After the success of their own Attack on Titan game, Koei Tecmo is making yet another one, this time for the Nintendo 3DS. The new game is titled “Attack on Titan: Escape From the Brink of Death”, and its very first full PV has just been released! The video introduces several of the game’s characters,...
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After making people drool with its beautiful and crisp animation, ufotable’s Tales of Zestiria the X (X read as “cross”) will be returning for a second season this January, and a brand new TV commercial has been released back in Japan, and it seems that the anime will be retaining its jaw-dropping ufotable-quality animation. The video...
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According to an upcoming issue of Megami Magazine, the latest addition to the Lyrical Nanoha anime franchise, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection, will be a 2-part anime movie, with the first one being released in Japan by Summer 2017, though there is still no release date for its sequel. However, fans were promised that they wouldn’t...
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Screw Attack focused on swordsmen for their latest episode, and who better to fight it out than One Piece’s Zoro Roronoa and Fairy Tail’s Erza Scarlet, right? So who will win, Zoro and his 3-sword style, or Erxa and her Requip magic? Let’s get it on! OUCH! That’s gotta hurt… a lot! Now, we’re not...
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When senpai notices you, sometimes, you can’t help but jump for joy, but what if you’re a Harry Potter fan, and it’s J.K. Rowling herself who not only notices you, but also gives you some praise? Because that’s exactly what one Japanese fan experienced as the Harry Potter author herself saw his anime-style artwork on...
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The powerful-yet-often-wacky members of the crime-fighting organization, Libra, are back for a brand new anime, as announced by an advance copy of the latest issue of Jump Square Magazine has announced that Trigun creator, Yasuhiro Nightow’s popular supernatural action manga, Blood Blockade Battlefront. According to the scan, the new anime season is titled Blood Blockade Battlefront &...
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The Final Fantasy XV hype train has already launched officially, and fans just cannot stop talking about the game. As part of the FFXV launch celebrations, Square Enix released a couple of launch videos, starting off with a live-action one titled “Stand Together”. Pretty intense, huh? There’s also the newly-launched “Ride Along” trailer, which teases...
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Rin and Yukio are back for a brand new season with Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, and three new character videos have been posted, and they introduce Yukio Okumura, Shiemi Moriyama and Izumo Kamiki. Yukio Okumura Shiemi Moriyama Izumo Kamiki Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga will be adapting the manga’s Kyoto Impure King arc, and it will premiere on...
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Good news Malaysia, because Love Live! voice actress, Pile, who voiced Maki Nishikino in the series, is headed your way this January for her first concert in the country! The concert will be held at the HGH Hall in Kuala Lumpur on January 21, 2017. Her Malaysian visit will also include a 2-hour meet-and-greet session with...
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With all the rumors floating around regarding the 4th installment of the Marvel vs. Capcom crossover fighting game, gaming news website Polygon has reported that their sources have told them that Marvel vs. Capcom 4 is now ” currently in development and slated for release sometime in 2017.” The site also reported that the game will be...
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Re:Zero and KonoSuba are two of 2016’s hottest and most popular anime titles, and Re:Zero light novel author, Tappei Nagatsuki, and KonoSuba light novel author, Natsume Akatsuki, together with their respective illustrators, Shinichirou Otsuka and Kurone Mishima, as well as Re:Zero mangaka, Daichi Matsuse, are going to be discussing their works in a special book, and this also includes...
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The President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump, may be making the entire world worried about what he will be doing as one of the most powerful men on Earth, however, the soon-to-be-leader of the free world made an appearance in the latest installment of the Baki the Grappler manga series, Baki-Dou, and...
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The official Gintama website announced a few more details on the upcoming new Gintama TV anime. In that announcement, the website posted that the new TV anime will be airing in January, to be specific, it will premiere on January 9, at 1:35 am JST. The 1:35 am air time is really far removed from its...
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During a special 10th anniversary event for Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in Chiba, it was announced that the original Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion TV anime will be edited to be released as a 3-part movie. This 3-part movie however will be released to prepare fans for something big! What’s this big...
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The upcoming January 2017 edition of Nakayoshi magazine has one big announcement, and it’s about CLAMP’s new Cardcaptor Sakura sequel manga, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Arc. According to the announcement, the series is getting an anime adaptation! However, we won’t be expecting the anime until January 2017, which means that it will be over a year...
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The official twitter page of Gainax West, the renowned anime studio’s new Kobe-based branch, recently made a series of tweets focusing on Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, and it made fans go wild, as it ignited the hope that Gainax will be continuing the series, which has kept fans hanging for so long. The tweet...
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The Anime Festival Asia, the time when you can openly admit your love of all things Japanese and not get weird looks for it, is back. From today until Sunday 27 November gets your Weeaboo fix at the Suntec Convention Centre. From as little as S$13 for just exhibitions, all the way up to S$88...
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The Anime Festival Asia is back once again in Singapore. Singaporean Otakus, Weeaboos and anime lovers get the chance to celebrate their love of Japanese entertainment with like-minded folk. Bandai, the toy manufacturing arm of Bandai Namco, are one of the exhibitors. SG Café had the chance to talk to the Japanese firm to discuss...
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Grandfathers, sometimes, they are sweet, loving old men, sometimes they are strict disciplinarians, and we love them just the same. For this week’s Charapedia poll, the anime character database took a look at grandfathers, and asked fans to vote for which one is the most charming. Out of 10,000 votes, 51.8% were male while 48.2%...
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The figure skating anime, Yuri!! on Ice, is most definitely one of the hottest and most talked-about anime this season, and it officially gets its own line of fragrances thanks to Japanese hygiene brand, COZY WAVE. The products include original fabric sprays featuring Yuri, Victor, and Yuri (top), as well as special Yuri!! on Ice body...
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In anime, there are all sorts of big brothers. There are those ideal types who are kind to their siblings, the pranksters, and of course, there are those with the sister complex. Japanese anime news website, Animeanime recently asked 700 people to vote for the anime big brother they think is the best. Remember though, that...
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Prepare to lough out loud even more, as Hell’s hilarious and wacky denizens return for a brand new OAD. Vol. 23 of the Hoozuki no Reitetsu manga by Natsumi Eguchi has revealed that the anime will be having a new OAD, slated for release next year. The OAD will be coming bundled with the manga’s...
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Since 1924, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City has become an American tradition, and this year’s edition is a little bit more special, as it also celebrated 20 years of Pokemon, which was first launched in Japan for Gameboy back in 1996, with the original Red and Green versions. The video features...
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What if you’re a science teacher, and you find out that your school is full of monster girls? That is exactly what will happen in the upcoming monster girl TV anime, Interviews with Monster Girls, which also got a itself brand new PV. The video introduces us to some of the characters, most particularly Tetsuo Takashi,...
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The December 2016 edition of Gangan Joker magazine has announced Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro’s ever-bloody action-fantasy manga, Akame Ga Kill!, will be ending in its next issue, as its final chapter will be included within the pages of January 2017 issue, due out on December 22, 2016. The manga will be ending with however, as it will...
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Kono Light Novel Ga Sugoi is a guide to which light novels to follow for the upcoming year, and it is usually based on voting done online, and is usually used as a basis on how well a fans viewed a light novel throughout the year. This year was mostly dominated by one particular light...
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Every February, the city of Sapporo holds its annual Snow Festival, and at the same time, the city also holds the Snow Miku Festival. Every year, there is a theme for Snow Miku, and 2017’s would be stars and constellations found in Hokkaido. In fact, the theme is really celestial, even the event’s theme song,...
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Kyoto Animation’s hit anime series, Hyouka, which is also based on Honobu Yonezawa’s mystery novel, is getting a live-action movie adaptation, and the two main characters playing Eru Chitanda and Houtarou Oreki have finally been revealed! Plating the brilliant-but-lazy Oreki is prolific live-action anime/manga adaptation actor, Kento Yamazaki (Your Lie in April), while the ever-curious Eru...
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In Japan, Gals, or Gyaru, are known to be fashionable and trendy, and one of them becomes the main heroine of Meguru Ueno’s high school comedy manga, Hajimete no Gal, which is also getting itself a TV anime adaptation! The manga follows Jun Hashiba, an uncool “virgin boy” who doesn’t really stand out. He goes on...
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In the fight against STDs and STIs, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has teamed up with a powerful ally – Sailor Moon! This partnership has resulted in an official campaign which includes the distribution of Sailor Moon-themed condom packs. The campaign would spread awareness for sexually-transmitted diseases like HIV and syphilis, through the distribution...
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A new killing game is about to begin with the upcoming New Danganronpa V3 game for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. New character trailers have recently been released, and they introduce us to a few characters from the game: Kaede Akamatsu (super high-school-level pianist), Rantarou Amami (the super high-school-level ???), Miu Iruma, (super high-school-level inventor),...
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Back in June 26, 1997, the very first Digimon virtual pet game was launched, and it sparked a revolution which would later become the anime which would define many of our childhoods. Now, a special countdown website has been launched, and it counts down to what could be a big announcement for the Digimon franchise....
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There will always be anime which have made us cry, and Japanese ranking website, Goo, has asked 500 people, 250 male, 250 female, to vote for which sad anime actually made them cry… or were unlucky enough to be watching when ninjas were cutting onions right beside them. Here are the Top 10 (or 11...
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While Touken Ranbu turned Japanese swords into anthropomorphic men, another new anime is turning rice crops into bishounen, and it is called Love Kome -We Love Rice-. Love Live!’s Hanayo, rejoice! Love Kome -We Love Rice- follows five bishounen rice boys, all of whom have names inspired by types of Japanese rice, like Hikari Hino and Nishiki...
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Love Live! Sunshine!! is holding global elections to determine which AQOURS member will become the poster girl for nine respective countries, and now, voting has officially begun. Only the AQOURS members are eligible to become poster girls, so don’t worry, Trump won’t win this one. The voting areas are: ・Australia ・China ・Germany ・Korea ・Singapore ・Taiwan...
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Paramount and Dreamworks’ upcoming live-action movie adaptation of the classic anime movie, Ghost in the Shell, may have had some mixed reactions, but it is still coming in with a lot of hype. Recently, gaming website, IGN, made a comparison video, which compares several cuts taken from the original anime, as well as the recently-released...
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Blue Exorcist is back with a second season focusing on the Kyoto Impure King arc, and they have just released a brand new TV ad, as well as a PV, introducing Yukio Okumura. Oh Yukio, fans must really be happy to see you and Rin again! A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, The iDOLM@STER) will once...
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Part 4 of Hirohiko Araki’s Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, also known as Diamond is Unbreakable, is getting adapted into a live-action movie. Part 4 focuses on Jousuke Higashitaka, and a brand new teaser trailer, the first one for the film, has been released to introduce the actor playing him, the one and only Kento Yamazaki. As...
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After saving Earth from destruction, the Yamato is going back in action for the upcoming 7-part follow-up to the space epic known as Space Battleship Yamato 2199, Space Battleship Yamato 2202. And now, a brand new PV teases a brand new conflict, as Earth braces to face a new threat called the Comet Empire. The first...
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Looks like the war ain’t over just yet, as Bandai Visual’s official YouTube channel has announced that the battle for the Thunderbolt sector is still ongoing with a second season for the anime adaptation of Yasuo Ohtagaki’s Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga. The video teased new mobile suits to be added in this new season,...
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Black hair, the most natural hair color for many of us Asians, is never truly a rarity. However, there are plenty of black-haired anime characters who are also quite charming, and the Japanese character database, Charapedia, recently asked fans to vote for the black-haired anime character that they find most charming. With 10,000 votes, 59.9%...
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2015 was certainly a tumultuous year for one certain Hideo Kojima, filled with incidents regarding his former company, Konami. One of those incidents included Konami not allowing the renowned video game developer to fly to Los Angeles to receive his Industry Icon Award during the The Game Awards 2015. Now, he’s finally getting it! He...
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Bleach has finally ended, and its mangaka, Tite Kubo, has found himself in an unfamiliar situation where he has a lot of free time in his hands. After recently cosplaying a character from his manga, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the Bleach creator recently drew his experience in a special manga he released on twitter. In that twitter manga,...
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An advance copy of Weekly Shounen Jump! magazine’s issue #51 will be announcing that Kizuku Watanabe and Jou Aoto’s Assassination Classroom spin-off manga, Koro-Sensei Quest, is getting adapted into an anime series. In this spin-off manga, Koro-sensei is a demon lord, and the student of Class C must defeat him in order to save the...
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Remember when IGN reviewed Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and said that the game had “Too Much Water”? That review sparked a ton of memes and proved that IGN may have been aligned with Team Magma. That review happened back in 2014, however, it seems that Nintendo hasn’t forgotten about it. Pokemon has been...
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After more than a decade of poking fun at Japanese and American pop culture, breaking the fourth wall, handing out lots of laughs, all at the expense of poor Hayate Ayasaki, Kenjirou Hata’s ever-popular butler manga, Hayate the Combat Butler! is now about to end, as the manga has now entered its final phase after...
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After thrilling anime fans earlier this year, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is headed to the big screen with two new movies, and now, the official Noitamina YouTube channel has started streaming the two films’ latest teaser trailer. These two new Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress movies will be compilation films, which will be featuring...
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Atlus has some bad news for all of you waiting for Persona 5, because during a live-streaming program, they announced that one of 2016’s most highly anticipated games will be released in… 2017! However, to make up for making the fans wait for Persona 5… again, Atlus will now also be releasing the game in...
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Sony has teamed up with Nakaba Suzuki’s hit fantasy manga series, The Seven Deadly Sins, for a special Sony Walkman and headphone, inspired by the series main character, and the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins, Melodias. The Melodias Walkman is a NW-A35HN/R, and features the character’s Dragon’s Sin of Wrath mark. It comes with a box, featuring...
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“We have a secret we can’t tell our boyfriends.” What happens when two girls with boyfriends fall in love with each other? Looks like it’s not just the ever-popular yuri manga, Citrus, that’s getting itself a TV anime adaptation, but also another yuri manga known as NTR: Netsuzou Trap. The anime will be based on Naoko...
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