Japan, plays adapted from or based on anime, manga, and games have started a huge movement. A genre called 2.5D musicals is expanding as well.

• 11 years ago

Tokyo Joypolis, a well-known indoor theme park located in Odaiba, Tokyo, will be holding a collaboration event with the movie *Attack on Titan Part II: Wings of Freedom*.

• 11 years ago

“Takenoko!!! Meets Kashihara Shrine” will be held at Kashihara Shrine on June 20, 2015 (Sat.); Yasutaka Nakata (Capsule) and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu were chosen as main performers.

• 11 years ago

*Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen* is already being adapted into a TV anime. The broadcast will begin in October, and it has already been revealed at this time that it will span two seasons (six months).

• 11 years ago

The *Noragami* TV anime series, which was based on a manga by Adachitoka, and previously aired from January to March 2014, will make its return this autumn.

• 11 years ago

*Aria*, by Kozue Amano, is a soothing, slice-of-life manga set in the future. Now, in 2015, approaching 10 years since the airing of the first season of the TV anime series *Aria the Animation* in 2005, the 10th year anniversary project “Ao no Curtain Call” is underway.

• 11 years ago

Today I’m going to be taking a look at this birthday girl! **Nendoroid Nozomi Tojo ♡**

• 11 years ago

In a recent Nintendo Direct, Capcom revealed that a new Monster Hunter game would be released later this year for the Nintendo 3DS! The game is called *Monster Hunter X*.

• 11 years ago

The start date and broadcast time of *Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace*, the original anime series which is to begin in summer 2015, have been announced.

• 11 years ago

The popular manga *Ajin* illustrated by Gamon Sakurai and serialized in *Good! Afternoon* (Kodansha) is to be adapted into an animated theatrical movie.

• 11 years ago

*Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade* has been produced with the support of crowdfunding, and will serve as the pilot film of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Animator Development Project.

• 11 years ago

An anime adaptation of the *HaruChika* novel series titled *HaruChika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun Suru* has been announced and set to be broadcast in 2016, and an impressive production team has been assembled to transform the mystery series into a television anime.

• 11 years ago

On Friday, Sept. 18, the *Sailor Moon* musical *Nakayoshi 60th Anniversary Performance: Sailor Moon - Un Nouveau Voyage* will open at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo.

• 11 years ago

Bread is bread, but you can’t eat these!

• 11 years ago

The Pikachu umbrella is so cute!

• 11 years ago

The anime *Blood Blockade Battlefront* began broadcasting in April and has become one of the most popular anime of the spring season.

• 11 years ago

A woodblock print collaboration between the TV anime show *Naruto* and Katsushika Hokusai’s ukiyo-e print series *The 36 Views of Mount Fuji* is to be released.

• 11 years ago

A tankobon release has been confirmed for *Sore ga Seiyu!*, the anime broadcast to which will begin in July. Three volumes will be released simultaneously on Wednesday, July 8.

• 11 years ago

The *Naruto* exhibit being held in the Mori Arts Center Gallery of Roppongi Hills, Tokyo from April 25 will be kicked off in Osaka on July 18.

• 11 years ago

Mr. Children to perform “Starting Over,” the main theme of Mamoru Hosoda’s *The Boy and the Beast*.

• 11 years ago