Iwa Kakeru! -Climbing Girls- anime announced
Ryudai Ishizaka's sports manga series Iwa Kakeru! -Climbing Girls-, and its sequel Iwa Kakeru!! -Try a new climbing- as been picked up for an anime. Macross 7 director Tetsuro Amino will helm the project.
Netflix gives the Ingress Anime a new release date
The audience will follow Enlightened agent Makoto, who can use exotic matter to see images associated with items, and his adventures with Sarah and a Resistance bodyguard called Jack.
Magical penguins: A review of Penguin Highway
Penguin Highway was the winner of the audience vote at Scotland Loves Anime 2018, and it is easy to see why. It’s a modern fantasy with some great characters, delightful whimsy and a touch of sadness too.
The story plays out through the eyes of 10-year-old Aoyama.…
Living with Crying: A review of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Here’s an anime worth making an effort to watch.
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas aired at the Scotland Loves Anime festival in 2018 in Edinburgh on the same day as Calamity of a Zombie Girl.…
Niantic and +Ultra release the Ingress anime trailer
The Ingress anime is about to air in Japan and is due on Netflix later this year.
We already know a little about the Ingress anime so let’s carefully attempt to work out what the trailer is showing.…
A Magical Girl RPG: Domina Magica transforms on Kickstarter
Magical Girl animes typically deal with friendship and social issues between those times their main characters turn into magical superheroes and deal with evil forces. Shows like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura have helped define the genre and have had an influence on game designer Emily Reinhart.…
Gulp! The loot crate craze goes hentai!
I suppose this is no surprise.
The Otaku Box (NSFW) works on the Loot Crate model. You subscribe, pay a flat fee and every month you’ll receive a gift box containing goodies with a recommended retail price of more than that value.
Tick the “I’m 18+ and interested in hentai” and The Otaku Box promises to step up to the challenge.
There’s a character called ‘Liz’ who is supposed to be the founder (and maaaaybe that’s true) but the commercial promise is a t-shirt, wall art, buttons, stickers and between two and four extra items in each box.…
Design your anime! Kickstarter lets fans pitch anime ideas
Evil Hat Productions the publisher behind Fate has gone to Kickstarter for Channel A. This is a card game in which you have to pitch ideas for an anime series. It launched today and is racing to 100 backers and the US$15,000 it is asking for.…
Ingress anime in 2018; what we know
Niantic, now more famous for Pokemon Go than Ingress, has an impressive anime deal lined up. The show will air on Netflix this year and is all about Ingress.
In fact, the Ingress anime will probably coincide with the launch of Ingress Prime (aka Ingress 2.0).…
Tokyo Ghoul:re Call to Exist announcement trailer
A brave trailer! Even if you know the main Tokyo Ghoul anime and recognise that horrible chair then you still won’t see much else in this trailer. Don’t worry; we’ve some better screenshots from the game at the end of this post.…
