Anime News

Good news for those missing our favorite over-worked, ever-raging, and death metal-loving red panda. Netflix announced this Monday that the third season of Aggretsuko will be premiering worldwide on August 27, 2020.

We’ve also got something for yuri/girls-love fans today. The official website of the upcoming TV anime adaptation of yuri light novel series Adachi and Shimamura has released a video previewing its opening theme song, Kimi ni Aeta Hi (The day I was able to meet you).

While the first character sheets for the upcoming Inuyasha spin-off simply showed us sketches of how Sesshomaru’s daughters Towa and Setsuna, as well as Inuyasha and Kagome’s Moroha, looked like, this time we’re getting colorized character sheets for Moroha.

Heads up, BL fans. We finally have a new trailer for the upcoming movie for popular boys-love series given. The trailer was released last Friday. The video also previews the movie’s theme song, Bokura dake no Shudaika (Only Our Theme Song) sung by rock band centimillimental.

The entire JDrama world was shocked last Saturday, July 18, with the news that popular actor Haruma Miura has died. According to police reports, Miura was found dead in his apartment Saturday morning.

It was announced on Friday by Mainichi Shimbun's Mainichi Weekly website that they have started publishing the abridged English version of Keiji Nakazawa’s eye-opening manga series Barefoot Gen. Known as Hadashi no Gen in Japanese, the abridged version was previously released in Japan in print that contains selected scenes and detailed explanations for the benefit of Japanese speakers who are learning English.

The recent Japanese video game rankings from July 6-12 seem to look very different compared to the last couple of weeks. For the first time in a while, Animal Crossing: New Horizons drops to number 4 in the ranks.

There is probably more things to look forward for Studio Ghibli fans as the highly-anticipated Ghibli Park in Japan will officially be open to the public on Fall 2022.   The groundbreaking ceremony for the park will be happening on July 28.

Satoshi Kon is one of Japan’s most well-praised anime directors. He is a very unique way of storytelling especially in his anime films. Born on October 10, Kon was a film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaidō.

Recently, K-Books, a popular place in Akihabara where you can find cheap and second-hand anime and fan goods, were flocked with a lot of used items related to popular Japanese singer and voice actress, Nana Mizuki.