The official website for Gintama The Final, the new anime film of Hideaki Sorachi’s Gintama manga, announced on Wednesday that the film has sold “roughly one million” tickets. There will be two final stage greetings with the film’s voice actors during two February 13 screenings at Tokyo’s Shinjuku Wald 9 theater to commemorate the milestone. The stage greetings will also stream live to theaters throughout Japan. The film earned 102,029,700 yen (about US$972,600) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 1,266,877,640 yen (about US$12.07 million). The film opened at #1 in Japan on January 8 and ended Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no......
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Oricon revealed on Friday its top 50 manga ranking for the week of January 11-17, and all 15 volumes of Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen manga (including the volume 0 prequel) ranked in the top 16 spots for the week. The 14th and most recent volume of the manga sold 190,724 copies in the week, for a total of 845,366 since the volume released on January 4. The 33rd volume of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga topped the chart. Jujutsu Kaisen went from having around 8.5 million copies in circulation in the beginning of October, to reaching 20 million copies in circulation......
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Amazon Prime Video has removed the Scum’s Wish, Yuki Yuna Is a Hero, The Great Passage, Eromanga Sensei, and Just Because! anime from its service in the United States. The listings for all five anime are still available, but the anime are not available to stream. The Scum’s Wish anime premiered in Japan on Amazon Prime Video and Fuji TV’s Noitamina programming block in January 2017. Amazon Prime Video exclusively streamed the anime series in Japan and abroad, including in the United States as part of its now-defunct Anime Strike service. The original Yuki Yuna Is a Hero television anime premiered in October 2014. The second season of the anime premiered in October 2017......
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The Akudama Drive anime may have finished, but its high-impact story and presentation are sure to linger in fans’ memories. Last year, we interviewed art director Yoshio Tanioka, who shared his role in crafting the anime’s unique aesthetic, and today we have an interview with assistant director Yoshifumi Sasahara. In this interview, Sasahara looks back on his role as an episode director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist on episode 6. This memorable episode was a major turning point for the story, as well as a technically impressive episode in its own right. Sasahara breaks down what made it so special.......
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation author Rifujin na Magonote recently addressed criticism they have heard about the series protagonist Rudeus. Their tweets on the subject are translated as follows: There are a lot of people who can’t accept how in , the protagonist remains a pervert even after he reincarnates. It’s the same in the original work. But it’s not as if he has loads of regrets about being a pervert in his previous life. That’s why in the isekai he doesn’t necessarily think, “I’m going to live life seriously! That also means stop being a perv!” Tentatively speaking,......
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The April issue of Akita Shoten’s Young Champion Red magazine revealed on Tuesday that manga creator Seiman Douman is launching a new manga titled Vivarium de Chōshoku o (Breakfast at the Vivarium) in the magazine’s next issue on February 19. The manga centers on three friends who meet up at morning to get to the bottom of their town’s “seven mysteries.” The magazine describes the manga as having an “inevitable anime adaptation.” The manga will have a color opening page. Douman launched The Voynich Hotel manga in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion Retsu magazine in 2006 and ended it in March 2014. Akita Shoten published the series in three compiled volumes.......
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The official website for the Detective Conan anime films announced on Wednesday that, in anticipation of the upcoming Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet (Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Dangan0 film, the franchise will have a new compilation film titled Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Fuzai Shōmei (Detective Conan: The Scarlet Alibi). The compilation film combines footage from various television anime episodes that center on the Akai family, and it will have a three-week limited theatrical run from February 11 to March 4. The ending of the compilation film will contain a video “secret message from Shuichi Akai” that will lead up to The Scarlet Bullet film,......
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This year’s fourth issue of Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine announced on Wednesday that Yu Tomofuji’s Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts (Niehime to Kemono no Ō) manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation. The manga also published a new prequel “episode.0” chapter in the fourth issue of Hana to Yume magazine, as well as the series’ 15th and final compiled book volume on Wednesday. Tomofuji launched the manga in Hana to Yume in 2015, and ended it on October 20. Yen Press is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story: A young girl has resigned herself to being he next sacrificial meal for the Beast......
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The official website for the six-part Girls und Panzer das Finale film series revealed a trailer, commercial, key visual, and the March 26 opening date for the series’ third film on Wednesday. Director Tsutomu Mizushima had revealed last May that production of the film was continuing. He added that the staff members had started editing the film, and that they were steadily preparing for dialogue recording to begin. The first Girls und Panzer das Finale film opened in Japan in 59 theaters in December 2017. The film features new characters from BC Freedom High School as they engage in a winter battle. The second film......
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Kodansha announced on Tuesday that Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s The Blue Period. manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation that will premiere this year. Yamaguchi drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement. Kodansha Comics licensed the manga, and it describes the story: Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately … a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he’s about......
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