AFA 2016

My Hero Academia (often called Heroaca for short) is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kouhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump since July 2014, and 11 volumes have been collected in tankoubon format. The series has been licensed for English-language release by Viz Media, and began serialization in [more...]

Touken Ranbu (literally means “Wild Dance of Swords”) is a free-to-play online training simulation card browser video game developed by Nitroplus and DMM Games, available only in Japan since January 2015. It is being adapted as two anime series. Players assume the role of a sage called “saniwa” who travels into the past to defeat evil [more...]

Assassination Classroom or “Ansatsu Kyoushitsu” in Japanese language, is a science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Yuusei Matsui. The series was serialized on Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump magazine from July 2012 to March 2016 and is licensed in English by Viz Media. The series follows the daily lives of an extremely powerful octopus-like [more...]

JAM Project (“JAM” standing for “Japan Animation-song Makers”) is an anime music (or anisong) supergroup based in Japan, labbelled under Lantis. JAM Project is originally founded on July 19, 2000 by famous 1970s theme song artist Ichirou Mizuki. The group is composed of many vocal artists well known in the industry; aside from the many [more...]

Home Made Kazoku (translated in English as Home Made Family) is a popular Japanese hip hop trio signed to Ki/oon Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music. Home Made Kazoku is a trio, consisting of members Micro, Kuro, and DJ U-Ichi. The band was originally formed in 1996 under a different name. The band was in a [more...]

Takanori Nishikawa, who came from Shiga, is a Japanese singer and actor. He performs as T.M.Revolution (TMR), which stands for “Takanori Makes Revolution”, although the name stems from the famous 80s pop electronic band TM Network. Despite most of his songs being written by Akio Inoue and composed/arranged by Daisuke Asakura (also TMR’s former producer), [more...]

Anime Festival Asia (AFA), the region’s largest and most followed Japanese Popular Culture and Anime Festival, returns this November as the J-pop Event to round up 2016. Visitors can look forward to a mix of crowd favourites as well as new activities in store for the festival programming. With something for everyone who loves Japanese [more...]

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (Koutetsujou no Kabaneri) is an anime series by Wit Studio. The series was directed by Tetsurou Araki and written by Ichirou Ookouchi, with music by Hiroyuki Sawano and original character designs by Haruhiko Mikimoto. The series premiered on Fuji TV’s Noitamina block on April 8, 2016. A prologue for the [more...]