Cosplayers, lovers of Japanese ‘manga’ flock to ‘Rurouni Kenshin’ premiere
Japanese director Keishi Otomo and actors Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei and Munetaka Aoki graced the Asian premiere in Manila of “Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno.”
Japanese director Keishi Otomo and actors Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei and Munetaka Aoki graced the Asian premiere in Manila of “Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno.”
Japanese director Keishi Otomo and actors Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei and Munetaka Aoki are coming to Manila to grace the Asian premiere of “Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno.”
For the first time, the popular manga series “Black Butler” has been turned into a live-action film starring Hiro Mizushima and Ayame Goriki.
Japan’s parliament has passed a law which bans possession of child pornography, but excludes sexually explicit comics, animation and computer graphics.
A popular manga comic is setting off a public debate in Japan about the health effects of radiation following the Fukushima nuclear disaster — so much so the publisher issued a special edition Monday.
Explaining Japanese pop culture with all its complexities and diversity may seem a bit tedious. But if there’s a way of simplifying it, J-Pop can easily be described as an inspiration. It has inspired the young, especially the Filipino youth, in many ways, for it has become a part of life. No young Filipino ever grew up without knowing at least one animé character or watching an animé show.
Sci-fi fanatics, movie buffs and hard-core gamers have a lot to look forward to in the year of the Black Water Dragon. Count yourselves lucky if you happen to live in a country like Japan, where people get to enjoy the latest releases ahead of everyone else on the planet. But impatience aside, here are five things we look forward to the most (or the least), in no particular order.
Can one describe the influence of Japanese anime in a few words? Perhaps that’s impossible. That is how complex anime and manga have become. Its influence on the world, not
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