2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (135+ words) On September 9th, prolific anime voice actor Mike McFarland passed away at age 56. Mike McFarland underwent surgery in January of 2025 to remove a brain tumor. He was diagnosed with Glioblastoma in August of 2025. Before his death, McFarland voiced hundreds of iconic…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (396+ words) Legendary voice actor Mike McFarland has died aged 56, leaving behind an indisputable legacy with hundreds of roles across some of the most iconic anime series ever made. News of McFarland’s death broke in the late hours of September 9, 2026. The actor…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (489+ words) Mike McFarland, the English voice of Dragon Ball's Master Roshi and One Piece's Buggy the Clown, has died aged 56 after a glioblastoma diagnosis, leaving behind a career that helped shape Funimation's early English dubs and later Crunchyroll-era releases. He died…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (191+ words) TMZ Mike McFarland -- a voice actor who recorded English dubs of famous anime -- is dead.. Brina Palencia -- Mike's friend who organized a GoFundMe for him amid his health issues -- tells TMZ.. Mike died Wednesday after a battle with brain cancer…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (840+ words) Enduring market or flash in the pan? Although manga’s post-Covid spike was certainly dramatic—the genre saw a 160% jump in sales between 2020 and 2021, according to Circana—the story of its expansion in the American market really goes back to the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (147+ words) Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island becomes Japan's highest grossing theatrical release this year. Even after its seventh weekend since opening on July 24, the film has been a smash hit, becoming Japan’s highest-grossing movie this year, grossing…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (345+ words) Titled ‘Engagement Trouble’, episode 10 of Sparks of Tomorrow begins with an elated Yosuke analyzing Seiroku’s Electrical Catalog at his mansion. The wacko is determined to uncover a “secret” Seiroku once told him about and gets to work cracking a code…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (342+ words) Akira is a Japanese cyberpunk anime action film that was re-released in theaters in North America. The anime movie has surpassed the combined box office total of all releases of the film. It has achieved this amazing feat despite being…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (440+ words) That legacy has made every subsequent theatrical rerelease something of an event for longtime fans and newcomers alike, even when previous domestic runs were modest by any commercial standard. This latest revival, however, appears to have blown past anything the…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (157+ words) The merchandise includes a shirt, face towels, stickers, acrylic keychains, clear file folders, and tin case. Prices range from 385 yen to 3,960 yen (about US$2.40 to US$25) on the online TBS shop. Aki Kondo created Rilakkuma for San-X in 2003. The character…...