A lot happened in 2021, and there was also a ton of anime on everyone’s minds, which is reflected in the latest roundup of trending topics from Twitter. The social media company’s Japanese branch compiled a list of its top trends once again, and among …Read more »
As fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion know, the relationship between characters Shinji Ikari and Asuka Langley was… complicated. Megumi Ogata, the voice of Shinji, referenced that relationship while having some fun with an Asuka-themed piece of merchandise on Twitter this week. The merchandise in question …Read more »
Chengxi Huang is living the dream: the skilled animator, who hails from China, is living and working in Tokyo, where he works on the Naruto franchise, of which he’s a self-proclaimed giant fan. That’s why we’re sure the animator had nothing but good intentions when he posted a …Read more »
Twitter is a social media service so perfect for Japan, it seems almost like it was created for the country. Take its 140-character limit: while in English it can feel, well, limiting, the compact nature of Japanese means users can fit a ton of content …Read more »
Y’all enjoying Final Fantasy XV ? You know who isn’t? Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima. You know why? Because he beat it already, suckers. On November 28, at 8 p.m., Mashima tweeted: "FF15 comes out in four hours! I’m going to take tomorrow off. Being …Read more »
Twitter went down worldwide earlier today, reportedly the victim of a distributed denial of service attack that also affected several other major sites. But the official account of Twitter in Japan has offered an alternate explanation. @TwitterJP, the official support account for the social media …Read more »
Believe it or not, 2016 is almost at an end, and while most anime fans are looking forward to the series coming in 2017, one fan’s look back at 2007 has caused a giant wave of nostalgia on Japanese twitter. The tweet by user @YEBIS_AKI, …Read more »
Those of you following Love Live! Sunshine!! know episode 10 of that series featured character Mari Ohara whipping up a pretty special stew. Now one dedicated Sunshine!! follower has calculated how much Mari’s Shiny Stew would cost in real life, and let’s just say it …Read more »
This is your brain on used manga. There are two things I found particularly striking about bookstores when I first came to Japan: one, the sheer amount of places to buy manga used, and two, how many folks just stand there reading without buying anything. …Read more »
Why are recent Japanese films so bad? That topic has been making the rounds on Japanese social media recently, largely due to a series of tweets by Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto music supervisor Yasuhiko Fukuda. Fukuda’s original tweet basically appealed for people who say …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka: legendary creator of Astro Boy , Black Jack and Phoenix , father of the anime industry, and… spectral spokesman for a Japanese cult? Controversial religious organization Happy Science has published a new book entitled Osamu Tezuka’s Ghost , in which they purport to …Read more »
Fans of Shirobako , hold onto your hats. The team behind the 2014-15 series, which detailed the lives of anime creators, are at work on an anime made for theatrical distribution, according to a tweet from the official Shirobako Twitter account. “This has nothing to …Read more »
Call it a shot heard around Twitter. On January 13, Twitter user @riekitazawa fired off a tweet that criticized the general public's view of otaku, using a metaphor that involved some Australian marsupials. The tweet quickly went viral, attracting almost 15,000 retweets and a lot …Read more »
Here’s a cheery story to start your holidays off right. News is making the rounds on Japanese social media of a Twitter user who used the service to make death threats to fans of the anime series Love Live! . The user, whose account is …Read more »
Gangsta. , the definitively-punctuated manga recently adapted into an anime series, is going on hiatus due to author Kohske’s poor health, reports Monthly Comic Bunch magazine. The manga, which has been serialized in Bunch since 2011, is being released by Viz in North America. Gangsta. …Read more »
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