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Twitter gets a make-over inspired by the movie Summer Wars, but does it live...
It’s been quite a few years since director Mamoru Hosoda’s widely acclaimed animated movie Summer Wars was released, but fans of the film can experience it again in a new way – by turning Twitter into...
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Things get awesome (and very strange) when 32 fans re-animate the Pokémon...
You might remember the Moon Animate Make-Up! project that brought over 250 artists together to recreate the opening scene of anime classic, Sailor Moon. It featured a mishmash of artistic styles that...
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Stay hydrated with Attack on Titan water coolers
Drinking more water is one of those New Year’s resolutions that everyone seems to have, but always falls by the wayside. With a cool enough water cooler, though, that might just change things. After...
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The Wonderful Cosplayers of Winter Wonder Festival 2015 【Photos】
Last weekend it was time for Wonder Festival, the garage kit and model extravaganza held in Chiba Prefecture’s Makuhari Messe. But while the plastic and resin replicas of anime and video game icons...
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Awesome wooden Dragon Ball mugs let you knock back a soda like Goku (or a...
Training to be the mightiest martial artist in the galaxy is thirsty work. But when you’re feeling parched after a hard day of kicking through solid rock and firing kamehameha energy blasts from your...
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The power of anime: Man quits smoking, turns his life around thanks to Love...
Anime changes lives, and we have the photographs to prove it. Who doesn’t love a good tale of transformation complete with shocking before and afters? One man showcases his change from chain-smoking...
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Artist makes cool Gundam, tanks, and rifles out of Amazon boxes to show...
You can use the phrase “paper tiger” to describe someone or something that’s not as tough as it appears to be, but you could conjure up the same image just as easily with a different pair of words....
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“In the name of the moon!” See the Sailor Senshi as ’90s video game sprites
With over 30 million copies of the original manga sold, a popular anime adaptation (who can forget the lengthy, fabulous transformation sequences?), and even a lingerie brand, the Sailor Moon...
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Attack on Titan gets arcade game by Capcom
CAPCOM announced at Japan Amusement Expo 2015 on Friday that it has an Attack on Titan arcade game project. The announcement was made at the end of CAPCOM‘s “crossbeats REV. Special Game Taikai in...
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After 23 years, Sailor Moon figures are more amazing than ever at Wonder...
We recently made the trip out to Chiba Prefecture for the winter 2015 iteration of Wonder Festival, where we could have spent all day admiring the awesome anime, video game, and movie cosplay going...
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Little Witch Academia sequel’s title, 2015 theatrical release unveiled
Anime Studio Trigger opened the official website for Little Witch Academia: Mahō Shikake no Parade (Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade), the sequel to its 2013 Little Witch Academia movie, on...
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Resort in Philippines has literally giant Gundam rip-off, plus Disney and...
Although the Philippines have plenty of seaside travel destinations, Jed’s Island Resort isn’t one of them. Being located in the landlocked municipality of Calumpit means that while Jed’s isn’t far...
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Want to see anime singer Hironobu Kageyama, or rising idol Azusa Todokoro,...
Aside from protagonist Goku’s voice actress Masako Nozawa, it’s pretty hard to find a performer who can claim to have made his or her presence felt in all of anime hit Dragon Ball’s over 290 TV...
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Hayao Miyazaki on Charlie Hebdo attacks: Drawings of Muhammad were “a mistake”
Famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki may have retired from making feature films, but it’s not because he’s run out of clearly defined ideas or things to say. In a recent interview, the animation icon...
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Fans petition Dreamworks to replace ScarJo for live-action Ghost in the Shell
Some fans are not happy with Dreamworks’ decision to cast Scarlet Johansson the leading lady of a possible live-action Ghost in the Shell adaptation. The creators of a Care2Petitions petition, which...
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Hayao Miyazaki has a bone to pick with consumerism and computers (but mostly...
Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki recently offered his take on French publication Charlie Hebdo running illustrations of Muhammad. That wasn’t the only strong opinion the Studio Ghibli co-founder put forth...
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Lotte’s animated gum hotties are back with new post-Valentine’s-Day-short!
A little while back, we introduced you to a novel promotional concept backed by major candy manufacturer Lotte featuring cool guys based around different flavours of gum. The animated hotties appeared...
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From characters to skies, anime tutorial YouTube channel makes an artist out...
Like us, you’ve probably wondered from time to time what life as a badass anime illustrator might be like. If a life of awesomely detailed backgrounds, fluidly animated characters, chain smoking, and...
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Literal breastplate will give you a cosplay-ready, anime-class bust in...
It’s sort of disheartening to think that you can spend countless hours and huge sums of cash working on your cosplay creation, getting the outfit looking just like it does in the original work, yet...
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Sailor Moon nail art for the fashionable fangirl
With the first season of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal well underway, not only is a new generation of wannabe Sailor Scouts emerging, but thousands of fangirls of the original 1990s series are...
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