RWBY Volume 5 Premiere Date Announced
The official RWBY Facebook page posted an announcement today, revealing the 5th volume’s premiere date October 14th is still a quarter of a year away, but fans are already super hyped and excited for...
View Article11 Anime That Have Been Overshadowed By Their Meme Potential
Fandoms on the internet love to spread memes based on their favorite shows, which can lead to silly in-jokes. Other times, memes can overshadow an anime, which can lead to some confusing assumptions....
View ArticlePopular Youtuber Undertakes Ambitious Poll
The popular anime Youtuber Joey, more commonly known as The Anime Man, released a video about a week ago covering the top anime of all time (according to Japan), and as he states it – “it’s a whole...
View ArticleA.I. Automatically Generates Moe Girls Right on Your Browser
Artificial Intelligence is not a new topic of discussion for the anime community. We’ve had anime producers say that the future of anime is with Artificial Intelligence, researchers developing programs...
View ArticleFull Russian Alchemist Creates Homunculus
Anime isn’t really real…yet…though scientists are making them real, one by one. Waifus aren’t real, but they will be… So one man, a Russian Home Alchemist named Korney, decided to make a Homunculus....
View ArticleWhy Did Rapper XXXtentacion Turn into Chrollo from Hunter x Hunter?
Can we talk about rapper XXXtentacion turning into Chrollo on Instagram? So how did we get here? Why are we comparing XXXtentacion with anime? Well, let’s backtrack to a time when he still had...
View ArticlePick from These Illustrations and We’ll Tell You How Lewd You Are
Where do you fall in the spectrum of lewd? You might recognize some of the characters and if you don’t – the name of the source show, game, and artist are included on each photo. Also, if you haven’t...
View ArticleChina’s Largest Anime Service is Raising U.S. Money
Bilibili, China’s most popular online anime streaming service, is making a play to raise money from U.S. investors through an IPO. The streaming site has about 300 million users. So their user base is...
View ArticleAnime Fans Are Making Their Favorite Characters Using Emojis
We are entering a new artistic era thanks to Twitter’s built-in sticker and emoji features. Most people have used the feature to add extra flair to selfies and other images, but now anime fans have...
View ArticleWoman Faces Lawsuit After Selling Boyfriend’s Valuable Anime
Gunma Prefectural Police arrested a 23-year-old woman for stealing and selling her boyfriend’s anime. She reportedly stole 8 anime sets that were worth 90,000 yen ($810) from her 49-year-old boyfriend...
View ArticleHow Net Neutrality Could Change Anime Streaming and Piracy
Overall, the repeal of Net Neutrality would affect Internet access for U.S. users and U.S. companies who would have to deal with higher costs for the data they currently use. Net Neutrality affects...
View ArticleHow Ugandan Knuckles Originated from a Film and Evolved into a Meme
The Internet is currently obsessed with Ugandan Knuckles, a meme involving a wonky looking Knuckles who protects/spits on anime “queens” while clicking their tongue. It’s taken over comment threads,...
View ArticleArtists Have Given Earth-chan a Friend: Moon-chan
Earth-chan is the internet’s latest waifu and meme queen. A simple joke from Trinimmortal alluding to Flat Earth believers and anime tropes has escalated into fans drawing Earth as an anime girl who...
View Article‘BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle’ Gets Backlash Over Planned DLC
Since their announcement last year at Evo 2017, fans have been excited for Arc System Works’ latest installment in the popular Blazblue franchise. ‘BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle’ combines the cast of...
View ArticleOtaku Coin: A Cryptocurrency for Anime Fans is in Development
With the recent spike in popularity of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, it was only a matter of time before the allure of this technology and its potential reached influencers in...
View ArticleArtists Keep Making Clorox-Chan & Tide Pod-chan Because They Want Us to Die
We are living in a golden age of personifications! Everywhere we turn, artists are turning objects, mythical creatures, and planets into cute anime girls....
View ArticleCute Anime Girl Youtuber is Secretly a Middle-Aged Otaku Man
Japanese vloggers are no stranger to hiding their identities from fans. For years it was common to keep faces off-camera and to alter one’s voice. So it’s not surprising to see an increase of virtual...
View ArticleLife, Death, and Scam Accusations of the Flying Colors Anime Census
The Youtube and Twitter anime communities have been abuzz in the past two weeks. A California-based nonprofit, Flying Colors Foundation (FCF), officially launched, hit the ground running with an...
View Article12 Fun Things You Can Do Online This Summer So You Never Have to Leave the House
Summer is a beautiful time of year to stay inside so you can avoid the allergies, sunburns, and every protagonist’s mortal enemy: trucks. Make this summer great by staying home, cranking up your A/C...
View ArticleNintendo Stock Goes Up After Bowsette Blew Up
So this is where we are now. Atlas One on Twitter noticed that Nintendo’s stock went up from 44.64 to 46.61. This sudden jump is even bigger than the increase after the last Nintendo Direct. Bowsette’s...
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