After lovingly dramatic portrayals of Tokyo and Gifu, the anime studio applies its glisteningly gorgeous talents to another country. One of the side-effects of directing the highest-grossing anime film ever is that Makoto Shinkai now gets to take as much time as he…
What are your favorite anime movies? Spirited Away? Princess Mononoke? My Neighbor Totoro? Eh, I could see that coming. These Studio Ghibli movies are masterpieces. They’re also not the only anime films out there. Crazy, right? It’s safe to say that Ghibli corners…
Last Sunday, the winners of the San Francisco Film Critics Awards was announced and Makoto Shinkai’s anime smash hit film your name. was nominated in the Best Animated Feature category. However, the award was officially given to the movie Coco,…
2017 best Japanese light novel titles according to “Oricon” . Oricon, a data compiling company specializing in providing data for the Japanese music/book industry, today announced the best-selling book annual rankings of 2017, which were compiled between December 5, 2016 and November…
The largest Japanese online karaoke service chain DAM today announced this year’s provisional rankings for the most popular songs in each categories, counted between January 1 and November 30, 2017. Defeating last year’s champion Motohiro Hata’s “Himawari no Yakusoku” (Stand By Me…
Just yesterday in Korea on October 26, SM Entertainment artists gathered for their famous, annual, Halloween costume party, and another star who caught fans’ attention after EXO’s Chanyeol was NCT’s Jaehyun! Fan photos from the site of the Halloween party…
What if Taki was a white guy and Mitsuha was a black girl? Ever since the confirmation of a Hollywood live-action remake of blockbuster anime Your Name, serious doubt has been cast on whether a production steeped in Japanese culture will translate well into…
Your Name, which is not only a very good movie but also the highest-grossing anime feature of all time, is being given the live-action treatment by J.J. Abrams’ Hollywood studio. As Screen Daily report, Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot are behind the project,…
