Rookie girl group XG surpasses 10 million views with debut video “Tippy Toes”
XG’s debut music video “Tippy Toes” has surpassed 10 million views on YouTube, achieving the impressive number less than a month after its March 1Continue reading…
Author: David Cirone
Netflix to add 40 new anime titles in 2022
Netflix has announced it will add 40 new anime titles to its catalog this year. Citing the remarkable statistic that half of the streamer’s 222 miContinue reading…
Peach Momoko announces Demon Days sequel “Demon Wars”
Peach Momoko and Marvel Comics have announced a sequel to the Japanese creator’s popular series Demon Days, which concluded in March with Demon DaContinue reading…
Nagoya’s “dreampop” duo PIRANICA releases MV from upcoming album YAWARAWARA
PIRANICA has released the trippy, ethereal music video for “Sora no Ue” (“Above the Sky”) from their upcoming album YAWARAWARA, coming out on MarcContinue reading…
HBO Max releases first trailer for Tokyo Vice series starring Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi
HBO Max has releases the first video trailer for Tokyo Vice, the upcoming limited series based on Jake Adelstein’s intense, in-depth book about crContinue reading…
It’s a Summer Film! wraps time travel in a film-lover’s blanket (Film Review)
It’s a Summer Film! (Summer Film Ninotte) Review by David Cirone Fed up with her school film club’s sappy romance project, a scrappy high schoContinue reading…
Drive My Car makes Oscar history, sets streaming premiere on HBO Max
Drive My Car, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, has become the first Japanese film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Adapted fContinue reading…
Sumodo – The Successors of Samurai – shows the brutal grace of Japan’s national sport (Film Review)
Sumodo – The Successors of Samurai Review by David Cirone Sumodo – The Successors of Samurai is a wonderfully engaging documentary about the wContinue reading…
Maaya Sakamoto to sing opening theme for new anime series Deaimon
Japanese singer and voice actress Maaya Sakamoto will sing the opening theme for the upcoming anime series Deaimon, a story set in an old confectiContinue reading…
Masked Ward (Film Review)
Masked Ward (Kamen Byoto) Review by David Cirone Masked Ward is a thriller following young doctor Shugo Hayami (Kentaro Sakaguchi) as he navigContinue reading…