiko Morimi‘s Penguin Highway novel, and the production house has lined up a big act to perform its theme song. The duty falls to Hikaru Utada, known for her own albums as well as themes for the Evangelion movies and Kingdom …Read more »
When the Gintama anime adaptation returns this July, we can look forward to new opening and ending themes. As revealed on their respective websites, performers this time around will be SPYAIR on the opening and CHiCO with Honeyworks on the ending. Gintama‘s July return follows …Read more »
If you ever wanted to see what Luffy looks like in the real world, the latest opportunity comes in the form of the One Piece Oto Utage – Episode of East Blue stage production. Performances will be held at the Tokyo International Forum Hall C …Read more »
FLCL fans have a lot to look forward to, with a pair of long-awaited followups coming to Adult Swim this year. We’re not far out from the first, FLCL Progressive, which hits the anime programming block on June 2 at midnight. Ahead of that, it’s …Read more »
Dragon Garow Lee is a manga artist with a particularly adaptable visual style. He became internet-famous drawing mashup and doujinshi like One-Punch Man x Dragon Ball, and his sense of humor and ability to match the drawing style of so many different series landed him …Read more »
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation, the fourth film in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, will explode into Japanese theaters October 19, it was announced Sunday. A poster for the film, which shows Nanoha and crew ready for action, was also revealed. Filmgoers who purchase …Read more »
BanG Dream!, the anime series about a rockin’ girls’ band, has gotten the green light for both a second and third season, it was reported today. The second season will premiere in January 2019, while the third will come in October of the same year. …Read more »
The beefy ‘bot is back! Go Nagai has been celebrating what could be one of his biggest years yet, and it’s been nearly 50 years since he burst onto the scene with works like Devilman, Cutie Honey, and Mazinger Z. With the success of Devilman …Read more »
More crazy than you can shake a really big Sword at Respectively spurred on by ominous stirrings and a missing brother, a knight donning golden lion armor and an orphan named Sophie battle monsters called horrors in an attempt to find out what the hell …Read more »
Stories about underpaid animators and struggling manga authors have been pretty prominent in the last few years, but until now we hadn’t heard much about these problems extending to other parts of the industry. Aya Hirano is among the more successful voice actors in Japan, …Read more »
Fumi Hirano is a veteran voice actress with some classic roles under her belt, the most notable being Lum in Urusei Yatsura, based on the manga by Rumiko Takahashi. Next up is a role in the One Piece anime adaptation, in which Hirano will be …Read more »
The latest anime license from Sentai Filmworks is Scum’s Wish, a 12-episode series based on the manga by Mengo Yokoyari. Anime studio Lerche is behind the adaptation, and Sentai plans to release the series on home video and via electronic sell-through in the United States, …Read more »
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