Noragami Aragoto , the second season of manga adaptation Noragami , premieres October 3 on Tokyo MX. The second season will cover the manga’s Bishamon arc. Aragoto will feature the same cast and crew as last year’s Noragami , including director Kotaro Tamura and animation …Read more »
Not a ton of details yet, but good news for fans of sci-fi horror series Terra Formars : the anime is set to get a sequel. That’s the word from the upcoming issue of Young Jump magazine, where the original Terra Formars is published. The …Read more »
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 »
Boy, that would’ve been something. I’m talkin' bout the abandoned plan by Mad Max director George Miller to make an anime companion film to the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road . Miller talked about the anime film at length this week, revealing that it was …Read more »
Good news for those of you who enjoyed this winter’s Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend : the boredom will continue in the form of a sequel. That’s according to the staff of the first anime series, who made the announcement at a Saekano …Read more »
Someday, there will be a week we squeak by without reporting on any live-action anime adaptations. But it is not this week. The rights to the Hollywood-produced live-action version of the Hollywood-produced anime mashup Robotech has switched hands from Warner Bros. to Sony Pictures, reports …Read more »
Azure Striker Gunvolt is basically a new Mega Man game. It was developed by Inti Creates, the guys responsible for the Mega Man Zero series, Mega Man 9 , and Mega Man 10 . It features a protagonist who dashes by pressing the L button, …Read more »
Another reason for residents of the Southland to go about their day humming Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.”: 2014’s LA EigaFest will host the American premieres of both the live-action Lupin III and Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno films. You lucky dogs. The 4th annual LA …Read more »
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto's Inferno , the sequel to the live-action film based on the popular swordfighting manga, had an impressive weekend at the box office, opening at number one and having the biggest opening for a live-action film in Japan this year. Kyoto's Inferno , …Read more »
Otaku USA e-News Flashback 2012: Your faithful editor and film reviewer pops out of a theater in Tokyo's Roppongi neighborhood and heads to a cafe next door to pen his review of the new Rurouni Kenshin film, by which he is not particularly impressed. While …Read more »
Harmony Gold, the company behind Robotech , canceled their Robotech Academy Kickstarter project August 2nd, six days before the project’s deadline. Robotech Academy had received about $200,000 in pledges, far short of the $500,000 goal. Robotech Academy , if successfully funded, was to have been …Read more »
Reviewing a film that's so far out of your normal range, whose target audience is so obviously not you , is an interesting challenge. That's the task at hand as I sit down to write about the new film from Kyoto Animation, Tamako Love Story …Read more »
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