A new website opened on Friday to announce a new original anime titled Odd Taxi that will premiere on TV Tokyo and AT-X in April. The website revealed the anime’s promotional video, teaser visual, cast, staff, and manga adaptation. The teaser visual shows anthropomorphic characters in a city of neon lights. The story follows Kotogawa, an eccentric, reticent 41-year-old taxi driver who has no relatives and does not have much to do with others. He does have conversations with his customers, including a college student who wants to go viral, a nurse hiding a secret, an unsuccessful comedian, a......
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The official website for the television anime of Coolkyoushinja’s Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid manga unveiled a new visual and the July premiere date on Friday for the show’s second season, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S. Kyoto Animation is returning to produce the anime. The “S” in the show’s second season title stands for “Super Supreme Second life Starts.” The Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid manga announced the second season of the anime in February 2019 in its eighth volume. Coolkyoushinja began the ongoing Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid manga in the inaugural issue of Monthly Action magazine in May 2013. Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in English. The series inspired an anime adaptation that premiered in......
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Kodansha unveiled a new promotional video for the television anime of Hiro Mashima’s Edens Zero manga on Wednesday. The teaser video reveals additional staff members, and confirms the anime’s April 10 premiere. The new staff members include: Audio Director: Shōji Hata Audio Production: Magic Capsule Music: Yoshihisa Hirano Music Production: NTV Music The anime’s cast includes: Takuma Terashima as Shiki Granbell Mikako Komatsu as Rebecca Bluegarden Rie Kugimiya as Happy The anime will premiere on NTV and other channels on Saturday, April 10 at 24:55 (effectively, April 11 at 12:55 a.m.). Shinji Ishihara (Fairy Tail, Log Horizon) is the chief director of the anime at J.C. Staff, and Yūshi Suzuki (episode director for Fairy Tail season 3) is directing......
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The official website for the television anime of Hiroyuki’s Kanojo mo Kanojo (She’s a Girlfriend Too) manga revealed the main staff and teaser visual on Friday. The visual shows Nagisa (pictured below left) and Saki (pictured right). Satoshi Kuwabara (The Quintessential Quintuplets) is directing the anime at Tezuka Productions. Keiichirō Ōchi (The Quintessential Quintuplets) is in charge of series scripts. Akiko Toyoda (Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions) is designing the characters. The anime will premiere in 2021. Hiroyuki launched the manga in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine last March. The “neo romantic comedy” manga centers on Naoya, a first-year high school student. After he confesses to Saki — the......
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The official YouTube channel for the Pokémon franchise began streaming on Wednesday a video commemorating the series’ 25th anniversary. The video reveals the franchise will collaborate with Katy Perry. The series’ official website revealed that the Pokémon franchise is teaming up with Universal Music Group and musical artists to create P25 Music, a global music project. Katy Perry will be part of the project. The Pokémon Company will also release 25th anniversary-themed collections of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, including cards based on the original Base Set, later in 2021. The company is also teasing that new commemorative products will go on sale at the Pokémon Center, starting with a 25th anniversary-themed skateboard by......
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Netflix unveiled a new trailer for the anime series of Tsuina Miura and Takahiro Ōba’s survival horror manga High-Rise Invasion (Tenkū Shinpan) on Thursday. The anime’s official website also unveiled more cast and staff members, theme song artists, and the anime’s February 25 Netflix debut date in Japan. Japanese trailer: English dub trailer: The new cast members include:Jun Fukuyama as Mamoru Aikawa Yōko Hikasa as Yayoi Kusakabe Megumi Ogata as Shinji Okihara Koji Yusa as Kazuma Aohara Chika Anzai as Ein Shizuka Itou as Dealer Mask Idol group EMPiRE are performing the anime’s opening theme song “HON-NO,” as heard in the video above. Rock band Have a Nice Day! performs the ending theme......
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here here here here Since the airing of Horimiya’s first episode on Saturday, a total of 69,088 users on the anime listing site MyAnimeList have logged themselves as “watching” the anime on their accounts, seemingly breaking the record for the most-watched premiere for a debut romantic comedy among users of the site. The record was previously held by Rent-A-Girlfriend with 55,228 logged viewers within seven days of its debut. This is perhaps less surprising when you consider that HERO and Daisuke Hagiwara’s Horimiya manga is currently ranked 13th in popularity on MyAnimeList, with 121,623 users logged as reading the manga......
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“For some reason, I can’t help but think: That old man, I think what he wanted…was to be judged by someone.” That is what Bertholdt thought of the old man that he, Annie, and Reiner saw kill himself in the village all those years ago, and it is the chief thought on Reiner’s mind when he confronts Eren in the basement that lies within earshot of Willy Tybur’s call to arms. When Falco realizes that this is not the reunion of old friends that Mr. Kruger promised him it would be, he tries......
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This year’s seventh issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine revealed on Wednesday that Tsuyoshi Yasuda’s DAYS soccer manga will end in the next issue on January 20. Yasuda launched the series in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in April 2013, and Kodansha published the manga’s 41st volume on December 17. Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story: During his last spring break before starting high school, Tsukushi Tsukamoto meets Jin Kazama, who invites him to a pick-up soccer game. Their chance meeting, and his first-ever experience with soccer, move kind-hearted, timid Tsukushi to enroll in his new high school’s soccer club, which......
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Gintama: The Final, the new anime film of Hideaki Sorachi’s Gintama manga, ranked #1 in its opening weekend — ending Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train’s 12 consecutive weekends at the top of the Japanese box office. The film opened in Japan last Friday. The film is based on the finale of the original manga, combined with new story elements. The manga is also inspiring a new net anime special titled Gintama The Semi-Final with a story that will be a two-episode prequel to the film. The net anime will premiere exclusively in Japan on the online dTV service on January 15. The film will also have......
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