Get ready for a month-long party, because The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star are celebrating their anniversaries together! Both are ringing in their 20th anniversary milestone, so Kadokawa announced an event that will put them in the spotlight throughout all of March. The …Read more »
Two big franchises, Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star, are, believe it or not, 20 years old this year. The first Haruhi Suzumiya light novel was published in June 2003, while the Lucky Star manga kicked off in December of the same year. Both properties were …Read more »
Kagami Yoshimizu’s Lucky Star manga first kicked off in Kadokawa’s Comptiq magazine back in 2004, ultimately compiling 10 volumes worth of material before Yoshimizu put the series on hiatus in 2014. At the time, the author was planning a new project, but now it’s time …Read more »
Getting repped in anime is fun, whether it’s someone with our personality or with our hobbies. Of course, there’s the big hobby we all have in common: watching anime. And there are plenty of anime fans running around in our favorite shows! Here are a …Read more »
Hey, you — yeah, you. We see you. You haven’t finished your gift shopping yet, have you? That’s okay, neither have we. (We won’t tell if you won’t.) And if you’re looking for anime gifts for a friend or family member, we’ve got some ideas …Read more »
Maesetsu! Opening Act is one of the latest anime series about teenage girls aiming for their dream. The dream this time? Performing their comedy routines at Nanba Grand Kagetsu Hall. It’ll take hard work, determination, and (most importantly) humor to get what they want. With …Read more »
Whether you’re going back to school in person, online, or sending one of your own back, the new school year is always a little stressful. If only academia was more like anime… well, in some cases, at least. Here are a few upbeat school anime …Read more »
Kuki, Saitama has spruced up a few of its manhole covers. The city, known best to anime fans as the setting for Lucky Star, has installed four colorful manhole covers based on that series. But wait, you say: wasn’t Lucky Star set in Washimiya? Yes …Read more »
Stories about underpaid animators and struggling manga authors have been pretty prominent in the last few years, but until now we hadn’t heard much about these problems extending to other parts of the industry. Aya Hirano is among the more successful voice actors in Japan, …Read more »
The hype for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is pretty strong over here in Japan, with nebuta floats and even rice fields molded into Star Wars shapes in anticipation of the new film. Publisher Kadokawa and anime magazine Newtype have also gotten in on the …Read more »
There's a scene in the none-more-otaku gag anime Lucky Star where the anime-obsessed American exchange student Patricia Martin is being asked about her taste in music. She stuns her friends by rattling off a surprisingly diverse list of Japanese pop artists, before it's revealed that …Read more »
Studying is not always fun, especially if you are taking a very difficult college entrance exam. Japanese college entrance exams are often called the “Hell Exams” and it is painful to prepare for all the tests. BUT, there is good news for Japanese high school …Read more »
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