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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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Award-winning Bilingual Writer Yoko Tawada Talks about Writing in Two Languages

MANILA (June 22) – The Japan Foundation, Manila and Goethe-Institut Philippinen in partnership with the Literature Department and the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center of De La Salle University will host “Writing in Two Worlds: An Afternoon with Yoko Tawada” on July 9, 2018, 2:30 to 4:30pm, at the 20th Floor Multipurpose Room, Andrew…

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EIGASAI 2018: A Celebration of Collaboration and Diversity!

MANILA (June 11, 2018) – The Japan Foundation, Manila is pleased to announce the full lineup of films, guests and special talks for this year’s Japanese Film Festival, more popularly known as EIGASAI. In honor of the Philippine-Japan Friendship Month, EIGASAI’s 21st edition runs from July 4 to August 26, 2018 – with fifteen full-feature…

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