Third season of Kingdom gets announced with new staff

Xin from the anime series Kingdom

If you’re outside of Japan, you might not be too familiar with the anime series called Kingdom. But in Japan, it’s pretty popular, and stacks right up there in viewership with other series, such as Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia, so maybe there’s something to it. In fact, NHK recently announced that Kingdom … Read more

Special one night screening of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack to celebrate the franchise’s 40th anniversary

Char Aznable's Prototype Newtype-use Assault Mobile Suit

It has been forty years of Gundam and the celebration continues this year with a very special event from Fathom Events and Sunrise Inc. The classic 1988 animated feature film Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack will once again be shown in theaters for a one-night screening event. Set in the Universal Century timeline of the … Read more

Kaguya-sama: Love is War gets a second season

From season one, episode two of Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Have you been watching Aka Akasaka’s Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai – Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen) anime series? Well, we got some good news to share with you today. It looks like the series will be getting a second season. The news was announced recently at a Young Jump Bunkasai event in Tokyo. … Read more

Hiro Mashima is releasing an epic crossover manga called HERO’S, he also created Fairy Tail

Three worlds clash in the new limited manga series HERO'S

While Hiro Mashima’s popular Fairy Tail series recently ended, he is already hard at work on other projects. One of which was announced this week. Entitled HERO’S, Mashima made an announcement on his Twitter page to mark the occasion. 今日発売のマガジンより新連載「HERO‘S」はじまりました!短期連載ですがよろしくお願いします。エデンズゼロ も休載せずに掲載します。マガポケのほうではFT100年クエストがヒーローズの期間中、週刊連載になります。こっちもよろしく! — 真島ヒロ (@hiro_mashima) October 16, 2019 The interesting thing about HERO’S is that it’ll … Read more

Crunchyroll and WEBTOON teaming up on animated projects

Crunchyroll teams with WEBTOON

The American distributor, publisher, and licensing company, Crunchyroll, recently made a big announcement. They will be teaming up with the digital comics publisher, WEBTOON, in a strategic partnership to develop and co-produce original animated content. The Hollywood Reporter states that these upcoming projects will be based on WEBTOON’s catalog of various webcomics. Both companies will … Read more