Earlier this month 28-year-old Kensuke Nakanishi allegedly did a major heist to steal almost $10,000 worth of rare Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon cards. Reports say that he went to the top of a tall building in Tokyo during the early morning hours, tied himself to the …Read more »
A survey of 1,449 people in the art world in Japan found that about 80% said they had faced harassment in their jobs. This survey includes people working in the anime industry, but it’s not limited to them, as it covers the art world in …Read more »
Juna Yamada, formerly of the J-pop band SKE48, was arrested yesterday for allegedly defrauding a man. According to police, Yamada pretended to be someone else on a dating app, where she met this man. She claimed that she could help him with investment advice and …Read more »
When you’re really down on your luck in a video game, the odds can seem stacked against you. That especially applies to some mobile games that may have arbitrary difficulty spikes or make it difficult or time-consuming (and expensive) to get the characters you want, …Read more »
Last month a St. Petersburg court banned Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul, and Inuyashiki in regards to websites where they were streaming. The anime were deemed bad for young people and the court officially said after watching some of this anime, “Every episode contains cruelty, murder, …Read more »
The 1980 sports anime Captain Tsubasa was playing in Chile in 2019 when it got threatened with a lawsuit accusing it of promoting violence against women. The scene in question is a short scene where a boy slaps a girl: At first the channel playing …Read more »
Shinji Aoba, the man who admitted to the Kyoto Animation arson that killed 36 people, has maintained that he did this because the company stole from the novel he submitted to them. Kyoto Animation has vehemently denied these allegations. Now Aoba, who has been formally …Read more »
Is life bringing you down lately? Got the COVID blues? Hey, at least you’re not a grown man who got arrested for making fake popsicle sticks. Okay, the sticks themselves weren’t fake, the writing on them was. Here’s the deal: there’s a famous brand of …Read more »
Tatsuya Matsuki, the writer of Act-Age, has been found guilty of a coerced indecent act. Matsuki had previously confessed to groping two middle school girls. During the trial, the prosecution argued for an 18-month prison sentence. Meanwhile, the defense argued that because Matsuki’s manga series …Read more »
In June it was announced that Shinji Aoba, the arrested suspect of the Kyoto Animation arson, would undergo psychiatric examinations to see if he is mentally competent enough to go to trial. Japanese prosecutors have announced they’re officially indicting Aoba, which indicates he must have …Read more »
Last December Tomohiro Maki, the president of Gainax, was arrested following accusations of sexual harassment and assault against someone contracted to one of his companies as a voice actress. According to Anime News Network, the Tokyo District Court has found him guilty and sentenced him …Read more »
Earlier this year Act-Age author Tatsuya Matsuki was arrested after being accused of sexual harassment and assault toward two middle school girls. Matsuki then acknowledged to police “there’s generally nothing incorrect” about what was said against him, and now one of the cases is in …Read more »
A 34-year-old man in Fujimicho, Tokyo has been arrested for allegedly selling a counterfeit Puella Magi Madoka Magica figure on an auction site. And the figure, it turns out, was very, uh, special. Get this: the suspect allegedly took the head off a legit figure …Read more »
Anime News Network picked up on a report that the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPA) put out a cease-and-desist toward the Nyaa torrent site. The MPA claims that Nyaa is taking part in copyright infringement and has done “significant, irreparable damage.” The MPA has …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 »
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