Have you stocked up on Halloween candy for the week? Got your bags of bite-sized snacks all ready for the trick-or-treaters? Good. Now guard them with your life. Because anime is full of characters who will absolutely steal it all from you. Sweet-toothed characters are …Read more »
There’s sad news as it was revealed that prolific stage, TV, film and voice actor French Tickner passed away recently. Anime fans would probably know him best from playing Watari in Death Note, Dozle Zabi in Mobile Suit Gundam, and Kagome’s grandfather in Inuyasha. The …Read more »
This week, voice actor Kiyoshi Kobayashi announced that he would be stepping down from the role of Daisuke Jigen. The voice actor has held his tenure longer than any other Lupin the Third actor, and was the final hold-out of the cast’s first generation. So, starting …Read more »
Death Note artist Takeshi Obata is working on a new manga, but this time around he’s not doing it with his usual partner in crime, Tsugumi Ohba. Instead, the manga will be written by novelist Akinari Asakura, who is the author of Rokunin no Uso-tsuki-na …Read more »
A premiere month has officially been revealed for the Platinum End anime, the adaptation of the manga by Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The series is set to kick off on TV in Japan this October, and the first trailer is here …Read more »
Hollywood and anime. They go together like… well, a lot of times, it feels like they don’t. Live-action adaptations of anime are already fraught with peril. But it seems like when Hollywood in particular has a go, the peril is even more perilous. It’s not …Read more »
We Got This Covered recently interviewed writer Greg Russo, mostly covering his Mortal Kombat work, but also his involvement with Netflix’s Death Note 2. Netflix’s live-action Death Note was not a hit with otaku, to say the least. Russo distanced himself from the first movie, …Read more »
As nice as it would be, not all our problems can be solved via brute force. Fortunately, there are smart anime characters on hand to get things done… in their respective shows, of course. We don’t have access to those smarts in the real world. …Read more »
Anime musicals are getting to be like anime mobile games… wait long enough, and your favorite show will probably have one. Shows like Sailor Moon and The Prince of Tennis have their own series of stage shows, with fandoms as devoted as those of the original series. …Read more »
Japan is about to get a new Death Note book — Death Note Short Stories. This is the first non-reprint of a Death Note book in almost fifteen years. The book is 226 pages long, and it consists of one-shot chapters spanning over 17 years …Read more »
This April, anime production house Signal.MD will unleash a new TV series based on the Death Note creators’ Platinum End manga. The anime adaptation has JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind director Hideya Takahashi at the helm, and the latest update is here to reveal the …Read more »
The anime Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul and Inuyashiki have received legal bans in Russia after the decision of a St. Petersburg court yesterday. The bans relate to websites where these anime can be watched. The prosecutors argued for this ban on the grounds of protecting …Read more »
It looks like Netflix is betting on Yu Yu Hakusho for their next IRL remake of a beloved anime. The hype is… cautious. We all know that the world of live-action anime remakes is a little varied. But even if you’re a picky watcher, there are …Read more »
Hey Death Note fans: remember the watch Light Yagami wore with a secret compartment for taking secret, death-related notes? Now that watch can be yours thanks to the folks at SuperGroupies. That’s the apparel maker behind a lot of the licensed anime merch we’ve featured …Read more »
It’s safe to say that everyone was pumped when a brand-new Death Note manga chapter was revealed. This one will be an 87-page chapter from the original team of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, and the English Shonen Jump announced plans to make it available …Read more »
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