The gym RIZAP is teaming up with the Fist of the North Star franchise to inspire men to get in shape. The original manga’s artist Tetsuo Hara provided an image of the character Heart with an “ideal body” for the collaboration. The promotional page on...
The Fate franchise began back in 2004 with an 18+ visual novel in which seven mages each summon a legendary hero and then battle each other to the death to win a wish from the holy grail. Today, it spans numerous anime, games, books, manga, and films. Recently, the...
An Astro Boy manga page by the late creator Osamu Tezuka sold for a record 269,400 euros (about US$320,000) at an auction in Paris on Saturday. The page was expected to sell for only 40,000 to 60,000 euros (about US$48,000 to US$72,000). The Chinese ink and watercolor...
Hiroshi Ito, a media studies professor at Wakayama Shin-ai Women’s Junior College in Wakayama, is taking a different approach to teaching Japan’s constitution and anti-war ideals this semester. Ito began teaching a class on April 26 that explains the...
Many members of the anime industry are tweeting messages of support in light of voice actor Yuichiro Umehara’s hospitalization. Umehara was recently diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, an autoimmune disease that affects the nervous system. The...