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Forget a place to hold your drink or snacks! This Demon Slayer-themed gaming chair from Lenovo has a place to store a katana. The motif is designed to resemble the character Giyu Tomioka, with the cushions’ patterns reflecting his threads. The chair even comes with a Nichiren Blade replica. Lenovo isn’t selling these chairs (bummer!)…
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the highest-grossing film in Japanese movie history. Now, the movie is headed to US theaters. With an R-rating. Released last fall, the animated feature became a box office juggernaut, surpassing the previous earnings king Spirited Away. As Deadline reports, the movie made $100 million at…
To mark the release of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, the Aonami train line in Nagoya has been renamed the Ayanami Line. The Nagoya Rinkai Rapid Transit line will be wrapped in Rei (and Eva Unit-00) until May 31. There will also be original Ayanami Line merch, as well as a large display in…
Today, both P.A. Works and Studio Pierrot announced on Twitter that Minako Shiba has died. Shiba got her start in the early 1990s, working on shows like Metal Fighter Miku. Initially, she had hoped to work in the games industry, but ended up in anime. She did key art and well as worked as the…
It often seems inevitable. Whenever a big movie is released, people will pirate the film. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time is no exception. Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 has currently only been released in Japanese theaters, where it’s been setting the box office ablaze. Khara, the studio behind the film, posted a statement on Twitter…
You know Power Pros, right? That big-headed baseball game Konami makes that’s hugely popular in Japan. Well, it’s getting an anime. Set in high school, the anime follows students giving their all on the diamond. What’s interesting is that the anime, which will air online, will be animated by Clover Works, the studio behind Persona…
Hikaru Utada has sung all the themes for the Rebuild of Evangelion film series. She returns for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, which hits theaters today in Japan. Below is the theme’s official music video, which is directed by Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno. Called “One Last Kiss,” the track appears on an EP by…
Over the weekend, a small group of protestors appeared in Tokyo’s Koganei. As My Game News Flash reports, they held posters and passed out fliers, expressing their distaste for the anime Dropout Idol Fruit Tart Originally a manga, it was adapted into a TV anime last fall. An event for the anime was held this…
With Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time—the fourth and final film in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy–heading to theaters in Japan, a new Unit-01 statue is going up in Ibaraki Prefecture. Located at the Ami Premium Outlet, the Eva statue will go up today on March 8, and stay there until May 31. (It appears…
Derek Kolstad, best known for writing the John Wick films, is bringing Hellsing to life for Amazon Studios as a live-action feature. Created by Kouta Hirano, the Hellsing manga debuted in 1997 and ran until 2008. It was also adapted into a TV anime in 2001 (above is an image from said anime). “Ever since…
In 2022, Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away will get its first live-action theatrical adaptation. This isn’t the first Studio Ghibli film to get a stage adaptation. In 2013, Studio Ghibli and Whole Hog Theatre collaborated on a live-action Princess Mononoke, which ran at London’s New Diorama Theatre. This time, the Tony and Olivier Award-winning director John…
Whenever there’s an earthquake in Japan, inevitably on Twitter come photos of people’s anime statues knocked off shelves. Now one company is saying they’ll fix their ones for free! Recently, north-eastern Japan was rocked by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake. No doubt anime figures were jostled about during the quake, which is why, as J-Cast News (via…
Announced last December, Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and The Boy and the Beast) has a new animated feature coming out this year. As previously reported, the movie is called Belle and tells the story of a young woman in modern-day Japan as she enters a massive virtual world. Below is the brand new…
It’s rather common for anime fans to know character’s ages. But for years, Gintama’s age has not been revealed. That is, until now. During a recent YouTube special for the anime movie Gintama The Final, it was asked how old the character was. (Even the staff said didn’t know!) However, Kohei Onishi, the original editor…
This week at a Tokyo District Court, animator Shiro Kudaka has been sentenced to four months in prison for driving without a license and violating Japan’s Road Traffic Act. Kudaka has provided animation—including earning key animator credits—for a number of popular TV series, including Lupin III, Naruto, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. He has also worked…
Shuichiro Moriyama, known for his acting and voice work, has passed away after entering a hospital in Saitama, Japan for pneumonia. He was 86. Moriyama had a long, varied career. Not only did he appear in Japanese theater, live-action TV shows, and feature films like 1996’s Shall We Dance?, he also did a range of…
For well over two decades, we haven’t seen the henshin shiin (変身シーン) or “transformation scene” from Sailor Moon’s Sailor Saturn in an anime. That is, it seems, until now. The upcoming feature film Sailor Moon Eternal will apparently feature the on-screen transformation of Hotaru Tomoe into Sailor Saturn. Parts of the sequence appear in the…
Anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is box office smash in Japan. One politician was hoping some of its popularity would rub off, it seems, and borrowed the logo for a campaign poster. Demon Slayer, of course, is a massively successful anime and manga. Fukuoka politician Makoto Oniki (鬼木誠) copied the logo, substituting his name…
If you’ve read The Promised Neverland manga, you might have noticed something missing in the anime’s second season Warning: This article has spoilers. In anime’s second season has omitted the Goldy Pond arc, ditching all these chapters, and skipping ahead in the storyline. For many readers of the original manga, this arc is among their…
The already cool-sounding Studio Ghibli theme park now sounds even better. Aichi Prefecture, where it will be located, revealed that a real-life Howl’s Moving Castle will also be built on the grounds. Sadly the castle won’t move and will be smaller than the one in the movie. However, as Tokyo Shimbun notes, it will be…
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