Artist Shiori Asahina turns Vocaloid hit song “ACUTE” by music producer KurousaP (WhiteFlame) into a one-shot manga about what happens when love complicates a friendship. Miku, Luka and Kaito have been...

Santa Ana, CA (January 24, 2018) – Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, the nonprofit responsible for the Anime Expo, formally announced today that the operation of the San Diego-based...

North American fans flocked to theaters on January 18th to watch Studio Ponoc’s debut film “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” on its premiere night. Based off of the 1971 children’s book “The...

SANTA MONICA, CA (January 18, 2018) – Aniplex Inc. announced today that they will be developing the manga series about anthropomorphized cells within the human body, Cells at Work!, into a TV anime...

SANTA MONICA, CA (January 17, 2018) – Aniplex of America announced on their livestream that they will begin streaming Today’s MENU for EMIYA Family on Crunchyroll beginning January 25th. The series,...

Director Kazuya Shiraishi adapts Mahokaru Numata’s 2006 novel “Birds Without Names” into a dismal drama for the silver screen. Towako (Yu Aoi, “Tokyo Ghoul”) lives with the clumsy but kind...

Last year’s film “Creepy” director Kiyoshi Kurosawa returned to the San Diego Asian Film Festival in the form of his latest work “Before We Vanish”. The film took its audience on a journey of...

The latest film from Director Shingo Matsumura is a showcase of rarer versions of modern romance. Rinko (Aya Ayano, “Shimotsukare Girl”) is a young office lady who dreams of going to Hawaii. As she...

L.A. based film distribution company, Azoland Pictures is proud to announce that they will partner with Well Go USA to release the international smash hit GINTAMA live-action film in theaters across the U.S....

Festival organizers brought the strange dark comedy “A Beautiful Star” from director Daihachi Yoshida for the first time in the U.S. Based off of the 1962 novel by Yukio Mishima, the film followed...