Anime News

Hunter X Hunter fans, 2018 is definitely your year. It was announced by Viz Media on Thursday that they have successfully licensed the anime film Hunter X Hunter: Phantom Rogue and the movie is slated to be released in Spring 2018.

Yes, this is indeed legit. It was announced on Friday in the 20th anniversary event of One Piece that the One Piece manga is getting its own live-action Hollywood television show. This has been made possible due to the partnership of ITV Studios and producer Marty Adelstein.

The 10th anniversary has officially arrived for the gender bender/romantic series “Oresama Teacher” and to celebrate this, the series will be having a special feature on July 20 with Hana to Yume’s 16th issue.

In 1987, an anime series titled “Mister Ajikko” was released and spanned for a total of 99 episodes before ending in 1999. Now in celebration of its 30th anniversary, the vintage series will be having commemorative sale of a Blu-ray Box set.

The new anime series, “Wotaku ni Koi ha Muzukashii”, featuring the love story story of different pop culture fanatics is now officially confirmed following its first teaser relesed in the previous week.

When you hear the name “Sanrio”, then characters like My Melody and Hello Kitty immediately come into mind. Now what would happen if this company collaborated with a popular franchise like Fullmetal Alchemist.

With the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist premiering this year, it’s to no surprise that the franchise will be doing collaborations to bring in more fan hype. On Friday, the Japanese smartphone game Monster Strike opens the Monster Strike Alchemy Campaign game event which is in collaboration to the well-loved FMA franchise.

A new anime made for the vertical screen has made its way to "Tate Anime" (Vertical Anime) smartphone app of the Japane anime studio Production I.G. Entitled as “Enoshimanz” the mini series first began its stream on Monday and will run for a total of five episodes with a new episode to come out every week.

In just two days of its premiere date, Gekijoban Pocket Monster: Kimi ni Kimeta. or Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You. is ranked number one in the Japanese box office. The film premiered on Saturday and has sold around 436,000 tickets from over 368 theaters earning it an outstanding 516 million yen in those two days alone.

Fans of the music group known as Mimi Meme MIMI receive bad news on Tuesday as the official website of the group announces that following the "Mimi Meme MIMI Live 2017 ~Bon Voyage.~" concert set for September 9, the music group who described themselves as the “next generation audio visual unit", will be disbanding.