New Anime Museum Opens In Tokyo
Iconic anime studio Toei Animation is opening a new museum later this month. It’s located in Tokyo and called Toei Animation Museum. Toei, of course, is responsible for the One Piece, Dragon Bal…
The archive
Anime & Manga — page 3
Browse anime & manga in the Akihabara archive.
Anime Expo 2018: Cosplay culture puts on dedicated display for event opener
Anime Expo 2018, Los Angles got off to a great start with long lines of eager fans filing into the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center earlier in July to fill the event space corner-to-c…
1st live-action film of Gundam anime in the works
The first live-action film of sci-fi television animation series "Mobile Suit Gundam" will be co-produced with a U.S. media company, Sunrise Inc., the Japanese creator of the…
A History Of Gundam, The Anime That Defined The Giant Robot Revolution
Almost four decades ago, Mobile Suit Gundam aired in Japan and changed the way the country looked at giant robots. Here's a brief history of how Gundam established a new genre of anime, changed …
Anime adaptation of popular novel canceled in Japan after offensive tweets
A plan to turn a popular graphic-style novel into an animated television series has hit a dead end after the author's past discriminatory tweets on China and South Korea sparked a controver…
Why Anime Fans In Japan Shouldn't Miss Ikebukuro
By now, geeks around the globe are cognizant of Akihabara. Once Tokyo’s post-war electronics haven, the neighborhood has grown into a modern mecca for anime fans. As its popularity has swel…
Nintendo is making a special edition Famicom Mini loaded with manga games
Nintendo is releasing a gold and red Famicom Mini in Japan that comes preloaded with 20 games that are based on manga. The Famicom is the original Japanese version of the NES, first released in 1983.…
Ghibli Theme Park
Japanese animated film company Studio Ghibli has unveiled the basic design of its theme park set to open in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, in 2022. Aichi Governor Hideaki Ohmura revealed on We…
Netflix’s Aggretsuko is a brutal take on modern life that also happens to be extremely cute
Japanese company Sanrio is best known for creating the iconically adorable Hello Kitty and her similarly adorable friends like Badtz-Maru and My Melody, all of which have been merchandised into …
Gundam Base Tokyo: A Tour For Fans By A Fan
Gundam is a nearly 40-year-old franchise of animated TV shows, movies, comics, and video games from Japan. Each piece of media centers around a teen pilot who must pilot an enormous (and su…