Hey, remember Fruits Basket ? The shoujo manga about a family who turn into zodiac animals, adapted into a popular anime series back in 2001, will get an online sequel courtesy manga website HanaLala this September. Fruits Basket another takes place after the original series …Read more »
Anime fandom is not bereft of its more unexplainable trends, and even those well-versed in big name titles like Attack on Titan or One Piece can be left scratching their heads when presented with niche interests like Touhou Project, Homestuck or that whole Vocaloid business. …Read more »
Cowboy Bebop is like anime's White Album. In the 15 years since the crew of the Bebop—Spike, Faye, Jet, Edward and the highly intelligent Welsh Corgi Ein—blasted onto TV, it's become one of the most well-known anime series of all time. But there's still plenty …Read more »
Not particularly surprising news for those tracking the popularity of Sword Art Online in the west (a lot of you guys find us by searching for it!), but welcome news nonetheless: the second season of the massive multiplayer game-based series will be streamed on these …Read more »
If you want to know your manga history, you've got to start with Osamu Tezuka. The "god of manga," Tezuka created not only Astro Boy, Blackjack and a host of other iconic characters, he also pioneered the very system by which manga and anime are …Read more »
Like many other free-to-play videogames, Kancolle (Fleet Collection) walks a line between the user-friendliness needed to coax in a large player base... and the inevitability of charging for some important in-game function in order to make sure the game is both popular and profitable. There …Read more »
If our observations on a trip there last summer are any indication, anime is pretty popular in Taiwan. Animate, the otaku-centric anime shop, have a few stores there, and just as in the States, anime regularly airs on the TV. That became a small problem …Read more »
I was pretty happy sitting here reading Children of the Sea online the other day when I noticed that, as ryan of Same Hat said over at their blog, the floodgates are now officially open. As awesome as Sea is, readers that have been looking …Read more »
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