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  Tatsuki Fujimoto ' s Chainsaw Man manga series is something special, connecting with fans all over the world in a way only Chainsaw Man can. One of the most special aspects of the series is its lovable band of misfit characters. In March, Weekly Shonen Jump ran the series' second character poll, letting fans pick between all the characters seems in the series (and we mean ALL the characters and more) to find their favorite.   620,045 fans voted and yesterday the Weekly Shonen Jump website announced the results of the poll, informing Chainsaw Man fans all around the world who is "official" the best character in the series.   Before we get into the top 10 of the over 130 characters, here are some standouts from the rest of the poll: manga creator  Tatsuki Fujimoto came in at 16th with 6,309 votes, Power's chest padding came in at 25th with 2,303 votes,  Hell Frog came in at 45th with 575 votes, and the Chainsaw Man fans themselves came in at 102nd...

    The official website for the forthcoming TV anime adaptation of Yohei Yasumura's isekai fantasy manga Meikyu Black Company / The Dungeon of Black Company has posted a two-minute second PV to introduce its OP theme song "Shimi" ( Stain ) performed by the four-member Japanese rock band HOWL BE QUIET .   The band made their major debut in 2016 and provided the two OP theme songs for the TV anime DAYS in 2016.　No release schedule for that song has been announced yet.　        2nd PV:     Also, three additional voice cast members are announced -  Megumi Toda (Hajime Shinoda in NEW GAME! ) as Shia, M・A・O (Shion in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ) as Ranga, and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Kirito in Sword Art Online ) as Labyrinth Ant A.     ⚠⛏TVアニメ メインキャスト公開????⚠ TVアニメ「 #迷宮ブラックカンパニー 」の 追加メインキャストを公開しました‼✨ シア役： #戸田めぐみ ランガ役： #M・A・O 迷宮アリA： #松岡禎丞 ⛏公式サイト https://t.co/rrMZLx6PQG #迷宮ブラックカンパニー ...

    The official website for the stage play adaptation of the 2018 film Bungo Stray Dog DEAD APPLE has posted a three-minute digest clip introducing its main cast members' stage performance.   Bungo Stray Dogs is an action mystery seinen manga series written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. Its TV anime adaption animated by Bones was aired for three seasons with a total of 36 episodes from April 2016 to June 2019. After the second season was aired, an all-new feature film Bungo Stray Dogs DEAD APPLE was released on March 3, 2018, making 550 million yen from its domestic run.   As the fifth show from the stage play series, Bungo Stray Dos on Stage DEAD APPLE was first performed at COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA WW hall in Osaka from April 16 to 18, 2021. For the first time, the manga's original story writer Kafka Asagiri provided a script for the play, which unfolds with plenty of new aspects and episodes that were not revealed at the time of the...

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    The official website for Bushiroad's multimedia franchise BanG Dream! has announced that the concert event "BanG Dream! Special☆LIVE Girls Band Party! 2020→2021," which was scheduled to be held at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture on June 5 and 6, 2021, has been decided to be postponed to a future date due to the impact of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Tokyo metropolitan area and the government's declaration of a state of emergency.   This is the second postponement for the franchise's all-star concert. Under the title "BanG Dream! Special☆LIVE Girls Band Party! 2020," it was originally scheduled to be held at the same venue on May 3, 2020, but had been postponed for one year.   The official website writes, "We announced the postponement of the concert last year, and after that, we were finally able to inform you that it would be rescheduled. However, due to the situation of the new coronavirus, we were forced to postpone ...

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     Anime voice actress Miyu Tomita announced on April 30 that her first full album "Prologue" is set to be released in Japan on June 30, 2021. The title of the album, which included the meaning of "the beginning of the story," was named by her herself.   She made her voice acting debut by playing Taihei Doma in his childhood in Himouto! Umaru-chan in 2015. Since then she has voiced Yume Nijino in Aikatsu Stars! (2016-2018), Otako in Please Tell Me! Galko-chan (2016), Gabriel White Tenma in Gabriel DropOut (2017), Sophie Twilight in Ms. Vampire who lives in my neighborhood (2018), Rizu Ogata in We Never Learn: BOKUBEN (2019), Miko Iinao in KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR (2020), and Emma in The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter (2021).   Meanwhile, she released her solo singer debut single "Present Moment"  from Nippon Columbia in November 2019, and has released three singles so far. In addition to the three single songs, the album "...

    As part of the tenth-anniversary project for the Pretty Series, Pretty All Friends Selection , a special program to look back at the ten-year history of the series, will start airing on TV Tokyo and its affiliate stations in Japan from June 2021.    The idol-themed multimedia series was launched with its first arcade game Pretty Rhythm: Mini Skirt in July 2010, and its latest TV anime Kiratto Pri☆chan has been broadcast in Japan since April 2018.   The content of Pretty All Friends Selection will be a look back at the history of the Pretty Series in preparation for its new installment. Mirai Momoyama (CV: Coco Hayashi), the protagonist of Pri☆can , and her idol unit Miracle☆Kiratts' mascot KiracCHU (Nanami yamashita) will serve as navigators for this program to introduce the activities of the idols and stars of the past Pretty Series. The theme of its first episode is "If you can't understand it, let's just do it!," which is one of Mirai's cat...

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A slow vaccine roll out, no lockdown and large gatherings are concerning doctors in Pakistan. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3gSR3aT

A Nigerian woman in Italy nearly lost her son as the authorities questioned her parenting style. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3uaGBPE

Shasta Pomeroy isn't only the first Fairbanks crime scene investigator, she's the first in the state. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2S77YvV

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    It was officially announced at the "ARGONAVIS Project Presentation - 2021 Spring" streamed last night that an all-new anime feature film from the BanG Dream! franchise's spin-off project "ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream!" is set to be released in the summer of 2022.   The boys band-themed project previously had a 13-episode TV anime series, which was aired in Japan from April to July 2020. Ahead of the all-new film, the TV series' compilation film ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream! Prelude  (tentative title) is also set to be released in the fall of 2021. It will be reconstructed from the TV episodes' screenplays to trace the story of Argonavis and GYROAXIA. All of the character voices will be re-recorded, and the real band Argonavis will perform its theme song.     #アルゴナビス 劇場版2作品の公開が決定???? ????再構築版「アルゴナビス from BanG Dream! Prelude(仮題)」 2021年秋公開予定 ????新作映画「アルゴナビス from BanG Dream!(仮題)」 2022年夏公開予定 https://t.co/xDFtE1PBaF #アルゴナビスPJ発表会 — ARGONAVIS ...

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  The dormitory of the Megami-Ryou no Ryoubo-Kun TV anime adaptation of  Ikumi Hino 's ecchi harem comedy manga of the same name opens on July 2021. The series follows 12-year-old boy Koushi Nagumo who becomes the matron of a women's college dormitory after being homeless and finds the residents to be quite ...  interesting.     TVアニメ「 #女神寮の寮母くん 。」放送時期が決定しました！ TVアニメは2021年7月から放送開始です☀️???? 皆様にご覧いただけるまでもう少し。 楽しみにお待ち下さい???? #女神寮 pic.twitter.com/HPU6gUIHZb — 「女神寮の寮母くん。」公式 (@megamiryou) April 28, 2021     Previously released visual and trailer:     Shunsuke Nakashige  ( Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld   episode director) serves as director of Megami-Ryou no Ryoubo-Kun , alongside the series composition writer  Masashi Suzuki  ( Plunderer ) and the character designer  Maiko Okada   ( I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job.  chief...

    The official website for the live-action film Eiga Kakegurui: Zettai Zetsumei Russian Roulette ( Kakegurui The Movie: Russian Roulette in Desperate Situation ) announced today that its postponed theatrical release in Japan is newly set for May 12, 2021, the day after the third declaration of a state of emergency is scheduled to be lifted.   The second live-action film based on Homura Kawamoto (story) and Toru Naomura (art)'s gambling themed manga Kakegurui was originally set to be released in Japan on April 29, 2021, but has been postponed due to the recent rapid outbreak of the COVID-10 pandemic and the declaration of a state of emergency in four prefectures on April 23.   Also, a total of 215 theaters across Japan will broadcast live a stage greeting event without an audience on May 12, the first day of release. The live broadcast will be held after the screening of the film, which starts at 17:05, with Minami Hamabe (Yumeko Jabami), Mahiro T...

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Police in India's capital ask for more cremation sites as a fatal second wave sweeps the country. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3vuu75N

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    Today on the release day of the fifth volume of his latest series Asadora! in Japan, the internationally acclaimed Japanese manga artist Naoki Urasawa ( Yawara! , 20th Century Boys , Pluto ) also opened his official YouTube channel named "Urasawa Channel."   He plans to talk with various manga artists, show viewers his techniques for drawing manga, and even live-drawing sessions in the channel. In its first episode "Manga Artist Urasawa Naoki is Starting YouTube," he draws the channel's banner illustration, which takes only ten minutes.         "Asadora!" tankobon 1st & 5th volume covers:   「あさドラ!」第5集、4月30日頃発売です！子どもの頃からいつか描きたかった「怪獣漫画」に挑んだこの作品。ついに“アレ”が全貌を現しました！描けば描くほどに難しい怪獣表現。いろいろ試行錯誤しながら、長年頭の中にいる巨大モンスターを解き放とうと思います。　 #あさドラ 　 #スピリッツ 　 #浦沢直樹 pic.twitter.com/pGsMbRA502 — 浦沢直樹_Naoki Urasawa公式情報 (@urasawa_naoki) April 28, 2021     Source: "Urasawa Channel" , Comic Natalie   © Naoki Urasawa / Shogakukan ...

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    Anison singer ReoNa has posted a two-and-half minute music video for her fifth single song "Nai Nai" on her official YouTube channel. The song is now featured as the ED theme for the TV anime adaptation of Somato's gothic mystery manga Shadows House .   ReoNa was one of the finalists in the SACRA MUSIC audition held in 2017 and made her singer debut as the singing voice of Elza Kanzaki in the TV anime Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online in 2018. Since then, she has performed theme songs for Happy Sugar Life , Sword Art Online Alicization , and Sword Art Online Alicization: War of Underworld .   She says, "We made a music video to give another meaning to the toy box-like song that I had spun closely to the story. I hope you will enjoy it..." The CD single of "Nai Nai" is set to be released on May 12, 2021. Ahead of the CD release, the title tune was already released digitally on April 26 and became No.1 on iTunes' general / ...

    The official YouTube channel for voice actor Daiki Yamashita , best known as Sakamichi Onoda in Yowamushi Pedal and Izuku Midoriya in My Hero Academia , has started streaming a short version music video for "Tail," the lead track from his solo singer debut EP "hear me?" The song is now featured as the ED theme for the spring 2021 TV anime SEVEN KNIGHTS REVOLUTION: Hero Successor , in which he is also cast as its protagonist character, Nemo.   Yamashita's first music video was produced in collaboration with Tsugumi Matsunaga , an up-and-coming video director who recently directed the music videos for voice actress Maaya Uchida ("Strobe Memory") and Rikako Aida ("FUTURE LINE").   The film clip features two sides of Yamashita - the positive side and the negative side. The positive side shows his usual relaxed and gentle expression, while the negative side shows his sorrowful and somewhat lonely expression. Also, the singing scenes ...

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In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the start of the broadcast of the TV anime Dragon Ball franchise, the reissue of the theme song analog records of Dragon Ball and its sequel Dragon Ball Z  has been decided by Nippon Columbia. The first episode of the first TV series was aired in Japan on February 26, 1986.   From Dragon Ball , a 7-inch single record including its OP theme "Makafushigi Adventure!" performed by Hiroki Takahashi and ED theme "Romantic Ageru yo" by Ushio Hashimoto, and an LP record "TV Manga Dragon Ball Hit Song Collection" containing the two theme songs and eight ultra-rare insert songs/character songs are planned to be released. Also from Dragon Ball Z , a 7-inch single record containing its OP theme song "CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA" by Hironobu Kageyama and ED theme song "Dettekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!" by MANNA will be released.   The three vinyl records are scheduled to be released simultaneously on July...

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Local residents tested out the 500m walkway, which spans a gorge in Portugal's Arouca Geopark. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3330493

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  The highly anticipated  LeSean Thomas -directed anime series Yasuke just launched on Netflix around the world today, and to get people excited for it, Netflix released the opening on YouTube for everyone to watch. The opening features Thundercat's "Black Gold" as the theme song to historically-inspired series.     Yasuke is out now worldwide on Netflix and is the brainchild of director LeSean Thomas , with animation produced at MAPPA, and produced by Flying Lotus , who also wrote the lyrics for the opening theme. Half-Black, half-Japanese actor  Jun Soejima  voiced Yasuke in Japanese in his first voice role with  Lakeith Stanfield  voices the titular character in English. Netflix describes the series as such:   "In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a peaceful existence after a past life of violence. But when a local village...