This March, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda took a week off due to a "sudden illness". Today, it was announced that Oda has been admitted to the hospital. Moreover, the One Piece manga will be on hiatus for two issues.

ONE OK ROCK will be providing the theme song for the upcoming CG animated film "Captain Harlock".

BlazBlue Alter Memory, the BlazBlue anime series announced this past week, is scheduled to begin airing in Japan this Fall, Otakumo reports. The anime's story will be adapted from BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger.

Professor Dong Wong Cho of Chungbuk Provincial College in South Korea has an idea about violent video games. And it's truly bonkers. According to Professor Cho's latest study, violent video games make graphics cards run hot and emit more radio waves.

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- Fighting Game Announced with Trailer Arc System Works has announced a new Guilty Gear game, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, at its Arc System Works Festival event yesterday. The new arcade game's objects will be entirely done in 3D CG.

Chuck Taylor All Star high-tops to ship in December in men's & women's sizes The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime and American shoe company Converse are collaborating to create exclusive JoJo Chuck Taylor All Star high-top shoes.

Japanese college students, having apparently resigned themselves to living out the stereotype that Japan is one big, racially homogenous hive mind, seem to be foregoing their chance to really do something unique after years of mandatory school uni...

Who's got two thumbs and a giant real-life replica of Final Fantasy VII's Buster Sword? This guy: master swordsman and renowned propmaker Tony Swatton. And we're not talking about the sort of fake plasticky Buster Sword prop some of you may have s...

Here it is, as promised: more about Panopticon, or, as it likes to call itself now, Freedom Wars. And although the trailer up top is little more than a reiteration of what we've seen before, we now know that Freedom Wars is a multiplayer action ga...

Henshin Ninja Arashi in Kamen Rider Hibiki Novel During Kamen Rider Hibiki's early planning stages, Toei actually planned on putting the Kamen Rider on a break and make a series based on the old Ishinomori hero, Henshin Ninja Arashi.

The official Bandai YouTube channel posted the video demonstrating the MMZ-00 Moya Moya Z-Cune in action. This toy is a 1/1 scale of Malsheena's transformation device from the Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger Season 2 TV series.

X-Japan Announces Tours in south east-Asia and Latin America including a New Album with English lyrics!

Last weekend, the PC port of FFVII finalyl hit Japan as Final Fantasy VII International, available through Square Enix's eStore with the introductory prize of 1000 yen. The port, which now supports 1920x1080 displays, is the first time that the ga...

On Tuesday, the Anime Mirai project announced the four studios that will each receive 38 million yen (about US$370,000) from the "Young Animator Training Project" to make half-hour anime. Just like the last three years, the Japan Animation Creator...

Another graduation announcement has come again from one of idol group AKB48's members. This time, it's from Team A's Tomomi Nakatsuka. She announced her plans of graduating yesterday, May 20, after Team A's regular show in the AKB48 theater.

X JAPAN Probably you thought that we'd talk about X Japan's press conference when you first read YOSHIKI's name! We will talk about that too but please be a bit patient! This time we would like to talk about the collaboration of YOSHIKI and Stan Lee!

In anticipation of the series' August 27th DVD/Blu-ray, FUNimation announced the English dub cast for divisive sci-fi anime Guilty Crown. A meteorite carrying a foreign virus crashes in Japan, leading to a devastating nation-wide infection and tot...

Sony has released a teaser video for their newest video game platform, the much anticipated PlayStation 4 in their official website. The video gives us several glimpses of the PlayStation 4's body but not revealing it entirely.

Media Blasters heard that you like yuri. So, they've licensed Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito aka YamiBou.   The 2003 Studio Deen anime loosely adapts an adult visual novel published in December 2002 by Root.

Sure, we've reported previously on "Take Your Way", the latest song from leading Vocaloid songsmiths livetune (they of "Transfer" and "Re:Dial" fame). Heck, we even posted the short version of the PV for the new song when a brief clip went up a fe...

Anime studio Trigger has revealed on Twitter "due to the many requests, Little Witch Academia will be available on Blu-Ray this summer! " They went on to confirm, "yes the Blu-Ray will have subtitles. And, sadly no plans for the Inferno Cop pillow...

Bandai Channel posted the trailer of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Memory of Eden compilation movie. This movie is focused on Part II main protagonist Asemu Asuno and Zeheart Galette. The new movie features over an hour of additional material, which is d...

Here's the thing, most people who are new into watching tokusatsu superhero shows think that it is basically live-action anime, which they are kinda right about it. In short, it is no surprise that some Super Sentai actors end up becoming voice ac...

pad By Spencer . May 19, 2013 . 11:23pm For the first time the Yakuza series is leaving PlayStation consoles. Sega will release Yakuza 1 & 2 HD for Wii U on August 8, which is a port of the PlayStation 3 compilation released in Japan last year.

Following the first trailer last Monday, popular anime voice actress/singer Yukari Tamura's record company King Records posted the second trailer for her newest live Blu-ray/DVD "Yukari Tamura LOVE♡LIVE *Fall in Love*" on its official YouTube chan...

Mizuki Nana and Tamura Yukari Gets Transformed into Nendoroid Mizuki Nana and Tamura Yukari are two great seiyuus and singers, and now they have been transformed into kawaii Nendoroid figures. The news have been updated on their respective officia...

On May 18th, 'Soshite Chichi ni Naru', starring Fukuyama Masaharu, was screened at "the 66th Cannes International Film Festival". Main cast members, including Fukuyama, Ono Machiko, Maki Yoko, Lily Franky, Ninomiya Keita, Hwang Shogen, and the dir...

20/05/2013: 009 Re: Cyborg to stream in the UK from June 7th Available to view for £2. 99 per stream While we're waiting (and will very soon have) a full list of cinemas screening Kenji Kamiyama's film 009 Re: Cyborg across the UK from June 7th, i...

1/7 Yoshino PVC Plum has commenced preorder for this kawaii scaled figure of Yoshino, the spirit with the shy personality in the anime series Date A Live (デート・ア・ライブ).  She is holding her giant rabbit angle in her right hand, and her base is design...

In the Batman: Arkham Origins teaser trailer, it is revealed that Batman will be facing Deathstroke, otherwise known as Slade in some comic and television story lines. If you pre-order Arkham Origins, then you will be able to play as Deathstroke a...