Matcha Hazuki's One Week Friends manga—previously adapted into a 2014 TV anime that streamed on Crunchyroll and is licensed by Sentai Filmworks—is heading to the big screen next. The film officially has a premiere date, which puts it in Japanese theaters on February 18, 2017. …Read more »
Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates find themselves more powerful than ever yet still their gullible and goofy selves in One Piece Film: Gold , their 13th leap to the silver screen (and first since 2012). Maintaining the thrills and visual excitement of some of …Read more »
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV , the CG-animated film that’s a key part of the Final Fantasy XV franchise, will be released in digital form August 30, reports ANN. That’ll follow the film’s limited American theatrical release, which begins August 19. To top it all off, …Read more »
Pokémon Go was finally released in Japan the other day, finally giving players in Pokémon ’s country of origin the chance to look down at their phones and bonk their heads on things like everyone else. But this being Japan, players have really taken things …Read more »
Funimation added a real monster to its stable this weekend with the announcement of the rights for Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi's Godzilla: Resurgence , AKA Shin Godzilla . The initial announcement was made during San Diego Comic-Con, and Funimation followed up with more details …Read more »
You may recall the various incidents that have plagued the Japanese idol scene in recent years, like when two members of supergroup AKB48 were attacked by a saw-wielding fan at a handshake event in 2014, or when indie idol Mayu Tomita was stabbed in May. …Read more »
If you’re into Japanese stuff and kick around YouTube sometimes (pretty sure I just described 99% of our readers), you might’ve run into a channel run by a Japanese man named Yuta called, appropriately, That Japanese Man Yuta. Yuta has gained popularity for hitting the …Read more »
Scattered among the hundreds of headlines about Pokemon Go over the last few weeks: stories about people ending up in various states of injury while attempting to catch ‘em all. In Japan, where the game is ( still! ) not out, the government is taking …Read more »
Things are looking pretty grim in the latest trailer for Godzilla Resurgence , AKA Shin Godzilla , which has Evangelion 's Hideaki Anno teaming up with live-action Attack on Titan director Shinji Higuchi for what the latter promises will be the "scariest Godzilla yet." That …Read more »
(Almost) too sexy for TV. That’s this week’s theme over at ranking site Goo, where they’ve asked their readers to vote on a list of anime heroines who just skirt the limits of what’s acceptable on broadcast television. Who made the cut by wearing the …Read more »
Death Note is all over the place once more, from the Netflix-destined adaptation by director Adam Wingard ( You're Next , The Guest ) to the new Japanese live-action attempt, Death Note: Light Up the New World . In the case of the latter a …Read more »
Food Wars! has returned. The second season of the series, entitled The Second Plate , has begun airing, causing mass salivation throughout the world. And now the music video for the opening theme, “ROUGH DIAMONDS,” has been released, giving us a chance to rock out …Read more »
Funimation will be releasing the first film in the live-action Rurouni Kenshin trilogy in the US as Rurouni Kenshin: Origins , with screenings scheduled for August 8-10. With less than a month to go, Funimation busted out a new subtitled trailer promoting the feature's upcoming …Read more »
The next stop for Naoshi Arakawa's Your Lie in April manga is live-action film, with the feature set to open in Japan on September 23 after a premiere screening event on August 3. Takehiko Shinjo ( Paradise Kiss , Kiyoku Yawaku ) directs the film, …Read more »
Okay, imagine this, but with no Pikachu. Japan: 9 times out of 10, a pretty darn cool place to live if you’re into anime, manga and video games. An anime film is in theaters practically every week, manga is cheap as chips, and Japanese games …Read more »
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