Mr. Osomatsu ’s Matsuno brothers are going to the races. The siblings are appearing in a series of promotional videos for the Japan Racing Association, the company that manages Japan’s horse racing industry, the first of which is out on YouTube today. The first of …Read more »
Residents of the Big Apple are about to get hit with a triple punch of Japanese pop culture. First off, playing Madison Square Garden on October 11, it’s X Japan, one of Japan’s biggest and most successful visual kei bands. The legendary group, who have …Read more »
2014 marks both the 25th anniversary of the original Ghost in the Shell manga and the release of the third episode of Arise , the latest Ghost series, and the occasion is being marked with a host of projects. The first of these special events, …Read more »
There’s been a lot of talk about the future of the anime industry lately, a lot of it doomy and gloomy. Many of the masters of the medium are retiring or dying with no clear heirs to step up and replace them, wages and working …Read more »
Fall of 2009 was host to a special series of events in Japan known as the Jump Super Anime Tour, and among all of the excitement were two new anime shorts for Weekly Shonen Jump series Naruto and Toriko . Actually, for the latter—an animal-hunting …Read more »
Matt Schley
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