The third season of the Kaguya-sama: Love is War anime, titled Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai -Ultra Romantic-, is coming out on April 9. But some lucky fans will get to see it early, thanks to Aniplex of America. The American premiere advanced screening will take place …Read more »
I could barely believe it in 2012, when the United States finally saw a DVD release of the 1979 shojo anime classic, The Rose of Versailles. In 2020, I was taken even more aback by the release of an English version of Riyoko Ikeda’s original …Read more »
Last year the wedding market was introduced to something new: One Piece themed wedding dresses. This is thanks to a wedding company called Placole, and they just released four more inspired wedding dresses. Here is the wedding dress inspired by Boa Hancock. Here is the …Read more »
Accident-prone klutz Izumi has terrible luck. The one bright spot in his awkward school career is his girlfriend Shikimori, an undeniably cool girl with good grades, the looks of a model and the reflexes of a cheetah. For some as-yet-unknown reason she’s fallen for the …Read more »
Da Vinci, a Japanese magazine published by Kadokawa Media Factory that covers manga news, is releasing an issue on June 5 that has all kinds of Attack on Titan extras. The July issue will have a Eren x Mikasa “romcom collection” (though it doesn’t go …Read more »
Kazune Kawahara is the mangaka behind My Love Story!!, High School Debut and more, and it was just announced that she’s about to release a new series. Her new manga will be called Taiyō Yori mo Mabushii Hoshi (translated as A Star Brighter Than the …Read more »
When The Rose of Versailles first began in 1972, Riyoko Ikeda set out to tell a tale of the French Revolution. Contrary to fears that such a story wouldn’t fly, it quickly became a hit. And one of its secondary characters, Lady Oscar Francois de Jarjeyes, …Read more »
CLAMP has produced a long list of hit manga, but in the 2000s, one reigned supreme. After winning over younger readers with Cardcaptor Sakura and the magical girl audience with Magic Knight Rayearth, CLAMP took a different approach and went after teenage boys. Enter Chobits. …Read more »
In summer 2020’s Rent-A-Girlfriend, college student Kazuya Kinoshita avails himself of a service that lets him… well, rent a girlfriend. The service is meant to assist struggling, lonely guys; but it seems like Kazuya’s struggles are only increasing. And that’s with multiple girls in his …Read more »
Adachi and Shimamura, the upcoming fall anime from Tezuka Productions, has picked up a release date: October 8. That’s on top of a brand-new trailer and visual for the series released today. The series, about two girls whose friendship turns into something more, is directed …Read more »
In the Victorian setting of Goodbye, My Rose Garden, a young Japanese woman named Hanako has traveled to England to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist. Her first step is to speak with the author whose work has resonated with her the most, the …Read more »
When Viz Media first began, one of the staff’s dream projects was to release Rumiko Takahashi’s rom-com magnum opus Maison Ikkoku. That dream has since been realized several times over, and the series is now back in print in a prestige Viz Signature edition. After …Read more »
Last week we asked our readers to vote on what they felt was the best romance anime series and films. We’ve compiled a ranked list of the top 20 choices out of the 60+ candidates which were in the running. The results were as follows: …Read more »
In the past, we’ve covered what Japanese fans think about romance anime series, but we haven’t polled our readers on the topic before, and there’s no time like the present! We’ve assembled a list of over 60 of the most likely candidates; vote for your …Read more »
Disappointed by his failure to connect with students, young home ec teacher Shinji Yabe starts a cooking club. But the only student to show up is Miku Okazaki, “the school’s number one gal,” who has huge boobs, masses of bleached blonde hair, and no domestic …Read more »
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