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Anime studio BONES has started a weekly blog column for the Sk8 the Infinity original anime series. The column highlights key frames from each episode that made an impression on director Hiroko Utsumi. The next blog entry will be posted on January 17, after the second episode has aired. For those interested in the production side of anime, the BONES blog regularly shares snippets from animation production materials books. Other anime titles recently covered on the blog include Bungo Stray Dogs, A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-, and My Hero Academia. 9anime.city is the best new version of 9anime website. This is the place to watch anime online for free, can be downloaded for free with the highest quality, every video is updated daily, all videos are English subbed + dubbed. + Website: https://9anime.city/ + Address: 48 Logan Irvine, CA, United State + Email: 9animecityus@gmail.com + Phone: +1 (213) 628-3447 + Social:  - https://twitter.com/animecityus - https://about.me/animecityus - https://...

The music video for BEASTARS and YOASOBI'S song "Kaibutsu" premiered on YouTube on Wednesday morning. The song is the opener for the second season of Studio Orange's animated adaptation of Paru Itagaki's manga series. Orange noted that Itagaki along with Hyperbole's Toshiyuki Yamashita and Rinna Miwa worked on the music video. YOASOBI is a musical duo that includes vocalist Ikura and Vocaloid music producer Ayase. Ayase previously topped iTunes charts in 2019 with the release of their EP Yūrei Tōkyō. The duo's previous single "Yoru ni Kakeru" released in 2019 rose in popularity on TikTok and Spotify. They held their first live performance during last year's New Year's Eve program Kōhaku Uta Gassen. The first episode of BEASTARS premiered exclusively on Netflix in Japan on January 5 followed by its Fuji TV premiere on January 6 in the +Ultra timeslot. Netflix will stream the series outside of Japan in July. Itagaki launched her BEASTARS ma...

Dexerto reported on the top five most-viewed female streamers of 2020, citing data analytics by Stream Hatchet. Although Valkyrae was the top-viewed streamer, racking in 23.6 million views across her videos throughout last year, the data also revealed the surprising success of a Japanese Virtual YouTuber: hololive's Usada Pekora's channel accumulated 14.6 million views, putting her fourth on the list. Usada Pekora is a 3rd generation hololive VTuber talent who debuted in July 2019. In December 2020, she reached the 1 million subscriber milestone and commemorated the occasion by coming out to her mother as a Virtual YouTuber. Over 50 Virtual YouTubers currently belong to hololive; according to the agency's English website, it has around 4.4 million fans on YouTube and 4 million on bilibili. The talents perform using intricate 2D and 3D avatars provided by the company. hololive English debuted in September. According to YouTube's Culture & Trends Report for 2020, VTub...

The official YouTube channel for the Pokémon franchise began streaming on Wednesday a video commemorating the series' 25th anniversary. The video reveals the franchise will collaborate with Katy Perry. The series' official website revealed that the Pokémon franchise is teaming up with Universal Music Group and musical artists to create P25 Music, a global music project. Katy Perry will be part of the project. The Pokémon Company will also release 25th anniversary-themed collections of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, including cards based on the original Base Set, later in 2021. The company is also teasing that new commemorative products will go on sale at the Pokémon Center, starting with a 25th anniversary-themed skateboard by Bear Walker. The Pokémon Company is also working with other brands, including General Mills, Levi's, McDonald's, Jazwares, Scholastic, Mattel, Funko, and The Wand Company. Pokémon Journeys: The Series, the franchise's latest anime series, prem...

To commemorate the recent premieres of WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! and Heaven's Design Team, Asahi Productions, who produced both anime series, have released a collaboration illustration of the two. The illustration depicts Masaki Hinaoka and Shou Akitsuki from WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! playing with various animals on the beach alongside Shimoda and Kimura from Heaven's Design Team. In addition, the official Twitter accounts of both series are currently running a giveaway campaign until January 19, 11:59 pm JST. During the campaign period, those who follow any of the two accounts and retweet the corresponding tweets (embedded below) will receive a desktop wallpaper of the illustration as well as smartphone standby images of each character featured in the illustration. The WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! TV anime is the "complete edition" series version of the anime film trilogy of the same name that opened in theaters in October 2020, and both are part of Love&Art's WAVE!! sur...

Shueisha issued a statement to the news outlet J-Cast after a recent controversy involving a One Piece editor's internet viewing history. The editor's smartphone screen was shown in a recent livestream; in the search history it was briefly shown that one of the links was to an adult manga pirate site. The livestream, which originally debuted last Friday to commemorate One Piece's 1000th chapter, is currently set to private on YouTube. Shueisha's statement is translated as follows: After confirming the facts, we have determined that the smartphone screen of the employee involved, which was shown in a video stream, showed a link that he had inadvertently touched while surfing the net, and that it accidentally became part of his access history. He was not searching for illegal sites, nor was he performing illegal downloads. Regarding the use of one's personal device on a livestream, as a company we cannot recommend this practice, and we have issued a firm warning. We d...