Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19m this year’s Jump Festa will be held online. Jump Festa 2021 Online will be held on December 19 and 20 this year in the brightly-named virtual venue “Jump Fest Island”. The event can be joined via the smartphone app “Jump Festa 2021 Online” […]
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The family of voice actress Yono Hikari revealed via her Twitter account that Yono passed away on November 15. The announcement noted that Yono had been under treatment for an illness at the time of her passing. Yono has played numerous supporting roles in anime since 2001, including Mother Okojo […]
NHK revealed the lineup for the 71st Kōhaku Uta Gassen (“Red and White Song Contest”), Japan’s most-watched music television program, on Monday. The yearly New Year’s Eve contest pits two teams of female singers (the red team) and male singers (the white team) against each other. The lineup reveals that […]
This year’s 50th issue of Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed that Fujimoto Tatsuki‘s Chainsaw Man manga will have a stage presentation at this year’s Jump Festa ’21 event. The stage presentation will be part of the Jump Studio series of stage presentations that will be held at the event. […]
The official website for the Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyū!! stage play series based on Furudate Haruichi‘s Haikyu!! manga announced that due to a staff/cast member (or members) having a fever, the two planned performances of the Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyū!!: The Dumpster Battle play in Osaka are canceled. The post […]
Kodansha is holding a student-only art contest to find the best anime chalk artist. Participants can chose choose from two anime muses: The Quintessential Quintuplets or Shingeki no Kyojin. The contest launched on October 21 and will run until November 11. The contest idea stemmed from a request received by […]
A collaborative kabuki exhibition starring characters from Kimetsu no Yaiba will be held at Kyōto’s Minami-za theater, one of the oldest kabuki theaters in Japan, from November 6 to 23. This exhibition is an extension of the “Kimetsu no Yaiba X Kabuki-za Theater Teahouse” exhibition, which was originally scheduled to be held […]