The trial of suspect Shinji Aoba, who has confessed to being behind the deadly Kyoto Animation arson that killed more than 30 workers, has reached a new point. After family members gave their opinions on what kind of sentence they’d want — with many, but …Read more »
Last month, we learned Kyoto Animation’s Sound! Euphonium is headed back to the small screen for a third season. Now we’ve got a fresh teaser trailer for the series as well as a new piece of key art. Both center around Mayu Kuroe, the third-year …Read more »
Ever wanted to own a giant plushie of, say, Dera from Tamako Market or Eru from Hyouka? Your dream can now come true. Kyoto Animation has teamed up with the brand Doqute to make some big ol’ plush figures of some of its most iconic …Read more »
The deadly 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation (sometimes referred to as “KyoAni”) has cast a shadow over the anime world. Now Kyodo News, a major Japanese news source, says that it heard from an investigative source that prosecutors are talking to family members about …Read more »
Hard to believe, but the Kyoto Animation series Tamako Market is a decade old. To celebrate, Kyoto Animation is launching a 10th anniversary project. That’s the word from the series’ official Twitter feed. The series debuted on January 9, 2013. A sequel film, Tamako Love …Read more »
Time flies when you’re solving high school mysteries. The Kyoto Animation series Hyouka first started airing exactly 10 years ago today, on April 22, 2012. The series, based on a series of novels by Honobu Yonezawa, focused on the members of a high school’s Classic …Read more »
Hard to believe, but it’s been over two years since the deadly arson attack on Kyoto Animation. Now a Japanese manufacturer has unveiled a product inspired by the attack in order to prevent such tragedies in the future. Called the Quick Splasher, it’s a sprayer …Read more »
Everyone’s excited about that other box office hit, but let’s not forget Violet Evergarden: The Movie. The film, a sequel to the Kyoto Animation series, has been going strong since its debut back in October. Oricon reports that Violet Evergarden: The Movie has officially surpassed …Read more »
If you enjoyed Kyoto Animation’s latest endeavor, Tsurune, here’s a quiver’s worth of good news. The series will get an additional episode when it hits home video. The unaired 14th episode will be released in the fifth home video volume of the series, which comes …Read more »
With Tsurune, Kyoto Animation is back with another series about a high school club. This time, it’s archery. Now we’ve got a look at what exactly the story will entail with an English-subtitled preview for the series. The full name of the series is Tsurune: …Read more »
Ever the ambitious studio, Kyoto Animation has just announced that the Violet Evergarden project they’ve been hinting about for a while is a full-length theatrical film set to hit in January 2020. The news was announced at an event for fans of the series. Violet …Read more »
It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here! Ever since the release of the movie Free! Take Your Marks and the announcement of the new season last October, fans have been on the edge of their starting blocks waiting for the upcoming Free!-Dive to the Future-, set …Read more »
Fans of Sound! Euphonium: take note. Back in 2017, it was announced that not one but two original films set in the world of Kyoto Animation’s Sound! Euphonium would be released in 2018. (The first of those, Liz and the Blue Bird, came out in …Read more »
Kyoto Animation’s latest series, Violet Evergarden, wrapped up about a month ago, but for those of you feeling everlost, good news: there’s a bonus episode of the series on the way. The trailer for that episode was revealed yesterday by the series’ official Twitter feed …Read more »
If you’re in the United States (and there’s a good chance you are, this is Otaku USA, after all) and have a Netflix account, as of today, you have access to Violet Evergarden, the latest series from Kyoto Animation. If you happen to binge it …Read more »
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