A short-form anime take on Pokémon Sword and Shield has been announced. Called Hakumei no Tsubasa (Twilight Wings), it is set in the Galar region of Sword and Shield.
The animation is being done by Studio Colorido, which is best known for feature films like Penguin Highway and Typhoon Noruda.
According to 4Gamer, each episode is five minutes long. The first of seven episodes will debut on...
Animate is a large retailer of anime, manga, and video games with well over a hundred stores in Japan. A woman has been arrested for allegedly sending threatening emails, including one in which “kill” (殺す...
Over the weekend, manga creator Shouji Gatou took to Twitter, writing what he thought about environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Today, he has apologized, calling his earlier remarks “awful.”
“I hate...
Tear Studio churned out shows like this year’s Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher!? and last year’s Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King. And Fragtime, a movie the studio animated, is currently in...
Yoshihiro Togashi is best known for two things: creating Hunter x Hunter and taking breaks from Hunter x Hunter. The last issue this year of Weekly Shonen Jump has been published, and the popular manga was not in it.
Nor is it in the first issue of 2020, which was published on December 2.
The current hiatus began in late November of 2018. This is just one in a series of seemingly endless...
Here’s the first peek at the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind live-action kabuki play.
You can watch the footage below.
The performance stars Onoe Kikunosuke as Nausicaä and Nakamura Shichinosuke as Princess Kushana, and it gives a kabuki twist to the costumes and set pieces.
As previously reported , Hayao Miyazaki turned down a Hollywood live-action adaptation but gave the kabuki...
This is the logo for an upcoming slot machine called Wheel of Fortune. I’m sure I’ve seen it before.
OH RIGHT.
It’s not an exact copy, but there certainly are many close similarities.
Square Enix has announced its first large-scale theme park. It’s called Ninja Tower Tokyo and will open next year in Tokyo Tower.
The landmark might seem like an unlikely spot for such an attraction, but in 2015 a One Piece theme park opened in Tokyo Tower.
This past April, Square Enix established a “Live Interactive Works” division to make digital projects for parks, shopping malls, and...
The president of Gainax, best known for the Evangelion series, has been arrested. Tomohiro Maki, age 50, was taken into police custody after taking illicit photos of a teen.
Update: 12/5/2019, 7:50 a.m....
In Japan, or anywhere with remote mountainous regions, there are porters who carry supplies and food to areas beyond vehicles’ reach. The Japanese word for this is bokka (歩荷) or literally “step cargo.”
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As previously reported , free-to-play game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is being turned into a musical. Here’s a glimpse of what it might look like, which seems to be fancy threads.
Final Fantasy Brave...
Doraemon, a blue robotic cat from the future, now has his own store in Tokyo’s Odaiba—the first of its kind for the character, apparently. The shop, called Doraemon Future Department Store, features an...
When the one-off performance of Star Wars kabuki was announced , it made sense. Star Wars is deeply influenced by Japan, so it seemed as though this would work. That it did, but better than I could’ve ...
Have you ever wondered why some people are better at first-person shooters than others? One important difference might be how people see while playing.
Nikkei recently posted a clip tracking a professional...
This year’s Tokyo Comic-Con wrapped up over the weekend. There were big stars, merch, comics, and yes, cosplay. Let’s have a look at the best get-ups of the show.
Since this is Tokyo Comic-Con, the...
Whoops! According to South China Morning Post, a man in China spent an eye-watering $1.4 million on his character in MMORPG Justice Online. His buddy accidentally sold said character for a mere $552. The...
Nintendo Tokyo opened on Friday. Lots of people came to the first day, and you’d think that by today, the crowds would have subsided. Nope!
Twenty minutes after opening today, the wait reached 4 hours....
Have you played every big-time game franchise? Are there any well-known game series you haven’t checked out? In Japan, a recent poll asked people about which famous series they haven’t played.
There were...
This week, a new Pokémon Center is opening in Tokyo. Yesterday, Kotaku showed a short preview of the shop. Today, let’s have a closer look.
The Pokémon Center opens this week in Shibuya. With is dark,...
You are looking at the cartridge art for Street Fighter II Turbo’s Japanese release. It’s not only different from the US version but more mysterious. Can you tell who is on the cover? Ryu? Chun-Li? Which...