Anime News

American distributor GKIDS has recently revealed an all-new English dub for the Satoshi Kon classic Tokyo Godfathers. Check out the trailer here. The English dub cast are: ·        Jon Avner as Gin ·        Victoria Grace as Miyuki ·        Shakina Nayfack as Hana ·        Kate Bornstein as Mother ·        Crispin Freeman as Miyuki's Father ·        David Manis as Old Man ·        Jamieson Price as Oota ·        Kirk Thornton as Yasuo GKIDS and Fathom Events will be holding special screenings of the film in 4K resolution in different theaters in the United States.

Get ready US fans. Aniplex of America has just announced that the third and final installment in the Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel film trilogy is heading to the North America—specifically, Los Angeles.

This Wednesday, Australian Senator Stirling Griff called for the “review” of Japanese manga and anime depicting child exploitation. In a speech delivered to parliament, Griff highlighted anime and manga series that depict child exploitation—citing as an example the anime adaptation of Tsukasa Fushimi and Hiro Kanzaki’s light novel series Eromanga Sensei.

The official website of the upcoming live-action film adaptation of The Promised Neverland  has just revealed additional cast members. Actress Keiko Kitagawa (right in image above), will be playing Isabella aka Mama.

It was reported today that Inferno Cop voice actor Junichi Goto has passed away yesterday, February 24, after figuring in a motorcycle accident. He was 40 years old. The accident happened in the Shuto Metropolitan Expressway’s Haneda Route in Tokyo’s Ota Ward at around 9:00 AM.

The upcoming English-dubbed Bluray release of the 2005 anime series Emma: A Victorian Romance has just announced that theater actor James Rieser has been cast as Hakim Atawari, William’s womanizer friend.

The official website for the idol anime franchise 22/7 has announced that member Mizuha Kuraoka will be going on hiatus because of health reasons. According to the official announcement, Kuraoka has had several recurrences of poor health, and while she and the staff had tried their best for her full recovery, it still wasn’t enough.

An exciting teaser trailer was unveiled in the official website of the Rurouni Kenshin live-action films last week. The trailer hints at the upcoming fight between Kenshin and Enishi. Check it out here.

We are honestly not surprised in this development. Oricon’s weekly print sales chart from the February 10-16 week reveals that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has completely occupied the entire top 19 ranks with the recently released 19th volume at #1.

Popular streaming platform Netflix announced the official English Dub cast of BEASTARS on Thursday. The following confirmed voice cast are: Jonah Scott as Legoshi Griffin Puatu as Louis Lara Jill Miller as Haru Kaiji Tang as Bill Ben Diskin as Jack Daman Mills as Kai Erika Harlacher as Els Keith Silverstein as Gouhin During the release of the eight issue of Weekly Shonen Champion magazine, the creator of the popular BEASTARS manga Paru Itagaki commented in her author’s note saying that the “end is in sight” for the series.