Hot on the heels of yesterday's news about Kodansha Comics licensing Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail Zero prequel manga is the announcement of a TV anime adaptation. Plans were revealed on the wraparound jacket band of the main manga's 52nd volume in Japan, with more details …Read more »
Fairy Tail author Hiro Mashima launched a prequel manga, Fairy Tail Zero , in the first issue of Monthly Fairy Tail back in July 2014. The series ended up running through the magazine's final issue this past July, resulting in one full volume depicting the …Read more »
The Parasyte -the maxim- anime may have come to a close, but a series of manga promotions continues to go on strong. This one has various manga artists providing their own take on Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte in the form of manga one-shots, and the latest …Read more »
Tokyo-based band BACK-ON has been making high-energy music for anime openings and themselves for a little over a decade now. After breaking onto the scene with “Chain,” the opening song for 2006’s Air Gear , they’ve since gone on to create openings and endings for …Read more »
Japanese learners, here’s a useful one for you: ojisan , which can mean both uncle and “middle-aged dude,” basically (an official translation will nab you “old man,” but most people who get called ojisan aren’t that old). It’s the young whippersnappers who usually get top …Read more »
There's another Fairy Tail anime film on the way according to this year's 25th issue of Weekly Shonen Magazine . The issue hits Japan on Wednesday, May 20, with the announcement that the second Fairy Tail movie has been green-lit, as well as an imageboard …Read more »
This past weekend Tokyo hosted AnimeJapan, the second annual event that combined the Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Anime Contents Expo into one massive convention for both industry types and regular fans. With around 120,000 attendees, it’s one of the biggest anime gatherings in …Read more »
Shonen manga. Love it as you might, you’ve gotta admit the action-packed genre, aimed squarely at boys 10 to 18 but with an actual audience much larger than that, deals in a lot of what cynics might call “cliches” but fans might call, uh, “fixed …Read more »
The former Tokyo International Anime convention teamed up with Anime Contents Expo this year to put on what is arguably the world’s biggest anime exhibition, Anime Japan 2014. On Sunday, March 23rd, Tokyo Big Site in Odaiba hosted thousands of visitors, all eager to see …Read more »
A couple hot bits of Fairy Tail news landed on our desk this week, so let’s not waste any time and get right down to ‘em, shall we? First comes news of a new magazine called Monthly Fairy Tail , announced by creator Hiro Mashima …Read more »
Two of the cast members from the Fairy Tail anime adaptation follow-up—Ryōko Ono (Mirajane Strauss) and Shinpachi Tsuji (Makarov Dreyar)—recently appeared on a special Nico web broadcast to promote the anime. Thus, we now have a new promotional clip previewing some of the action. Fairy …Read more »
As promised, issue six of Weekly Shonen Magazine had big news for fans of the anime adaptation of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail , with the series set to return to television in April 2014. Fairy Tail 's return brings back director Shinji Ishihara and writer …Read more »
Crunchyroll recently set up a major move to jump into the manga game. As announced via Japan's Nikkei Business Daily , in a special partnership, Crunchyroll will simultaneously publish a select assortment of Kodansha's manga series, and it all starts on Wednesday, October 30. 12 …Read more »
Fairy Tail manga author Hiro Mashima is pretty active on Twitter , often sharing fun, and sometimes sexy, sketches with his followers. Images like this one show the creator getting in the spirit of the season, while other recent entries are a bit more scantily …Read more »
FUNimation had a handful of titles to announce at this past weekend's Otakon in Baltimore, MD. In addition to more recent fare like the remaining episodes of the Fairy Tail anime (up to 175), FUNimation also rescued a few licenses, including that of Cowboy Bebop …Read more »
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