Anime News

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.

A month ago we got the news that the insanely-difficult-but-still-addicting Play Station 4 title Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will be making the jump to print content, by way of a spin-off manga featuring one of its NPCs.

Atlus keeps on delivering fresh teasers for the newest addition to their Persona 5 game, which is Persona 5 The Royal. A recent tweet from the game’s official Twitter account features the new female character, Kasumi Yoshizawa, interacting with the male protagonist.

In today’s case of “the internet bands together under a common agenda for the good of all”: netizen comments have gotten Paramount Pictures to bow down to the will of netizens, as the film outfit has just announced that their live-action adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog will be moved to a February 2020 premiere so as to make adjustments to the character’s design.

And now it is officially confirmed: the long-shelved Hollywood live-action adaptation of classic anime movie Akira is set to go full steam ahead. Warner Bros. has announced that Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi is set to direct the long-overdue Akira.

It was announced on Toonami’s official Facebook page on Friday that they will be running Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime on Adult Swim’s Toonami block starting July 6. The anime is based from the manga of the same name created by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko.

It was revealed during the “Goblin Slayer Special Event: Guild Party 2019” event on Sunday that the Goblin Slayer franchise will it’s a theatrical anime episode slated to premiere in 9 theaters in Japan in 2020.

Last week, studio Lerche released the first of four teasers for its upcoming boys’ love anime Given. The teaser series, entitled ”talk to_PV” will feature all four main characters of the anime in four weeks, with last week’s teaser focusing on Mafuyu Sato.

American distributor GKIDS has announced in a press release Thursday that they have acquired the North American rights to blockbuster director Makoto Shinkai’s newest anime movie Weathering With You (“Tenki no Ko”).

Funimation has added four awesome films into its library this week. In a report by Anime News Network on Thursday, all four films will be available for both original Japanese language with subtitles as well as in English dubs.