Anime News

After the highly successful Avengers series, Joe and Anthony Russo are set to oversee another epic work: a Netflix animated series on the wildly popular collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering. This will be the first animated series for the Magic franchise.

Additional good news to those who plan to go to Anime Expo in Los Angeles: the creator of cult classic Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, was just revealed as one of the guests in the event. Otomo began his career as a manga artist in 1973, when he published A Gun Report, a manga adaptation of Prosper Merimee’s short novel Mateo Falcone.

Good news to all international fans of world-famous virtual Youtuber Kizuna Ai: you may be thousands of miles away from Japan, but that won’t be a problem if you want to catch her live in concert. Her official website has just announced that her birthday concert entitled A.

The Sound. Euphonium franchise appears to be on a roll, what with new film projects since last year—we got Liz and the Blue Bird (Liz to Aoi Tori) in 2018, then we got another movie, Chikai no Finale (Oath’s Finale), which was released in Japan last April.

Multimedia franchise Love Live is gearing up for its 9th anniversary next year with a major, major celebration. Get all your feels ready and whip out those dusty Kingblades, because the OG Love Live group μ's will be back on stage.

Sad news for those waiting for episodes 9 and 10 of Fruits Basket: the two episodes are set to be aired to a later date, as Japanese TV channels are currently broadcasting major tennis tournament The French Open.

Unfortunate news for fans of Sailor Moon musicals, more known to fans as Seramyu: the franchise’s 5th musical stage play will be delayed to summer 2020, as opposed to the original plan to debut the musical this summer 2019.

Gaming fans, rejoice, as the much-awaited game from legendary game creator Hideo Kojima has just officially announced a release date. Sony has just released a bizaare but engaging nine-minute trailer for Kojima’s Death Stranding, which will be released worldwide on November 8 of this year—sooner than what most expected.

Your Name director Makoto Shinkai’s newest film, Weathering with You (Tenki no Ko) has just released a new trailer. The 2-minute trailer, which exhibits Shinkai’s characteristic animation style, offers us more insight on the upcoming film, as well as previews of the other characters.

These days it appears that we are getting a lot of news about Hollywood live-action remakes of Japanese anime or video games. There is the upcoming live-action remake of Makoto Shinkai’s worldwide hit Your Name, which will be directed by 500 Days of Summer’s Marc Webb.