If it feels like a Detective Conan film just came out, well, it kind of did. There’s been a Conan film every year since 1997, meaning we don’t always feel the need to report when the details of a new one emerge. Thing is, Conan …Read more »
Rumiko Takahashi, the manga creator behind works like Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Inu Yasha and many more, is up for the Angoulême Grand Prix, a prestigious French comics award. The award is presented yearly at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in Angoulême, France, which takes …Read more »
The director behind Ping Pong, Devilman Crybaby and more is back this year with his latest film, tentatively titled Kimito Namini Noretara (tentatively titled If I Could Ride The Wave With You or Riding a Wave With You in English). Now we know who will …Read more »
In what may be one of the more inspired promotions of late, voice actor Kenshō Ono (Tetsuya Kuroko in Kuroko’s Basketball) has been visiting a very appropriate location to hype up the My Roommate is a Cat anime, in which he voices Subaru Mikazuki. The …Read more »
How much do you love Pokémon? There are plenty of folks out there who love it enough to get a tattoo of one of the series’ many pocket monsters, but not many of them are as famous as Ariana Grande. One of the biggest pop …Read more »
Hey, how many kilos are the dumbbells you lift? This may sound like a completely off-topic question, but it happens to be the roughly translated title of Danberu nan kiro moteru?, a workout comedy manga by MAAM and Kengan Ashura author Yabako Sandrovich. The series …Read more »
Rising to the top of Japan’s publishing industry is tough enough as it is. The odds go down even more drastically for women, and that’s what makes Hiroko Matsukata’s ambitions so compelling in the Hataraki Man anime, coming to Blu-ray in a complete collection from …Read more »
With Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympics on the not-so-distant horizon, it’s only right that there be some thematically appropriate anime available around the same time. Kyoto Animation is on top of it, because a brand new Free! anime film has officially been revealed for summer of …Read more »
Voice actress Yūka Morishima currently has a role as Gripen in the Girly Air Force TV anime, based on the light novels written by Kōji Natsumi and illustrated by Asagi Tousaka. With the series currently on air, Avex Pictures took the opportunity to promote it …Read more »
One of the ongoing delights of the last two cours has been the anime adaptation of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, which is about to add another new cast member. The latest to get in on the fun is Takahiro Sakurai, who …Read more »
In/Spectre, AKA Kyokousuiri, is a series of super natural light novels written by Kyo Shirodaira, with illustrations by Hiro Kiyohara. The story follows a young woman imbued with supernatural powers after a run-in with the spirit world, and the main staff has been announced for …Read more »
Kengan Ashura, the upcoming adaptation of the hit manga by Sandrovich Yabako and by Daromeon, has found its opening band. That band is My First Story, who will perform the series’ opening theme, called “King & Ashley.” My First Story first got together in 2011, …Read more »
Ensemble Stars!, a smartphone game in which players produce the careers of male idol singers, is getting the anime treatment. Now we’ve learned that series will be airing in July. The news was announced at a concert in Tokyo January 13, which also included the …Read more »
It’s January, meaning we’re being hit with an onslaught of 2018 in review pieces, polls and more. We really like this one, though: it’s a look back not at any anime in specific, but the most memorable pieces of anime news. Here’s what the anime …Read more »
Setta Kobayashi, the artist and writer for Black Clover spinoff Asta-kun Mahotei e no Michi, took to Twitter this week to reflect on the feedback (or lack thereof) received by manga artists. In the posts, Kobayashi noted that unlike many other creatives, like musicians, manga-ka …Read more »
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