In the Feb. 22 edition of manga magazine Jump Giga, it was announced that Sorachi Hideaki’s Gintama will continue through an official app. Set in an alternate Edo period where aliens have invaded the earth, Gintama follows the adventures of samurai Sakata Gintoki and his friends Shinpachi and Kagura as they struggle to pay the

The Fruits Basket reboot anime has released a teaser video featuring the new voices of Sohma Yuki, Kyou, Shigure, and more! Originally created by Takaya Natsuki, the phenomenally popular manga ran in Hana to Yume from 1998 to 2006. It follows the adventures of high school girl Honda Tohru who finds herself living with a

Popular web novel If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord is getting a TV anime adaptation! Originally written by Chirolu and illustrated by Truffle, the series follows adventurer Dale, who adopts a little devil girl he finds wasted away in the forest. The first key visual released for the TV anime

Popular smartphone game Fate/Grand Order will be teaming up with Sunshine City Prince Hotel as the first of the chain’s “Ikepri 25” themed floor tie-ups! The Ikepri 25 project will collaborate with a series of anime and manga franchises to transform a floor of the hotel to appeal to fans. The floor boasts four communal

Anisong streaming service ANiUTa has selected J-Rock band OxT as its artist of the month for Feb. 2019! Pronounced “okuto”, OxT is a digital rock duo featuring vocalist Oishi Masayoshi and guitarist Oshima Tomohiro (also known as Tom-H@ck). The latter composes for the unit, while Oishi has also written and/or performed songs for Monthly Girls’

500 Days of Summer and Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb will be helming the Hollywood remake of the smash hit movie from Shinkai Makoto, Kimi no Na wa.! Released back in 2016, Kimi no Na wa. became a worldwide box office phenomenon, picking up a series of awards both in Japan and abroad. The Hollywood

The third installment in the Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System movie series has released a new trailer featuring a remixed version of TV ending theme “Namae no nai Kaibutsu”! Titled Case.3 Onshu no Kanata ni, the movie is the third in a trilogy inspired by the original TV anime, the first season of which was

Popular smartphone game Shoumetsu Toshi will be getting a TV anime adaptation set to air from April. A new key visual just released for the show features Yuki’s brother Souma as well as Taiyou, Tsuki, and Suzuna. Takahashi Hidenori will play Taiyo and Imai Asami will play Tsuki. As previously announced, Asai Ayaka will voice

The second Trinity Seven movie which opens in Japan on March 29 has confirmed its official title. Heavens Library & Crimson Lord is the second animated film in the Trinity Seven franchise which began with Saitou Kenji and Nao Akinari’s manga. Adapted as a TV anime in 2014, the first Trinity Seven movie, The Eternal

Anisong band JAM Project announced at its Jan. 26 concert in Tokyo that they will be releasing two new singles on April 24! The first of the two singles will be One-Punch Man opener “Uncrowned Greatest Hero” (“Seijaku no Apostle” in Japanese) which features lyrics by Mori Yukinojou and music by Brazilian composer and semi-regular

Adventure series Vinland Saga has released its first trailer for its TV anime adaptation, which is set to air in 2019! Based on the manga by Yukimura Makoto, Vinland Saga is a historical series inspired by the Viking legends. The protagonist Thorfinn, a physically gifted teenager who has grown up on the battlefield, sets his

Beastars, a popular manga by Itagaki Paru which won the 2018 Manga Taisho award, will be getting a TV anime adaptation! Itagaki’s manga is set in a world of anthropomorphised animals divided into “herbivores” and “carnivores”. The series begins with the killing of an alpaca at Cherryton School where lead character Legosi, a large gray

ARGONAVIS, the latest band to be added to the BanG Dream! roster, has released its first key visual! Featuring vocalist Itou Masaharu as Nanahoshi Ren, guitarist Hinata Daisuke as Goryou Yuuto, bassist Maeda Seiji as Matoba Wataru, and keyboardist Morishima Shuta as Kikyou Rio, the new band will be the very first male group of

Publishing giant Shueisha has launched a free official manga app and website titled MANGA Plus, which will give fans simultaneous access to popular series like One Piece and My Hero Academia in English, all for free! MANGA Plus is available on Android and iOS and also on computer browsers through the official website all around

The handsome actors of A3! will be coming to life in the game’s very first TV anime adaptation! Announced at the “A3! Blooming Live 2019” event, the anime will be produced by P.A. Works and Studio 3Hz. Shinohara Keisuke will direct with series composition by Hayashi Naoki, and Komatsu Mariko handing animation direction and character

Action anime Attack on Titan has confirmed opening/ending artists for the upcoming second part of its third season! Linked Horizon will be returning once again for the opening theme, having provided the first three as well as an ending theme. Meanwhile, the latest ending theme will be Cinema staff, who also provided the anime’s second

Fans are finally able to access the secret ending of Kingdom Hearts III‘s lost ending with Square Enix’s free update! The movie epilogue was made available on Jan. 31 to players to who have completed the game and satisfied a certain condition regarding its Lucky Emblems. An immersive roleplaying game brought to life by Square

Anisong streaming service ANiUTa has selected Macross star Nakajima Megumi as its Artist of the Month for Jan. 2019! Nakajima made her debut both as a voice actress and singer in 2008 as “Super-Dimension Cinderella” Ranka Lee in Macross Frontier, and has since gone on to star in popular anime like Fairy Tail, Happiness Charge

Jump Force, a new fighting game set for release on PS4 and Xbox One on Feb. 14, has released a new trailer confirming two more iconic Jump characters who will appear in the game: Boruto, the titular hero of Naruto‘s spinoff series, and Dai, the hero of Dragon Quest: The Adventures of Dai! The latest

It feels like we only recently saw the trailer for the Hollywood live action movie Detective Pikachu, but it’s been revealed that not only will there be a sequel, but a screenwriter has been chosen! According to Hollywood Reporter, Legendary Pictures (the production studio behind Detective Pikachu ) has signed on Oren Uziel ( 22

Jump Force, an upcoming video game set for release on PS4 and Xbox One, has released a new trailer showcasing the game’s story element! Produced by Bandai Namco Entertainment, Jump Force will feature the heroes of the Jump universe entering the real world in order to combat nefarious forces which threaten it. The player will

It’s been revealed that P.A. Works’ original anime Fairy gone will be airing in Apr. 2019! Directed by Suzuki Kenichi ( JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Cells at Work! ), the series is set in a world where “Fairy Soldiers”, humans who have taken on the organs of fairy-possessed animals and can summon its powers, have been

On December 22 and 23, 2018, Jump Festa 2019 was held in Makuhari Messe in Chiba. This event, which will reach its 20th anniversary this December, is an annual festival that features content from the popular manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump, its sibling magazines like Jump SQ. and V Jump, and the manga app, Jump+.

Universal Cool Japan 2019 opened on January 18, 2019, and we were invited to check out the new attractions! It’s the 5th year of Universal Cool Japan and they are celebrating by offering the related attractions on the biggest scale they ever have before. The internationally beloved titles of Detective Conan, Lupin the Third, Sailor

Hypnosis Mic, a multimedia project music project which launched in the spring of 2018, is set to release a commemorative CD celebrating first season battle winners Shinjuku Division Matenrou! The CD’s jacket features a golden scene of the victorious trio. Lead singer Jinguji Jakurai is sitting on the throne with Izanami Hifumi on one side

Japanese anime is more popular now than it has ever been before. These interviews with anime studios will reveal the behind-the-scenes processes and emotions that go into making anime. This is a large-scale project done in collaboration with anime news sites throughout the world, such as the anime news site Anime!Anime!, Tokyo Otaku Mode, which

Los Angeles-based food truck Okamoto Kitchen has launched a Kickstarter for the production of an original animated series that will bring anime together with delicious Japanese comfort food and the world of food trucks! Based on the real-life experiences of Okamoto Kitchen co-founders Gerald and Chizuru Abram, the anime follows Umesaki Haru, a girl who

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann director and writer Imaishi Hiroyuki and Nakashima Kazuki are coming together for an original Studio Trigger movie titled Promare, and a new visual and PV has just been released! Promare is set in a world where half of it has been destroyed due to the appearance of a race of beings

Anime music streaming app ANiUTa is the perfect way to relive those special moments after spending a whole season watching an anime, with access to theme songs, character songs, and more. 2018 was another great year for anime, with tons of memorable songs as well. Which specific songs topped the charts, though? Get ready to

Fruits Basket has released a new visual along with information on additional cast members for its new anime, set to air from April. Kugimiya Rie is to voice Sohma Kagura, the Boar of the Chinese zodiac. Han Megumi will play Sohma Momiji, the Rabbit of the Chinese zodiac. Finally, Furukawa Makoto will voice Sohma Hatsuharu,