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 »
Masks are an essential item worldwide these days. But that doesn’t mean you have to wear the same ol’ white ones as everyone else. For example, if you’re a fan of Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-, and you’re happy to share that fact on …Read more »
Convention season is still going strong, even if it’s been downgraded a tad to virtual convention season. Unfortunately, another event has been fully canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest is Anime NYC Powered By Crunchyroll. Anime NYC 2020 was scheduled for …Read more »
The slew of conventions going virtual to avoid the spread of COVID-19 continues with New York Comic-Con. Typically held in fall, it was previously unclear whether the con would go ahead or not depending on how things were looking in regards to the pandemic, but …Read more »
The world is going through a lot right now, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic isn’t making things any easier. It’s understandable if some folks are having a harder time than others, which is why it’s so important to work together so we can all get …Read more »
58-year-old voice actor Toshihiko Seki—known for roles such as Iruka Umino in Naruto, Muzan Kibutsuji in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and Senketsu in Kill la Kill, among many others—is the latest in the industry to test positive for COVID-19. The announcement came through agency …Read more »
Many things are being done differently as we move through the COVID-19 pandemic, and that includes voice-over work in Japan for the latest anime. Anime News Network interviewed Seiichi Nakayama, a sound engineer from the production company G-angle, to see how things are being handled. …Read more »
The pandemic has been tough on a lot of people, and that definitely applies to events and those who depend on them. In the case of the World Cosplay Summit, the executive office issued an announcement this week that they will be turning to crowdfunding …Read more »
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