if you're good at Japanese and 2D animation, the Studio has just published a job offer for a digital artist. The skills required are quite classic for this type of post: you should be aged over 20 an…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 3 months, 3 weeks ago | 0 comments

Avengers Endgame, the culmination of the 22-film story, is hitting theaters in the U.S. this week and anticipation among fans is high. One of those fans happens to be Japanese illustrator Takumi, who…

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Fans worldwide are going into anime withdrawal, itching for their next Makoto Shinkai fix. While Shinkai teased in a vague tweet that his next film is set to release sometime in 2019, not much more i…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 11 months, 2 weeks ago | 0 comments

Iconic anime studio Toei Animation is opening a new museum later this month. It’s located in Tokyo and called Toei Animation Museum.

Toei, of course, is responsible for the One Piece, Dragon Ball, Ga…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 1 year ago | 0 comments

Anime Expo 2018, Los Angles got off to a great start with long lines of eager fans filing into the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center earlier in July to fill the event space corner-to-corner with…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 1 year, 1 month ago | 0 comments

The first live-action film of sci-fi television animation series "Mobile Suit Gundam" will be co-produced with a U.S. media company, Sunrise Inc., the Japanese creator of the franchise said Friday.

S…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 1 year, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Almost four decades ago, Mobile Suit Gundam aired in Japan and changed the way the country looked at giant robots. Here's a brief history of how Gundam established a new genre of anime, changed the w…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 1 year, 1 month ago | 0 comments

A plan to turn a popular graphic-style novel into an animated television series has hit a dead end after the author's past discriminatory tweets on China and South Korea sparked a controversy.

The an…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 1 year, 2 months ago | 1 comment

By now, geeks around the globe are cognizant of Akihabara.

Once Tokyo’s post-war electronics haven, the neighborhood has grown into a modern mecca for anime fans. As its popularity has swelled, so ha…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 1 year, 3 months ago | 0 comments

Nintendo is releasing a gold and red Famicom Mini in Japan that comes preloaded with 20 games that are based on manga. The Famicom is the original Japanese version of the NES, first released in 1983.…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 1 year, 3 months ago | 0 comments