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The Evolution Championship Series (Evo) announced during its 2022 event in Las Vegas it would be making a return to Japan As it has been for the past few years, it's basically been impractical to set up any events in Japan due to the pandemic Primarily because the country has gone through more than one[...]

Kojima Productions is considering taking legal action after founder Hideo Kojima's image was linked to Shinzo Abe's assassination this week. Credit: Kojima Productions Logo You might be wondering how exactly we got to this point, as on the surface, it is confusing as to how the creator of Metal Gear and Death Stranding could possibly be accused[...]

Media Do International Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Media Do Co., Ltd., Japan's largest eBook distribution company, just announced the expansion of Japanese titles available on OverDrive, the leading digital reading service for libraries and schools worldwide, in time for Golden Week, the biggest national holiday in Japan. Overdrive Golden Week Sale poster OverDrive's Golden Week Japanese[...]

Digital comic book publisher Webtoon's Japanese subsidiary Line Digital Frontier, has completed its acquisition of eBook Initiative Japan, a Japanese e-book service provider Already the world's biggest comic book publisher, Webtoon is now expected to be the biggest in Japan as well. Line Digital Frontier already operates the Japanese webtoon service Line Manga, and after securing[...]

We are talking, of course, about Shichifukujin Dragon, a card that was made as a one-off to commemorate the creation of the DCI Tournament Center in Japan. The full art for Shichifukujin Dragon, a completely unique Magic: The Gathering card created by Wizards of the Coast to celebrate the opening of the DCI Tournament Center in[...]

Japan is known in the west for a good many things when it comes to popular culture One of these things is gaming So many Japanese games make it out as far west as the United States, but only a few make it when there, so to speak. Machi Koro by Pandasaurus Games is definitely one[...]

Today saw the opening of the Manga Jiman 2020 Winners Exhibition at the Embassy Of Japan in London I popped along The 14th Manga Jiman Competition (UK) aims to increase the profile of manga and Japanese culture in Britain and the rest of the world, be encouraging people, especially the young, to participate. 'The 2020 edition[...]

He even imported a fire extinguisher box from Japan to sit outside the front door The building now houses his collection, which is made up of a lot of Nintendo's old card collections they used to produce before they went into video games You can see more about the house in the video below, as[...]

Kalypso Media has released a new DLC pack into Railway Empire as the simply titled "Japan" DLC is on the way As you might suspect from the title, the content focuses on landmarks, stations, sights and sounds, and engineering from the county of Japan at the time of the era the game is set in[...]

Urusawa is the closest Japan has to an Alan Moore, a deconstructionist who examines culture through pop tropes Asadora! Is about a girl who grows up in an era of giant monster attacks and becomes a legend in her own right. Asadora! Vol 1 cover art, Viz Media The first volume takes place in the Nagoya ports[...]

People can wear Sailor Moon t-shirts without having seen the complete original Japanese version that's only subtitled; they can also be a fan of Pokemon without playing the card game or watching the series and just playing the mobile game Learn to accept people for where they're at and how they enjoy things or kindly[...]

Live action adaptations of manga are different in Japan They tend to be at least 80% faithful to the original source material When there are costumes, the adaptations do their best to create faithful live action versions of the characters' look Every Japanese live action adaptation of a manga is instantly recognizable from the manga[...]

Yen Press announced the acquisition of Megumi Hayashibara's The Characters Taught Me Everything: Living Life One Episode at a Time, a memoir by the legendary Japanese voice actress, lyricist, and radio personality Megumi Hayashibara is one of the world's most celebrated anime voice actresses and is widely known for voicing some of the world's most[...]

The 4th and final movie in Hideaki Anno's new iteration of Neon Genesis Evangelion will be released theatrically on January 23rh 2021, in Japan Khara, the production company, has released the final full trailer for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time this week. "Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time" poster, Khara The new trailer was shown in[...]

Japanese comic book publisher, Enmaku is publishing their first mini-series, Ninja World USA, aimed at the US market and released digitally on the 20th of November The comic will serve as the starting point for Enmaku's Ninja World series that will follow different modern day Ninja in different parts of the world. Ninja World USA tells[...]