With the opening of the new Attack on Titan exhibition at the Ueno Royal Museum, MaiDiGiTV has started streaming a new video which takes us through the exhibition and catches a glimpse inside Hajime Isayama’s dangerous world. The video not only offers an eerie look at some of the titanic exhibits, but also features a...
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The third Aldnoah.Zero visual in Shinjuku has been put up and it has really shocked fans. Why? Because it shows what appears to be the character of Inaho, bloodied and brutalized after the shocking finale of the first season But wait, is that really Inaho, who was last seen being shot dead by Slaine? With...
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Boasting Japan’s largest floor area for cosplay shoots, with several backgrounds and props, Haco Stadium Tokyo.One has finally opened. Just a 10-minute walk from the Minami-Funabashi station will get you to an area where cosplayers can go crazy on some photo shoots. There, cosplayers can dress up as Vocaloid characters, Love Live! school idols, or...
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Last April, during the Nico Nico Chokaigi 3 event, the Attack on Titan Hands-on Trainee Soldier Try-outs were introduced and it lets fans experience what it is like training to use the 3D Maneuver Gear. Now, this unique Attack on Titan experience is headed to Singapore for a limited time during Anime Festival Asia (AFA)...
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Ever wondered what Dragon Ball Z characters looked like if they existed in real life? Chinese painting teacher, Angus Yi, gives us an idea what they may be. and compared to Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s original work, they are pretty scary. Frieza Majin-buu Demon King Piccolo Mercenary Tao Perfect Cell Dr. Gero (Android ver.)...
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With The Last: Naruto the Movie‘s official Japanese premiere already nearing this December 6, a special video commemorating the manga’s ending last November 10 has been released during the movie’s advanced screening last November 24, 2014. Called the “Naruto Love Video”, it features some “Naruto Love” comments from the series’ worldwide fan base. Naruto fans,...
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When Gundam Build Fighters Try first premiered last October, fans were given the chance to vote on which Mobile Suit should be featured in the anime. After more than a month of voting, the results have been finalized and the Top 10 have finally been announced, however, they were not revealed in order. This is...
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The Attack on Titan Exhibition over at the Ueno Royal Museum officially opens to the public today, November 28, 2014, however, yesterday, guests were invited for a little preview which includes a life-size model of the Colossal Titan’s head, a life-size 3D Maneuver Gear model, several artworks by creator Hajime Isayama, an Oculus Rift presentation...
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The “Galactic Fairy”, Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier, celebrated her birthday last November 23, and the “Otaku Capital” of Akihabara celebrated her birthday with plenty of flair, even though the series already ended five years ago, further proving that Macross Frontier is still one of the most popular mecha series out there. Various Sheryl Nome...
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You may have heard of Marvel Zombies, but have you heard of Pokemon Zombies? Now that is one scary thought indeed, however, artist JR Coffron III has brought that idea to life with his Pokemonstrosities. You thought Frankenstein’s Monster was scary? Here’s his take on one very mean and monstrous Pikachu. I’m not sure what’s...
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With a new anime scheduled for January 2015 and the original PC browser game getting ported to the PS Vita this Spring 2015, Kantai Collection is as strong as ever, and Kadokawa games has just posted the PS Vita port’s very first PV to excite fans a bit more. The video previews popular KanColle ships...
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After revealing the special Love Live! prayer Emas, the Kanda Myoujin Shinto shrine has unveiled another Love Live! merchandise which is also an important part of the traditional Shinto beliefs, the Love Live! charm. Like the Love Live! Emas, these special charms also feature Nozomi Toujo, who in the anime is not only the student...
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Imagine living in the world of Attack on Titan where people live under the constant threat of a titan attack, wouldn’t that be really scar? The official twitter page of the Attack on Titan exhibition over at the Ueno Royal Museum has announced that with the help of the Oculus Rift, fans will be able...
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“Humanity’s Strongest Soldier”, Levi, is without a doubt the most popular Attack on Titan character out there with legions of (mostly female) fans. Imagine the surprise everybody got when the movie’s cast costumes were unveiled and he was nowhere to be seen at all. Many fans have formulated their own theories as to why Attack...
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The Kanda Myoujin shrine has now become not just a holy land for Shinto devotees, but also a holy land for anime fans as the anime has become a pilgrimage site for fans of Love Live! as the shrine has been featured in the anime multiple times. The official Love Live! website has announced that...
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To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the anime adaptation of K-On!!, Korg is treating fans and music lovers to a special keytar inspired by Houkago Tea Time’s resident keyboardist, Tsumugi “Mugi” Kotobuki. This limited edition K-On 5th Anniversary Keytar uses Korg’s original RK-100, whose successor, the RK-100S, was featured being played by Mugi herself in...
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The 18m life-size Gundam statue in Odaiba is certainly a sight to behold, however, another Gundam is turning heads in the city of Yasu in Shiga Prefecture, and it is made completely out of granite. The Granite Gundam seems to be a combination of the SEED Gundams, namely the Strike Gundam and the Duel Gundam....
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The Attack on Titan Fandom is now divided, and this is all thanks to the big reveal of the live action movie’s actors in costume. While some fans appreciated and praised how the costumes looked accurate, as compared to the manga, some fans still griped on a few things such as Armin’s hair, and the...
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Many people certainly want to sit next to an anime character in class, whether it is because they are cute, or because they are smart and could give them quick pointers while in class. In this week’s rankings, Japanese anime character database Charapedia has asked its readers which female anime character is the one they...
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The Pokemon anime’s resident “Boy Wonder”, Ash Ketchum, was recently seen alone in one of the local trains in Japan and it seems that he is definitely ready for battle. However, his appearance alone makes people beg the question, where is Pikachu?! Maybe he got into a fight with his trusty electric mouse Pokemon and...
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The first Attack on Titan anime movie just finished its first screenings in Japanese cinema theatres tonight, and during the credits roll it was revealed that the AoT (also known by its Japanese title, “Shingeki no Kyojin”) TV anime series will return for a Season 2 sometime in 2016, according to some anime fans who’ve...
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Many anime fans dream of working in the anime industry, whether it be as an animator or a voice actor, or even a director. However, when Shirobako premiered last October, many of these fans were shocked to see how tough the industry really is with all the deadlines, headaches, and heartbreaks, that anime staff have...
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The GunPla Expo World Tour 2014 has arrived in its final destination at the Akihabara UDX in Tokyo, and the event has introduced plenty of new mouth-watering GunPla which will surely have a strong effect on your wallets. One of the event’s most anticipated reveals is the new PG 1/60 Unicorn Gundam which has its...
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With the Official Hyper Dimension Neptunia character poll already in its midway point, Compile Heart has released the midterm results which show who may be closest to winning the poll and getting himself or herself their very own Hyperdimension Neptunia spin-off title. Here are the partial results: 26) Abnes (285 votes) 25) Croire (368 votes)...
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As fans eagerly anticipate the first Sword Art Online game based in the world of Alfheim Online (ALO), Sword Art Online: Lost Song. new information and screenshots have been released which will surely make fans even more excited. One of the towns you can visit in ALO is the Sky Metropolos Lyne (空都ライン, read as...
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With Sega MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2 also headed to the stage, following the success of several anime and video game musicals like Danganronpa and Gurren Lagann, a new Preview Video has been streamed by the official Phantasy Star Channel and it highlights the live action stage play’s all-star cast of renowned voice actors. The...
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To promote the upcoming The Last: Naruto the Movie, Weekly Shounen Jump! has dressed up Nagoya’s famous Nana-chan manequin, as the heroic ninja himself. Nana-chan was made in Switzerland and stands at approximately 6 meters tall and has been a landmark for Nagoya Station. And here’s Nana-chan completely transformed into the iconic orange ninja himself,...
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When we say Love Livers are some of the most dedicated anime fans out there, we’re not kidding, and when we say Free! fans can rival their dedication, we are not kidding either, as is shown when Free!’s resident killer whale swimmer, Makoto Tachibana, celebrated his birthday last November 17. As expected, Free! fans showed...
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Winter is coming, and the people from Good Smile Company know it, and they are already bracing themselves. With the cold winter season already approaching, GSC’s Kahotan recently went to Sapporo to unveil the new figma and Nendoroid for Snow Miku‘s 2015 version, which is also known as Snow Bell Miku. Both the Snow Bell...
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The magical girls of Madoka Magica have been fighting witches in exchange for the fulfillment of their wishes, but what happens when they shift their attention from the witches to the gigantic monsters of Monster Hunter? Capcom has recently announced that their Monster Hunter Frontier G online game will be collaborating with the ground-breaking magical...
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Weekly manga magazine, Shounen Jump!, has generated many unforgettable classics from Dragon Ball to One Piece, from Toriko to Nisekoi. Now, Japanese media website, DDNavi, has asked its readers to rank which Weekly Shounen Jump! manga is the one which they think is “The Most Powerful”. So which Shounen Jump! manga do the fans think...
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An issue after the unforgettable ending to an unforgettable series like Naruto, Weekly Shounen Jump!’s 51st issue for the year will be unveiling the character designs for Sasuke Uchiha and Hokage Kakashi for The Last: Naruto the Movie. These character designs are made by none other than Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto, who recently sat down...
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The Avengers, Earth’s Mightiest heroes have taken on Planet-Eating cosmic beings, reality-altering mutants, invading alien armies, magical gods, demons, and Thanos, but in the pages of Brutus Magazine, they will be facing something they have never even faced before – the Titans from Attack on Titan! Inside the pages of Brutus Magazine, which already features...
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There will always be mangas and light novels which are really good but will end without even getting a proper TV anime adaptation. In this week’s anime poll by Japanese anime character database, Charapedia, they asked their readers to weigh in on which manga or light novel deserves to have an anime adaptation. Now, there...
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It‘s safe to say it, Legendary Pokemon, Legendary Pokemon everywhere! A new magazine scan from CoroCoro has revealed that not one more, not two more, heck, not even three more legendary Pokemon will be joining Pokemon Omega Ruby and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire, but a whopping 18! Yes, you’ve read it right, eighteen (18), the same...
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The Tottori Airport in the city of Tottori was recently nicknamed the “Tottori Conan Airport” after a meeting by the city’s chamber of commerce to celebrate one of the prefecture’s native sons, Gosho Aoyama, best known for creating the mystery manga series, Case Closed!, also known as Detective Conan. Aoyama is from Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture,...
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Many people in Japan watch their daily dose of anime through Japanese video streaming website, Niconico Douga. And with the new Fall 2014 anime season already in the midway point, Niconico user gagaga has asked his viewers which new anime from this season do they think is the best? His poll gathered approximately 25,400 votes...
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As K-On!‘s lovable Azu-nyan celebrated her birthday yesterday, fans greeted her with several birthday parties of their own, complete with some of her favorite foods, which are of course, cakes. Fans truly spent a lot for this occasion, as they not only celebrated with some Azusa cakes, they also showed off some of their own...
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The official twitter page of Starchild International has confirmed that the new K project which was announced for next year, will in fact be a new season for the anime. The new K project was only announced late last month by the anime’s official twitter page, however, what exactly this new project is was not...
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The December 2014 issue of Brutus Magazine will be featuring the main cast of Attack on Titan in its cover, and it will be illustrated by Hajime Isayama himself. However, this ain’t no ordinary cover as it does not feature Eren, Mikasa, Connie, Sasha, and the others in their usual Survey Corps uniforms… That’s just...
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Sowrd Art Online: Lost Song will support 4-player co-op online play, Demgeki PlayStation magazine is revealing this Thursday in a special feature on the game. Although in single-player mode, you can go on adventures with up to only 3 characters in your party, in the online co-op modes will expand the party to allow for...
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Voice Actress Nana Mizuki seems to be voicing a lot of alarm clocks lately, and with the new The Last: Naruto the Movie, as well as the end of the manga’s 15-year run, she once again becomes the voice which wakes people up every morning as her Naruto character, Hinata Hyuuga, lends some pre-recorded phrases...
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The Toad Summoning Jutsu is one of the most important jutsus in Naruto‘s arsenal, as he gets to summon powerful toads to fight for him. As a tribute to the recently concluded series, one of Naruto’s most powerful toad summons, Gamabunta, suddenly appeared near the Pearl River Delta area in Guangzhou, China. The entire inflated...
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Renowned video game designer Tetsuya Nomura, best known for his work on the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series, is one busy man. Not only is he currently working on Kingdom Hearts 3, he also recently collaborated with virtual diva, Hatsune Miku and released a new video of her which was first shown in New...
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Yesterday was the end of an era in Japanese manga as Masashi Kishimoto finally wrapped up his long-running ninja manga, Naruto. The manga legend recently sat down with Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun and talked about his recently concluded series, as well as a few things, like overseas fans, and his rival series, One Piece. Naruto...
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As today marks the official release of the final two chapters of Naruto inside the pages of this year’s 50th issue of Weekly Shounen Jump!, we can finally say this – It’s official, Naruto is over. Looks like Kishimoto got One Piece creator, Eichiro Oda back… The anime has influenced an entire generation of anime...
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In a completely unsurprising turn of events, two anime series have dominated the Newtype Rankings for December 2014, and as expected, they are Fate/ Stay Night and Sword Art Online. Also, Kira Yamato from Gundam SEED is still part of the Top 5. Yeah, Naruto has already ended and Kira is still there… Male Rankings...
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In a rare appearance in the United States, legendary anime director and Studio Ghibli co-founder, Hayao Miyazaki, appeared before some of the biggest and brightest stars of Hollywood to personally accept his Honorary Oscar Award given to him by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This historic milestone for the anime legend will...
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During the first day of Animate Girls Festival 2014, which is a celebration for female anime fans, Sailor Moon fans, also known as “Moonies”, have reason to celebrate as new details for Sailor Moon Crystal’s second half have been announced and they include the lovable ChibiUsa. A new visual for that very second half has...
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The official website for the Digimon 15th Anniversary Project has updated once again, and this time, it has teased not only Taichi, but the other original DigiDestined, and they are definitely have grown up so much. The text bellow says “We Can Meet Again” and with a new anime already slated for 2015, looks like...
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