Kodansha USA Is Giving Away a Ton of Free Manga Right Now
Manga, have you heard of it? Once a niche subset of the graphic novel market, the Japanese comics now dwarf it in popularity, and are only finding new readers (and…
Star Wars: Visions Season 2 Gets a Release Date on Disney+: Details
Star Wars: Visions season 2 will release May 4 — Star Wars Day — on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, Lucasfilm has announced. Billed as ‘Volume 2,’ the series will feature…
Our Favourite Movies and TV Shows Adapted From Video Games
The Last of Us pilot — out now on Disney+ Hotstar — was a tremendous showcase of breaking the video game adaptation curse, by putting faith in the source material’s…
Halia Abdel-Meguid Reportedly Set to Write Live-Action Death Note Series
Netflix’s Death Note series has reportedly found its writer. As per Deadline, the upcoming Duffer Brothers’ live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese manga and anime, will be written and executive…
What Did You Find Cute When Dating but Irritating in a Relationship?
Photo: MDV Edwards (Shutterstock) At the beginning of a relationship, when your rose-colored glasses are securely in place, a new partner’s quirks are cute. But as the early stages of…
Japanese Man Who Married Fictional Character In 2018 Now Struggles To Connect With Her
Akihiko Kondo is not the only person who is in a relationship with a fictional character.A Japanese man who married a hologram singer back in 2018 now hopes to raise…
In ‘Belle,’ the Internet Unlocks Our Best Selves
Where did our other selves live before the internet? “It used to be that there was only one reality,” says director Mamoru Hosoda. His new film, Belle, is about how…
‘Dragon Ball FighterZ’ and the Elusive Art of Anime Adaptation
Part of this is accomplished aesthetically. The designs in Dragon Ball are iconic, with the spiky-haired, beefy Goku and his friends often seeming like shorthand for an anime cast in…
10 Effortlessly Cool Anime You Should Watch Before Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop Comes Out
For fans of: mercenaries, action, moral ambiguity There’s a moral ambiguity at the heart of Cowboy Bebop and its rag-tag crew of mercenaries. Spike and the crew generally act for…
Anime Series Star Wars: Visions Brings Lucas Films Full Circle
Star Wars creator George Lucas has never been shy of acknowledging his debt to the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. In the early ‘70s, as Lucas began developing the first…