From Death Note to Cowboy Bebop, from One Piece to Yu Yu Hakusho and beyond, Netflix is on a mission. They’re adding title after title to their “Geeked” lineup, courting anime fans with the promise of their faves in glorious 3D. Except… well… it hasn’t always worked out. Some …Read more »
It’s time for Hollywood to take another crack at adapting Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s Death Note manga. Following up on director Adam Wingard’s 2017 effort, Netflix is starting all over again with a new live-action series from Matt and Ross Duffer, also known as …Read more »
It’s been around 16 years since the main Death Note manga ended, but it doesn’t exactly seem like it. Maybe that’s because of the indelible mark it left behind. Love it or hate it, Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba’s series remains popular, thanks in no …Read more »
He’s one of the world’s most popular comic book superheroes, with decades of adaptations to his name. And, in the DC Comics universe, he’s known as the World’s Greatest Detective. So yeah, Batman is pretty good. But how good is he? Because, see, anime has its …Read more »
Some anime are more popular in certain countries than others, and some anime are more popular in certain states than others. CenturyLinkQuote has released their findings on which anime are currently the most popular in each state. According to PC Magazine, CenturyLinkQuote got their results …Read more »
Elections tend to have public service announcements and activists reminding people to vote, and the Honduras presidential election got an unusual person involved: Light Yagami from Death Note. This is not in any official capacity from the creator or publisher, and Light doesn’t suggest any …Read more »
Have you stocked up on Halloween candy for the week? Got your bags of bite-sized snacks all ready for the trick-or-treaters? Good. Now guard them with your life. Because anime is full of characters who will absolutely steal it all from you. Sweet-toothed characters are …Read more »
There’s sad news as it was revealed that prolific stage, TV, film and voice actor French Tickner passed away recently. Anime fans would probably know him best from playing Watari in Death Note, Dozle Zabi in Mobile Suit Gundam, and Kagome’s grandfather in Inuyasha. The …Read more »
This week, voice actor Kiyoshi Kobayashi announced that he would be stepping down from the role of Daisuke Jigen. The voice actor has held his tenure longer than any other Lupin the Third actor, and was the final hold-out of the cast’s first generation. So, starting …Read more »
Death Note artist Takeshi Obata is working on a new manga, but this time around he’s not doing it with his usual partner in crime, Tsugumi Ohba. Instead, the manga will be written by novelist Akinari Asakura, who is the author of Rokunin no Uso-tsuki-na …Read more »
A premiere month has officially been revealed for the Platinum End anime, the adaptation of the manga by Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The series is set to kick off on TV in Japan this October, and the first trailer is here …Read more »
Hollywood and anime. They go together like… well, a lot of times, it feels like they don’t. Live-action adaptations of anime are already fraught with peril. But it seems like when Hollywood in particular has a go, the peril is even more perilous. It’s not …Read more »
We Got This Covered recently interviewed writer Greg Russo, mostly covering his Mortal Kombat work, but also his involvement with Netflix’s Death Note 2. Netflix’s live-action Death Note was not a hit with otaku, to say the least. Russo distanced himself from the first movie, …Read more »
As nice as it would be, not all our problems can be solved via brute force. Fortunately, there are smart anime characters on hand to get things done… in their respective shows, of course. We don’t have access to those smarts in the real world. …Read more »
Anime musicals are getting to be like anime mobile games… wait long enough, and your favorite show will probably have one. Shows like Sailor Moon and The Prince of Tennis have their own series of stage shows, with fandoms as devoted as those of the original series. …Read more »
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