Mamare Touno (real name: Daisuke Umezu), the Japanese novel author who is best known for his two works, Log Horizon and Maouyu: Maou Yuusha. He was recently charged and now has been found guilty of tax evasion by the Tokyo District Court. Both of his works have received very successful anime adaptations. The author has been […]
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April 2016
Hunter x Hunter has returned after more than a year’s worth of absence, and the manga’s creator Yoshihiro Togashi is hounded by rumors that he is too lazy to work on his manga. According to some fans, the reason behind this is that he is too busy playing Dragon Quest to work on Hunter x […]
The macabre horror light novel series, Higurashi: When They Cry, is getting adapted into a live-action TV drama, and it will star none other than the idols of the AKB48 sister group, the Niigata-based NGT48. A new visual for the series has been revealed, and it features the idols, as well as their other co-stars, in costume: As seen in […]
It’s finally April, and spring is definitely in the air, and you know what that usually means in Japan, right? Yes, it’s sakura season! However, it seems that many foreigners (and some Japanese) tend to confuse the sakura, or cherry blossoms, with two other pink 5-petal flowers, which also bloom almost at the same time. These […]
If you haven’t gotten enough of Working!!! and the wacky crew of Wagnaria, we have some good news for you, as the series’ spin-off web-manga by Karino Takatsu, titled WWW.Working!!, is also getting an anime adaptation. The anime is set in a family restaurant called Wagnaria, but not the same one as the main series, but a […]