TOKYO – An audio recording released by TMZ Japan allegedly features the principal of Tokyo’s Seirin High School, Sugiyama Amane, telling his girlfriend to not bring any “moe characters” to…

OSAKA — After years of failed experiments and frustration, Japanese scientists have developed the world’s first full-grown test tube waifu. “Yui,” the result of the years-long YN Project, is a…

PARIS – Fearing that the word animé is now nothing more than a foreign word describing Japanese animation, the Académie française announced today that to protect the French language a…

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu revealed this week that the next installment of the Ace Attorney franchise will be set in Heian Era Japan, which lasted from 794 to 1185 A.D. The game will…

Love Live stars Yazawa Niko and Nishikino Maki, popularly known as “NikoMaki” sparked outrage this week by visiting Tokyo’s notorious Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese soldiers killed in World War II,…

  KYOTO — Sources from the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) confirmed last Sunday that an overwhelming majority of anime each season are never actually aired on television.Though more than thirty new…

TOKYO – The Japanese government announced an official end to the country’s taboo on sibling incest in an attempt to make the topic less common in anime and manga. Government…

OSAKA — While the critical reception of the new anime Ping Pong the Animation has been generally positive, Tatsunoko Productions has been overwhelmed with fan complaints that they cannot follow the dialogue…

NEW YORK CITY — Talks at the UN Headquarters today ended in disaster as world leaders clashed over fictional idols. The escalation occurred after North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un…

AMSTERDAM – The adult Japanese fanworks community website E-Hentai.org has seen the creation of a literary criticism movement that hopes to improve that state of fan-submitted works by amateur translators….