This December 31, Japanese broadcaster NHK will be airing a special featuring hours of anime songs (or anison, if you will) from 2018 performed by their respective artists. The broadcaster has just released the full setlist for the show, which also serves as a kind …Read more »
Tetsuo!—Er, Tokyo! Tokyo Reborn, an upcoming NHK special about how Tokyo is changing in the lead-up to the 2020 Olympics, is getting some help from the creator of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo. The man behind that legendary manga and anime (set in the fictional Neo-Tokyo of …Read more »
We’ve got our first look at the live-action TV series adaptation of manga My Brother’s Husband, and so far, we’re not sure how it could be any more faithful to the original. The promotional still, released this week, shows actors Baruto Kaito, Maharu Nemoto and …Read more »
If you want to get a peek behind-the-scenes at the life and work of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, now’s your chance. NHK World TV is set to re-air an English-subtitled version of last year’s documentary "Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki" this June. The documentary, which …Read more »
A series of Japanese novels adapted into an anime series by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex director Kenji Kamiyama back in 2007, Moribito is now set to become a live-action series starring Haruka Ayase ( Our Little Sister ). Aside from Ayase, other …Read more »
Yesterday, Japanese TV station NHK announced starting next year, they will be showing reruns of Love Live! , the popular series about idols who team up to prevent their school from shutting down. That and a weird conflux of other otaku-related topics, prompted a wave …Read more »
The perils of budding mangaka have been illustrated in Weekly Shonen Jump since August 11, 2008 in the pages of Bakuman , the latest series from Death Note writer/artist team Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Now, as was surely destined from the start, the manga …Read more »
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