Back in the day Media Blasters was one of the main companies in America bringing over anime. It hit some hard times, but while other companies folded, it’s hung on. Now, says CEO John Sirabella, the ...

Koneko Hoshitsuki’s The Villager of Level 999, also known in Japan as Level 999 no Murabito, is officially getting an anime! Kadokawa made the announcement today, lining the light novel adaptation up ...

pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing ...

Japanese website goo ranking recently went live with another poll, and this one is all about hot dudes. We’re talking Shonen Jump hunks specifically, so readers were tasked with voting on the male ...

One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is the hot topic right now, with everyone from the New York Times to Japanese government officials talking about it. It’s a good time to be Koyoharu Gotoge, the creator ...

More details have arrived for the DIGIMON BEATBREAK anime, which was first unveiled back in March. The series is set to premiere in Japan on October 5, and more cast and staff have been unveiled ahead ...

Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, the 28th film in the long-running franchise, has earned 6.34 billion yen after two weeks in theaters, making it Japan’s highest grosser of 2025 so far. The Million ...

Sometimes nothing beats the thrill of tossing in a couple 100 yen coins into a gachapon machine and opening up the plastic capsule to see your prize. It’s a gamble, of course, but that’s half the ...

The Sailor Moon Museum is a traveling exhibit that’s spent limited time stationed in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, and Nagoya, but soon it will be making a trip overseas! Its organizers have shared that the ...

The “beach episode” is an anime tradition. Characters pack up, grab their best swimsuits, and spend a day playing and soaking up sun. (And dealing out fanservice, of course.) But today, we’re not ...

Ikuma Saeki has known Sumika since childhood and he’s adored her the whole time. Now they’re adults and married, with Ikuma working as an app developer and Sumika working as a high school nurse.