The Shiba siblings are back, and this time, they have their own movie with The Irregular at Magic High School The Movie: The Girl Who Calls the Stars. Now, Aniplex has started streaming a brand new long-form PV for the upcoming movie, and it previews some of the Tatsuya badassery that the franchise is known for. Sasuga...
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You’ve heard of Itasha, right? Those “painful” anime cars going around Japan? How about Itachari, those anime-themed bikes? Well, I don’t think they can compare to what Japan’s E-Flight Academy has, because theirs can fly! They have now unveiled their own Eromanga Sensei and OreImo plane at the Nagoya Airport! The aircraft is a Piper PA-46, and it...
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Bandai Namco Asia, together with Twitch, are bringing together Tekken fans around the world with the Tekken World Tour! They will also be hitting Southeast Asia, with tournaments broadcast via Twitch! Twitch will manage TEKKEN 7 league operations, circuit events, and content on a global scale. The goal of the partnership is for Twitch to...
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In the anime industry, most series often turn a blind eye to doujinshi, those fan-made works that aren’t just limited to manga and games, but also other merchandise. The reason for this stems from a variety of reasons, from cultivating future talent (as most well-known mangaka often start out as doujinshi artists) to the fact...
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How trustworthy are otaku in Japan? Our friends over at Tokyo Otaku Mode aimed to find out… while also conducting a special Akihabara shopping spree giveaway worth US$5,000. Basically, they’ll give 50,000 yen each to 10 random strangers in Akihabara, and ask them to buy whatever they want with that money. But they have to come back on...
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Eromanga Sensei may be about two siblings unrelated by blood living alone together, but it’s also about light novels. The anime gives us a peek at the light novel industry itself, and in particular, the guys who are publishing Tsukasa Fushimi’s Eromanga Sensei light novels, Dengeki Bunko. And in the anime’s episode, when Elf Yamada...
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Before the live-action Tokyo Ghoul movie makes its long-awaited premiere on July 29, 2017, the staff and cast will be holding a special kick-off event in Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills. And if you’re not in Tokyo right now and you want to see the event, we have some good news for you! That’s because they will...
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Remember those Monster Musume dakimakura of MON members, Manako and Tionishia? It turns out that the one with Tionishia may just be as ridiculous as the previously released Miia Dakimakura. And while the infamous Miia Dakimakura is ridiculously long, the Tionishia dakimakura is just HUGE. Literally! Tionishia stands out in the world of monster girls...
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During the MaJi Love Live 6th Stage event at the Seibu Prince Dome in Saitama, the seiyuu cast of Broccoli’s visual novel game franchise, Uta no Prince-sama, or UtaPri for short, revealed that the franchise will be getting an anime movie. However, the cast didn’t reveal much details about the movie itself. But when they did...
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During the “Chiyo-St. Live 2017 -Genesis-” event, 5pb. and Mages made plenty of new announcements about their upcoming planned games for the Science Adventure series. This includes Robotics;Notes DaSH, which is the “true sequel” to their Robotics;Notes games. They may have announced the sequel, but they didn’t announce any further details, as we still don’t...
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KonoSuba is getting its own visual novel game for the PS4 and PS Vita called Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! -Kono Yokubukai Game ni Shinpan o!. And now, 5pb. has started streaming a new PV for the game, which also talks more about its story (Video is region-locked but can be viewed in Southeast Asia...
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SCRAP held an online poll to determine which Detective Conan character will be the main character for their latest Detective Conan REAL Escape Game. Now, fans have finally decided who it is, and it turns out to be Heiji Hattori. In fact, Hattori and Conan are featured together in the new REAL Escape Game’s new poster:...
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We have some good news Hunter x Hunter fans, because Yoshihiro Togashi is coming out of hiatus to continue Hunter x Hunter! The news comes as Weekly Shounen Jump! Magazine, which announces the manga’s return on June 26, 2017. The reason for this latest hiatus is Togashi’s usual “back pains”, which he has been complaining...
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Since Fate/Zero, Type-Moon’s Fate franchise has slowly been becoming more and more popular with women. That popularity has also been translated to Fate/Grand Order, Type-Moon’s massively popular smartphone game. Japanese anime news website, animeanime.jp, recently asked 6,013 Fate fans to vote for which Fate/Grand Order character is most popular among women. Surprisingly, 80% of those...
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The live-action Gintama movie will be premiering on July 14, and in the day after that, the actors of that very live-action movie will also star in a live-action Gintama web drama. According to the announcement by the Japanese streaming service, dTV, the Gintama web drama will be shown on July 15, one day after...
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The No Game, No Life Zero movie will follow the events before Shiro and Sora even came to the alternate world. It will follow Riku and Shuvi, along with a host of new characters, as well as a few returning ones. However, as the movie’s new visual is revealed, they show that the TV anime/light...
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Hayao Miyazaki is currently looking for young animators to work on what seems to be his final movie. The anime and film legend is coming out of retirement to do a new movie, and fans are excited. Ghibli has been known to halve a great talent pool, but why is Ghibli hiring now? It turns...
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Yokohama better brace itself, because the Pikachu are coming back! Last year, approximately 1,000 Pikachu descended upon Yokohama as they danced and paraded throughout the city. However, this year may have even more, as the organizers revealed that they are planning to bring 1,500 Pikachu into the city! This year’s event is officially titled “Pikachu Dake...
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Move over Free!, because there’s a new water sports anime that has a heavy dose of abs, and that is Dive!!. Now, the official Noitamina YouTube channel has started streaming a brand new PV for this abtastic sports anime: They also revealed a brand new key visual, which also introduces the anime’s main cast. Takahiro...
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Konami’s Castlevania video game franchise is headed to Netflix for a brand new animated series. Now, Netflix has released a brand new trailer for this very series, and it’s titled “Vengeance”. The trailer starts off with a nostalgia trip with the original Castlevania game for the Famicom/NES, before finally teasing the story. Based on Castlevania III:...
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A new official website for a new TV anime has just launched, and this time, it’s for Hanamaluo’s adult romance manga Skirt no Naka wa Kedamono Deshita. manga. The anime’s title means “There Was a Beast Inside the Skirt.” The website also revealed a PV announcing the new anime. The manga follows the usually-reserved college student, Shizuka,...
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Don’t look now, but we may have more Fate/Grand Order anime coming up in the future. This is because during his Sony IR (investor relations) Day 2017 presentation, Sony president and CEO Kazuo Hirai dropped a huge hint at yet another anime coming up for the Type-Moon smartphone game. With over 8 million players in...
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During a love broadcast via Niconico, Piapro and Good Smile Company revealed the six finalists for their official Snow Miku and Rabbit Yukine design contest. The winning designs will officially become Snow Miku 2018, and like the previous design contest winners, will get its own snow sculpture during the Sapporo Snow Festival. This year’s theme...
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After revealing some of the main cast members, the live-action movie adaptation of Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul manga has revealed even more characters in costume, and this time, it’s the supporting cast. This includes actor Kai Ogasawara as Ken Kaneki’s best friend, Hideyoshi “Hide” Nagachika. The other supporting cast members revealed are: Kenta Hamano as Enji Koma...
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German film production company Constantin Film is planning on live-action adaptations for two of Capcom’s most successful video game franchises. According to their chairman of the board, Martin Moszkowicz, they will be making a live-action Hollywood movie adaptation of Monster Hunter. At the Cannes film festival, Martin Moszkowicz stated that Constantin Film aims to bring the rights...
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Magikarp are so awesome that they are even getting their own video game! And now, the Japanese Pokemon YouTube channel has finally revealed a brand new PV for the game, which is officially titled “Splash! Magikarp” The game will feature trainers as they try to train their Magikarp to do the most awesome movie in...
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BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Asia will be releasing Tekken 7 in Southeast Asia soon, but before that happens, they’ve released a brand new story trailer, which takes a peek at the feud between the family members of a certain dysfunctional family, the Mishimas. The video explores the complex relationship between three generations of the Mishima family,...
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The Kyoto International Manga Museum is considered the largest manga library on Earth. But now, it seems that Japan is now getting a bigger one. The town of Naka, Tokushima is turning a former grade school building into something that can be described as the “World’s Largest Manga library”. Coincidentally, the current “world’s largest manga library”,...
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When we see stills from the upcoming live-action Gintama movie, we often see the Yorozuya trio. Now, new in-set photos of the movie has surfaced, and they finally feature the Shinsengumi in action! This first still features Yuuya Yagira as Toshiro Hijikata and Ryo Yoshizawa as Sougo Okita, complete with his signature Bazooka. Meanwhile, this second...
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Kyoto Animation has been hyping Violet Evergarden for a while now, but not much has been known about the project. We know they will be adapting Kana Akatsuki’s novels into an anime project, but we still don’t know what kind of anime project. Now, MiracleBus, a managing company for composers has listed two of their talents...
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With super hero movies left and right, all over the world, hero genre is booming in Japan right now. And in Japan, the same can also be said, with series like One Punch Man and My Hero Academia proving to be very popular. In their latest poll, animeanime.jp asked fans what their favorite hero anime is....
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Type-Moon’s mobile game app, Fate/Grand Order, is heading from smartphones and into the stage for a brand new stage play adaptation. Now, they have released two new videos for the play, and it previews the characters in costume. The play is officially titled “Fate/Grand Order The Stage: Domain of the Holy Round Table Camelot Replica; Agateram”,...
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Sega’s indoor amusement park, Joypolis, will be having a special collaboration event with Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan. It will feature several exhibits, as well as a few merchandise, but now, they have announced that they will also display life-size figures of the anime’s characters. When the amusement park previously teamed up with the anime, they featured...
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Who is the “Best Girl?” That question has been debated on for DECADES now, and this has even resulted in a few fistfights through the years. But did you know that Animage magazine has been asking that question since 1979? The magazine has been asking “Who is the Best Girl for the year?”, and now, a...
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The now-older Digidestined are getting their own live-action stage play titled “Digimon Adventure tri.: The Adventure on August 1”. Now, the stage play has revealed actors Gaku Matsumoto as Taichi Yagami and Shouhei Hashimoto as Yamato Ishida. They are joined by the might Omegamon, who is the combined version of Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon. Aside from Taichi and...
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The upcoming 25th issue of Weekly Shounen Magazine has revealed that the end is truly near for Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail. The issue confirmed that the manga will finally be ending in 10 chapters, and that includes the FT chapter that comes with that magazine’s issue. The manga’s now-released Volume 61 tankoubon compilation previously revealed that...
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The anime industry is booming right now, and has proven to be quite a lucrative business, and is now accepted globally. In fact, Hollywood is now scrambling to get rights to adapt anime into live-action movies. But even if business is booming, some studios don’t seem to be faring all that well. According to a...
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So, do you want to work for the only Japanese anime director to win an Academy Award? Looks like he’s hiring. Even if it looks like his movie might not even make it to his 2019/2020 plans, Hayao Miyazaki looks dead set on making a new movie, and he needs a lot of help. The...
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UPDATE: Date typo fixed Brace yourselves, the delusional chuunibyou of Kyoto Animation’s Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! are back, and this time, it’s for their own movie! The renowned animation studio revealed that the new anime movie is officially titled “Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! the Movie: Take On Me”. The new movie will premiere on...
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In anime and manga, the relationships between masters and students are quite special. Masters pass on their sage knowledge, while students apply what their learn into their day-to-day struggles. Charapedia asked 10,000 anime fans (male: 46.5%, female: 53.5%) about which master-student relationships from anime and manga is the most admirable. Of the 58 duos included on...
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Looks like the Love Live! franchise has added brand new school idols, and they will be making up their “Perfect Dream Project”. These new additions will be part of KLab Games and Bushiroad’s Love Live! School Idol Festival smartphone game. Much like μ’s and AQOURS, the school idols of the “Perfect Dream Project” also have nine members. Also...
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Brace yourselves Saint Seiya fans, because Hollywood is making a live-action movie out of it. Japanese entertainment website, Eiga.com, reported that Masami Kurumada’s Saint Seiya manga is getting itself a Hollywood live-action movie adaptation. They also revealed that Toei Animation and Chinese distribution company A Really Good Film Company (ARGF) are co-producing the movie. Academy Award-nominated director, Tomasz BagiÅ„ski,...
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The Conan Edogawa mascot is coming back to Singapore! And this weekend, fans can get the opportunity to take a picture with him in one of these three following locations: TOG Plaza Singapura (Level 6) — Sat (May 20), 2:30pm to 3:00pm Kinokuniya Liang Court — Sun (May 21), 2:30pm to 3:00pm Kinokunia Jurong Store...
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ONE PIECE UNLIMITED WORLD RED has sold over a million copies around the world, and now, it’s Deluxe Edition is about to hit Southeast Asia! The game’s Deluxe Edition will be available for both PC and PS4, and will come with several new features from technical and content side. It will be released on 24th August....
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Good news everyone, because BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Asia announced that the Southeast Asian edition for ACCEL WORLD VS. SWORD ART ONLINE will be released for the region this July 7th! The game will be available in both Digital and physical versions for both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. And those who pre-order the Digital edition for the...
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After the success of The Boy and the Beast, it seems that critically-acclaimed anime director, Mamoru Hosoda is at it again. The director revealed to entertainment news magazine, Variety, details about his next project. According to their website, Hosoda’s next film is tentatively titled “Mirai”. Here’s how Variety describes the movie’s story: “Mirai” follows a...
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After that whole incident about moviegoers being caught recording the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale movie in Singapore and Malaysia, it seems that some people in Malaysia didn’t heed the warning. Golden Screen Cinemas, the country’s largest independent cinema chain, has posted a message in their facebook page about pirating Kuroko’s Basketball: Last Game. Their message read:...
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The 26th Annual Japan Movie Critics Awards has now revealed its winners, and one of them is your name. director, Makoto Shinkai. The critically-acclaimed anime director won best animation director award, however, he was absent during the awarding ceremony. Instead, your name. producer Yuichi Sakai received the award on his behalf. Sakai explained that Shinkai couldn’t be...
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TOHO has revealed that they are producing and distributing a live-action movie adaptation of Robico’s shoujo manga, My Little Monster. The movie will star Masaki Suda as Haru Yoshida, as well as Tao Tsuchiya as Shizuku Mizutani. Shou Tsukikawa will be directing the movie, and shooting will begin late May 2017. They also revealed that they are...
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Here we go again folks, yet another anime has received a complaint from a concerned viewer to the Japanese media watchdog, Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization (BPO). Unsurprisingly, it’s for yet another late night anime with “Extreme Sexual Content”. The complaint did not specify which late night anime, but it could be one of three,...
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