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As the world grapples with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, social gatherings are being minimized and events are being cancelled one after the other. Of course, that means that cosplay events are a no-go for the time being. Japan Expo Thailand 2020, held from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in Bangkok, was probably one of the last big cospl...
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot is a decent game (check out my full review here), and a successful one for Bandai Namco, having sold more than two million copies as of earlier this month. At launch, the publisher promised that a Time Machine would be added into the game. Two months after launch, we're finally getting it. In a free update later today, Trunk'...
Fans of racing anime, you may want to check out this place in the Philippines that basically pays homage to the popular manga Initial D. Speed Star cafe announced the first-ever Initial D concept café in Cebu (via Ungeek.ph), featuring a Toyota 86 and what seems to be emulating a Japanese-style American diner. The café is open in Cebu at the...
Netflix has announced that it is partnering up with manga artist group CLAMP and several other manga authors to produce more anime. As reported by Anime News Network, the other creators are: Shin Kibayashi (author of The File of Young Kindaichi) Yasuo Ohtagaki (author of Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt) Otsuichi (author of Summer, Fireworks and...
Fans of anime game adaptations are going to have to wait for their Fairy Tail RPG fix. Koei Tecmo Games and Gust producer Keisuke Kikuchi announced that the Fairy Tail game has been postponed from 19th March to 25th June of this year. The delay will affect the PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch versions. The reason for the delay is to polish up the qua...
Bandai Spirits, which is a division of Bandai that deals with merchandise and products for adults, has announced new limited edition GunPla or Gundam model kits in a special collaboration with the J.League, the professional football league in Japan. These new limited-edition High-Grade GunPla model kits will be matched with their designated teams ...
People aren't really talking about Death Stranding anymore but that doesn't mean it wasn't a success. The game sold very well all over the world and was the biggest PlayStation title debut of 2019. Hideo Kojima and his crew now has plans to do very different things. [caption id="attachment_52054" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Image from Dualshoc...
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC Genre: RPG version of the Dragon Ball Z saga for 2020 For a lot of people who only vaguely familiar with Dragon Ball, the franchise is synonymous with overly-muscular characters screaming and fighting. On the other hand, fans would understand that at the heart of Dragon Ball lies a sense of adventure, which is how it a...
Remember the shrine that the main characters in Weathering With You visit? The one where they learnt about the legend of the weather maiden? Well, a priest from a shrine just like that one in Japan has announced on Twitter that he is banning all tourists from now on. 韓国人観光客を制é™ã—ã¾ã™...
The ShÅhoku High School basketball team is coming back! After a long hiatus, the Japanese manga/anime series that popularized sports manga in the 90s is making its comeback on April 2020, according to its creator Takehiko Inoue. As you can see, he's showing off some glossy pages of yet-to-be-released material for the series. While not exact...
Veteran anime and manga fans will remember the classic Mobile Police Patlabor animated movies and series, featuring the iconic mecha design of the Patlabor. Guillermo Del Toro even cites Patlabor as one of the many influences for his 2013 movie Pacific Rim, and 10 August is the official annual Patlabor Day in Japan. [gallery ids="40203,40197,40198...
Anime is an ever-growing and diverse medium that has spanned for decades. Amongst the vast number of studios that regularly put out these shows, Kyoto Animation (commonly known as KyoAni) is one name that has exploded in popularity in the past decade. The studio is quite famous, known for its works on The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Clannad, and...
A lot of people love video games and anime, but they don't really translate to live-action adaptations very well for the most part. Be they Japanese or Hollywood adaptations, they range from the atrocious Dragon Ball Evolution and (not-so-good)Â Fullmetal Alchemist movies to the (decent) Detective Pikachu and (excellent) Rurouni Kenshin movies. ...
Update: Officials are now reporting the death toll at 33 according to NHK. A few hours ago, "over a dozen" were found in cardiac arrest on the third floor. Kyoto Animation studio caught on fire earlier today when an arsonist sneaked into the building. The incident has left at least 26 dead and more than 36 injured, including the suspect of the c...
Pop culture sneakers are all the rage nowadays, with everything from Game Of Thrones to Strangers Things and now even iconic manga/anime properties like Naruto. Adidas is teasing a new lineup of Naruto-themed footwear for the most ardent fans of the long-running franchise. Our first and only look at the Adidas Naruto lineup is a sneaker based on S...
Bandai Namco has announced One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows, an action 3v3 fighting game for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Fans are finally getting a video game based on the extremely popular anime and manga franchise, starring protagonist Saitama who is so strong that he (as his name suggests) defeats his enemies with just one punch (or hit). Play...
It's the end of an era as Japanese imperial figure Emperor Akihito abdicates the Chrysanthemum Throne, making way for the Reiwa period which starts today. Let's celebrate with some useful anime-related stats. Like what the top ranking animes and anime heroines are from 1989 to 30 April 2019. The results may not shock you if you've been in this bus...
If you've played the unforgiving game of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, you must have met Hanbei the Undying. He's the NPC hanging just out of the Dilapidated Temple and serves as your training partner for you to 'git gud', or you can check out our guide here to 'git better'. If you haven't played the game, he's an immortal warrior destined to help yo...
The iconic Gundam franchise is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2019, an incredible milestone for the series that has spawned countless anime and manga since 1979. Now Uniqlo has allied itself with Bandai and Sunrise to bring to us a collection of Gundam-themed shirts. Each of the adult shirts will set you back $14.90/RM60+/SGD20+. Check out so...
A surprise announcement was revealed at the recent "2019 PLUS ULTRA STAGE" in the AnimeJapan 2019 event (via Crunchyroll), and a second My Hero Academia / Boku No Hero Academia movie has been confirmed to release in Japan sometime this winter. Just like the first movie (My Hero Academia: Two Heroes) in 2018, the second untitled My Hero Academia mo...
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