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The Batman dominates another weekend as Jujutsu Kaisen 0 continues anime’s box office rise

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It’s no surprise The Batman cleaned up at the box office for another weekend. The month of March has been slow for other major releases, but that doesn’t take away from the dominant force that is the latest DC outing. Yet, this weekend’s box office has another major talking point: anime films & their rise. […]

Jerry Bruckheimer producing a live-action Beyblade movie for Paramount

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Uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop) is reuniting with Paramount Pictures for a live-action movie based upon Takara Tomy’s Beyblade franchise. Launching in Japan in 1999 as a line of spinning-top toys with a tie-in manga, Beyblade received an anime TV series adaptation in 2001, which was followed by several sequels and spinoffs […]

Netflix releases Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 season 2 trailer ahead of May premiere

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Netflix has released a new trailer for the second season of the CG-anime series Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 which arrives on the streaming service this May; check it out below along with the official key art from Netflix Japan… In 2045, the world has been thrown into a state of systematic “sustainable war,” but […]

Netflix anime Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy gets a trailer

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Last week Netflix announced a new anime adaptation of Kazushi Hagiwara’s classic manga Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, and now we’ve got a first teaser trailer for the upcoming series ahead of its premiere on the streamer later this year; check it out here, along with the official synopsis…  Four hundred years since the collapse […]

Netflix announces Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy anime series

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Netflix is adding to its anime output with a new series adaptation of Kazushi Hagiwara’s classic manga Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, the streamer having made the announcement through its Netflix Anime social accounts with the release of a teaser poster. Inspired by Hagiwara’s love heavy metal music and Dungeons & Dragons, Bastard!! takes place […]

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World anime series coming to Netflix

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Scott Pilgrim will take on the world again. The character has been in comics, live-action films, and even video games…but now, it will be Scott Pilgrim vs. anime! Today, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World will take on an anime adaption on Netflix. Graphic novel creator Bryan Lee O’Malley […]

Hayao Miyazaki finally confirms new Studio Ghibli film How Do You Live?

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Although he called time on his career (again) following 2013’s The Wind Rises, it’s been no secret that legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki has been working away on another project for the past few years. Iconic animation house Studio Ghibli re-opened its doors to work on the feature back in 2017, while producer Toshio Suzuki […]

Marvelous 80s Anime Gems That Every Fan Must Watch

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Marvelous Videos presents ten underrated anime gems from the 1980s… Back in the day when Blockbuster was still in business, there used to be an entire video section dedicated to Japanimation. That was the neologistic term at the time to describe any animated product coming out of Japan. These days, we now use the phrase […]

First-look concept art teases Netflix and Legendary’s live-action Gundam movie

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Having brought the Eighth Wonder of the World into the MonsterVerse for Legendary Pictures with 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, it was announced earlier this year that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts would be reuniting with the studio to tackle its live-action adaptation of the iconic anime franchise Gundam. The project has been in the works since 2018, […]