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As the world grapples with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, social gatherings are being minimized and events are being cancelled one after the other. Of course, that means that cosplay events are a no-go for the time being. Japan Expo Thailand 2020, held from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in Bangkok, was probably one of the last big cospl...
Update: Anime adaptations of Bleach's Thousand-Year Blood War arc and the Burn The Witch one-shot have been confirmed. The promotional video is below. Details are still scarce, but you can hear the voice of Thousand-Year Blood War antagonist Yhwach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=110&v=9LTfq7wR5i8&feature=emb_title https://yo...
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot is a decent game (check out my full review here), and a successful one for Bandai Namco, having sold more than two million copies as of earlier this month. At launch, the publisher promised that a Time Machine would be added into the game. Two months after launch, we're finally getting it. In a free update later today, Trunk'...
The Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative movie is currently free to watch on GundamInfo's YouTube channel, thanks to their renewal campaign. It's only available from March 13 to March 16, 12pm (JST) though, so be quick to catch it if you haven't already. The Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky and Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower OVA...
The 3DCG anime Beastars is now available on Netflix globally, after first launching on Netflix Japan last October. Produced by Studio Orange and based on a manga by Paru Itagaki, Beastars is set in a world of anthropomorphic animals. The synopsis, as described in the first volume of the manga (via Viz), is fascinating to say the least: "One night...
Altered Carbon's second season has ended, but fans will be reunited with Takeshi Kovacs in just a few days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxxoFslzs Set to release on 19 March 2020, Altered Carbon: Resleeved is an anime movie that sees Kovacs dealing with the yakuza on the planet Latimer. A yakuza boss has died, and Kovacs has to team up with ...
Fans of racing anime, you may want to check out this place in the Philippines that basically pays homage to the popular manga Initial D. Speed Star cafe announced the first-ever Initial D concept café in Cebu (via Ungeek.ph), featuring a Toyota 86 and what seems to be emulating a Japanese-style American diner. The café is open in Cebu at the...
Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC Genre: A-Class For Effort 3D Fighting Game One Punch Man is one of those anime/manga that's meant to be both a celebration and satire on the western idea of superheroes. Compared to My Hero Academia, it's much more of the latter. I've never read the manga/webcomic, nor have I watched the anime, but after playing One Pun...
Updated 5/3/2020: My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising will begin screening exclusively at GSC Cinemas nationwide starting from 26 March 2020. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, coming soon exclusively to GSC! pic.twitter.com/HJKpKFH32H — GSC (@GSCinemas) March 5, 2020 Film distributor Odex has revealed Facebook that the My Hero Academia: Hero...
The Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll side story movie is coming to Netflix on April 2. The streaming service, which also has the series, made the announcement on Twitter. https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1234871283545825280 https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1234872653573447685 The first half of the movie follows th...
This piece is contributed by Tenoq, one of Malaysia's renowned anime connoisseurs. Follow him here on Twitter. Millennials like me grew up surrounded by adults who insist that "cartoons are for kids". For better or worse, we ended up watching cartoons with relatively mature themes that were clearly not kid-friendly. The Simpsons and South Park...
The use of the anime medium to advertise real-life brands isn't new. Over the years, we've had ads for McDonald's, Nissins Cup Noodles (featuring One Piece characters), and even a Singapore MRT ad directed by Makoto Shinkai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85CQzsyvj4&fbclid=IwAR2seBfxPql_BfgYS5ydcB0EMlPhZGXe2zz2aKR49bYVr_o4UEzaBbIjTqI The di...
Netflix has announced that it is partnering up with manga artist group CLAMP and several other manga authors to produce more anime. As reported by Anime News Network, the other creators are: Shin Kibayashi (author of The File of Young Kindaichi) Yasuo Ohtagaki (author of Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt) Otsuichi (author of Summer, Fireworks and...
Muse Asia, the YouTube channel that provides officially-licensed anime to Asian regions for free, has announced its upcoming Muse Vietnam channel. Beginning from March 1, you can watch anime episodes with Vietnamese subtitles on it. Based on Muse Vietnam's YouTube banner, their first upload (or one of the first) will be the Welcome to Demon School...
Remember Digimon? Well, prepare to say goodbye to its characters when the DIGIMON Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna movie hits Malaysian cinemas this year.  Film distributor Odex is bringing the movie over to our shores. However, further details like the exact release date or which cinema chain it will be screened at are currently unknown. ...
After announcing Muse Vietnam recently, Muse Asia has now announced that Muse Malaysia will also launch on the same date, which is March 1. Muse Asia is a YouTube channel that provides licensed anime to the Asian region for free. Unlike Muse Vietnam, the Muse Malaysia channel already has anime episodes available, but they are subbed in Chinese ...
If you're a retro video game fan, you owe it to yourself to watch Hi Score Girl. It blends a cute love story with old-school gaming knowledge bombs and trivia, capturing the 80s and 90s period authentically in anime form. We're talking Street Fighter II Guile handcuff nonsense and Final Fight perfect runs, yo! The second season of the show (episod...
Fans of anime game adaptations are going to have to wait for their Fairy Tail RPG fix. Koei Tecmo Games and Gust producer Keisuke Kikuchi announced that the Fairy Tail game has been postponed from 19th March to 25th June of this year. The delay will affect the PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch versions. The reason for the delay is to polish up the qua...
Bandai Spirits, which is a division of Bandai that deals with merchandise and products for adults, has announced new limited edition GunPla or Gundam model kits in a special collaboration with the J.League, the professional football league in Japan. These new limited-edition High-Grade GunPla model kits will be matched with their designated teams ...
It's been about a month into 2020, but some of us are still hung up over what to call the best game last year. 2019 was probably one of the best years for gaming within the past few years. We saw companies rise above previous trials, and others with their armour cracking, revealing the true monsters inside. But enough of descriptive metaphors for ...
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