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Five anime films were nominated for the Animation of the Year Award for the 42nd annual Japan Academy Prize. The list was officially posted on Monday by The Japan Academy Prize Association and the nominees are the following: Dragon Ball Super: Broly Dragon Ball Super: Broly takes place after the Dragon Ball Super anime.

Synopsis Naerim has led a less than stellar life being a shaman’s daughter. From being heavily bullied to being an outcast at school, she has found little reprise outside of her life on the internet.

Three new videos were uploaded by Square Enix on Sunday revealing the three pre-order keyblade bonuses that players can get in the upcoming Kingdom Hearts III game. Pre-orders from 7-Eleven stores in Japan will get you a “Dawn Till Dusk” keyblade, digital pre-order for Xbox One will get you the “Phantom Green” keyblade, and digital pre-orders from the PlayStation 4 will get the “Midnight Blue” keyblade.

The hype of Love Live. Sunshine.. is still very much alive as tickets sales for its first three days revealed that it earned around 99,963,900 yen at the box office. The latest film of the franchise titled Love Live.

The new trailer for the new and upcoming anime film of the popular Precure franchise titled Eiga Precure Miracle Universe was officially uploaded on the official Precure YouTube channel on Friday. The trailer video’s highlight is the reveal of Etsuko Kozakura who will be voicing the film-original character Piton.

It was revealed in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine on Wednesday that Detective Conan will be going on a four-week hiatus starting from the next issue until the continuing 10th issue. The reason for this long break is for the creator Gosho Aoyama to conduct more research for the series.

It was announced on Tuesday by VIZ Media that it along with CineLife Entertainment will be screening Hunter x Hunter – The Last Mission anime film on U.S. theater on January 30. Screenings will be in both English dub and in original Japanese language with subtitles.

Just more than a year after the premiere of Netflix’s live-action movie adaptation of Death Note was released, another round of criticism is now being surfaced once again. According to Dutch news sources, the movie was actually using a real footage of a 2010 train accident in Belgium.

Sui Ishida is no stranger to the anime and manga world and he is the creator of the successful franchise Tokyo Ghoul. Just recently however, he posted a New Year’s greeting on his Twitter account on Monday featuring a feminine boy character named Mitsuki Shirota.

Eight manga volumes of Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia series are included in NPD BookScan’s Top 20 adult graphic novels list for the month of December. The complete ranking list are as follows: #1 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 16 #3 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 1 #4 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 2 #5 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 3 #6 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 15 #10 — Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan volume 26 #11 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 4 #15 — Sankichi Hinodeya's Splatoon volume 5 #16 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 5 #17 — Akira Himekawa's The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess volume 4 #18 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 14 #19 — Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul volume 1 #20 — RWBY Official Manga Anthology volume 3 The BookScan rankings (which covers about 85% of the U.