A TV anime adaptation of the dark fantasy *Akame ga Kill!* currently serializing in the monthly magazine *Gangan Joker* (Square Enix) is currently in development.
Featuring 19 carefully chosen works by illustrator Takashi Takeuchi! Original picture replicas sold at the venue will also be available on the Tokyo Otaku Mode Premium Shop!
Japan Expo is a Japan pop culture event hugely popular in France that made headlines for crossing over to America last year. The American version, titled Japan Expo USA, will be held again this year in August.
On March 6, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia released “Voice Cast Video Message - No. 2” on the official site of its upcoming game *Ore no Shikabane wo Koeteyuke 2* to release this summer.
A heartrending, must-see story! A collaboration work by song diva Sade and animator Tsuneo Gouda titled *By Your Side* is born under charity project Zapuni.
The Tokyo Anime Award Festival Executive Committee and the Association of Japanese Animations have announced seven nominees for Anime of the Year at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2014.
The widely active Sebastian Masuda––a leader of Harajuku’s kawaii culture, art director, and producer of 6% Dokidoki––has begun his first one-man exhibit, titled “‘Colorful Rebellion’ - Seventh Nightmare,” in New York City.
Currently, Japanese anime culture is popular and widespread among the youth in Vietnam. Prominent in the anime culture, an *eshi* exhibition that has been held in many countries will come to Vietnam in early March 2014.
From the boys’ toy division of Bandai comes a new series called “Mousou Note” (lit. “Imagination Notebook”) in which “you can imagine your favorite characters however you’d like”!
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