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Dr. Stone Season 2: Stone Wars – Release Date and Story Info

Dr. Stone, a popular shonen manga series which is published in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine⁠—besides this, anime has recently been adapted into 24 episode anime series. The first season of this anime did surprise everyone with its unexpected ending, but that’s not it. Fans are now eagerly waiting for Dr. Stone Second season. The production house is happy with the success of the first season of Dr. Stone. Besides this, the studio is now looking forward to giving more of scientific knowledge to the fans in Dr. Stone season 2.

*Riichiro Inagaki, TMS/8PAN, Anime Trending*

An anime series that talks about science and cultivation of lands or rebuilding civilization from scratch. It started in the first season that people in the Earth turned into stones, some die, and some don’t include our genius protagonist named Senku. After millions of years of being a stone, when he became finally free, he decided to use his knowledge to rebuild civilization. But just like in any other series, there will always be obstacles, and this is how the war will start. The other side does not want civilization, which is directly against Senku’s goal.

Season 2 of the Dr. Stone anime series will premiere in January 2021, but a more specific release date is yet to be announced.

*Riichiro Inagaki, TSM/8PAN, Scoop Byte*

While many of us predicted a 2021 release for Season 2, not many of us would have thought it could premiere so early in the year, but we won’t complain.

Dr. Stone’s Season 1 released in the optimal Saturday morning slot on Crunchyroll. While right now, we don’t know the exact premiere date for Season 2, we can guess that it will be on a Saturday, meaning either the 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, or 30th.

In line with this, Dr. Stone is well-known most likely to those people who are into scientific kinds of stuff. The first season of Dr. Stone was a blast from the animation, production⁠—but also the storyline. It is exciting in every episode the fun also is that you’ll be able to learn something from a source of entertainment without getting bored because Dr. Stone also has humor in it.

Author – Hinode

The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited (Spoiler-free edition)

The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited is an ongoing anime series that first aired on April 9, 2020. It is directed by Tomohiko Itō and produced by CloverWorks. Like many other series, it has been interrupted by the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, programming has resumed as of July 16, 2020. As of this writing, there are a total of 5 episodes with the latest one, If Money be not thy Servant, it will be thy Master having aired on August 13, 2020. The series is officially available on YouTube thanks to the Ani-One channel.

The third and latest trailer (Credits to AniplexUS)

The series revolves around Daisuke Kanbe, a man who quite literally has unlimited balance. He has been appointed as inspector of the Metropolitan Police Detective Division. The other members of the force, mainly Haru Kato do not like the way Daisuke handles things. The main one being how he does not follow the traditional way⁠—opting to buy information and solving everything with money. He believes that, there’s no problem you can’t solve with a few billion in the bank. At the end of all three trailers, Daisuke says, “So, how much do you need?” or some other variation referencing how his wealth is virtually unlimited.

***Screenshot from the second trailer (Credits to AniplexUS)***

The dynamic between Daisuke and Kato is an interesting one, with differing philosophies when it comes to doing their jobs. Kato is a firm believer in justice and does things the old-fashioned way, which makes it clear as to why he does not agree with Daisuke’s ways. Daisuke, on the other hand, appears to think that everything can be solved with money, from buying information to outright buying cars instead of commandeering them. One may assume that he has other motives. I, for one, am looking forward to how their relationship will change throughout the story as this series is a promising one.

Like the third trailer says:

DETECTIVES-BUT THEY’RE NOT ALWAYS RIGHTEOUS.

***Quite possibly the greatest way of commandeering a vehicle. (Credits to AniplexUS)***

Author – Mark Kim

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time – The Last Film (Rebuild of Evangelion)

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time is the fourth and last film in the Rebuild of Evangelion film arrangement. It was initially to be released alongside 3.0 as one film, yet will currently be released independently. The melodic image title could either signify “End Repeat,” or essentially “End” if the colon is a piece of the title.

*Hideaki Anno, Studio Khara, Letterboxd*

It is a forthcoming Japanese energized sci-fi movie composed and chief directed by Hideaki Anno and produced by Studio Khara.

Initially expected for release in 2015, the film was inconclusively deferred because of Anno’s association with the 2016 film Shin Godzilla. Production continued after the creation of Shin Godzilla finished in late 2016. The film was initially planned for release on June 27, 2020, however, has been postponed because of worries over the COVID-19 pandemic.

*Hideaki Anno, Studio Khara, Comic Book*

The film was declared close by Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo as the last piece of the Rebuild quadruplicate under the working title Evangelion: Final. Following the grieved creation of the third movie, chief and maker Hideaki Anno capitulated to sorrow and expressed freely in 2015 that he was unable to chip away at another film.

Be that as it may, Toho (which will co-appropriate the movie in Japan with Toei) moved toward him in a proposal to coordinate a reboot of its notable Godzilla film arrangement named Shin Godzilla, which Anno accused of postponing him on taking a shot at 3.0+1.0 despite its critical achievement. After a conventional conciliatory sentiment, activity chief Takeshi Honda expressed that the last film had continued turn of events and work on it was in progress. The studio tweeted on April 5, 2017 that the film’s improvement was going easily.

On July 6, 2019, Studio Khara screened the initial ten minutes of the film on Japan Expo in Paris, Anime Expo in Los Angeles and CCG Expo 2019 in Shanghai.

Author – KamehameNayah

What is Happening with Re:Zero – Starting Life In Another World Season 02?

Re:Zero – Starting Life In Another World has released the second season of Re:Zero, early in the month of July 2020. The anime was initially booked for before in early 2020, however, it was postponed because of the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus pandemic.

https://youtu.be/V4ND4gi-CR4

White Fox, Re:ZERO – Starting Life in an Another World Season 02, AnimeTV

The White Fox staff clarified that the deferral was because of a portion of the creation being re-appropriated to Chinese organizations.

“Original work was done in Japan but painting and specific animation were produced by outsourcing companies in China whose production was affected by attendance restrictions due to impact of the epidemic.”
White Fox

*White Fox, Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World Season 02, Monsters and Critics*

Fortunately, the subsequent season will have two three-month block of TV-broadcasting made out of 25 scenes. The second season will take a multi-month break before resuming TV broadcasting—the Re:Zero Season 2 Part 2 is being booked for 2021. The two-parts of the Re:Zero 2 anime are 25 scenes altogether.

Yonkou Productions asserts that Re:Zero Season 2 was greenlit for creation “quite a while prior” in 2017 however it was an intently monitored mystery. Be that as it may, this doesn’t mean the Re:Zero spin-off has been underway since 2017.

*Shinichirou Otsuka, Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World Season 02*, Monster and Critics

Taking into account that an English dub for the main season was in the long run discharged, all things considered, a Re:Zero Season 2 dub will be delivered.

The Re:Zero Season 2 opening (OP) signature tune music “Realize” is performed by Konomi Suzuki, who recently played out the initial tune for the principal season. The ending (ED) music signature tune “Memento” is performed by vocalist nonoc, who has recently performed for the Re:Zero OVA scenes.

The specific Re:Zero Season 2 discharge date was reported in June 2020. The official site initially reported that the anime planned to discharge in April 2020, yet due to the coronavirus outbreak, it chosen to defer the broadcast until July 8, 2020, the late spring 2020-anime season.

*Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World Season 02, HITC*

The Re:Zero Season 2 Part 2 discharge date is booked for January 2021.

Subaru, at long last, finished the danger of the White Whale and vanquished Betelgeuse Romanée-Conti, the Archbishop of Witch Cult speaking to apathy. Nevertheless, as he defeats a shocking new end and discovers his adored Émilia, Subaru discovers that Rem has been deleted from this world.

Author – KamehameNayah

HOW STUDIO GHIBLI INFLUENCED WALT DISNEY STUDIOS’ FILMS

Both Walt Disney Studios and Studio Ghibli are well known for giving us lots of memories filled with wonder and amazement. With amazing animations such as The Lion King, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky, and more. What is interesting is that even though Walt Disney Studios and Studio Ghibli are from different regions (North America and Japan, respectively). Both seem to have similar styles when it comes to storytelling. Both studios have partnered up at one point.

***Castle in the Sky – Studio Ghibli (1986)***

Studio Ghibli Films have been an influence on Disney’s works. One notable example is with Castle in the Sky from 1986, which was stated to have influenced a few films from Disney and Pixar, namely 2001’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire, 2008’s WALL-E and 2009’s Up. Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away (2001) and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) have inspired the recent 2019 Disney film, Coco. Disney themselves have even paid homage to Studio Ghibli in their Japanese trailer for 2016’s Moana. Giving it that Hayao Miyazaki feels.

***Spirited Away – Studio Ghibli (2001)***

It was not all smooth sailing, however. Cultural differences and business decisions have ultimately caused a bittersweet end to their partnership. Despite Hayao Miyazaki’s request to not alter the films in any way whatsoever (Miyazaki even threatened them with a samurai sword and a note)⁠—Disney still went ahead and edited the films without Studio Ghibli’s permission. One of such films is 1997’s Princess Mononoke, Harvey Weinstein (Previous head of Miramax) wanted to alter the film to make it more marketable for Western audiences. Disney decided to edit 1998’s Kiki’s Delivery Service. One of the most noticeable changes in the Disney redistribution is the addition of music, sound effects, and dialogue, which have garnered mixed reactions from the viewer⁠—some consider it a nice touch. While; others claim that the film is now ruined.

***Kiki’s Delivery Service – Studio Ghibli (1998)***

All in all, I feel like Disney should have given Studio Ghibli the respect they deserve. 7.8/10 “Too much editing” – IGN (not)

Author – Mark Kim

Attack on Titan Season 4 (Final Season) – Release Update and What You Need to Know

Attack on Titan season 4 is the final season of the series from the manga Attack on Titan, or Shigeki no Kyojin in its Japanese translation written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama and directed by Yuichiro Hayashi, and animated by MAPPA studios. The anime was planned to be debuted this coming fall, October 2020⁠—however, has been postponed to be delivered by this fall.

Hajime Isayama, MAPPA studios, Kevi Anime – Attack on Titan Season 4 OFFICIAL TRAILER

The fourth and final season of Attack on Titan became a big talk as from its first to the third season—it already put its fans into excitement because of its plot’s twists and unexpected events. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, fans are wondering if the final season will be premiered by this year. It was, then, confirmed last August 6, 2020, Fall 2020 Anime Broadcast List has been updated, and the final season of Attack on Titan is no longer listed. The series may be released by early 2021.

The first three series of Attack on Titan was first directed by Tetsuro Araki under Wit Studios⁠.

But the series is changing studios because Wit Studios are having a hard time to keep the animation quality of the series, and other animes. It is also the reason why the second season of the series took four years after the release of its first season. Also, the animation studio is small that they can’t handle such a list of anime. That’s why the MAPPA Studios will be the one to work on the series. They will be working with some Wit Studios members.

The series was set in a world where humanities lived in a city surrounded by a 50-meter wall that protects them from a man-eating giant called Titans. The story follows as Eren Jaeger vows to protect humanity, and retake the world from Titans after they destroyed the city and devoured Eren’s mother.

Author – Tenshi-chan

A look at Otaku Culture and exploring what it is

You may have heard the term ‘Otaku’ being thrown around now and then. And one would assume that this refers to a fan of anime and manga. However, ‘Otaku’ is a very broad term. An ‘Otaku’ is a ‘fan’ of something, a person who is a big fan of pop culture⁠—be it a series, hobby, or something else entirely.

***An example of ‘Cosplay Otaku’ Credits to Fatima Antipolo Otaku Society (FAOS)***

Therefore, there are several types of Otaku. (1) A person who likes Anime or Manga is known as an Anime / Manga Otaku, (2) a person who likes to dress up as one of the characters is referred to as a Cosplay Otaku and (3) a person who likes to collect figurines of said characters is known as a Figure Otaku. There are many more classifications of Otaku, but these three are the most notable ones. Otaku ‘Culture’ is just that, being more or less obsessed with Japanese Pop Culture, whether it is about Anime, Manga, Games, Figures, or Idols.

***An example of ‘Gaming Otaku’ Credits to Fatima Antipolo Otaku Society (FAOS)***

Otaku Culture was not as widespread as it is today; however, the term Otaku was used as a derogatory term for an obsessive fan of something. Think of it as the Japanese term for a “nerd.” It did start getting popular in recent years, even spreading internationally, specifically the West. Nowadays, ‘Otaku’ is less of an insult and more of an umbrella term used to describe a fan of something. People now use the term, “Weaboo” when referring to an Anime or Manga fan, more specifically the kinds of fans that are so obsessed that they confuse reality with fiction. Interestingly, the origins of the term “Weaboo” have no relation to Japanese Culture at all, but that is a topic for another time. Funnily enough, “Weaboo” is mostly used by the fans themselves, using it to mock both themselves and fellow Weaboos.

***A ‘Figure Otaku’ is not limited to simply collecting figures, stickers can do as well. Credits to Fatima Antipolo Otaku Society (FAOS)***

One must remember to do not let others dictate what you can and cannot like. Do the things that you enjoy⁠—your hobbies are your own. Live your own life.

Remember, people die if they are killed. And lunchtime is for lunch.

Author – Mark Kim

From Webtoon to Anime: The God of High School

Crunchyroll is at it again! After making Tower of God, a popular anime from a hit-webtoon series, there is another popular webtoon series that they made as their second original project based on this webtoon. Will they succeed this time, as well?

First, what is a webtoon? A sort of digitalized comic that began in South Korea. While webtoons were generally obscure outside of the nation during their beginning, there has been a flood in fame universally thanks in incredible part to most manhwa being perused on cell phones.

The God of High School has been one of the most blazing anime of the Summer 2020 anime season.

Crunchyroll Collection, The God of High School FINAL TRAILER

This most recent anime presents to Studio MAPPA’s master activity to a Dragon Ball-motivated adventure. Author Yongje Park in an interview with Naver Webtoon conveyed a longing to make a story as hot-blooded and playful as his record-breaking most loved manga, Dragon Ball.

*Crunchyroll Originals, The God of High School, Gojinshi*

His webtoon, progressing since 2011, has since a long time ago become well known enough to draw in a worldwide readership, including ardent solicitations, to transform it into an anime. What’s more, more than one Change.org demand!

*Crunchyroll Originals, The God of High School, Comic Book*

The main protagonist is Jin Mo-Ri, a 17-year-old martial artist from Seoul, South Korea. Alongside with Han Dae-Wi, a 17year-old martial artist from Seoul, South Korea who practices Kyokushin Karate, and Yu Mi-Ra, a 17-year-old swordswoman from Seoul, South Korea and the 25th master of a fictitious sword style called the Moonlight Sword—together, they will fight and achieve their goals!

*Crunchyroll Originals, The God of High School, Forbes*

This manhwa, set around secondary school brawlers from Park’s old neighborhood of Sunchon, was generally welcomed and propelled him to seek after a “100% absolutely ridiculous work of activity” where high schoolers from everywhere throughout the world would contend to turn into the God of High School.

The God of High School has also received a mobile game called, “G.O.H.” (God of High School). A full 3D action that is perfectly animated with various gamed modes like, Hero Battle, 3:3 Team Battle, Rune Temple, INFINITE NOX, Challenge Tower and many more!

Author – KamehameNayah

THE PROMISED NEVERLAND SEASON II

***Screenshot from the Season 2 Trailer (Credits to AnimeTV)***

For those who are not caught up yet, The Promised Neverland (Kayu Shirai & Posuka Demizu) is an ongoing Shounen manga series that has been given an anime adaptation. CloverWorks handles said adaptation. Light novels have also been released since June 3, 2018. A Live-action film is also in the works Directed by Yūichirō Hirakawa and expected to be released on December 18, 2020. Lastly, it was announced that an English live-action adaptation of the manga is being developed by Amazon Studios, it is to be directed by Rodney Rothman.

***Cover for Volume 1 – (Kaiu Shirai)***

The Promised Neverland was ranked the 8th and 4th best selling manga series in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Aside from being nominated for the 10th and 11th Manga Taishō Awards, the series placed 35th on the 19th edition of Da Vinci magazine’s “Book of the Year” list. It also won in the shōnen category of the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Awards.

The second Season of The Promised Neverland was announced last March 2019 with a planned release date this October. Unfortunately, just like many other series, it was postponed all the way to January 2021 because of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This season picks up right where Season One left off, out with the Jailbreak Arc and into the Promised Forest Arc.

***Cover for Chapter 38 – (Kaiu Shirai***)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTfHhsZjLMw

Trailer for The Promised Neverland Season 2

After escaping from the from the Grace Field House, the children are independent and now have to make their way out of the forest. Two mysterious demons appear, fortunately they do not eat human meat. The two demons are named Mujika and Sonju. Not only do they tell the children about what the world really is, but they also teach them necessary survival skills. Their main objective is to head to the location that was in the secret message by Minerva.

Author – Mark Kim

Manga as Literature

Manga is a Japanese comic book illustrated by various authors. It is stories that have a plot in it, consists of sketch or drawings to express the product. Moreover, the manga itself is famous not just in Japan, but it also struck different countries due to its popular potential in the book industry such as “One Piece” written by Eiichiro Oda.Other Japanese manga artists well known for other astounding work: Naruto series, Dragon ball series, etc.

On the other hand, literature is a written product with text or words in it to convey the story line. It uses phrases and sentences to create a defining piece of art.

The talks about Manga being literature have been all around the globe since the early release of Mangas or Japanese comic books. Many people have said that, Manga is not literature because it is not purely words to interpret the plot armor and the context. It has drawings and pictures for the readers not to envision the physical characters and settings for the explanation that it has appeared to the item itself.

Some said that Manga is writing, basically because it expresses a story with the utilization of words as well as realistic outline or visual expressions to assist the readers with envisioning the book appropriately. Hence, Manga has a lot of fans since it is a Japanese version of comic books just like Stan Lee’s Marvel Comics.

Comic books are a combination of static images and words that represents the literature, they can be seen in both secondary categories just like Manga but comic books are considered literature. Manga can be literature since it expresses the story line through exchanging dialogues that consist of text and words as it symbolizes the world of literature.

To summarize it, we as a whole have alternate points of view if Manga can be viewed as writing a few boards. Simply, as the image appeared beneath has pictures; however, the following board can have exchanges in it. It is irregular, and it just likes the season it changes.

However, Manga has been always a good and refined product of entertainment for that it has world-building, and sometimes it tackles issues that are currently happening in reality. Just like in literature, that has a realistic presentation of the world and people itself.

There’s no question of how Manga affects people whether it is literature or not. It is an outcome of the author’s wild imagination using graphical illustrations and words to describe the whole context.

Author – Hinode