Yahoo! Japan (yes, Yahoo is still a commonly used search engine in Japan) has just released its Search Awards for 2023 — a list of pop culture faves that received the most searches for the year. The search award for anime went to Oshi no …Read more »
The Japanese magazine TV Bros. has announced their winner for the Bros. Comic Award 2020. According to Anime News Network, the esteemed honor goes to My Broken Mariko by Waka Hirako. As part of the decision, Hirako will illustrate two covers (one of which will …Read more »
Yesterday the Harvey Awards announced their lineup of 2020 nominations. The Best Manga category, which was first implemented in 2018, goes as follows: H.P. Lovecraft’s At Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe (Dark Horse Manga) The Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu …Read more »
Last November saw the suspension of the 11th Kyoto Animation Awards, which was expected since it was to come just months after the arson attack on Studio 1. As for when the awards will be hosted again, Kyoto Animation said they considered doing so at …Read more »
One of the brightest spots of the Winter 2020 anime season was director Masaaki Yuasa and Science SARU’s adaptation of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!. It seems the members of Japan’s Association of Broadcast Critics agree, because the series was granted the honor of one …Read more »
With all the success Makoto Shinkai’s latest film has enjoyed, it should come as no surprise that it will be aiming for the top prize. The Japan Film Makers Association has chosen Weathering With You as the representative film of Japan to be submitted to the Academy …Read more »
The Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize is a prestigious award handed out each year to manga artists that adhere to the type of approach the God of Manga applied to his own creations. Last year’s winner was Satoru Noda, who took the award home for his …Read more »
We had a good opportunity to see what recent anime fans in the west were crazy for during this weekend’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Check out the results here if you missed it! Elsewhere, the Tokyo Anime Award Festival handed out its Anime Fan Award to …Read more »
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards, an anime awards show hosted by the streaming service of the same name, were held this weekend in San Francisco. The event featured 15 categories, with anime from 2018 chosen by judges (including a few Otaku USA folks) and fans. Let’s …Read more »
One good U.S. theatrical run deserves another, especially when the movie in question happens to be up for an Academy Award. Mamoru Hosoda’s MIRAI may be the only anime film recognized in the Best Animated Feature category, but it’s doing its all to garner some …Read more »
It’s anyone’s guess as to whether Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai will win at the Academy Awards, but this weekend, the film pulled in another impressive distinction. The 2018 film won for Best Animated Independent Feature at the Annie Awards, the long-running animation awards from the International …Read more »
Rumiko Takahashi, the manga creator behind works like Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Inu Yasha and more, has won the Angoulême Grand Prix, a prestigious French comics award. She’s the third Japanese comics creator, after Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball) and Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), and only the …Read more »
It’s time to see if anime has a chance at earning another Oscar, because Mamoru Hosoda’s latest is officially in the running for the 91st annual Academy Awards. Mirai is among the nominees for the Best Animated Feature category, an honor it shares with the …Read more »
Another year, another Manga Taisho. This award, one of the most prestigious out there, is for up-and-coming manga titles with eight or fewer collected volumes. Each year, folks employed at bookstores around Japan get together (in spirit, at least) to select the nominees. This year, …Read more »
Rumiko Takahashi, the manga creator behind works like Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Inu Yasha and many more, is up for the Angoulême Grand Prix, a prestigious French comics award. The award is presented yearly at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in Angoulême, France, which takes …Read more »
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