After the passing of his grandfather and teacher, Setsu Sawamura moved from Aomori to Tokyo with his shamisen, a traditional Japanese instrument with three strings. He finds his life fallen apart as a high school dropout drifting aimlessly, until one day his mother appears to get...

Things are as lively as ever in the bustling city of Yokohama, but this time the characters of the Armed Detective Agency and Port Mafia have gone chibi! Join them as they go on all kinds of adorable rampages in this gag spin-off variety show!

The success of the Evangelion from the anime, manga, and merchandise made a significant impact on the Japanese popular culture. The series had a strong influence on the anime industry when it aired, which made a difference not only in the production for Japanese animation but als...

Collecting action figures or model figures of one’s favorite anime characters is a common practice in Japan. This phenomenon began in the late 1970s with action figures of Godzilla and folklore monsters as orthodox toys for children. In the early 1980s, action figures gradually b...

Zenitendo is a mysterious candy shop that only lucky people can find. It is run by a woman named Beniko, who can recommend the perfect candy to cure each person’s troubles and worries. However, there’s something strange about the candy sold there and bad things may happen to thos...

The Anti-Criminal Code Effect Area (アンチクリミナルコード有効圏内 anchikuriminaru kōdo yūkō ken'nai) is any zone of player safety in the VRMMORPG Sword Art Online. Most of the settlements in SAO have this. More literally translated as "within the area of effect of the Anti-criminal Co...

Akira Toriyama is an award-winning Japanese manga artist and character designer. His first breakthrough came with the massively successful Dr. Slump manga serialized in Shonen Jump magazine from 1980 to 1984. His most renowned (and still ongoing) work with the Dragon Ball series....

Chinatsu Akasaki is a professional voice actress for 81 Produce. She was cast to play Felt in the anime series Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World.

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The attire in the Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) series would undoubtedly be a main aspect that sets it apart from other anime released in the same timeline of history thus far. The vivid colors and elegant designs of each character's kimono throughout the series leaves its ...

In a dystopic version of future Japan, criminal suspects are judged by the Sibyl System, a technology that scans a person’s brain and calculates one’s inclination to commit crime with quantifiable data. A Psycho-Pass is a reading of a person that the Sibyl System has processed ba...

Shigeo Kageyama aka Mob is a seemingly mundane eighth grader who also happens to be an ultra-powerful psychic. He begins training under a mentor named Arataka Reigen who while very weak physically is so charismatic that he convinces Mob into thinking he’s far stronger than his me...

Kaoru is a typical OL (Office Lady) working for a small trading company in Tokyo. Her life, like that of many Tokyoans, is tough. She works long hours every day and nothing seems to go her way. Suddenly, Rilakkuma and Korilakkuma appear! They begin to live with Kaoru and her pet ...

Shy novelist Subaru Mikazuki has no luck with people but begins to open up when he decides to adopt a stray cat he names Haru and starts writing the story of their life together from each of their perspectives.

Based on the iconic Konami game Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, the Castlevania TV series follows hero Trevor Belmont as he defends the nation of Wallachia against Dracula and his minions. The likes of Trevor Belmont, Alucard, and Dracula return in season 2 of the Netflix serie...

Ordinary school boy Ren Fujii has a falling out with his best friend, Shirou Yusa, and tries to get on with his school life by hanging out with old friend Kasumi Ayase and older student Rea Himuro. However, when the town is suddenly engulfed by a strange series of indiscriminate ...

More than 3,000 years ago in China during the In dynasty, the emperor Chuu Ou is being controlled by a beautiful fox spirit named Dakki. She uses this power to harm the nation. An immortal-in-training by the name Taikobo is chosen for the Houshin Project with the goal of sealing ...

Technological advances have significantly changed the scope of the world, even in sectors like martial arts and sports! In fact, the underground world of “Megalo Box” thrives on that very concept, where boxers aim for the number one spot using their own skills and the added advan...

A Japanese mecha otaku ends up tragically dying in a car accident, but unbeknownst to those of that world: his soul is resurrected into another! Although he lacks memories of his former life on Earth, he begins to regain them gradually, remembering even his past wishes. Taking on...

Toge Inumaki is a captivating character from the widely acclaimed anime and manga series, "Jujutsu Kaisen," created by Gege Akutami. As a student at the Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College, Inumaki is not just another Jujutsu sorcerer; he is a unique and intrigui...

A.S. (Ad Stella) 122: An era when numerous companies have expanded into space and built a massive economic system. A lone girl from a remote region of Mercury transfers into Asticassia School of Technology, which is operated by the Beneritt Group, the largest mobile suit manufact...

Minato Narumiya is a boy who loves kyudo (Japanese archery) but reluctantly gives up the sport during junior high after he develops target panic. After entering high school, his best friend Seiya Takehaya joins the school’s kyudo club, but Minato’s feelings remain unchanged. Then...

People have been disappearing en masse all over the world, and Rena and Shinjiro have disappeared as well. Meanwhile, freelance journalist Kotaro and his girlfriend Izumi begin to pursue the mystery of the disappearances. Then, terrorist aliens part of the organization Black Star...

Due to a horrible accident, Keina Kagami is put on life support, and the only freedom she has left she finds in the world of the VRMMORPG Leadale. However, when her life support fails, she wakes up to find herself actually inside the game’s world! Now a high elf named Cayna, she ...

“Good, make me your owner.” Toshiaki Gozu is a straggler in society. One day, he is shot dead and wakes up to find that he’s been reincarnated into the world of his favorite video game, and what’s more, standing before him is the game’s final boss, the Demon King Evelogia, whom h...

Mitsugu Bamba is a second-year high school girl who is a fanatic when it comes to donating blood and has a rare blood type called “Chimera.” She often visits the blood donation center but is treated poorly by the nurses due to her blood having almost no chance of being able to he...

In 1923 in Tokyo, vampires exist and have been living in hiding throughout the world since ancient times. However, in response to their numbers increasing, the government establishes Code Zero, a unit within the army tasked with cracking down on them. Created by Lieutenant Genera...

The Akatsuki Special Zone of Tokyo - a lawless zone abandoned by the government. The only ones who can protect the zone are Scards, people with tattoos that have the sealed powers of the gods. Helios, Artemis, and the Public Security Special Service are each faced with a variety ...

The Attack on Titan franchise has released a large number of merchandise, figures and toys. One popular collaboration toy is with Funko Pop.

Fubuki Kitakaze, Mafuyu Kogarashi, Rin Araya, and Nayuta Asougi are four 19-year-old girls who are striving to become comedians. Wanting to bring everyone happiness through laughter, the girls spend their days honing their craft while working part-time at a restaurant. Their ulti...

The Cardinal System (カーディナル・システム), or simply Cardinal is the game engine of nearly all VRMMORPG games in the Sword Art Online series. (A game engine manages all resources, processes, and events of the game, and can be simply defined as the works of a game's world.) Kayaba Aki...

Created by Akira Toriyama in 1983 to continue working on the hugely successful hit manga Dr. Slump, Bird Studio in Nagoya is a manga and design production studio responsible for creating and developing the Dragon Ball series. Toriyama’s motivation for making the studio lies in h...

Iguchi Yuuka is a professional voice actress for Office Osawa, and was cast to voice the role of Crusch Karsten in the anime series Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World.

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The Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) franchise has grown immensely in popularity over 2019 and 2020. With this popularity also brings a plethora of merchandise, goods and apparel. One popular line of Demon Slayer fan clothing are T-shirts. Currently on the market there are a varie...

The Evangelion franchise has a wide range of novelty merchandise available on the market. From interior design goods such as wallpaper, door mats, cushions to handheld daily goods such as pocket watches, mugs and iphone cases. Here are a variety of different Evangelion novelty me...

Uchitama?!: Uchi no Tama Shirimasken ka? is a slice-of-life anime that follows the adventures of anthropomorphized characters that are mostly cats with a couple dogs. Each episode consists of the group of human-animal hybrid friends going on an adventure together.

Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia follows the events of the Camelot Singularity and the lives of two protagonists: Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight. The two are assigned to the last Singularity in the Grand Order, taking place in Ancient Babylonia. There th...

Hello World brings a new world to life that no one has seen before. The sci-fi time travel love story is set in Kyoto in the year 2027 and will feature familiar scenery and sights. Naomi Katagaki is a regular high school student. However, one day his future self from 10 years in ...

Arata Miyako is a new member of the Shinjuku Ward Office Nighttime Regional Relations Department, a department that specializes in solving occult-related incidents and is established in all 23 wards of Tokyo. Arata has the special ability of being able to understand non-human spe...

Yukiya is about 14 years old and spends most of his time DJ’ing on his own. He inherited a love of house music from his dad and has even started uploading videos of himself playing on the internet. He longs to communicate with someone, to be recognized and needed, but he’s afraid...

Kenshiro Kasumi is a laid-back, chain-smoking professor at Towa Woman’s University, but, in secret, he is also the 62nd successor to Hokuto Shinken. When he learns that his former associates in Shanghai are in trouble and need his help, he has little choice but to return and beco...

It’s summer break, but rather than go home, five university students and members of the occult society have planned a special mission. Searching for hidden treasure from the Tokugawa era, the gang have managed to sneak deep into the university vaults. What they find there, howeve...

That is a place further than the universe... Mari Tamaki, also called Kimari by her friends, is a second-year high school student who wants to make the most out of her school years but never really gets around to starting anything. When her schoolmate Shirase Kobuchizawa tells h...

Natsunosuke Bonda lives and works in a highly stratified society where, above all else, performance determines salary and living conditions. For eight years now, he’s been working as a relief pitcher for the baseball team Tokyo Spiders. All things considered, he actually does pre...

Gamers! began as a light novel series written by Sekina Aoi and illustrated by Saboten published by Fujimi Shobo under the Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. Seven volumes of the light novel have been published as of June 2017. The series was also adapted into a four-panel manga illu...

Panda, a unique character from the popular anime and manga series "Jujutsu Kaisen," is an intriguing figure that captures the imagination of many fans. Created by Gege Akutami, "Jujutsu Kaisen" has gained a massive following for its compelling story and divers...

Soul Society and the Soul Reaper Research and Development Institute are in an uproar as Hollows are observed to be disappearing in rapid succession. Meanwhile, in Karakura Town, Ryunosuke and Shino, two newly appointed Soul Reapers sent to protect the town, encounter Hollow as so...