A YouTuber in Nagoya, Japan is in hot water for allegedly putting up footage of video games and anime on YouTube and profiting off these, as he’s not involved in the creation or distribution of the content he shared. In fact, all of this has …Read more »
Idol anime is a booming genre. Shows like Love Live! have entire franchises built on them, with live performers holding concerts for their eager fans. The stakes range from fame and fortune to saving a school. But what if those stakes were even higher? South Korean …Read more »
Eiichiro Oda has done many things. He’s created the world’s bestselling manga, One Piece, let fans make money doing One Piece art (under certain circumstances), and gave the French president a special One Piece illustration. What’s something he won’t do? Watch YouTube videos about One …Read more »
YouTube recently released a video about the growth and success of Virtual YouTubers. By this last October, more than 1.5 billion views a month on the site were dedicated to VTubers. “As motion tracking software and face detection technology became more and more widely accessible, …Read more »
The smartphone rhythm game Idolish 7 is getting an anime adaptation in January 2018, and now it’s been announced that series is getting its own spinoff. The spinoff, which will be a YouTube original series, is called TRIGGER -before The Radiant Glory-. It tells the …Read more »
YouTuber and Japanese people on the street opinion asker That Japanese Man Yuta is at it again. This time, Yuta and his crew have hit the streets of Akihabara to ask folks on the streets of Tokyo’s otaku mecca the simple question, “what anime do …Read more »
State of the art video game cover circa 1998. Final Fantasy VII isn’t the only PlayStation classic getting a fresh coat of paint . Capcom producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi appeared on YouTube Aug 12 to announce a remake of Resident Evil 2 , the survival horror …Read more »
We reported a few weeks back the peppy sentai-themed idols Momoiro Clover Z would be teaming up with none other than legendary rock band KISS for a new single. Now a music video for the song has been released online, and on top of that, …Read more »
The official YouTube channel for recently-released CG-animated film Expelled from Paradise (which we reviewed last week) has been updating with a series of making-of videos showing just how the film was, well, made. They're currently up to volume four, which shows some behind-the-scenes production of …Read more »
Gackt’s, uh, got some time on his hands. That’s the impression I got when I read Gackt, the best-selling solo musician, actor and former vocalist for visual kei band Malice Mizer, would be launching a Youtube channel on which he plays old video games, every …Read more »
To some this may seem a trivial matter, but this moment will no doubt go down in history for regular obsessors of super-sized idol group AKB48. The sixty-three girl squad now has an official YouTube channel, and truly the cup runneth o'er with content. Below …Read more »
Pardon my French, but no amount of censoring will change the facts of which you're already well aware. Cat Shit One (AKA Apocalypse Meow ) is a very real thing, and it's coming our way for free via YouTube on July 17. Based on Motofumi …Read more »
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