In Japan it’s typical for manga authors to leave a message for readers on the inside cover of new volumes of popular series. Usually it’s a ‘thank you’ to the fans, or a comment about the process of working on the manga. For volume 89 …Read more »
Fans of the touching 2016 film In This Corner of the World, including yours truly, were somewhat skeptical that the upcoming live-action series adaptation could bring the same magic and nuance as the movie (not to mention the original manga). But this piece of news …Read more »
In This Corner of the World, one of 2017’s most acclaimed anime features, will soon be available for steaming on Netflix. The film will hit Netflix in the U.S., Canada, Japan and other countries and territories March 15. Directed by Sunao Katabuchi and partially funded …Read more »
In This Corner of the World, the touching tale of life in Hiroshima before and during World War II, will be getting an extended version, it was announced Sunday. The announcement was made at an event celebrating the film’s release one year ago. Since then, …Read more »
Clocking in at just 90 minutes between two 45-minute episodes, The Dragon Dentist is delightfully concise, which should come as no surprise to fans of Tsurumaki's most famous work, the six-episode OVA FLCL. In an alternate retelling of World War II (presumably, though the war …Read more »
Shout! Factory Films and Funimation Films have teamed up to bring Sunao Katabuchi's critically-acclaimed In This Corner of the World anime film to U.S. cinemas starting on August 11. Plans are in place for both English subtitled and dubbed screenings, and a new trailer is …Read more »
In This Corner of the World , the critically-acclaimed 2016 film about life in wartime Hiroshima, will be released in the States August 11, and Shout! Factory has offered up a new English-language trailer in anticipation. Shout! Factory will release the film August 11 in …Read more »
Hetalia: In the New World , a new musical based on Hetalia: Axis Powers , is opening this July in Japan, and now a series of photographs of the cast in costume has been revealed. Hetalia: In the New World plays from July 15 to …Read more »
The popular series of super-deformed figurines called Nendoroids has its latest latest addition: Japan from Hetalia: Axis Powers . The figure, which will be released in September, comes with multiple parts that can have Japan either stand or take a traditional Japanese seiza kneel while …Read more »
Good news for those interested in last year’s highly-acclaimed historical anime film In This Corner of the World : the manga on which the film is based is getting an English release. In This Corner of the World , which is about the life of …Read more »
If Drifters contains too much testosterone in your revisionist war history wish fulfillment for your liking, worry not! Japanese otaku and the Winter 2016 anime season also offer their other most common variant. For, as strange though it is for me to say this, “alternate …Read more »
Shout! Factory partnered up with London-based distributor Animatsu Entertainment to secure the North American rights for Sunao Katabuchi's acclaimed In This Corner of the World anime film. Shout!'s license includes theatrical, video on-demand, digital, broadcast, and home video rights for U.S. and Canada, and they'll …Read more »
For Japanese film fans, the annual top 10 list by movie magazine Kinema Junpo is a big deal. The twice-monthly magazine, which started publication in 1919, is one of country’s most respected, and their top 10 list is arguably more prestigious than Japan’s version of …Read more »
Say “Hiroshima” to someone from the west and someone from Japan, and you’re likely to conjure up two very different mental images. For most people in America, Hiroshima is synonymous with a single moment: 8:15 am, August 6, 1945, the world’s first use of a …Read more »
Izetta: The Last Witch is the first of Funimation's fall SimulDub titles, and it's set to premiere in English tonight, October 19, at 10:00pm Eastern Time. Now that the dub is upon us, Funimation went ahead and revealed the full English voice cast. CHARACTER CAST …Read more »
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