Saw this coming a mile away. Over 700 players of Pokemon Go in Japan have been cited by police for traffic violations since the launch of the game last month, according to Tokyo Reporter. Pokemon Go? More like Pokemon Stop, amirite? The total number of …Read more »
Tokyo, Japan’s capital and home to more than 13 million people, held a gubernatorial election Sunday, and it’s being reported the winner is Yuriko Koike, making her the first female governor in the city’s history. This is notable for otaku, in part, because Koike campaigned …Read more »
You want Nico? You’ve got Nico. The pop-up shop in Shibuya devoted to last season’s Kiznaiver may be gone, but in its place is another Kiznaiver attraction: this time it’s a mini-exhibition of key frames from the studio Trigger series. And if you were a …Read more »
Last year, we reported on the all-too-early passing of voice actor Miyu Matsuki, who was best known for voicing characters like Yoshinoya-sensei from Hidamari Sketch and Isumi Saginomiya from Hayate the Combat Butler . Now a group of those who were close to Matsuki have …Read more »
For the month of June, at least, Tokyo's fashion capital Shibuya gave Akihabara a run for its otaku money. Aside from the recent opening of Production I.G’s retail store , this month Shibuya was also host to no less than three anime-related shops, devoted to …Read more »
Production I.G, the anime studio behind Ghost in the Shell , Kuroko’s Basketball and Psycho-Pass , has gotten into the retail game. The I.G Store, which opened April 16 in Shibuya’s Marui building, is up and cranking and is full of merch from I.G’s most …Read more »
Anime-based stage plays seem to be all the rage these days, so it should come as no surprise that popular soccer manga/anime Whistle! is getting its own theatrical production. Whistle! Break Through is set to play at the Tokyo Theater in August, and we’ve just …Read more »
If you’ve ever been to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, you’ve no doubt seen kids playing around in a life-size version of the Catbus from the studio’s classic My Neighbor Totoro . You may also have felt a pang of jealously, knowing that if …Read more »
Pixiv Zingaro, the Tokyo gallery co-run by art-sharing site Pixiv and pop artist Takashi Murakami, has been the sight of many anime and manga-based exhibitions since it opened up in otaku paradise Nakano Broadway a few years back. The latest, which runs from May 12 …Read more »
As someone who reports on anime-related stuff from Tokyo, I often have to downplay the idea of Japan-as-otaku-paradise. No, no, I explain sagely, Japan is no more geeky than America. Then, inevitably, a news story like this comes along and smashes that theory. Yahoo.jp reports …Read more »
Rock Musical Bleach, a rock musical based on the manga and anime Bleach (as if you couldn’t figure that out based on the title) is back and headed to stages throughout Japan this summer. The 2016 Rock Musical is the longest in a line of …Read more »
Production I.G, the studio behind anime like Ghost in the Shell , Psycho-Pass and Blood: The Last Vampire , will open a store based around their properties in hip Tokyo neighborhood Shibuya, reports Anime Anime. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to visit. The …Read more »
As we reported a couple weeks back, IBM Japan is hard at work at bringing Sword Art Online to life with a virtual reality MMO called Sword Art Online: The Beginning . Some more information and photos came out at an event this weekend, along …Read more »
It always sucks to be second banana. Tokyo’s immediate neighbor, Saitama, hardly ever gets a break in the Japanese psyche, seemingly condemned to be a punchline – sometimes literally, as in the case of One Punch Man ’s comically bland protagonist. Some of our more …Read more »
The Tokyo Marathon was held February 28, and over 36,000 racers joined in, running the 26.2 miles through the nation’s capital. Coming in tenth place with a 2:11:34 finish and placing second among Japanese runners was 19-year-old Yuta Shimoda. The secret of his success? Apparently, …Read more »
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Fernando Ramos
