On October 21, all-new feature film Special Edition! Free! -Take Your Marks- premiered in Japan at the 3rd KyoAni & Do Thanks Event, and it apparently ended with a tease for more Free! According to reports from the opening, the end of the feature relayed …Read more »
It’s got pools, it’s got muscled, shirtless swimmers and it’s got exclamation points – is DIVE!! the Free! of 2017? Decide for yourself with the first trailer for the series, which debuts July 6. The series, which will air on Fuji TV’s Noitamina programming block, …Read more »
Get ready to dive back into the world of Free! . The Kyoto Animation franchise about the boys of the Iwatobi Swim Club is set to get not one but three theatrical films this year, it was announced at an event yesterday. The first two …Read more »
This is a question that’s kept us up many a night, tossing and turning: just who are the 20 hottest guys in anime? Thankfully, pollsters Charapedia have come to the rescue, asking their readers to vote for their favorite hunks. The key point in this …Read more »
A promo event for the High ☆ Speed! - Free! Starting Days - Blu-ray was held this weekend, and with it came news that more Free! is on the way. There's currently no info on the format or timing of the new project, but hopefully …Read more »
Get your pencils ready. Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli on every film since 1997’s Princess Mononoke , will go open-source and available for free starting March 28. The software, renamed OpenToonz, will contain the custom Ghibli Edition developed by the legendary anime …Read more »
Teiko Junior High Basketball Club ( Kuroko's Basketball ) Certain Polling Site Charapedia has cooked up an interesting question for its readers this week about that enduring genre of anime and manga set in high school clubs. Whether sports, music, dance or student council, anime …Read more »
It’s a glorious day for combination rugby-anime fans. That’s because a bunch of information about the anime adaptation of rugby manga All Out!! is… out. All Out!! ’s director is Kenichi Shimizu, whose last anime was Parasyte -the maxim- . Handling series composition will be …Read more »
About a month ago, we posted a list of the top ten anime films of 2015, according to Japanese fans. As readers know, though, there’s often quite a big difference between “good” and “able to rake in a ton of cash.” Today anime news site …Read more »
No one can resist a good ponytail. That’s true for both the male and female respondents to the latest poll from Charapedia, which asked its readers to choose the anime girls who look best with the classic horse tail-resembling ‘do. Who wields anime’s best ponytails? …Read more »
Crunchyroll is now presenting an exclusive English dub of the first season of the Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club anime. The cast from the FUNimation production reprise their roles for the dub, which is now available to stream . Here's the cast and staff of …Read more »
Fangirls (and boys) rejoice! High☆Speed! - Free! Starting Days - has just been released on the big screen in Japan and we’ve got an exclusive review just for you. Fans have been anxiously waiting to see the pubescent versions of their favorite swimmers on the …Read more »
Kyoto Animation is popping Free! 's novel predecessor on the big screen in the form of the upcoming High ☆ Speed! - Free! Starting Days - anime film. The official website recently updated with a fourth special character promo , this time briefly highlighting Ikuya …Read more »
If you’ve been following our Japan coverage long enough, you know when a big new anime film comes out, there’s no consumer product they won’t team up with to promote the thing. This time around, the collaboration is between High☆Speed! - Free! Starting Days , …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 »
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