I have no idea if anybody out there is reading it, but Hajime Segawa's Tokyo ESP is a lot of fun. The first arc stars a high school girl named Rinka, a poor girl who ends up developing super powers that allow her t...
| Elliot Gay |
Well, here's another development in the annals of east-west comic book relations: it seems that the western-produced, BBC-run series Sherlock is, for whatever reason, getting itself its very own manga adaptation in Japan. App...
| Josh Tolentino |
A recent Newtype leak has revealed that the popular Type Moon visual novel, Fate/stay night, will be hitting Japanese Vita's this year on November 29. As far as I can tell, this is the first time that the game has been brough...
| Elliot Gay |
Really, Nintendo and Kadokawa Games? This is the best you can do for AKB48? And to think that way back at the beginning of the season I was worried that the AKB48 anime would end up a cheap cash-in. Seems that judgment falls ...
| Josh Tolentino |
If you're looking for something free to read, head over to Kadokawa Niconico Ace, a magazine that's part of Nico Nico Seiga, the still-frame spin-off of the Nico Nico Douga, or niconico as it is now called. The magazine's lat...
| Bob Muir |
Yesterday morning, Crunchyroll reported that after a year of negotiations, Kadokawa Publishing finally struck a deal with Amazon Japan to get their content digitized for the Kindle. Under this agreement, folks using the Amazo...
| Kristina Pino |
Japan is not big on downloading games. At all. Games released only to PSN or Xbox Live are typically doomed to not sell very well. In the same way that streaming is unpopular here in Japan, digital copies of things don't seem...
| Elliot Gay |
The new trailer for Sora no Otoshimono: Tokei-jikake no Angeloid (or Heaven's Lost Property: A Clockwork Angeloid) is out, lasting nearly two minutes. Like the two previous anime series aired on TV, this film will be an adapt...
| Bob Muir |
And...it looks like the covers of every other Haruhi novel. What did you expect? Well, I suppose fans might have expected something different, considering that it's been four-odd years since the last novel was released, but i...
| Josh Tolentino |
Streaming site Crunchyroll is, well, on a roll, as the licensing announcements are coming in hard and fast. And it seems that, from the tone of recent news, that this Fall anime season might be a pretty, er, Crunchy one.Kadok...
| Josh Tolentino |
Hey! Guess what Kyoto Animation's new project is! That's right, as spoiled in the header, it's based on Nichijou, a popular 4-panel gag manga in the vein of Azumanga Daioh, which means it's about a bunch of mid...
| Josh Tolentino |
The recently released Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya film has had a strong opening weekend, and managed to claim the #7 spot in the Japanese box office. While seventh place might not sound that impressive at first, keep in ...
| Jon Snyder |
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