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Please Tell Me! Galko-chan Manga Creator Arrested Over Child Pornography
20.12.2021
Japanese police have arrested 40-year-old manga creator Kenya Suzuki on suspicion of importing child pornography, violating the country’s laws about importing banned goods. Read more
Billionaire Goes To Space And Reviews A Manga
16.12.2021
Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire who founded Japanese internet fashion retail site Zozotown, is the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station in a decade. The entrepreneur told AP that his self-funded trip “pretty much” cost over $80 million. While in space, he’s done a PR stunt...
Makoto Shinkai's New Movie Revealed
15.12.2021
Makoto Shinkai, the writer and director of Your Name, has revealed his latest project. It’s called Suzume no Tojimari (Suzume Locking Up The Doors), and it will be released in Japan in fall 2022. Above is the key art for the upcoming film. Suzume no Tojimari follows a 17-year-old girl named Suzume...
The 11 Best Anime Of 2021
12.12.2021
The year of our lord 2021 blessed us with a stacked year of mondo cool anime, especially during the winter and fall seasons. Like a goudere Moses descending the Hokage Rock to deliver the good word to the people, it’s my turn as the otaku of Kotaku to present my favorite anime of the year. Here’s...
Attack on Titan Director's Netflix Anime Looks Like A Post-Apocalyptic Mirror's Edge
8.12.2021
Tokyo flooded by a rain of gravity-defying bubbles and isolated from the rest of the world becomes a playground for lost children doing battle in team-based parkour competition. It sounds like a game. Instead, it’s a new original anime movie called Bubble, written by Puella Magi Madoka Magica...
Here Are Japan's Biggest Selling Manga of 2021
1.12.2021
Japan’s premiere sales chart Oricon has released a list of the biggest selling manga of this year in Japan. Yes, 2021 isn’t quite over yet, but hey, we’re close enough. Read more
Neon Genesis Evangelion Cosplay Gets In The F**king Robot
30.11.2021
I’ve lost count of the amount of Neon Genesis Evangelion cosplay I’ve posted on this site over the last 10 years, but pretty much all of it has been focused on the anime’s characters, especially Rei and Asuka. It’s enormous mechs are a somewhat trickier proposition.Read more
Jump Force Is On Sale For $6 Before It Goes Offline In August 2022
29.11.2021
Jump Force, a game that will be summarily executed by its publisher in just a few short months, is discounted to just $6 as part of Steam’s Fall sale—so this may be your last chance to grab the anime arena-fighter before the game is delisted in February 7, 2022, and sees its online services...
New JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Anime Opening Uses CG Beautifully
29.11.2021
For the upcoming JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime, Tokyo-based animation studio Kamikaze Douga was once again brought into do the opening credits. And once again, Kamikaze Douga knocked it out of the park. Read more
XxxHolic Manga Getting A Live-Action Film In Japan
23.11.2021
Artist collective Clamp’s popular xxxHolic manga will be turned into a live-action movie adaptation, starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, who previously appeared as Seta in the Rurouni Kenshin film franchise, and Ko Shibasaki of Battle Royale and 47 Ronin fame. Read more
Japan's Manga Piracy Crackdown Continues
16.11.2021
In 2019, there was a global manhunt for the manager of manga piracy site Manga-Mura. The manager, a Japanese citizen named Romi Hoshino, was arrested in Manila on copyright violation charges. In June 2021, he was found guilty, sentenced, and fined. If you thought that was the end of Japan’s piracy...
Eiichiro Oda Gives An Update On Netflix's Live-Action One Piece Series
10.11.2021
Massively popular manga One Piece is getting a live-action adaptation from Netflix. The adaptation was first announced back in 2017, with Netflix’s involved revealed last year. Now in 2021, the show’s main cast has finally been announced, and One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda seems excited about...
Netflix Continues Big Anime Push With A Dozen Exciting New Shows and Films
9.11.2021
Today, Netflix continues its heavy investment into the anime industry by announcing a ton of shows, including some very high profile sequels. In addition to animated productions, they’ve also announced live-action adaptations of several anime, original live-action series, and several films. It...
Gantz Creator Is Apparently In The Dark About Hollywood's Live-Action Adaptation
3.11.2021
Hollywood is making a live-action Gantz adaptation and, according to Deadline, Julius Avery of Overlord fame helming the project. Did you hear? Because Hiroya Oku, the manga artist who created Gantz, hadn’t. Oku’s Gantz manga debuted in 2000 and ran until 2013 in Weekly Young Jump magazine....
$7000 Evangelion Jackets Are Some Expensive Cosplay
25.10.2021
First shown off in March, Undercover’s new line of Evangelion-inspired outfits are now available for sale. Or should I say were available for sale, until they almost instantly sold out, leaving us to either pay apocalyptic resale prices or, more sensibly, simply look at pictures of them on...
Man Arrested For Allegedly Stealing Four Copies Of Tokyo Revengers Manga Worth $18
22.10.2021
A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing four volumes of Tokyo Revengers, a popular manga about hoodlum high school kids. Illustrated and written by Tokyo Revengers, the award-winning Tokyo Revengers is serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. (Full disclosure: My first...
I Desperately Want These Rare Evangelion Figures
19.10.2021
Neon Genesis Evangelion is, in my mind, a near-perfect piece of entertainment, but I gotta admit that I would love to rewatch it through the eyes of Japanese artist Yukinori Dehara.Read more
12 Things To Check Out After You've Binged Squid Game
16.10.2021
Even if you live under a rock duplex, you’ve probably seen Netflix’s Squid Game do the rounds on social media. This should come as no surprise because Netflix reports that Squid Game (not to be confused with Nintendo’s Splatoon) is its most popular series launch ever, gaining 111 million viewers...
Friendship Ended With Cyberpunk, Now ANNO: Mutationem Is New Best Friend
8.10.2021
During the Steam Next Fest, a week-long event featuring demos and previews for upcoming games, one game called out to me from the crowd: the cyberpunk role-playing game ANNO: Mutationem. The trailer alone felt specifically designed to lure me in, with its rhythmic soundtrack, its neon-drenched...
Thank You Melty Blood For Adding Fate/Stay Night’s Saber, My Sword Wife
30.9.2021
I didn’t pay much attention to the anime fighting game Melty Blood: Type Lumina until just yesterday, when the developers made the official announcement that Saber, Fate/Stay Night protagonist and the “King of Knights” herself, would be joining the new game’s roster. After seeing her video gameplay...