Takashi Watanabe, director of How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, is concerned by the way he’s seeing anime studios handling COVID. He said he’s aware of an anime studio that has had to go into lockdown because of a COVID outbreak. Apparently there’s a …Read more »
Anime conventions and other types of cons have been struggling during quarantine, and now that quarantine is being lifted but COVID is still around, they’re struggling with what to do. Gaming convention PAX West, which will take place in Seattle, Washington on September 3-6, is …Read more »
The Japanese government is reworking panels from the manga Golgo 13 to encourage people to get their COVID vaccinations. The panels have been rewritten so that main character Togo now says, “I heard the Japanese government has a pressing assignment … What is it?” A …Read more »
Students in Tokyo taking standardized university entrance exams this past weekend were under strict guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID. All were required to wear masks, unless they had a medical reason not to do so, in which case they’d be placed safely in …Read more »
Danica Davidson
