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AFA Station – J-Culture Entertainment Portal Launching 6th March!

AFA (Anime Festival Asia) is the #1 J-Culture festival in the region; over the previous decade, AFA has amassed a large community of J-Culture lovers spread out across South East Asia! AFA is launching its namesake AFA Station – J-Culture Entertainment Portal this 06 March 2021 on YouTube and AFASTATION.COM, to bring together J-Culture lovers…

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`The Way of the Househusband` Anime Starts in April on Netflix

Netflix has confirmed the release date of the anime, ‘The Way of the Househusband` on the streaming platform with a teaser trailer. Netflix first brought up the show in October 2020.

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DOTA: Dragon’s Blood Anime Series coming to Netflix

Netflix announced the upcoming release of DOTA: Dragon’s Blood, an all-new anime series based on the popular DOTA 2 video-game franchise by Valve. The 8 episode anime series is set to launch globally on March 25.

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Singing Cosplayer Hikari covers ‘A Cruel Angel’s Thesis’ as Rei Ayanami

Singing Cosplayer Hikari made her debut on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter on New Year’s day 2021. Her debut received an amazing reaction especially from Evangelion’s fans around the world.

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Sony’s Funimation Group to purchase AT&T’s Crunchyroll at $1.175B

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and AT&T Inc. has announced that AT&T agreed to sell its Crunchyroll anime streaming business to Funimation Global Group, LLC. at a purchase price for the transaction is USD $1.175 billion. The purchase is subject to customary working capital and other adjustments, and the proceeds will be paid in cash at…

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Sony Music Video Contents Streaming Across The Globe on Funimation Services

Sony Music Labels Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Manabu Tsujino) is excited to announce that video contents owned by Sony Music will be streamed across the world through services from Funimation Global Group, LLC (Funimation), an animation distribution company based in the United States. The first content will be the FLOW’s special concert FLOW…

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Mazinger Z-inspired film kicks-off the 2020 Japanese Film Festival

MANILA AND TOKYO (November 16, 2020) – The Japan Foundation, Manila kicks off its first digital edition of the Japanese Film Festival (JFF) with a drive-in cinema experience at the SM Mall of Asia with an ode to a manga and anime classic.

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Happiness Charge Pretty Cure Director Chiaki Kon to hold an online talk

MANILA (November 5, 2020) – The Japan Foundation, Manila is partnering with Animahenasyon PH: The Philippine Animation Festival again this year with an online film screening of Director KON Chiaki’s Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!: Ballerina of the Doll Kingdom (Nov 10, Tuesday, 11:15 am) and Virtual Director’s talk (Nov 10, Tuesday, 12:30 pm). A second online screening of Happiness Charge Pretty Cure! will be held…

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JAPAN FILM WEEK 2019

In celebration of the Philippine National Arts Month in February, The Japan Foundation Manila, in partnership with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and Nihongo Partners’ SPFL-CJH schools will have a Japanese Film Week—offering a series of Japanese film screenings inseveral regions targeting students and film goers as well as the general public…

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Celebrate the Philippines-Japan Friendship Month of July

MANILA (June 26) – The Embassy of Japan in the Philippines and the Japan Foundation, Manila in cooperation with various partner organizations are co-presenting an assortment of exciting cultural events to celebrate the longstanding warm friendship and cooperation between the Philippines and Japan. The Philippines-Japan Friendship Month is celebrated in the month of July to…

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