The sexual assault scandal that hit Fuji TV continues to make international news, and women’s rights advocates in Japan are hoping this means some real change is happening. This all started after it was revealed that Fuji TV host (and former idol) Masahiro Nakai had …Read more »
Fuji TV continues to be in hot water from the sexual assault scandal that’s rocked it. Otaku USA readers might recall that in December 2024, Japanese magazine Weekly Bunshun reported that Masahiro Nakai from the boy band SMAP — who was a TV host on …Read more »
There is another twist in the case of Shinji Aoba, the convicted Kyoto Animation arsonist who was sentenced to the death penalty for murdering 36 people and injuring 32 more. Aoba and his legal team appealed the death sentence after he received it last year, …Read more »
Shinji Aoba, who murdered people at Kyoto Animation in an arson attack, was given the death penalty in 2024, and he and his lawyers appealed the ruling. Aoba admitted that he had committed the crime, but his defense had tried to get him a lesser …Read more »
There have been some shakeups at Fuji TV and its parent company Fuji Media Holdings Inc. after a sexual assault scandal rocked the network. Last month, the Japanese magazine Weekly Bunshun published a report alleging that Masahiro Nakai, who was once part of the band …Read more »
Costco is selling Pokémon 151 Blooming Waters Premium Collection packs, but one store got more than it bargained for when people became violent trying to get the cards. You can find all the original 151 Pokémon in the pack, and there might be some special …Read more »
Kouichirou Itou, an anime producer best-known for working on a number of Makoto Shinkai’s movies, is back in the news because of updates in his criminal trial. Itou was originally arrested in February 2024, almost a year ago, after authorities working on prostitution cases stumbled …Read more »
There are some updates in the legal case involving publisher PCR Distributing and adult manga site nHentai. PCR Distributing alleges that nHentai has been pirating the publishers’ work and ignoring their demands to take it down. The adult site fought back, alleging that PCR Distributing …Read more »
A case of murder in New Zealand has taken a new turn involving anime. In 2017, Gabriel Hikari Yad-Elohim — whose birth name appears to be Jung Hoon Song — viciously murdered 69-year-old Michael Mulholland. Yad-Elohim, who is now 36, had recently been discharged from …Read more »
Last year, Otaku USA reported on a member of second biggest yakuza group getting busted for stealing Pokémon cards. But it turns out more members of the yakuza, also known as the Japanese mafia, are apparently getting more and more interested in using Pokémon cards …Read more »
The Nagano Aniera Festa 2024, an anime song festival that took place in Nagano’s Komaba Park in September, was supposed to be about multiple days of fun. Those plans came to a halt on September 22, when a stabbing attack occurred and caused the next …Read more »
In August, Netflix suffered some major leaks, which included anime episodes and movies finding their way online. At the time, a spokesperson for Netflix said publicly, “One of our post-production partners has been compromised and footage from several of our titles has unfortunately leaked online. …Read more »
Haruna Kojima, who was a member of the massive idol group AKB48 from 2005 to 2017, recently had some drama unfold while she was stumping for her new photo album, Kamoshirenai. She had a launch event at the Shibuya Tsutaya building in Tokyo, and that …Read more »
Prolific anime voice actor and director David Wald, whose credits include voicing Hannes in Attack on Titan and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu in My Hero Academia, has accused Crunchyroll of illegally opening his mail and more. In a post seen more than seven million times on X …Read more »
Japanese publishers are getting more aggressive going after piracy sites, and in one case publisher PCR Distributing is taking legal action against the site nHentai. Quite a bit of PCR Distributing’s adult work ends up on nHentai, where the piracy site is offering it for …Read more »
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