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This Week in Anime - “So Bad it's Good”? Why KamiKatsu Doesn't Cut Close to That
📰 This Week in Anime: “So Bad it's Good”? Why KamiKatsu Doesn't Cut Close to That
KamiKatsu faces a glaring issue as the manga-based isekai anime's bizarre, lackluster execution hasn't fulfilled expectations. What once had the potential for a promising premise is now to the point where it can hardly pass off as another “so-bad-it's-good” production.
🎬 This series is streaming on Crunchyroll.
With only half a season left, it remains to be seen how the show will hold up given its issues. Chris noted the show needed drastic improvements before it can achieve potential, even suggesting they needed to make it a "so-bad-it's-not-good" production.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dark Horse to Release Trigun Manga in Deluxe Hardcover Edition
📰 Dark Horse Comics announced that they will release hardcover Deluxe Editions of Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun and Trigun Maximum manga. Trigun Deluxe Edition will have 672 pages and will include two volumes, while Trigun Maximum Deluxe Edition's volume 1 will have 584 pages. Trigun Deluxe Edition will be released on December 5, and Trigun Maximum Deluxe Edition will be released in April 2024.
💥 The story follows Vash the Stampede, who lives on the desert planet of Gunsmoke with a sixty billion double-dollar bounty on his head, and every psycho is after him. Despite Vash being a pacifist, he fights back to survive.
🎥 The Trigun anime adaptation aired for 26 episodes in Japan in 1998, while the Trigun: Badlands Rumble anime movie debuted in April 2010. Its world premiere was at Sakura-Con in April 2010. The Trigun Stampede anime premiered on January 7 and ended on March 25 with a final phase green-lit.
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Dark Gathering GN 1
I mean it when I say I wasn't expecting to be terrified from reading Dark Gathering. This surprise isn't a downside. That this story was able to genuinely unsettled me is probably the highest praise I can give it.
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Dan Ichikawa's My New Boss is Goofy Manga Gets TV Anime
📺🎉 "My New Boss is Goofy" manga by Dan Ichikawa gets an anime adaptation! The cast includes Yuichiro Umehara, Kōtarō Nishiyama, Tomokazu Sugita, Jun Fukuyama, and Hiro Shimono, and it will be directed by Noriyuki Abe at A-1 Pictures. The anime's official website has revealed a teaser video, visual, staff, and cast.
👨💼💼 The story follows Kentarō Momose, a 26-year-old man who is worried about his new job, fearing that his boss will bully him as his earlier boss did. But when he meets his new boss, he finds out that his boss is an airhead, banishing his anxiousness." My New Boss Is Goofy won third place in the TSUTAYA Comic Grand Prize and took second place in AnimeJapan's poll for manga that readers would like to see animated in 2020.
🖊️ "My New Boss is Goofy" was originally released on Ichikawa's Twitter account and soon series started serialization on Akita Shoten's Manga Cross website in February 2019. A-1 Pictures is in charge of the series creation, and Masahiro Yokotani is in charge of the scripts. The series was scheduled to release in 2022.
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Anime Aunties Visit Japan - Day 3: Ikebukuro Round 2 and Shinjuku's Golden Gai Bars
🌸🎀 Anime Aunties Visit Japan - Day 3 🎀🌸
Jacki gets lost in the kawaii overload in Ikebukuro! They visit Sanrio store and got Pompomurin scrunchie and Kurumi barrettes!
Next, they headed to the Animate building to see if there were any limited edition purchases available. Inside was everything a fangirl/boy could want! With so many series available, from Haikyuu to Yuri on Ice!, I was in heaven. After picking up some cute goods, we left in search of sustenance.
Finally, Jacki hit up Shibuya 109 to window shop and feel the trendy atmosphere of the city. They tried their best moe moe kyun~ and had a Slam Dunk cocktail in Golden Gai!
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Psycho-Pass Providence Film Opens in N. America in July
🎥 The Psycho-Pass Providence film will be screened in North America by Sony Pictures and Crunchyroll on July 11 and 13 and will be available to watch from July 14!
👀 Fans who attend will enjoy both Japanese audio and English dub screenings for the franchise's 10th-anniversary film.
🎬 The film picks up with Akane Tsunemori, the Chief Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department, and reintroduces Shinya Kogami in a case involving the Stronskaya Document in which the missing link to shake Japan's government and the Sibyl System is revealed.
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Oshi no Ko Anime Reveals English Dub Cast, May 24 Premiere
🌟The animated TV show, 'Oshi no Ko', the anime adaptation of the manga by Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari, will begin streaming its English dub on May 24 at 12 p.m. EDT on HIDIVE 🔥
🎥The story follows an idol fan named Gorou who forms an unconventional bond with his favorite star, Ai, after she announces a hiatus. The manga has over 3 million copies in circulation and has received numerous awards and nominations.😲
👀The English cast includes voice actors such as Donna Bella Litton, Jack Stansbury, Alyssa Marek, and Chaney Moore, and will be directed by Shannon D. Reed🎬
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Shonen Jump+ Editors Co-Develop AI Tool For Manga Writing
🖋️ Shonen Jump+ editors develop AI tool to simplify manga writing, called Comic CoPilot.
🤖 The tool uses ChatGPT to suggest titles, names, and can shorten dialogue to fit speech bubbles. Creator Yūta Momiyama, manager of Weekly Shonen Jump, revealed that the tool also speeds up the tedious parts of writing, a big help to manga creators.
🚀 Kensuu, representative director of alu technology company co-developed the tool. The creators encourage users to post AI-assisted creations to user-generated manga websites, but warn to confirm that content does not infringe on intellectual property.
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Keiichi Arawi Shares Why He Resumed Nichijō Manga After 6 Years
📰 Manga series Nichijō resumed after 6 years since its initial ending in 2015 with 10 volumes. Creator Keiichi Arawi initially wanted to transition to less strenuous work, but after a break, he felt the urge to create manga again.
🔥 Fan letters from all over the world sparked Arawi's passion to restart the series; however, he vague on future plans, saying that he intends to continue working on Nichijō amidst travel, meeting new people, falling in love, and having children.
💬 Both Nichijō and Helvetica Standard manga are in English and have insight the Nichijō TV anime by Kyoto Animation in 2011. The anime draws from stories in both manga and streamed on Crunchyroll.
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Anime Aunties Visit Japan - Day 4: Akihabara, Maid Café, and the Real Sailor Moon Shrine
🌟 Anime Aunties Visit Japan - Day 4: Akihabara, Maid Café, and the Real Sailor Moon Shrine 🌟
Lynzee and Jacki had an exciting day at the anime mecca, Akihabara, where they checked out retro video game cartridges and browsed walls of gachapon machines, although, the area was much quieter due to the pandemic.
To add to their day’s adventure, they visited a maid café and reenacted some iconic scenes from Steins;Gate, before Jacki headed off on a nostalgia-filled trip to visit the real-life Sailor Moon shrines.
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The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic Anime's Teaser Reveals Staff, 2024 Debut
🎬 The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic anime adaptation released a teaser visual and promotional video announcing the anime's staff and debut in 2024.
🎮 The "slapstick isekai fantasy with gags and battles" anime follows ordinary high school student Usato and his classmates transported to another world where they are summoned as heroes to save a kingdom. However, Usato is discovered to have the rare knowledge of a healing mage and is recruited into the leader of the life-saving corps's ranks.
📖 Kurokata's light novel series was first published on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in March 2014, with the 12th print volume published in March 2020.
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Ascendent Animation Reveals Full Cast, Staff for Game World Reincarnation Anime's English Dub
🎬 Ascendent Animation announced the English dub cast and staff of the Game World Reincarnation anime adaptation. 📺
💬 Michaela Laws is directing the dub, with Steve Warky Nunez in charge of audio engineering/mixing, Kevin Frane as localization supervisor, and K. Cornell Kellum as executive producer.👥
🌟 The 8-episode anime premiered in January 2022 and is based on Re:mimu's manga game World Reincarnation ～ Sex on the First Night ～. The series follows an office lady who reincarnates as the villainess Diana and must prevent the game's bad ending. 📖
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Seven Seas Licenses My Cat is Such a Weirdo, Healer for the Shadow Hero, More Manga
🐱 Seven Seas announced the licensing of the manga series, My Cat is Such a Weirdo, Healer for the Shadow Hero and Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel. Furthermore, Seven Seas licensed 945/gusao's The Dangerous Convenience Store webtoon manwha for an October release.🧚
🐾The first full-color volume of Tamako Tamagoyama's manga, My Cat is Such a Weirdo, will be released in October. The manga is a humorous take on the silly behavior of cats, showcasing their mischievous antics and endearing personalities.🐈
🌟Healer for the Shadow Hero, under its Steamship imprint, and Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel, under its Ghost Ship imprint, will be published physically and digitally in February 2024. The two series delve into the fantasy genre, with one exploring the relationship between a war hero and a servant girl with a unique power, and the other taking on the story of a man in a princess' body, experiencing the life of Reina and becoming a yuri brothel worker.🛡️
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Medalist Olympic Ice-Skating Manga Gets TV Anime
🏅 The Olympic ice-skating manga, Medalist, created by Tsurumaikada, will be adapted into a TV anime directed by Yasutaka Yamamoto and produced by ENGI. It won the Best General Manga category in this year's Shogakukan Manga Awards and was nominated in Kodansha's 47th annual Manga Awards this year.
🎬 Yasutaka Yamamoto, director of Noblesse, will lead the anime production with Jukki Hanada in charge of series composition and screenplay, and Chinatsu Kameyama designing the characters. The anime adaptation announcement came with a visual and staff unveiling, alongside a commemorative illustration by Tsurumaikada.
📚 Kodansha USA Publishing has licensed the manga, and the story revolves around Tsukasa and Inori, two characters dreaming of worldwide ice-skating fame, with the only thing that sees them through being their tenacity.
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Police Arrest Japanese YouTuber for Uploading Gameplay, Anime Footage
🚨👮♂️ Japanese YouTuber Arrested For Copyright Violation!
A 52-year-old man and YouTuber was arrested in Nagoya City on Wednesday for allegedly uploading gameplay footage of the Steins;Gate game and footage from Spy×Family and Steins;Gate anime with subtitles and narration, violating guidelines set by Kadokawa and Nitroplus. This is the first arrest in Japan made over an upload or stream of game footage.
🎮📹 Police Arrest Japanese YouTuber for Uploading Gameplay & Anime Footage!
According to police, the suspect posted these videos on YouTube and earned money from them. Many companies create guidelines for their games that specify which sections of their games are allowed to be uploaded, monetized and streamed to discourage spoilers and prevent content creators from uploading story content and profiting off of it.
📚📺 Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) organization noted in its own announcement that this is the first arrest made in Japan over an upload or stream of game footage.
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MAPPA CEO Reflects on Financial Performance of Chainsaw Man
📺 MAPPA CEO Manabu Otsuka commented that the production cost of Chainsaw Man was entirely covered by the anime despite wishing for better BD/DVD sales.
📈 The CEO regarded it as a success but expressed dissatisfaction with the anime failing to leave the same impact as Jujutsu Kaisen. Otsuka also said that he would like the series to reach more of the audience that pays for home video releases.
🌍 The Chainsaw Man anime premiered on TV Tokyo and five other affiliated channels, as well as on Amazon Prime Video, and was streamed on Crunchyroll in over 200 countries and territories around the world. The anime's 12th and final episode aired on December 28.
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Anime Aunties Visit Japan - Day 5: Nintendo Store, Hedgehogs, and Studio FLAT
🎮 "Anime Aunties Visit Japan - Day 5: Nintendo Store, Hedgehogs, and Studio FLAT" 🦔
Jacki & Lynzee visited Shibuya and got to experience the iconic Shibuya Scramble, visit the One Piece store and enjoy Shibuya's Nintendo Store, Pokémon Center, and ChikuChiku CAFE (Hedgehog Cafe). The PARCO building contained everything a gaming/anime enthusiast could want with high-end fashion stores, a Capcom store, a JUMP shop, and a Nintendo Store with Mario and Zelda statues, Animal Crossing characters, plushies, and merchandise for fans of every title.
At the Nintendo store, Jacki and Lynzee played Mario Kart 8 and managed to get to second and third place. The store was a shopper's paradise, with home goods, bags, towels, and pens that featured famous gaming television characters.
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The Best Series Out Now on the Viz Manga App
📱💻📚 The Viz Manga app is now available in the US and Canada! Our team of reviewers has you covered with recommendations for the best manga series to read, including popular shōnen and shōjo hits, as well as more off-beat titles. Remember, while a subscription grants access to all titles on both the app and web versions, some content is restricted to browser-only access.
If you're in the mood for a classic, make sure to check out the newest release of the critically acclaimed series "One Piece". The Straw Hat Pirates continue their search for the ultimate treasure, the One Piece, in this long-running epic adventure filled with heart, humor, and action.
Fans of romance should definitely give "Ao Haru Ride" a try. This shōjo manga follows the story of Futaba, a girl who has trouble expressing her feelings, and Kou, a boy with a mysterious past. Can they overcome their respective struggles and find love?
For something a bit different, check out "Interspecies Reviewers". Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like: a manga about a group of adventurers who review brothels run by various mystical species. It's certainly not for everyone, but if you're looking for something outrageous and off-the-wall, this might be the series for you.
What are you waiting for? Download the Viz Manga app now and start exploring all the different options available!
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J-Novel Club Adds 7 More Novels, 5 More Manga; Reveals Audiobook for Full Metal Panic!
Company to also release audiobook for My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World
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