Bonobo on crafting the musical heart of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Lazarus

Photo of Bonobo and Shinichirō Watanabe smiling and giving a thumbs up sign in Tokyo.

Music has always been instrumental in Shinichirō Watanabe’s anime (pun intended). More than just merely background music, every soundtrack featured across Watanabe’s body of work is inextricable from the identity of each of his series, […]

Netflix’s Minyoung Kim On ‘Squid Game’ Home Korea, Budgets & Zombies

'Squid Game'

Minyoung Kim, Netflix‘s VP for APAC content (excluding India), has quietly become one of the biggest players in the global ecosystem at the world’s leading streamer. She has seen Korean titles grow to become the […]

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE collabs with San Diego Padres to face LA Dodgers

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE collabs with San Diego Padres to face LA Dodgers

Popular gacha game Goddess of Victory: NIKKE have confirmed that they’ll be partnering with the San Diego Padres, putting baseball-themed costumes in the game and putting on a live event in-person with exclusive merch and […]

Cowboy Bebop’s director talks the inspirations and music behind Lazarus

Axel running in Lazarus

Shinichirō Watanabe has never done something quite like Lazarus before. Sure, the 59-year-old anime director of Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, and more isn’t new to science fiction, nor is he a stranger to suspense thrillers […]

If you’re headed to Hatsune Miku’s first anime movie, read this first

A dark-haired girl in a school uniform gasps as she spots a tiny Hatsune Miku popping her head out of a wall screen in a music store. From Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing

I was barely five minutes into the new Hatsune Miku anime movie that hits theaters on April 17 when I realized I was definitely in over my head. I already knew that Colorful Stage! The […]

Devil May Cry anime creator Adi Shankar on why Dante is so personal

A black and white publicity photograph of Adi Shankar sitting while wearing a leather jacket

Capcom’s Devil May Cry returned to the small screen earlier this month with a new animated adaptation from creator Adi Shankar and animation house Studio Mir. The show appears to be a success; Devil May […]

OneRepublic Announce ‘Invincible,’ New Single From ‘Kaiju No. 8’

Women of Rock and Jazz

OneRepublic and Kaiju No. 8 are keeping a good thing going. A year after the American pop-rock stars soundtracked the acclaimed Japanese anime’s first run of episodes with “Nobody (Kaiju No. 8 ED Theme),” which […]

Asmongold stunned by his toothless lookalike in Netflix’s Devil May Cry anime

Asmongold stunned by his toothless lookalike in Netflix’s Devil May Cry anime

Twitch streamer Asmongold couldn’t believe it when he discovered a character that looked just like him in Netflix’s Devil May Cry anime — with some staggering similarities. Netflix’s highly-anticipated adaptation of Capcom’s Devil May Cry […]

CoryxKenshin’s original manga series sets U.S. sales records and rivals Japan’s greatest works

A photo of CoryxKenshin.

YouTube star CoryxKenshin took a year-and-a-half hiatus from the internet to cook up his very own manga — and it’s been a big hit, selling an eye-popping number of copies at launch. CoryxKenshin is one […]