Cities around the world are doing their best to lessen the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but a recent Kyoto manga strategy ended up rubbing some people the wrong way. Restaurants remain a risky place to visit considering the need to remove masks to …Read more »
Anime Boston cannot catch a break, man. It was about 11 months ago that we reported the 2020 edition of the convention had been canceled. Now, unfortunately, we’re doing it all over again. The con has made the difficult but inevitable decision to cancel for …Read more »
The Japanese confectionery business Tohoen, which has been making sweets for more than a century, has come out with some pretty unique candy in time for Valentine’s Day. Instead of your typical hearts, these candies all have a COVID-19 theme. Tohoen wrote on its site, …Read more »
Electronic billboards at the Nishitetsu Fukuoka Station, Fukuoka city subway and the Tenjin station have been airing COVID messages with writing and font that looks as if it came from Evangelion. Tenjin Site, which gives information on the area, shared a tweet of the electronic …Read more »
Just as Evangelion fans in Japan were finally about to be able to check out the long-awaited and delayed fourth film, Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time, Japan’s State of Emergency went into effect. While the movie is still slated to open wide in Japan …Read more »
Weathering With You, the mega-hit from Makoto Shinkai, will be broadcast on terrestrial Japanese TV for the first time January 3. Shinkai has created a special epilogue specifically for the broadcast that reflects on the hard year 2020 has been for everyone. The one-minute clip …Read more »
Every February, the Northern island of Hokkaido is host to the Sapporo Snow Festival, which typically attracts around two million people to the region to take in the amazing snow and ice sculptures based on anime, manga, other aspects of pop culture, and the world …Read more »
Square Enix, the video game company behind iconic titles like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, will allow its employees to work from home permanently going forward. The change is a result of a survey of employees at home temporarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic: some …Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit a lot of businesses in Japan hard. That includes a shop in Nara specializing in plastic model kits which closed due to the effects of the pandemic. But now its owners are finding a new way to do business by …Read more »
It will be no shock to hear this, but Japanese movie theaters have had a hard year. As with most cinemas worldwide, Japan’s had basically no customers for months in the early part of the year. Unlike most other places (minus New Zealand and Taiwan, …Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t hit Japan as hard as other places in the world: there are only about 600 new cases per day, and life is relatively back to normal after a quasi-lockdown earlier this year. Still, many places are seeing the impact of less …Read more »
She can sing, she can entertain, and now she can help in the fight against the COVID spread. I’m talking about Hatsune Miku, who is now an official Coronavirus Countermeasure Supporter for the Japanese government’s Office for Novel Coronavirus Disease Control. According to SoraNews24, she’ll …Read more »
It’s going to be a little longer than expected before we can play as Travis Touchdown again: No More Heroes III has been delayed until 2021 (thanks, COVID). That’s the word from Goichi Suda, aka Suda51, who reported the sad news today. The game was …Read more »
EX-ARM, the anime adaptation of the manga from Shinya Komi and HiRock, was supposed to be on TV already, but then, y’know, stuff. Now we’ve learned that the series has finally locked up a premiere date (or month, anyway): January 2021. The series will star Soma …Read more »
2020 has been a challenging year for everyone, especially those looking to put on public performances. While Love Live! Sunshine!! VA unit Aqours was aiming to hold a fifth anniversary dome tour this year, all performances have been canceled in light of the ongoing COVID-19 …Read more »
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