You may have seen the My Hero Academia anime film, but did you really feel it? My Hero Academia: Two Heroes eventually went on to land as the tenth highest grossing anime film in the U.S., and now it’s getting another chance to shine in …Read more »
DMM’s battle RPG CIRCLET PRINCESS is getting the anime treatment starting January 8, 2019, with anime studio SILVER LINK bringing the game’s augmented reality battles to life. Hideki Tachibana directs the series, and a new key visual and trailer are here to preview the fighting …Read more »
Ever watched an anime and thought, “man, it’d be great if that cute animal were my pet?” Sure you have. So have 12,476 readers of Japanese site Anime Anime, who ranked the anime creatures they’d most want around the house. Here are their top 10 …Read more »
More details have surfaced for the next anime film from director Masaaki Yuasa (Lu Over the Wall, Mind Game, The Night is Short Walk on Girl), including new staff members and a date for the Japanese theatrical opening. Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara (If I …Read more »
We just got the 21st Pokémon anime film in U.S. theaters, but it’s already time to start looking ahead toward the 22nd. Next up is a return to the film series’ roots in Mewtwo no Gyakushuu Evolution, AKA Mewtwo’s Counterattack Evolution or Mewtwo Strikes Back …Read more »
The next Detective Conan/Case Closed anime film was recently revealed as Detective Conan: The Fist of Blue Sapphire. The 23rd feature film in the series opens in Japanese theaters on April 12, 2019, and a teaser trailer has arrived to preview the battle between Kaito …Read more »
If you’ve been wondering when you’d be able to experience the conclusion of the Godzilla CG film trilogy, well, wonder no longer. Godzilla: The Planet Eater is set to hit Netflix January 9, a few months after its premiere in Japan this November. Like the previous …Read more »
Somehow this one totally slipped by us, but, uh, there’s going to be a new City Hunter film next year! The film, the latest in the famous series, has just been given its official title: City Hunter Shinjuku Private Eyes. It’s also been announced the …Read more »
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the Hayao Miyazaki manga/anime that helped launch Studio Ghibli, is getting a kabuki stage play in Japan. This is the first kabuki play based on a Miyazaki or Ghibli film, and will star two greats of the kabuki …Read more »
Lotte is Japan’s third largest confectionery company, and they’re celebrating big time with a 70th anniversary project. One of the contributing pieces is a four-minute anime short titled “Baby, I Love You-daze,” centering on a chance encounter at a Lotte store between a junior high …Read more »
Netflix has been going pretty buckwild with Christmas specials, and they’re not keeping anime out of the time-honored tradition. The adorably hard-workin’ and hard-rockin’ Retsuko is getting her own special in the form of Aggretsuko: We Wish You a Metal Christmas, which officially hits Netflix …Read more »
Tomohiko Ito is a busy director. Known for helming anime adaptations like Sword Art Online and ERASED, Ito’s next project takes things in an original direction. There aren’t any story details, but HELLO WORLD is a sci-fi love story anime film that puts Ito back …Read more »
The 14th anime film is on the way for One Piece, and the feature will be celebrating the anime adaptation’s 20th anniversary. While we’ll have to wait on staff and plot information, the movie is titled One Piece Stampede and is set to open in Japan …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki is a household name at this point, but how many people are aware of the amount of work he puts into his passion for animation? Add the complex new element of CGI into the mix and you have a tale that could only …Read more »
Disclosure: Cartooner‘s co-designer Jason Thompson is the manga editor for Otaku USA magazine. Around this time last year we posted about Cartooner, a tabletop game that promised an American comic-themed followup to the manga-drawing game Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics. The …Read more »
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