Almost every otaku is guilty of pirating manga or anime. Want to read a very obscure manga that isn’t available officially? Pirate websites. An anime on your watch list that isn’t licensed in your country? Piracy. Watched pretty much all the series your streaming site has to offer? Pirate[…]
Japan has been hit by its worst Covid-19 wave since the 2nd state of emergency since January. Cases have been increasing daily in two of the country’s major cities, Tokyo and Osaka. The country is now seeing the worst of the situations as cases in all prefectures have been hitting their all[…]
Cosplay is an integral part of Japanese culture, and it is highly revered as well. It is something that connects the global audience to the Japanese manga and anime industry. However, the commotion about cosplay copyright is making cosplayers anxious about losing their valuable hobby/profession.
Hidekaz Himaruya’s Hetalia World☆Stars’ portrays the strange people across the globe. The manga deals with the comparison of political and historical events among the nations. Frontier Works made an official website and Twitter account for an anime adaptation of […]
Last year, the Japanese government came up with a law that would ban the illegal downloading of media from the internet. However, it later got deferred after receiving a backlash from manga artists and experts who said the bill was too broad and could lead to restraints on freedom of expression. Japanese government ever since […]
At the Japanese Film festival held in New Delhi recently, director Makoto Shinkai made an appearance to mark the opening of the festival as well as the release of Weathering With You. Weathering With You aka Tenki No Ko has been a massive success in Japan since its release in July 2019, collecting close to […]
We are officially one year away from the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Anime is one of Japan’s most recognisable exports and so the organising committee of the Tokyo Olympics decided to incorporate anime into the promotions. A special anime promo for the Olympics and Paralympics has been created. A promo in which brand new characters show their […]