The official website for Yuri!!! on Ice Gekijō-ban: Ice Adolescence (Yuri!!! on Ice the Movie: Ice Adolescence), the anime film for the Yuri!!! on Ice franchise, began streaming a teaser trailer for the film on Thursday. The staff showed the video at a screening event for the original television anime […]
The January 2021 issue of Akita Shoten‘s Champion RED magazine published the final chapter of Yamaguchi Takayuki‘s Efu no Shichinin (The Seven Palatine Ninja) manga on November 19. Akita Shoten will publish the manga’s 10th and final compiled book volume on February 19. The manga is set at the end […]
LiSA‘s new single “Homura,” the theme song for the Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen anime, has ranked #1 on Oricon’s weekly digital singles ranking chart for six consecutive weeks. It is the third ever single to accomplish the feat in the chart’s history, after Yonezu Kenshi‘s 2018 single “Lemon” and […]
The staff of the Mangamo app announced on Monday that the app is now available worldwide on Android devices. The staff also revealed that Sony has invested in Mangamo through the Sony Innovation Fund. The Japanese digital marketing and media company Septeni Group also invested in the app. The company […]
The Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen anime has sold a total of 19,397,589 tickets for 25,917,043,800 yen (about US$247 million) in 39 days — thus earning more than Shinkai Makoto‘s Kimi no nawa (23.35 billion yen) and Disney’s Frozen (25.03 billion yen) to become the third highest-earning film of all […]
MBS announced that it is producing both a live-action film and a live-action television series based on Hagiwara Daisuke‘s Horimiya manga. The film will open first on February 5 in a one-week limited engagement, while the seven-episode series will premiere on MBS and TBS on February 16. Both Hori Pro […]
The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) released its preliminary Anime Industry Report 2020 findings on Friday, and plans to release its full findings in a report on November 30. The preliminary report found that the anime industry rose 15.1% to 2.5112 trillion yen (about US$24.18 billion) in 2019. The market […]