The Anime Tourism Association is organizing a Virtual Reality tour of the Hyou-ka anime’s real-life setting of Takayama City, Gifu. The VR experience will allow users to tour the locations alongside a 3D model of the Anime Tourism Association’s mascot character Junrei-chan. The tour will be unveiled for the first time at […]
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The staff of the first live-action film based on Kawamoto Homura and Naomura Tōru‘s Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler manga revealed that the film is getting a sequel that will open in Japan in 2021. The film is temporarily titled Eiga Kakegurui Part2. The sequel will include a returning cast. Hanabusa Tsutomu is returning to […]
A Change.Org petition titled “We Boys Are Not Wolves. Shonen Jump Should Distinguish Between ‘Eroticism’ and ‘Sexual Violence’” concluded on Friday, Aug 21 after collecting over 4,100 online signatures in just over a week. The campaign organizer, a man named Manabu Sekiguchi, demanded that Weekly Shonen Jump should include content warnings or […]
The official website for the Ghibli Museum, the museum dedicated to the anime of Studio Ghibli, will allow the general purchase of tickets to the museum beginning on August 25, with a planned September general reopening. The museum gradually began to reopen in mid-July, with the aim of reopening in September. […]
On Wednesday, Aug 19 Square Enix announced that it has temporarily closed the Square Enix Cafe Osaka branch due to one employee testing positive for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Tuesday. The employee has not been working at the cafe since August 8, but only received the result of the […]
On Monday, Aug 17 the Japanese government’s Agency of Cultural Affairs announced the four studios that will participate in its “Animation Talent Training Research & Study Project 2020″ initiative. The studios IMAGICA, Usagi.Ou, Orange, and Tsumugi Akita Anime Lab will each produce an animation project from seven to 10 minutes in length. The works will […]
The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on July 25 that Watanabe Kenta, the creator of the “Dennō Okami Chizuru” mascot character, passed away at the age of 28 after he and his family were reported missing after torrential rains caused flooding and landslides across the Southern Kyushu region in Japan earlier […]
Asahi Beer releases limited-run ale made with 100-percent Japan-grown ingredients. As promised, Mt. Fuji (or “Fujisan,” as it’s called in Japanese) rises proudly on the can, next to some striking brushstroke calligraphy of the name of Japan’s highest mountain. Not just that, if you turn around the can see The Great Wave off […]
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