In addition to a new anime film, a Touken Ranbu live-action film sequel is on the way, and the first full trailer is here to span the eras. Tokyo in 2012 is on tap for the film along with Kyoto in 2205 and 995, and …Read more »
A new key visual made its way online for the Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu anime film project, which last showed signs of life when another key visual premiered a year ago. It looks like Aniplex and ufotable are keen on continuing to show that the project …Read more »
Sometimes anime and manga create their own worlds, and sometimes they hearken back to real things, including those from Japan’s past. The bishonen franchise Touken Ranbu anthropomorphizes famous old Japanese swords as beautiful young men, and this has gotten many fans interested in the original …Read more »
The three beautiful boy sword movies in the Toku Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ film trilogy are all coming out this year. The first one, Yuki no Maki (translated as Snow Story) premieres on May 20, and a trailer for it has been released. In it …Read more »
Back in September 2017, a feature film was announced for the Katsugeki TOUKEN RANBU anime after the 13th episode of the TV series aired. After all this time, we finally have a teaser visual for the project, which production house ufotable introduced in a new …Read more »
The free-to-play Touken Ranbu Online made a splash in Japan when it launched in 2015, racking up a fanbase of around 1.5 million in a year’s time. Now the game is finally making its way to English-speaking audiences, with a launch on PC gaming platform …Read more »
With Hetalia due to to return to our screens in spring 2021, we’re all pretty hype right now! The one-of-a-kind show put a surprising spin on international relations in wartime… and that’s a strange sentence to say when talking about a show full of cute anime boys. …Read more »
Professional Japanese singer and crooner Yumi Matsutoya, who sang the theme song in Kiki’s Delivery Service, is thrilled to be doing the new theme song for the historical game franchise Touken Ranbu. In the game, you get Japanese swords (nihonto), which look like bishonen. Matsutoya …Read more »
The live-action version of popular franchise Touken Ranbu is due out January 18. To get the hype machine rolling, Toho Cinemas has revealed a few stills taken on the set of the film. The film stars the cast of the Touken Ranbu stage play, which …Read more »
Pretty swords-as-pretty boys franchise Touken Ranbu is getting a big-screen live-action adaptation, and we’ve got our first peek via a poster revealed today. The poster features actor Hiroki Suzuki as Mikazuki Munechika. Suzuki played the same role in the stage play based on the franchise. …Read more »
Touken Ranbu, the popular video game franchise about swords anthropomorphized as hunky guys, is getting a live-action film adaptation. It’s set to be released in 2019. The film will feature many actors who have appeared the Touken Ranbu stage plays, including Hiroki Suzuki (Mikazuki Munechika), …Read more »
As the year comes to a close, we’re about to get hit with a spate of lists (actually, listing things has become pretty much a year-round affair, but I digress). Here’s a pretty interesting one for Japanophiles out there: a list of buzzwords heard in …Read more »
Anthropomorphism is, to quote Webster, “an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics.” In other words, giving something distinctly inhuman human form. There are plenty of anime and manga that’ve done this over the years, but which …Read more »
Anime studio ufotable ( Fate/Zero , God Eater ) is next in line to adapt DMM Games and Nitroplus' Touken Ranbu -Online- . Their take on the game, which personifies famous swords from Japanese history as bishounen characters, is currently scheduled to air in 2017, …Read more »
Lists of stuff – can you even remember what the internet was like before them? The latest list out from Goo, a Japanese site that asks its readers to rank all kinds of stuff, has busted out the moe question of moe questions – which …Read more »
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