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 »
Game Freak, the company that develops Pokémon games, has suffered a major leak. Private information seems to have started to find its way online this past weekend, and Game Freak publicly acknowledged that it was hacked in August 2024. A number of things were taken …Read more »
A story out of Yokohama shows that not only is anime entertaining, it can potentially teach helpful life hacks and save the day! It all started on the night of September 16. Karin Ryo, a 23-year-old office worker, was at a convenience store shopping when …Read more »
A number of anime piracy sites have shut down recently, and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment coalition is involved with at least some of it. Aniwave, a particularly big piracy site, had this on its screen: “Creating better products that provide an improved user …Read more »
More information has come out about the recent large anime leaks. While there are still plenty of questions to be answered, both Netflix and Crunchyroll have acknowledged that they were affected. Netflix and Crunchyroll Leak Statements A spokesperson for Netflix told TheWrap news site, “One …Read more »
There have been some serious leaks in the anime world. Episodes of the new Ranma ½, DAN DA DAN, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Terminator Zero, and the whole anime movie Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa illegally found their way online. They appeared on various forums …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con 2024 has concluded. And while the con is mainly known as a place where people with interests in comic books, movies, anime/manga and more like to gather, it’s currently getting a lot of news for another reason: the human trafficking sting that …Read more »
The Kyoto Animation arson took place five years ago, on July 12, 2019. 36 people were killed, and many others were injured. A memorial monument has been publicly unveiled to honor the victims. Rather than set up the monument on the site of the old …Read more »
The results are in for the tax evasion case of Nekokurage, the illustrator of The Apothecary Diaries manga. The artist is receiving a suspended sentence of 10 months and being fined 11 million yen (approximately $70,600). The prosecution was trying to get a larger fine …Read more »
Park Jung-hyun, who used to work as the assistant editor-in-chief in Morning magazine and editor of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine (both Kodansha publications) was found guilty by the Tokyo District Court in 2019 for murdering his wife, Kanako. The case has since gone to the Tokyo …Read more »
People working at the Kyoto District Legal Affairs Bureau are supposed to be upholding the law, not breaking it. But an employee recently filed a damage report, alleging that another worker physically assaulted him — over giving away spoilers for Oshi no Ko! According to …Read more »
There’s a news story coming out of Japan about a member of the yakuza (the Japanese mafia) getting caught for an alleged crime that doesn’t exactly live up to the yakuza’s image of badass criminals: he’s accused of being a Pokémon card thief. And the …Read more »
Last year someone sent a slew of nasty, threatening messages to Nintendo, and as a result Nintendo called off some events out of safety concerns. Now police have announced that they believe they have the culprit. Beyond the threats, the man is in trouble for …Read more »
Danica Davidson
