Today new promotional videos for the upcoming anime adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable hit screens across Japan. Three screens, that is. The videos debuted on large screens outside major train stations across the country, causing impromptu meetups for JoJo’s fans wanting to …Read more »
The life of a kid isn’t supposed to be tough. Normal children shouldn't have to do more than be cute, go to school, do their homework and stuff like that, right? These kids, on the other hand, are out there battling Super Saiyan, capturing Pokemon …Read more »
Hoping to gain more insight into where the industry is headed, Japanese site Anime Anime polled its readership late last year, asking exactly how they go about watching anime and about their home video buying habits. The first question asked was, “normally, how do you …Read more »
In this ever-changing world in which we live in, it can be hard not to become a cynic. So all the more power to these 20 anime characters, who Japanese fans have chosen as anime’s purest. Believing in the people around them, these characters, for …Read more »
Our favorite anime and manga pollsters, Charapedia, are at it again this week with another question for the anime-loving Japanese masses, and their subject this time is a doozy: anime’s most shogekiteki na kamigata : shocking hairstyles. This is our favorite poll in a while. …Read more »
Studio Ghibli: the legendary anime studio founded by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki after the completion of their film Nausicaa really needs no introduction. Beloved by anime fans and mainstream film lovers alike, Ghibli’s films have become essential viewing in their native Japan …Read more »
Now that the fall 2015 anime season is underway (man, is The Perfect Insider kind of interesting or what?), anime news site Anime Anime asked their readers to take a look back at the crispy days of summer and rate their favorite summer 2015 series. …Read more »
What anime would you like to show your children? That’s the question posed by anime polling site Charapedia, who asked their readers, took those results and baked them into a top 20 stew fit for all children. Maybe. Without delay, the results: 20. Puella Magi …Read more »
There are perhaps no more important 90 seconds in an anime series than its opening or ending theme song. Either setting the tone for the entire series to come or serving to wrap up episode after episode, the best opening and ending themes are destined …Read more »
If there’s one clear trend we’ve seen over the last few years in Japan, it’s a rise in the number of live-action adaptations of anime and manga. It’s to the point where over half of the films we review here at Japan HQ aren’t even …Read more »
Polls, polls, polls. The Japanese internet can’t get enough of them, and truth be told, nor can we. It’s just so fun to see what those folks in Japan are thinking about, y’know? This week Charapedia asked its readers to pick the top 10 anime …Read more »
Okay, this is one of the best polls in a while. As certified fans of facial hair, we were delighted here at OUSA HQ this week to see the subject of anime polling site Charapedia’s latest top 20: anime’s best beards. But it gets even …Read more »
Even anime fans who aren’t particular Dragon Ball experts are probably familiar with the premise: assemble the seven dragon balls and your wish is Shenron’s command. Japanese ranking site Goo has polled its readers with the question: if you had the seven dragon balls, what …Read more »
Captain Tsubasa There are many reasons young people decide to participating in sports: through the influence of parents, friends, coaches, etc. In Japan, the land where there are manga about just about anything, comics naturally also play a part in what sports young people choose. …Read more »
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Japanese Death Note Fans Comment On Hollywood Version Plans
Japanese Death Note Fans Comment On Hollywood Version Plans
The news the other day that the Hollywood version of Death Note will probably be rated R caused a bunch of anime fans to remember “oh right, there’s gonna be a Hollywood Death Note ,” leading to a flurry of comments on this site and …Read more »