In a fax sent to Japanese media outlets, V6 member Junichi Okada and actress Aoi Miyazaki shared that they had successfully given birth to a healthy son! The first child for both, Okada and Miyazaki originally announced that they were expecting in...

Back in March, 16 year old Omoto Honoka was found hanging after skipping an event for her idol group, Enoha Girls. Her family is now suing the company behind the Ehime Prefecture idol group for her death, saying that the company caused it due to h...

Level-5 20th anniversary feature in October 25-due Weekly Famitsu teases potential cancelled title revival Magazine to also have Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio feature. The November 8 issue of Weekly Famitsu, which is due out on October 25, will have a feat...

Kunihiko Ikuhara's Revolutionary Girl Utena is 20 years old this year and has since celebrated with rosy booze, merchandise, an exhibition, a Blu-ray release, and a brand-new musical. Two decades later, the series is still influential.

One of the highest accolades one can receive during their entertainment career is the "Best Jeanist" award! Japan is quite renowned for their love of denim, so it's no surprise the origins of the award date back to 1984.

Koei Tecmo announced Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition DX for the Nintendo Switch, and it'll release in Japan this December as a physical and digital title. The game will feature numerous DLC including scenarios, costumes, items,...

The Pokemon anime has explored a wide variety of stories over its long run, but there just aren't enough casual connections between Team Rocket's Jesse and James and Ash, as they are usually at odds with one another.

It's time to find out what we can look forward to in the next Doraemon film, which the staff officially revealed at a Tokyo press event this week. The next entry in the theatrical series will be Doraemon the Movie: Chronicle of the Moon Exploratio...

In a series of recent Tweets, Elon Musk not only happily revealed his love for certain anime but also his desire to build a mecha. Starting with a Tweet on October 14, Musk stated that he loved the Makoto Shinkai movie Your Name and explained that...

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Teddie trailer The 24th character trailer for Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth introduces Persona 4's Teddie (voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi). Previous character trailers introduced Goro Akechi, Margaret, Aigis, Kanji ...

Death Mark English gameplay trailer 48 seconds of footage. Aksys Games has released an English gameplay trailer for Death Mark, its upcoming horror adventure game from Demon Gaze developer Experience. Here is an overview of the game, via Aksys Gam...

TOKYO (TR) - Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a teenage boy who seriously injured a male acquaintance by striking him with a metal baseball bat in Kita Ward earlier this year, reports TV Asahi (Oct.

Hello everyone! ! Kahotan here! (@gsc_kahotan) The weather has really cooled down lately here in Japan! Take care to not catch a cold everyone~! Anyway, today I'll be taking a look at the 1/7th scale. .

Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission announced for Switch A "super card battle adventure" game developed by Dimps. The latest issue of V-Jump reveals the Dimps-developed "super card battle adventure" game Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission...

Omega Labyrinth Life's producer Yosuke Uchida appeared on a Famitsu livestream today to show off gameplay and talk about what has changed from last time around in Omega Labyrinth Z. Here are the highlights: The name Life comes from the new feature...

Get ready to return to JAPARI PARK with Crunchyroll's latest addition. The first six episodes of the Welcome to the JAPARI PARK anime are now available to stream, with future episodes to come on the last and 14th day of each month.

She's baaaaaaaaaaaaack! And she's even getting her own movie! And now, the anime's staff have revealed a brand new trailer, which teases what to expect in the upcoming Saga of Tanya the Evil movie: The movie itself will indeed have an original sto...

New merchandise proves it's impossible for the beloved Pocket Monster icon to not look cute. Edvard Munch's The Scream is one of the most instantly recognizable paintings of all time. More than a century after the Norwegian artist first unveiled h...

BUMP OF CHICKEN have revealed the PV for their new song "Hanashi ga Shitai yo. " SEE ALSO: BUMP OF CHICKEN's new single will be a triple A-side "Hanashi ga Shitai yo" is one of the tracks off of the band's triple A-side single to be released on No...

While last week's top-grossing film Monster Strike The Movie: Sora no Kanata dropped sharply to ninth in its second week, the anime feature film adaptation of Hiroko Reijo's children novel Wakaokami wa Shogakusei!

Sci-fi manga World Trigger is finally making its comeback in Weekly Shonen Jump's 48th issue, set to hit the stands on Oct. 29! Written by Ashihara Daisuke, it began serialization from 2013 and went on hiatus in 2016.

Itasha, those anime themed automobiles, are eye-catching. Unlike most bland domestic automobiles on Japanese roads, if you saw one, you probably would not forget it. On October 13 at around 5pm in Numazu City, a 79-year-old woman was hit as she cr...

When Fate/Extella Link makes its Nintendo Switch debut in Japan, it'll have some fun little extras for fans of the series. As grim as some of Fate's events may be, the Switch version of the hack-and-slasher is introducing Funifuni costumes, which ...

© Nakaba Suzuki / Kodansha The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments ran for twenty-four episodes previously and is close to wrapping up the home video release side in Japan. Now, the show has started to make its way over to Netflix inter...

For the first promotional video of her solo career, Michishige Sayumi takes us on a walk through Tokyo in her variety of personas. You might want to subtitle "Loneliness Tokyo" as "Sayumi walks", because that's what you'll see for a majority of sh...

Developer Edelweiss shared a new video for their upcoming action RPG, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin demonstrating protagonist Sakuna's Celestial Scarf action used to grapple enemies and platforms. In Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, players take on the role o...

Experience's latest horror visual novel, NG, released last month, but for those curious to try it out, a demo with the prologue part of the game has gone live on the Japanese PlayStation Store. NG is the latest entry in Experience's "spiritual hor...

Mobile Suit Gundam has had a busy year on the big screen, but the anime isn't about to call it quits just yet. After all, the series is preparing to debut another feature this winter, and a brand-new trailer for Gundam NT is here.

BlazBlue: Central Fiction Special Edition releases in Japan this February, and it'll come packed with DLC that released for the other versions of Central Fiction. BlazBlue: Central Fiction Special Edition releases in Japan on February 7, 2019 for ...

Fans of Attack on Titan were met with quite an interesting ending this past weekend when the first part of Season 3 concluded. With a major event looming in the story, and a big tease in ending credits of the show, the big question was when Part 2...