Anime News

It's official: As of Sunday, the anime film Kimi no Na wa earns a total of 19,957,000,000 yen in box office ticket sales surpassing the Studio Ghibli anime film classic Howl's Moving Castle. The movie has been showing for a total of 101 days since its premiere in Japan.

It seems that everyone who loves girls wearing eyeglasses must check the second of the OnMusu (literally, "hot spring girls") as Mitsuki Gero was introduced last month. She's the most eccentric girl of the idol group and it is said that once she takes her glasses off, you can barely resist her charm.

Last month, KanColle fans on Japan have watched the first movie of the hit browser game of the same name. More or less than a week before, admirals, or what fans call themselves as the teitoku, around the world found themselves battling on the Fall 2016 Event.

Anime over the years has tackled various types of genres and scenarios, from stories of supernatural beings to stories on music and friendship, anime is a treasure trove of unique stories. But amongst these fantastical themes there is one type of theme that almost anyone can enjoy, food/cooking anime.

An anime that makes the usually scary and bizarre beings that are youkai look strangely adorable, “Youkai Watch” is a show that takes a new spin on the supernatural genre involving youkai (demons or mythical beings in Japan).

Yen Press has licensed three more Kingdom Hearts light novel series. In its Twitter account, Yen Press revealed last week that it has acquired the license to publish the following titles: Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

The New York Times has released it’s list of best selling mangas from November 20 to 26, with no other than Akira Himekawa’s The Legend of Zelda: Legendary Edition, Volume 1 topping the list. In this volume,Viz Media published the collection of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina manga series.

It’s been almost a week since Sunrise announced that Code Geass will be getting its sequel anime entitled Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Ressurection). According to Sunrise, the story will take place several years after the “Zero Requiem.

The manga archive of shoujo is large and full a different and unique stories, cliches and all. But even among the various stories there are times that they seem to be parallel to one another to the point of being highly predictable.

As of this year there has been multiple announcements of anime to live action adaptations whether it be a film or a series. Prior to this year live action adaptations were mostly seen as an extension for highly popular anime.