Back in in July we reported on the Russian artist Ahriman, who takes shots from Western action films and redraws them in the style of 90s anime. They’re so well executed, it really makes you wish you could see them animated, and it seems Ahriman …Read more »
Fighting games in the 90s were often joked about for the gratuitous proportions of their female cast members, but SNK’s Mai Shiranui was arguably THE most notorious. Her hand-drawn bouncing cleavage in the King Of Fighters games and anime outings like Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture …Read more »
Back in February we reported on the announcement of a manga adaptation of live-action Hollywood film Back To The Future drawn by Yuusuke Murata (One-Punch Man, Eyeshield 21). It was set to be serialized by website Kono Manga ga Sugoi!, and supervised by film writer …Read more »
We reported on the announcement of Kemono Friends‘ second season earlier this week, along with the fact that open auditions were being held for new cast member(s). It was noted that applicants were asked to be “physically and mentally healthy” but didn’t actually need previous acting …Read more »
Melonpan is a Swiss otaku who’s built an internet following over the last several years publicizing his “perverted” antics. Posing with his anime merch in his underwear (or bare-ass) for selfie tweets is a regular thing for him. In 2013 he filmed himself licking nearly …Read more »
It’s been surprising enough that Paramount Picture’s partially live-action Sonic The Hedgehog film continues to advance through the production process, but then it keeps announcing strange and surprising casting choices. Last month, Jim Carrey was tapped for the role of Dr. Robotnik, and a month …Read more »
The World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya Japan has been making headlines every year since 2003, as cosplayers from around the world stun judges with their well-crafted costumes. One thing that tends to be overlooked however, is that Nagoya’s governor Hideaki Omura shows up in costumers …Read more »
The Love Live! Sunshine!! manhole covers in Numazu, Japan are the gift that keeps on giving… just not in the way they were intended. The mere fact that sewer entrances would be used as place to un-ironically celebrate idol anime was weird enough to make …Read more »
A funny story from Japanese Twitter user RainMamizu has been making the rounds over the past few weeks. She’d been dating a guy for sometime, when one day he searched her phone without asking, discovering that she was a self-proclaimed fujoshi. Up till now she …Read more »
The Saudi General Commission for Audio-Visual Media announced on Monday that it’s prohibiting 47 games in connection with the deaths of a 13 year old girl and 12 year old boy. The list of banned games includes such titles as Yo-kai Watch, Okami, One Piece: …Read more »
According to a programming schedule released earlier this week, Disney XD’s U.S. broadcast of Pokémon Sun and Moon will jump directly from episode 63 to 65. This is curious, since the last time any Pokémon episode went un-aired in the United States was in 2002, …Read more »
Anime-style fanart of pretty much anything you can think of tends to be a dime a dozen on the internet, so it can be hard to define what exactly makes such work stand out. In the case of Russian artist Ahriman, the way he carefully …Read more »
Back in 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French president Francois Hollande agreed to organize an event called Japonismes 2018 to celebrate 150 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and France. From July through February of next year, Paris is to host a showcase …Read more »
The plot thickens in the on-going saga of the Love Live Sunshine!! manhole covers in Numazu, Japan. Shortly after being installed in late May, many of the manhole covers were vandalized with spray paint. It was later announced that the city was removing the manhole …Read more »
Earlier this week Japanese twitter user Lambda39 chose to do some light research into the personal hygiene habits of anime fans. After posting a poll asking otaku how often they showered, the following results came out: ● Every day, obviously: 81 percent ● Roughly every …Read more »
Julian Gnam
