Anime music can really get inside your heart. A certain orchestral swell can remind you of the final tear-jerker moments of Gunbuster or throw you back into one of the epic battles of Attack on Titan. But sometimes the power of music is quite literal. And sometimes it gets …Read more »
It’s been a huge couple of years for anime films, so it should come as no surprise that the songs featured therein have been some of the hottest in Japan. This applies to karaoke rankings too, and Nagoya-based company XING unveiled the results of the …Read more »
The winners of the Tokyo Anime Film Festival have been revealed! To be eligible, these titles needed to have premiered between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022. For the category of best television anime, the winner was fan favorite SPY x FAMILY. As for …Read more »
This weekend saw the end of the record-breaking, award-winning One Piece Film Red run in Japan, and it went out with a major bang. The official Eiichiro Oda staff Twitter account confirmed that the movie has pulled in an incredible 31.9 billion yen (about US$245.27 …Read more »
Music plays a major role in One Piece Film Red, and the folks behind it have received the top special award from the Japan Academy Film Prize for their efforts. Believing them to have greatly contributed to the medium of Japanese film, the selection committee …Read more »
It’s been a monumental year for One Piece, and a lot of that can be attributed to the success of One Piece Film Red. The movie opened in Japan on August 6, 2022 and went on to be one of the highest-grossing films of the …Read more »
Every year sees NHK hosting a yearly music competition to ring in the new one, often featuring many of the top acts from the year that just came to an end. Naturally, it only makes sense that One Piece Film Red songstress Uta would be …Read more »
It’s been a huge year for anime films, from December 2021’s JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 to November 2022’s Suzume. Those are just two of four films that sit atop the list of Japan’s top 10 highest-grossing domestic films in 2022, and both JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 and …Read more »
One Piece Film Red has made its way around the world, following its landmark debut in Japan back in August. To mark the 100-day milestone, the official YouTube channel released an emotional video looking back at the movie’s run and how singer Uta made her …Read more »
One Piece Film Red finally made its way to North American theaters on Friday, November 4, and it ended up doing very well for itself over the weekend. The latest One Piece anime film managed to pull in US$9,475,251 in the United States, which was …Read more »
One Piece Film Red has had a hell of a time in Japanese theaters, so songstress Uta is taking a break from all that success to wish fans a Happy Halloween on this, the spookiest of days. Try not to jump as she attempts to …Read more »
One Piece Film Red hasn’t stopped dominating in Japan, and it most recently sailed past the 17 billion yen milestone with 12.31 million tickets sold. That makes it the 11th highest-grossing film in Japan and puts it in sixth place for all-time anime films, which …Read more »
As if you didn’t need another reason to visit the Animation is Film festival in Los Angeles, here’s another: it’ll be the host of the English dubbed version of One Piece Film Red. The film will screen on October 22. The festival runs from October …Read more »
This week began with Crunchyroll revealing November premiere plans for the One Piece Film Red feature’s voyage to English audiences, and it coincided nicely with yet another milestone for the film in Japan. According to the latest from the Japanese box office, Toei Animation’s production …Read more »
School marching bands are known for playing music from movies, so why not play music from an anime movie? This past weekend One Piece Film Red and Luffy made their mark with the University of Southern California’s marching band performance at the USC Trojans against …Read more »
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