Tag: Anime
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Kei Urana Leaves X After Fan Backlash
Kei Urana, the creator of Gachiakuta, has reportedly deleted her X/Twitter account following backlash from parts of the fanbase. The controversy began after Urana reposted a viral recreation of Zanka’s dance scene from Gachiakuta. While many fans initially viewed the video as a playful tribute, others criticized it, arguing that the recreation came across as…
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Crunchyroll’s Subscriber Boom Raises a Big Question: Why Did Profit Fall So Hard?
Crunchyroll is still growing, but its latest financial numbers suggest that growth may be getting expensive. According to reports based on Crunchyroll’s public financial filing in Japan’s Official Gazette, the company’s net profit for the fiscal year ending December 2025 fell to 453 million yen, down from 1.239 billion yen the previous year. That represents…
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Another Anime Piracy Giant Goes Dark — Is This the Beginning of the End?
The anime streaming world may be entering a major turning point. Over the past few months, several of the internet’s biggest unofficial anime streaming sites have either disappeared, gone offline, or been caught in the growing wave of global anti-piracy pressure. For years, these sites were a major part of how many fans discovered and…
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Yukie Maeda Passes Away After Final Farewell to Voice Acting
The anime and voice acting world is mourning the loss of Yukie Maeda, who has passed away at 52, only days after formally stepping away from the profession because of illness. Reports in Japan said Maeda had been battling a malignant sarcoma and announced in late February 2026 that she would retire at the end…
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Cosplay Today
Cosplaying has been something that I personally do not participate in but do enjoy seeing what people create online. Being able to see people bring characters they love to life while allowing fans to see their creations. It has become massive in the west in recent years as social media expanded, giving cosplayers from the…
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I’m Captain Jack!
Fir years now, people have paid fir and dealt with streaming services because it was the future. Get rid of those dusty discs, throw out those games. Streaming is the way and future of society. Some years later we hear from the World Economic Forum and people such as George Soros with his Oprn Society…
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Piracy on the Rise
Piracy was called dead and done in the year 2020 but in 2024, sites had seen more views than the current paid platforms and in many cases, more than some combined. This became very concerning to those companies as people had been slowly dropping subscriptions in favor of said sites. With how Crunchyroll switched.subtitles for…