You may have assumed every series already has a stage play, but there’s one more that’s about to Dempsey Roll its way to the theatrical world. The next series to head to the stage is George Morikawa’s long-running Hajime no Ippo boxing manga, which is celebrating its …Read more »
The “girls playing baseball” anime subgenre just got a new addition. Stepping up to the plate is Tamayomi, which is set to hit screens in 2020. The series is based on the manga of the same name from manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward about a …Read more »
Last month we posted about the premiere timing for the How much heavy dumbbells can you lift? TV anime, which adapts the manga by Yabako Sandrovich and MAAM. Now the production is back with a teaser trailer ahead of its July debut, so get pumped …Read more »
If there’s one sport we know the readers of Otaku USA are excited about, it’s rugby. Right, guys? Guys? Okay, rugby hasn’t exactly captured the imagination of American audiences, but as we know, sports manga is often less about the actual sport than using that …Read more »
There are certain manga series you just know won’t ever truly end. Eiichiro Oda‘s One Piece is definitely one that could theoretically chug along happily until the author is completely exhausted, no matter how much Oda insists upon its impending conclusion. And then there’s Hajime …Read more »
Last month we shared some cast updates for the How much heavy dumbbells can you lift? TV anime, which adapts the manga by Yabako Sandrovich and MAAM. Now the official website is here with further info, lining the series up for a July premiere in …Read more »
More information recently surfaced about Mix, an upcoming anime based on Mitsuru Adachi’s baseball manga about siblings striving toward success and the ultimate goal of the national tournament. The series officially premieres in Japan on April 6, and the news was quickly followed up with …Read more »
Earlier this month we posted about a new TV anime that’s on the way to ask the very important question: Danberu nan kiro moteru?, AKA How much heavy dumbbells can you lift?. The series is based on the workout comedy manga by MAAM and Kengan …Read more »
With Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympics on the not-so-distant horizon, it’s only right that there be some thematically appropriate anime available around the same time. Kyoto Animation is on top of it, because a brand new Free! anime film has officially been revealed for summer of …Read more »
Volleyball anime Haikyu!! will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a bang (or should we say a spike?): a new season has been announced for 2019. The new season will be the fourth for the series, which is based on the manga by Haruichi Furudate. With …Read more »
Junk Dog is a bum with little room for positive forward trajectory in his life. Part of that has to do with his general way of living, but the rest falls firmly in the lap of his coach, Gansaku Nanbu. You see, Junk Dog is …Read more »
In case it slipped your mind since the initial announcement, the Megalobox anime is about to make its English broadcast debut on Adult Swim’s Toonami block. The premiere of the series—which reboots the classic Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe) manga—is set for this Saturday, so …Read more »
Later this year Megalo Box will have a new ring to call its own. Viz Media announced plans to bring the brand new English dub of the series—which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ikki Kajiwara and Tetsuya Chiba’s Ashita no Joe manga—to the Toonami programming block. Megalo …Read more »
It looks like the popular Free! series isn’t ending anytime soon. The final episode of Free! Dive to the Future, the latest season of the series, ended with a frame that read “See You in 2020…” The tease, of course, leaves it unclear whether Free!’s …Read more »
This seems to be the year that 50th anniversary commemoration projects end up being all the rage among new anime fans, and I couldn’t be more pleased. For in addition to the various Go Nagai anniversary works such as DEVILMAN Crybaby, Mazinger Z Infinity, and …Read more »
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