Anime News

Last Sunday’s 92nd Academy Awards was not only marked by a lot of firsts—Korean film Parasite as first non-English film to win Best Picture, Taika Waititi as first indigenous person to win Best Director—it was also a momentous occasion for the announcement of the long-planned Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

The power of otakus is strong in this one, as the highly-anticipated live-action film of Fujita’s web manga series Wotakoi (Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii or Love is Hard for Otaku) debuted last week at the top of Japan’s box office rankings.

The official theme song artists for the upcoming fifth season of Food Wars. Shokugeki no Soma was revealed this Monday in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Japanese pop rock duo nano.RIPE will perform the series’ new opening theme song entitled “Last Chapter”, while voice actress and singer Mai Fuchigami will perform “Crossing Road”, season 5’s ending theme song.

This Monday the official website of the ongoing Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of the Underworld series has announced that singer ReoNA will perform “ANIMA”, the anime’s second opening theme song.

It’s life imitating art this time for Carole & Tuesday’s singing voices Nai BR.XX and Celeina Ann, as the two were announced to be performing at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. The announcement, revealed in the event’s official website, details that the duo will be performing on March 17.

Fruits Basket has just launched a new time-limited Valentine’s Day campaign where you could send virtual Valentine’s Day chocolates to your favorite characters. Take a pick among eight characters—Tohru Honda, Yuki Sohma, Kyo Sohma, Shigure Sohma, Momiji Sohma, Hatsuharu Sohma, Hatori Sohma, and Ayame Sohma—and send them virtual chocolates via this link: https://vd2020.

Aniplex of America has unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming English dub of popular shounen anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Watch it here. The trailer also reveals the English dub cast for the Spider Demon family.

The official website for upcoming original romance anime film Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru) has revealed more cast members for the film, along with official art for the characters.

While some of our highly anticipated titles are coming to the PlayStation 4. There is another wallet wrecker that is coming your way during upcoming holiday season 2020. Regardless if your wallets are ready or not, Sony has just launched the official homepage of its upcoming and highly discussed PlayStation 5 console.

Can’t get enough of Kingdom Hearts. Well, you’re in for a great treat. It was announced by Square Enix on Wednesday that the they will be releasing a physical version of Kingdom Hearts All-In-One Package.