Even if you don't know CoroCoro Comic by name, you're sure to know at least a few of its featured titles. The magazine has run some of the most legendary kids' manga in history. And they're celebrating their 555th issue with a fully animated music video celebrating their past, present and future. The video is set to "Makimonogatari," a new song written and performed by singer/songwriter and Vocaloid producer Eve. The music video was animated at Studio Bones and directed by Nobutaka Yoda of 10Gauge, who has directed openings, endings and trailers for shows including Dr. Stone , Spy x Family and My Hero Academia . Leading the charge in the action-packed video is Chrono, the star of Kimura Fuuta's Fate Rewinder (which premiered in the magazine in 2022). Keep your eyes peeled for cameos from the manga magazine's many other hit titles—including Pokémon , Doraemon , Duel Masters , Yo-kai Watch , Beyblade , Zoids...
- 7/31/2024
- by Kara Dennison
- Crunchyroll
We're officially heading south for the winter, as rom-com anime Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hogen Sugite Tsura Sugiru ("I Girl I Fell For in Okinawa Has a Difficult Dialect") today announced a January 2025 broadcast with a brand-new preview video and visual. Further enforcing the series' regional focus, it was also revealed that Etsuko Kozakura (Akamaru in Yo-kai Watch ) is voicing Oki Memo Shisha, a mascot-type lion character inspired by Okinawan/Ryukyuan mythology, Okinawan native Tarusuke Shingaki (Nathanial in Bungo Stray Dogs ) is providing narration and Okinawan rock band Hy is in charge of the opening song. Broadcast Announcement Visual Oki Memo Shisha The anime's main cast is as follows: Teruaki Nakamura voiced by Takeo Otsuka Hina Kyan voiced by Akari Kito Kana Higa voiced by Fairouz Ai Related: Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsura Sugiru TV Anime Reveals Main Cast in First Trailer...
- 7/19/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
The official website for Precure franchise's ongoing 21st series Wonderful Precure! released main trailers and a key visual today for its latest feature film, titled Wonderful Precure! The Movie! Dokidoki ♡Game no Sekai de Daibouken! (translated to Heart-Pounding — A great adventure in the world of games! ). The film is set to open in Japan on September 13, 2024. The releases also reveal that two teams from past Precure series — the 13th series, Witchy PreCure!, and 20th series, Soaring Sky! Precure, — will join forces with the Wonderful Precure! team. As previously reported , the former will have its official sequel, Maho Tsukai Precure!! ~ Mirai Days~ , premiere in January 2025. The clips also feature the film's ending theme song "Happy≒Future" performed by Moeha Mochimoto and Chihaya Yoshitake, and insert song "Daisuki no Kizuna" by Ami Ishii and Rie Kitagawa for the first time. The CD single including both songs will be available in Japan on...
- 6/25/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
The official Twitter accounts for the Dino Girl Gauko kids anime and anime production house ascension Inc. announced on June 2 that the creator of the series, veteran anime director Akira Shigino, had passed away on May 30. He was 70 years old. The tweet states a private funeral service was held with family members and acquaintances in attendance. Shigino was born in Hokkaido in 1954. His entry into the anime industry came through Tatsunoko Production subsidiary Anime Friend where his first credit was on the Time Bokan series in 1979. Since then, he has worked on well-known anime such as the 1980s Osomatsu-kun , popular children’s show Shimajiro and Crayon Shin-chan , 2000s Kochikame , episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! , Pokémon , Yo-kai Watch and storyboards on Sailor Moon Crystal , among many other works. He was a member of the Japan Animation Creators Association. Dino Girl Gauko was Shigino's latest anime work, which he created and directed. The series...
- 6/6/2024
- by Daryl Harding
- Crunchyroll
Strawberry Prince Boy Band's Strawberry School Festival Anime Film Gets July Release Date - Main Image
The Japanese boy band Strawberry Prince has been popular for a while now, and soon, fans can look forward to seeing them on the big screen. That’s because the new Strawberry Prince boy band’s Strawberry School Festival anime film just got a release date.
Its release date was revealed alongside a new trailer that showed off lots of new footage featuring the band members in action along with their colorful new outfits.
Strawberry Prince’s Strawberry School Festival Release Date
Strawberry Prince is a six-member music group that was formed back in 2016 and has since gained a huge following in Japan. You can think of them as a virtual group as they perform with digital avatars and use stage names.
Aside from their original tracks, Strawberry Prince has also performed songs for popular anime,...
The Japanese boy band Strawberry Prince has been popular for a while now, and soon, fans can look forward to seeing them on the big screen. That’s because the new Strawberry Prince boy band’s Strawberry School Festival anime film just got a release date.
Its release date was revealed alongside a new trailer that showed off lots of new footage featuring the band members in action along with their colorful new outfits.
Strawberry Prince’s Strawberry School Festival Release Date
Strawberry Prince is a six-member music group that was formed back in 2016 and has since gained a huge following in Japan. You can think of them as a virtual group as they perform with digital avatars and use stage names.
Aside from their original tracks, Strawberry Prince has also performed songs for popular anime,...
- 6/3/2024
- EpicStream
‘The Battle at Lake Changjin II’ headed the mainland Chinese box office for the fifth successive weekend as cinemas await significant new content.
“Changjin II” earned $7.5 million over the latest weekend, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. The increment expanded the film’s aggregate to $626 million since release on Feb. 1, 2022, the first day of the Lunar New Year holidays.
The big-budget propaganda film is co-directed by three of Greater China’s most successful directors Chen Kaige, Dante Lam and Tsui Hark. It follows a first instalment which was released in October ond grossed over $900 million to become the all-time record holder in the country.
Chinese comedy “Too Cool to Kill” and Chinese drama “Nice View” held on to the second and third chart positions that they have occupied for weeks, with $6.0 million and $4.0 million weekend hauls. Their cumulative scores are extended to $403 million and $211 million, respectively.
Japanese romantic drama...
“Changjin II” earned $7.5 million over the latest weekend, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. The increment expanded the film’s aggregate to $626 million since release on Feb. 1, 2022, the first day of the Lunar New Year holidays.
The big-budget propaganda film is co-directed by three of Greater China’s most successful directors Chen Kaige, Dante Lam and Tsui Hark. It follows a first instalment which was released in October ond grossed over $900 million to become the all-time record holder in the country.
Chinese comedy “Too Cool to Kill” and Chinese drama “Nice View” held on to the second and third chart positions that they have occupied for weeks, with $6.0 million and $4.0 million weekend hauls. Their cumulative scores are extended to $403 million and $211 million, respectively.
Japanese romantic drama...
- 3/7/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Melissa Joan Hart will soon work her sitcom magic for Netflix: The streaming service has ordered to series No Good Nick, a family sitcom co-starring Stranger Things‘ Sean Astin.
The multi-camera comedy, which has already received a 20-episode commitment, centers on marrieds Liz and Ed, a “hyper-competitive career mom” and a “fun dad” who welcome 13-year old Nick (Star Falls‘ Siena Agudong) into their home, only to discover that she’s a “street-smart con artist with a secret agenda,” according to the official logline. Kalama Epstein (The Fosters) and Lauren Lindsey Donzis (Liv & Maddie) co-star as Liz and Ed’s children.
The multi-camera comedy, which has already received a 20-episode commitment, centers on marrieds Liz and Ed, a “hyper-competitive career mom” and a “fun dad” who welcome 13-year old Nick (Star Falls‘ Siena Agudong) into their home, only to discover that she’s a “street-smart con artist with a secret agenda,” according to the official logline. Kalama Epstein (The Fosters) and Lauren Lindsey Donzis (Liv & Maddie) co-star as Liz and Ed’s children.
- 9/21/2018
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: A couple of years ago, Netflix entered the family sitcom arena with Fuller House, a sequel to TGIF’s Full House. For its followup effort in the space, the Internet network has picked up another family sitcom with TGIF pedigree. Netflix has given a 20-episode order to No Good Nick, a multi-camera comedy headlined by Melissa Joan Hart, star of the TGIF comedy Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Sean Astin, in his return to Netflix after his memorable co-starring turn on the second season of Stranger Things.
Created and executive produced by David H. Steinberg and Keetgi Kogan (Miss Dial), No Good Nick also stars Siena Agudong in the title role as well as Kalama Epstein (The Fosters) and Lauren Lindsey Donzis (Liv & Maddie).
Hart and Astin play Liz and Ed, a hyper-competitive career mom and lovable but dorky “fun dad,” respectively, who unwittingly...
Created and executive produced by David H. Steinberg and Keetgi Kogan (Miss Dial), No Good Nick also stars Siena Agudong in the title role as well as Kalama Epstein (The Fosters) and Lauren Lindsey Donzis (Liv & Maddie).
Hart and Astin play Liz and Ed, a hyper-competitive career mom and lovable but dorky “fun dad,” respectively, who unwittingly...
- 9/21/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
If you're a fan of Yo-Kai Watch or if you've wanted to check out the series for the first time, you'll be happy to hear that two new games have just been announced! Keep reading to learn more.
In the Yo-kai Watch Blasters: Red Cat Corps and Yo-kai Watch Blasters: White Dog Squad games, team up with up to three other friends either locally* or online to fight towering Big Bosses, using skills and powerful Soultimate Moves. While previous Yo-kai Watch games focused on turn-based battles, Yo-kai Watch Blasters drops you into real-time skirmishes in the first ever action-rpg for the series. During these battles, you directly control your Yo-kai as you strategize with different skills and equipment to defeat huge bosses. By taking on various fast-paced missions, you will embark on a journey to meet, befriend and battle more than 400 new and returning Yo-kai. Check out the trailer for the new games right here.
In the Yo-kai Watch Blasters: Red Cat Corps and Yo-kai Watch Blasters: White Dog Squad games, team up with up to three other friends either locally* or online to fight towering Big Bosses, using skills and powerful Soultimate Moves. While previous Yo-kai Watch games focused on turn-based battles, Yo-kai Watch Blasters drops you into real-time skirmishes in the first ever action-rpg for the series. During these battles, you directly control your Yo-kai as you strategize with different skills and equipment to defeat huge bosses. By taking on various fast-paced missions, you will embark on a journey to meet, befriend and battle more than 400 new and returning Yo-kai. Check out the trailer for the new games right here.
- 6/29/2018
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Amber Hall)
- Cinelinx
Level-5’s “Yo-kai Watch” series is expanding once more for Western players, with the release of “Yo-kai Watch Blasters: Red Cat Corps” and “Yo-kai Watch Blasters: White Dog Squad” this fall. Both games made their Japanese debut back in 2015, and now English fans can jump on board with the cat-like series mascot Jibanyan and the rest of the crew in an entirely new adventure.
“Yo-kai Watch Blasters: Red Cat Corps and White Dog Squad” invites players to train under Sgt. Burly with popular Yo-kai to become a formidable team of “Blasters” in this arcade-style beat-’em-up with RPG elements. Joining other Yo-kai on various missions, players will work to gather items known as Oni Orbs as they exterminate malevolent Yo-kai and “Big Bosses” with various powerful skills and Soultimate Moves, or ultimate abilities. There are over 400 new and returning characters to play alongside and recruit for the journey, with a...
“Yo-kai Watch Blasters: Red Cat Corps and White Dog Squad” invites players to train under Sgt. Burly with popular Yo-kai to become a formidable team of “Blasters” in this arcade-style beat-’em-up with RPG elements. Joining other Yo-kai on various missions, players will work to gather items known as Oni Orbs as they exterminate malevolent Yo-kai and “Big Bosses” with various powerful skills and Soultimate Moves, or ultimate abilities. There are over 400 new and returning characters to play alongside and recruit for the journey, with a...
- 6/28/2018
- by Brittany Vincent
- Variety Film + TV
Video game sequels are more often than not an inevitability. More so than any other medium, video games are designed, especially at the Aaa level, to become franchises. First entries in a series today can often be shells of a full game, with the sequel more often than not delivering on the foundation that the original had set up. This isn’t an inherently bad thing, but it does make it rare that when a title hits it big, the sequel doesn’t explicit try to emulate what the previous installment had to offer. Against all odds, and thanks to a wide array of changes to both its gameplay and story, Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom manages to escape the shadow of its predecessor.
The first entry in the Ni No Kuni series actually dates back all the way to 2010, when Ni No Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn...
The first entry in the Ni No Kuni series actually dates back all the way to 2010, when Ni No Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn...
- 3/27/2018
- by Charles Blades
- We Got This Covered
Beauty And The Beast was the highest grossing film of the year in the territory.
Source: Disney
‘Beauty And The Beast’
Japan’s total box office decreased by 3% to $2.1bn (Y228.6bn) in 2017, compared to $2.2bn (Y235.5bn) the previous year, according to figures from the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren).
Hollywood films grossed a combined $945m (Y103bn), increasing their market share to 45%, compared to a 37% share in 2016. Beauty And The Beast was the top-grossing import, and the biggest film overall, with $114m (Y12.4bn).
Japanese film grossed a combined $1.15bn (Y125.5bn) for a market share of 55%, compared to a 63% share in 2016 when mega-hit animation Your Name was released.
Animated feature Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter was the biggest local release, grossing $63m (Y6.9bn), while manga adaptation Gintama was the highest-grossing live-action film with $35m (Y$3.8bn).
Disney had a strong year with four titles in the top ten imported releases – [link...
Source: Disney
‘Beauty And The Beast’
Japan’s total box office decreased by 3% to $2.1bn (Y228.6bn) in 2017, compared to $2.2bn (Y235.5bn) the previous year, according to figures from the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren).
Hollywood films grossed a combined $945m (Y103bn), increasing their market share to 45%, compared to a 37% share in 2016. Beauty And The Beast was the top-grossing import, and the biggest film overall, with $114m (Y12.4bn).
Japanese film grossed a combined $1.15bn (Y125.5bn) for a market share of 55%, compared to a 63% share in 2016 when mega-hit animation Your Name was released.
Animated feature Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter was the biggest local release, grossing $63m (Y6.9bn), while manga adaptation Gintama was the highest-grossing live-action film with $35m (Y$3.8bn).
Disney had a strong year with four titles in the top ten imported releases – [link...
- 1/26/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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