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Talent agency Kenyū Office announced on Monday that voice actress Asami Yaguchi died suddenly on Saturday. She was 47. A private funeral service with only close relatives in attendance is being held in accordance with the family's wishes.

Oricon News reported that the agency stated that Yaguchi "passed away suddenly due to heart failure," but the agency's obituary announcement did not state the cause of death.

The agency's staff stated in the announcement that Yaguchi has supported the company from its early days, and described her as cheerful, great at taking care of other people, and a big favorite of late voice actor Kazuya Tatekabe.

Yaguchi was born on July 31, 1979 in Saitama Prefecture, and she made her professional debut in 2002. She voiced Kuchipatchi in the 2007 Let's Go! Tamagotchi anime series and Tamagotchi the Movie. She reprised the role in the 2009 Tamagotchi! television anime series, and its sequel Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream in 2012, and Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends in 2013. Yaguchi also voiced Katina Tarask in Super Robot Wars OG: Divine Wars and Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector, Tarlant in Fantastic Children, Eleonore Von Wittenburg in Dies irae, and Gintoki Sakata (during childhood) in the Gintama series.

Yaguchi voiced the characters Katina Tarask and Eleonore Von Wittenburg in the video games Super Robot Wars Original Generations and Dies irae 〜Interview with Kaziklu Bey〜, respectively. She also voiced Pith in the Arknights game, and Young Eliwood in Fire Emblem Heroes.

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Information purporting to identify the home of the author of the manga "Mii-chan and Yamada-san" has been circulating on social media, causing a stir. Based on this information, posts claiming that people have actually “gone to the author’s home” have appeared, and the “doxxing” has escalated.

In response to this situation, publisher Kodansha revealed in an interview with Bengo4.com News on September 28 that it has already provided information to the police regarding social media posts that expose the privacy of the author and related individuals or threaten their physical safety, and is taking appropriate action.

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The pre release is out, it is only available in pirate sites with no subtitles. It officially premieres on October 1, 2026.

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Xcancel doesn't work again, I posted the whole tweet here so you don't have to open twitter.

the tweet only mentions Israel, but in reality all country names were removed like the Japanese raw, only the manga has the real names

United States changed to MAG Union

USSR changed to Volgarena, this name is directly inspired by the Volga River

Israel changed to Ghorantl (or Guranto), made-up word combining “Golan Heights” with “Toru” (to seize).

Syria changed to Mesamia, inspired by Mesopotamia

The mention of Israel in the Latin Spanish dub of The Ghost in the Shell (2026) has been removed...

A few days ago, a clip from the Latin Spanish dub went viral, where Israel was mentioned directly. Fans pointed out that this version was the only one that kept this reference present in the manga, while other versions, including the Japanese one, mentioned the fictional country Ghorantl.

However, after the clip went viral, the dub would have been modified. Now, instead of mentioning Israel directly, expressions like “they” and “other nations” are used.

What do you all think?

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📈Advance Screening Event📈

TV Anime "#FX Warrior Kurumi-chan" The advance screening event for Episode 1 has been confirmed for 9/27 (Sun)!

💵Cast: #Suzuki Aina #Seto Asami #Ito Ayasa

💴Date: September 27 (Sun)

💶Advance Lottery Sales Now Open w.pia.jp/t/fxkurumi/

Lottery applications accepted until 9/17 (Thu) 23:59

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2094380427947741438

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The Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo has announced that it will begin streaming English-subtitled episodes of the Naruto anime series, about one hour after their Japanese broadcast, to paid monthly subscribers worldwide on the Crunchyroll video service on January 8, 2009.

Crunchyroll will then provide free Internet streaming of the episodes seven days after the paid subscribers see them. This coincides with when the online video services Joost and Hulu are providing their own free streaming of the same episodes via Viz Media. Viz Media announced earlier today that it will also begin hosting free streams of the new episodes on the official Naruto.com website on January 15.

On January 8, Crunchyroll will stop accepting user-submitted videos and other content from individuals, and only host videos approved by copyright holders. Gonzo and Toei Animation are two other major Japanese copyright holders of anime that decided to stream on Crunchyroll. ANN interviewed Crunchyroll founder Vu Nguyen in March.

Image © Masashi Kishimoto Scott/Shueisha, TV Tokyo, Pierrot

Update: BB Watch reports that TV Tokyo will distribute five anime series, including Naruto and Gintama, worldwide on the same day that they broadcast in Japan. ANN has added more background information to this article.

Update 2: Crunchyroll has posted a press release corroborating the details in TV Tokyo's press release on Naruto.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20070809011630/http://www.crunchyroll.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090210023901/http://crunchyroll.com/

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The manga centers on Kurumi Fukuka, a college student who will make her debut on the foreign exchange market in order to recover the 20 million yen (about US$126,000) her late mother lost in that market. She believes that it will be easy to get back that money, and with that goal in mind, she jumps into a world where things can turn from heaven to hell in an instant. Unrealized losses and loss-cutting, a racing heart that won't stop... Despite this, she wants to buy, sell, and earn. She is joined by other "FX fighters," and the market heats up. Kurumi continues to play a cute and slightly dangerous money game as charts swing back and forth. Can Kurumi and her friends survive in this raging world?

OK the question is partly a joke... But let's be honest, that's a Guyver! or at least some sort of clone like Aptom. What's he doing in Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken? 😂 Curious to hear people's hypotheses on how he got there. Maybe Otherworlders can come from other parallel Japanese universes too?

Oh yeah I'd like more Zoanoids and Dr. Barcas/Balcus too! Or maybe I've actually already seen someone like him in TSSDK?

Since quite a few years back, it's been quite commonplace in fantasy anime and manga to represent casting magic as some kinds of 2D circles or geometric figures with patterns, possibly multiple ones, as in the image on the right (Frieren). I see this idea used in almost all – if not all – anime and manga now.

It hasn't always been that way though. Older anime and manga used other and different kinds of representations, say from blinking stars (image on the left, Majokko Megu-chan) to smoke, or even just sound effects.

I'm just curious: does anyone have any info or links to share about how this "2D representation" came about and why it's become so popular? Cheers!

Over a year ago I made this post: https://lemmy.world/post/29657860 welp, given a good amount of the comments are deleted and it's been a while. Figured I'd redo this one.

What's your favorite anime, tell us with quotes only

The story follows the life of a young woman with an intellectual disability who ends up involved in nighttime work, leading to a tragic outcome. Critics accuse the work of profiting from the exploitation of vulnerable people and demand that its production be halted.

https://x.com/i/status/2081696104350122142