Anime

When autumn hits, the sounds of Japan ring loud thanks to the Tokyo International Music Market. This year marks the 22nd time the event has been held, which aids in bringing Japanese music to a bigger international audience. While it’s

Before he was known for Ghost in the Shell, Mamoru Oshii was still finding his niche while working on the rom-com Urusei Yatsura. While his film directorial debut would be with the series’s first film Only You, he started to

The Duck Amuck in Japan crew are recovering from Halloween, but King Baby Duck has a little more energy left in him to do one more trick: a round of "What's in the Box?!" It leads to a plethora of

The boys have been busy this last month! For starters, AFLM and JonStar take on Retro World Con and Granite State Comic Con, whilst King Baby Duck returns from Tokyo Game Show. But the guys have time to sit down

What’s the magic number for harem rom-coms? These last few years, we’ve seen various shows where one guy finds himself paired with many girls, in hopes that one of them will be his true love. But does having that many

One cannot deny the popularity of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Whether you’re walking around the streets of Tokyo or New York City, the images of Tanjiro (Zach Aguilar), Zenitsu (Aleks Le), Inosuke (Bryce Papenbrook), and the rest of the

There must’ve been one time in my life where I’ve uttered the phrase, “You could make a ‘cute girls doing cute things’ anime about rocks, and people would watch it.” Lo and behold, manga author Keiichiro Shibuya did exactly that

It's hard to believe, but King Baby Duck has been in Japan for two years now! But as he shows in today's Duck Amuck in Japan, he's still giddy to be there. KBD meets his favorite artist at this past

Gone are the days of the film noir. Hollywood used to go gaga over rough detective tales, where a hot dame comes in wanting to have her cigarette lit as she tells the gumshoe her reason for being here. There’d

In life, we all need companionship. And sometimes, that companionship comes when we least expect it. For Fuji (Saori Hayami), that companionship arrives in a cardboard box on a rainy day. And whether or not she realizes it, that new