TOHO and Aniplex announced that the Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-Hen film has sold 7,983,442 tickets to earn 10,754,232,550 yen (about US$102.52 million) in its first 10 days at the box office. The film set a new record in Japan for the fastest film to earn 10 billion yen, beating […]
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Shinchosha‘s Daily Shincho website reported that singer ELISA allegedly suffered from sexual harassment from her manager at the Smile Company talent management agency. The report noted that ELISA has ended her contract with Smile Company as of the end of September. According to the report, ELISA began working with the manager since May 2018. The […]
Last year, Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine launched an online service geared for smartphone users allowing people to create characters in the style of the Haikyu!! manga. In December, it added Boku no Hero Academia, and the most recent addition is Koyoharu Gotouge‘s Kimetsu no Yaiba on Tuesday. The character creator is very simple. You can mix and match […]
A recent video posted on Crunchyroll‘s YouTube account delves deep into the process by interviewing several logo designers: Designers must analyze the fonts and stylistic choices of the original Japanese logo, and then work out an approximate style that expresses similar ideas in English. Some of the logos and titles […]
Demizu Posuka, the illustrator of Yakusoku no Neverland manga, drew the cover illustration for the November issue of the women’s fashion magazine SPUR. The image, which depicts a woman wearing a colourful dress as she stands upon broken glass, represents the theme of “Reaching a new world after smashing the glass ceiling.” […]
Studio Ghibli has built up a reputation over the years for steadfastly keeping a stern hold over the distribution and copyright of their films. But the acclaimed animation studio is finally releasing its once-firm grip on their movies this year, first with the release of their films on Netflix, and […]
The September 16 issue of National Printing Bureau’s Kanpō publication reported on Wednesday that Kyoto Animation has absorbed the Osaka-based affiliate studio Animation DO, including all rights and properties associated with the company. Animation DO was originally established in 2000 as Kyoto Animation Osaka Studio, and it became its own corporation under the name Animation DO in December 2010. […]
The Meiji-Mura museum’s website announced that it will hold a collaboration event with the historical-themed anime series Golden Kamuy from September 19 to November 23. During this period, the anime will be presented at the museum in multiple forms, including a puzzle-solving event, a stamp rally, a shooting game challenge, and […]
Seika, a town located in the southern part of the Kyoto Prefecture, has a mascot anime girl character named Seika Kyomachi. The mascot is notable for employing various technological innovations in her mission to spread information about the town; she became a Voiceroid character in 2016, her 3D data is open source, and […]
Organizers of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFFCOM) announced on Monday that they will hold this year’s Content Market online from November 4-6 due to the effects of COVID-19. The website announcement said, “TIFFCOM2020 was originally intended to be held in conjunction with the face-to-face content market, but we shifted […]