The Tokyo Anime Award Festival is, well, pretty much what it sounds like: a yearly award show that bestows prizes on the best anime of the year. The nominations for best anime of the year are out for this year’s TAAF. Let's check out who …Read more »
ERASED As usual, there’s a plethora of anime to choose from this season (we count 37 TV series, and that’s excluding short and specials). We’re a few weeks into the season, and fans have started to weed out the series they’re not so interested in …Read more »
Nikkei Entertainment, a pop culture magazine published by the Japanese media giant of the same name, has an anime-centric issue out this month, and it’s highlighted five anime directors fans might want to keep their eyes on. Let’s check out the list. In no specific …Read more »
On this final day of 2015, forgive us one more best-of list, won’t you? This time, it’s from the guys over at Anime Anime, who have asked their readers to rank the top ten anime films of 2015. And just what did they choose? 10. …Read more »
Ah, end-of-year lists. Many, they are. Our favorite pollmasters Charapedia have gotten in on the end-of-year game by asking their readers: who were the best characters of 2015? The rules were pretty simple: the characters didn’t have to be new, they simply had to appear …Read more »
It’s December, and that means end-of-year lists are starting to crop up everywhere. Japan’s no exception, and leading the pack is Kono Manga ga Sugoi! ("This Manga is Great!"), a yearly mook (not a magazine, not yet a book) that polls Japanese writers, illustrators, manga …Read more »
We’re a month into the fall 2015 season, and anime polling site Charapedia has asked its readers: after a month, what series are you still keeping up with? Without further ado, let’s find out what Japan is thinking! 20. Fafner in the Azure: Exodus 19. …Read more »
Now that the fall 2015 anime season is underway (man, is The Perfect Insider kind of interesting or what?), anime news site Anime Anime asked their readers to take a look back at the crispy days of summer and rate their favorite summer 2015 series. …Read more »
You know, I know it, and manga and anime creators sure know it: there’s nothing better than a good rivalry. Be it sports, shonen or virtually any genre, there’s few things that keep viewers watching than two equally-matched rivals fighting for the same prize, or …Read more »
Lists of stuff – can you even remember what the internet was like before them? The latest list out from Goo, a Japanese site that asks its readers to rank all kinds of stuff, has busted out the moe question of moe questions – which …Read more »
Character songs – or kyarason for short, sometimes known as image songs – are those anime songs sung in-universe by one or more anime characters and attributed to those characters. To give an example that dates us horribly, think of the classic “My Boyfriend is …Read more »
Lists. Is there anything the internet collectively loves more? (Cats, maybe…) The latest list from Japanese ranking website Goo is a ranking of the 16 best idol anime series of all time, as decided by 500 anime fans. Idols, from Seiko Matsuda to AKB48 to …Read more »
This week the Tokyo International Film Festival teamed up with the World Cosplay Summit for a live show featuring some of the world’s best cosplayers. The World Cosplay Summit, a yearly cosplay contest held in Nagoya, attracts contestants from 22 participating countries. 44 of the …Read more »
Users of “Japanese YouTube” Niconico were recently polled on their favorite anime of this past summer season. How did shows like Sword Art Online II , Space Dandy and Akame ga Kill fare? Without further ado, let’s check out the list! 1) Barakamon 2) Monthly …Read more »
Kotaku just posted the results of a poll of Japanese viewers and what they’ve been enjoying this summer. Of the total 36 shows (not counting shows left over from spring!) airing this season, a group of 578 anime fans picked their top 10 for music …Read more »
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