At Japanese convenience stores in fall 2020, everything is Demon Slayer themed. It is heaven for anime fans nationwide.While its popularity hasn’t quite made it overseas just yet, there’s no doubt that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu ...
The Talent behind One Piece As the creator behind the hugely successful ‘One Piece’ franchise, Eiichiro Oda is a name well known to millions of anime and manga fans around the world. Since the first ...
The collection returns to the capital The National Art Center in Tokyo is currently hosting one of the year’s best exhibitions of Japanese pop culture, ‘Manga Toshi Tokyo’, which returns after an excellent reception at ...
Praise Godzilla One of Japan’s most successful and well-loved ambassadors, Godzilla stands at about 100 metres tall and is both literally and figuratively a landmark of Japanese culture. Racking up 36 films since his debut ...
An Industry at Risk It’s no secret that Japan’s animation industry is struggling to cope with changing times and modern technology. Despite the country’s tough anti-piracy laws and recent moves to clamp down on websites ...
A Mecha Anime Legend Mecha anime Gundam blasted its way onto Japanese TV screens at the end of the 70’s, inspiring engineers and robot fans across the world. The series helped define the genre of ...
The End to a Major Manga Haikyu!!, one of the most popular sports manga on the scene has finally packed up and called it a day, with the final issue appearing in Weekly Shōnen Jump ...
The Everyday Culture of Masks With the move to make masks mandatory in shops, the UK is slowly being encouraged towards a health conscious culture that Japan already embraced way back when the Spanish flu ...
The world famous Japanese anime studio has provided a series of beautiful backgrounds for online meetings. Are you ashamed of your home office or living space when you take part in web chats or work meetings? Do ...
The season of summer has come and gone, we’ve had a little bit of a reprieve to rest and now it is time for a brand new season of anime for us to indulge in! ...