Sports anime and manga are not uncommon in Japan. Football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, figure skating and even badminton have popular stories that aim to make the sport, as well as the characters and their narrative arcs, interesting to both fans of the sport and complete newcomers. Related reading: If you…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. This week in the week in review! Please Note: THERE ARE SOME MINOR SOUND/VOLUME ISSUES THIS WEEK. I’m using a new microphone, which will result in better sound in the future, but it’s a learning curve. It should still be very listenable, though. Apologies for the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s such an easy topic to champion in the political sphere that it can only be cynical – for those that haven’t been following Australian politics, one of our more obscure and useless senators, Stirling Griff, has decided to go on a campaign against anime and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Local Aussie fans of horror are going to get a kick out of this: The Japan Foundation is putting on a free exhibition dedicated to horror in postwar Japanese manga. It runs for free from October 18 to January 24 next year, and is headlined by…
Read MoreBook review by Clark A. Masashi Kishimoto, author of one of the biggest names that springs to mind when hearing terms like “anime” and “manga” (that being Naruto), has gone from writing about ninja to writing about samurai. There’s no denying that Kishimoto’s new Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru…
Read MoreManga by Matt S. I love ballroom dancing. Of the list of things that I love (Japan, Japanese games, fan service, Hatsune Miku, all that good stuff), I think this is one that I haven’t talked about too much in the past, but I’m a very keen ballroom dancer and…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Rumiko Takahashi is one of Japan’s more prolific manga authors, cranking out long-running hits for the entirety of her adult life. The likes of Inuyasha left an impact on western audiences back in the early 2000s. Her earliest hit, though, the science fiction-romantic comedy Urusei Yatsura,…
Read MoreSurely it was inevitable. Nintendo’s multiplayer-focused game about coating everything in ink is about to be inked itself…in a very different way, that is. Yes, Splatoon is getting its own manga adaptation in Japan. In fact, it’s actually getting two. The first, Honobono Ika 4-Koma, will be a four panel…
Read MoreWith a huge amount of attractions, exhibitions and an expected attendance of over 13000, SMASH (Sydney Manga and Anime Show) is the place to be this August for every fan of Anime, Manga, Games and Japanese Culture. And of course Digitally Downloaded can’t miss out! We here at DDNet would…
Read MoreWelcome to Digitally Downloaded’s newest weekly feature, Catch up coffee Monday! Each Monday we will bring you the best news from the previous week that you may have missed. What better thing to do with your Monday morning coffee then catch up with us? LKA announces The Town of Light…
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