Anime News

Japanese idol juggernaut & multimedia franchise Love Live. has just revealed this Sunday that they will be launching a yet-unspecified “new project”. The announcement was made during the second day of the Love Live.

And finally we have a release window for the highly-anticipated 2nd season of the newest iteration of beloved shoujo anime series Fruits Basket. A promotional video released by the series’ official website confirms that season 2 is set for a spring premiere this year.

We are back again with another round-up of these kinds of guides to help beginner con attendees and cosplayers on their first convention. As observed, there are some cosplayers who make mistakes during the event.

It’s another new year and still, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company’s Nintendo Switch hits Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield still remains number one on last week’s Japan Video Game rankings. The said ranks is carefully compiled by website Famitsu.

It was reported on Thursday in the movie website Box Office Mojo that Makoto Shinkai’s latest film Weathering With You has officially conquered the U.S. Box Office placing itself #2. The “special fan preview” screening immediately got the film to earn U.

2020 is shaping up to be a good year for fujoshis all over, as another popular boys-love manga gets greenlit for a live-action film adaptation. Libre Publishing announced this Monday that Tomoko Yamashita’s supernatural boys-love manga The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window (Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru) is getting a live-action film.

Most of us are familiar with Whisper of the Heart (Mimi o Sumaseba) as a Studio Ghibli film, which was released in 1995 and directed by Yoshifumi Kondo. What most don’t know, however, is that the film was based on a 1989 manga series of the same name written by Aoi Hiiragi.

Select US cinemas were reported to be listing Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave anime film as premiering on February 19, 19:00. According to the listings, the film will be shown in Japanese audio with English subtitles.

A new key visual was released Thursday for the 24th movie in the Detective Conan franchise, Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Dangan (Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet). Check out the newest visual below. Prominently featured in the new visual are the four members of the mysterious Akai family: FBI agent Shuichi Akai, high school detective Masumi Sera, their mother Mary Sera, and professional shogi player Shukichi Haneda.

This Thursday the official Youtube channel of Kodansha released a 60-second animated promotional video for Cells at Work. Black, one of the manga spinoffs of Akane Shimizu’s popular science-themed manga series.