Quality Assurance in Another World , an upcoming TV anime based on the isekai fantasy manga, has revealed six new cast members and the official theme song performers for the series, which will broadcast in Japan on Tokyo Broadcasting System, Mainichi Broadcasting System, and Bs-tbs on July 5, 2024. The series will also stream on Crunchyroll as part of the summer 2024 anime simulcast lineup. The new cast members include: Suzuki voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto (Toru Kaneko in Viral Hit ) Suzuki character visual Namiko voiced by Natsumi Murakami (Futaba Fukumoto in Slow Loop ) Namiko character visual Kuro-chan voiced by Kentaro Kumagai (Geordo in The Great Cleric ) Kuro-chan character visual President voiced by Kentaro Ito President character visual Sumida voiced by Kenichirou Matsuda (Thors in Vinland Saga ) Sumida character visual Kana voiced by Chiemi Tanaka (Rikka in The Little Lies We All Tell ) Kana character visual Liyuu performs the opening theme for the series,...
- 5/4/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
The Japan Academy Film Prize Association held the 47th edition of its awards ceremony on March 8, 2024. The nominees are selected by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association of industry professionals from the pool of film releases between January 1 and December 31, 2023 which must have screened in Tokyo cinemas.
Following its success at the recent Blue Ribbon Awards and leading with 12 nominations, Toho Studios' and Takashi Yamazaki's kaiju cinema masterpiece “Godzilla Minus One” takes top honours winning Picture of the Year and a slew of technical awards. Sakura Ando cements her place as one of Japan's top actresses securing both awards for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (for “Monster”) as well as Supporting Role (for “Godzilla Minus One”).
The full list of winners is described below.
Picture of the Year
Monster
Godzilla Minus One
Mom, Is That You?!
September 1923
Perfect Days
Animation of the Year
Kitaro Tanjo – GeGeGe no...
Following its success at the recent Blue Ribbon Awards and leading with 12 nominations, Toho Studios' and Takashi Yamazaki's kaiju cinema masterpiece “Godzilla Minus One” takes top honours winning Picture of the Year and a slew of technical awards. Sakura Ando cements her place as one of Japan's top actresses securing both awards for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (for “Monster”) as well as Supporting Role (for “Godzilla Minus One”).
The full list of winners is described below.
Picture of the Year
Monster
Godzilla Minus One
Mom, Is That You?!
September 1923
Perfect Days
Animation of the Year
Kitaro Tanjo – GeGeGe no...
- 3/12/2024
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
San Francisco, CA — May 28, 2023 —Viz Media, a world-leading producer of manga and anime, today announced Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 2 based on mangaka legend Tite Kubo's manga will return to Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in select countries internationally on Saturday, July 8th, 2023.
Part 2 will premiere with episode one at 7:30 Am Pdt on Hulu, Star+ and Disney+ and the simulcast will have English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, and Italian subtitles. Viz Media holds worldwide rights (excluding Asia). Part 1 of the series is currently streaming in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Balkans, Baltics, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Part 2 will premiere with episode one at 7:30 Am Pdt on Hulu, Star+ and Disney+ and the simulcast will have English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, and Italian subtitles. Viz Media holds worldwide rights (excluding Asia). Part 1 of the series is currently streaming in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Balkans, Baltics, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Venezuela.
- 5/29/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
“Yowamushi Pedal” is a very popular manga series by Wataru Watanabe, first published February 21, 2008 in weekly manga magazine Weekly Shonen Champion. Following the success of the manga, 4 seasons of anime television series adaptation aired from October 2013 to June 2018 and a live-action television drama adaptation aired in August 2016. Now we finally have the live action cinema adaptation “Yowamushi Pedal: Up the Road” directed by Koichiro Miki, starring a bunch of idols and popular young actors, for the joy of the fans.
“Yowamushi Pedal: Up the Road” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The film opens with Sakamichi Onoda (Ren Nagase) pedaling happily on a rusty “granny” bike, in a haze of sakura petals along the panoramic route to Chiba on Tokyo Bay. He is cycling towards a new chapter of his life, as high school has just started, and his expectations are high. Onoda is a bit of a loner,...
“Yowamushi Pedal: Up the Road” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The film opens with Sakamichi Onoda (Ren Nagase) pedaling happily on a rusty “granny” bike, in a haze of sakura petals along the panoramic route to Chiba on Tokyo Bay. He is cycling towards a new chapter of his life, as high school has just started, and his expectations are high. Onoda is a bit of a loner,...
- 6/18/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Directed by veteran-actress turned filmmaker Hitomi Kuroki, “The Devil Wears Jini-Hitoe Kimono” is a visually impressive movie that focuses though, a bit too much on impression instead of substance, much like its title.
Rai Ito is a young man who has failed 59 times to land a regular job, working mostly part-time in whatever work comes his way. His girlfriend is fed up with his failures, and inevitably dumps him, while his brother’s success in passing the medical school entrance exams, puts even more pressure on him, particularly since he feels that he does not fit even with his family. As the story begins, he is working on setting up an exhibition for classic novel “The Tale of Genji”, which the film synopsizes through a rather appealing retro-style animation. The parts about the two brothers, Ninomiya and Ichinomiya, resonate with him since he has a similar relationship with his younger brother.
Rai Ito is a young man who has failed 59 times to land a regular job, working mostly part-time in whatever work comes his way. His girlfriend is fed up with his failures, and inevitably dumps him, while his brother’s success in passing the medical school entrance exams, puts even more pressure on him, particularly since he feels that he does not fit even with his family. As the story begins, he is working on setting up an exhibition for classic novel “The Tale of Genji”, which the film synopsizes through a rather appealing retro-style animation. The parts about the two brothers, Ninomiya and Ichinomiya, resonate with him since he has a similar relationship with his younger brother.
- 6/13/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Netflix unpacked a swath of news during its Netflix Anime Festival 2020 livestream Tuesday out of Japan, setting five new anime projects and providing updates on 11 other series in various stages of production at the streamer’s bustling Tokyo headquarters.
The new original projects — continuation Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure, manga-based Thermae Romae Novae, High-Rise Invasion and Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, and The Way of the Househusband — were unveiled along with updates on 11 others previously announced including anime series based on franchises including Resident Evil, Transformers and Pacific Rim, Yasuke featuring the voice of Lakieth Stanfield, and the continuation of the manga tale Baki Hanma.
“In just four short years since launching our creative team in Tokyo, Netflix has expanded the reach and overall audience of anime – a category conventionally seen as niche,” Taiki Sakurai, Netflix’s Chief Producer, Anime, during the event. “Given the success of shows such as Seven Deadly Sins and Baki,...
The new original projects — continuation Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure, manga-based Thermae Romae Novae, High-Rise Invasion and Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, and The Way of the Househusband — were unveiled along with updates on 11 others previously announced including anime series based on franchises including Resident Evil, Transformers and Pacific Rim, Yasuke featuring the voice of Lakieth Stanfield, and the continuation of the manga tale Baki Hanma.
“In just four short years since launching our creative team in Tokyo, Netflix has expanded the reach and overall audience of anime – a category conventionally seen as niche,” Taiki Sakurai, Netflix’s Chief Producer, Anime, during the event. “Given the success of shows such as Seven Deadly Sins and Baki,...
- 10/27/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Water, as a conduit for romance and spirituality, has been en vogue as of late in Japanese feature animation. Entries in this wet subgenre, where young characters grapple with torrential rain and oceans to dazzling effect, as well as life lessons submerged in nature-based metaphors, include Makoto Shinkai’s box office hit “Weathering With You,” Ayumu Watanabe’s upcoming “Children of the Sea,” and Masaaki Yuasa’s mermaid tale “Lu Over the Wall.”
Returning to that liquid magic, Yuasa, who produces films through his own company Science Saru, makes a new splash with his third feature in three years “Ride Your Wave,” written by Reiko Yoshida, who also penned recent anime standouts “Okko’s Inn,” “A Silent Voice,” and “Liz and the Blue Bird.” Notwithstanding the saturation of H2O-fueled teen movies, the director-screenwriter pair filter a love story through an oddball premise addressing heroism and perseverance with robust notes of graphic originality.
Returning to that liquid magic, Yuasa, who produces films through his own company Science Saru, makes a new splash with his third feature in three years “Ride Your Wave,” written by Reiko Yoshida, who also penned recent anime standouts “Okko’s Inn,” “A Silent Voice,” and “Liz and the Blue Bird.” Notwithstanding the saturation of H2O-fueled teen movies, the director-screenwriter pair filter a love story through an oddball premise addressing heroism and perseverance with robust notes of graphic originality.
- 2/21/2020
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
"If you stay with your head underwater, you'll never learn to ride the waves." GKids has released the first official Us trailer for the latest anime from beloved Japanese filmmaker Masaaki Yuasa, of the films The Night Is Short Walk on Girl and Lu Over the Wall previously. This already premiered in Japan last summer, and is playing for only one night in the Us in theaters before arriving on VOD. This cute romance is about a surfer and firefighter that meet and fall in love. The Japanese title translates to When Riding a Wave, With You, and the film is described as "a deeply emotional new film that applies his trademark visual ingenuity to a tale of romance, grief and self-discovery." It looks spunky and adorable. Featuring the voices of Ryôta Katayose, Rina Kawaei, Honoka Matsumoto, & Kentarô Itô. Reviews say it's "a charming & heartfelt story about loss and clinging to life.
- 1/21/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
According to Kenji Katagiri’s debut feature Room Laundering — and I have no reason to disbelieve him — Japan has a law stating that landlords must divulge whether a previous tenant died or suffered a violent crime within any newly vacated property to all prospective replacements. But while this rule makes sense considering people are sensitive to the notion of supernatural hauntings and evil spirits, lawmakers never stipulated how long before that history can be “cleaned” off the books. No one setting the duration at “x-amount of years” is an obvious oversight, but that lack of concrete interpretation allows owners to simply agree to a loose understanding hinged upon the basis of the tenants themselves. If someone moves in and leaves afterwards, whomever follows won’t technically have to know.
It’s a wild loophole that makes for a captivating premise to set a sweetly funny and surreal coming-of-age tale centered upon a twenty-year old,...
It’s a wild loophole that makes for a captivating premise to set a sweetly funny and surreal coming-of-age tale centered upon a twenty-year old,...
- 7/18/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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