Author: Breana Ceballos

Netflix, the world’s leading internet entertainment service, continues to successfully expand its original Anime programming and today, during the Anime Lineup Presentation event at Akiba Theatre in Tokyo, presented some exciting highlights for the upcoming year. Today’s announcements join Netflix’ ever-growing slate of Anime that has already been captivating fans around the world, including this year’s series DEVILMAN crybaby or B: The Beginning. Over the course of 2019, viewers everywhere will be able to discover and enjoy even more Anime coming from some of the best creators in the word, as well as a chance to revisit some of the…

With only a few days left before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse coming out in theaters, Sony has high hopes for the film. So much so that they have already announced that they are planning for not only a sequel but a fully female spinoff as well. Joaquim Dos Santos, who most recently directed Netflix’s Voltron Series is set to direct the sequel. Joaquim also worked on the Avatar: the Last Airbender series for Nickelodeon. Slated to write the film is David Callaham. Callaham wrote the Expendables, Zombieland 2, and has worked on Wonder Woman 1984 as well. For the spinoff,  Lauren Montgomery is reportedly…

Willy Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas are joining The BFG, Matilda, The Twits, and a host of other iconic characters who have all found a brand new home together on Netflix! Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company jointly announced today that Netflix is extending the Roald Dahl universe of stories for global family audiences with an exclusive new slate of original animated event series, based on the books from the acclaimed and award-winning author’s best-selling library, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, and many other beloved titles. Roald Dahl stories have long inspired award-winning feature…

Last week a tweet from Nintendo Versus told us that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was “punching it’s way into the record books”. That shouldn’t be surprising news to fans of the series as the excitement in the air for this game is palpable. People are gearing up for an epic December 7th release of the game. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now the best selling game for pre-sales on the switch ever. https://twitter.com/NintendoVS/status/1065983308721471489 No official numbers have been released by Nintendo but they have told us that this is the best selling pre-sale in the history of Super Smash Bros.…

Batman the Animated Series is a favorite among many Batman fans. The iconic voice of Mark Hamill as the Joker is one of the many reasons we still cling to this show. In fact, when listing favorite Jokers’ Mark Hamill usually lands near the top of many fan rankings. Mark Hamill received a tweet from a fan asking him for his help. The twitter user asked which lines read by the joker he should recite in front of the class for a project he was doing. Hamill offered this advice, “Do his eulogy from ‘The Man Who Killed Batman’ by Paul…

Earlier this week a tweet from Chris Cason reminded us that in the year 2000 Japan made the most epic Christmas Tree. Complete with red glowing eyes and atomic breath this kaiju Christmas tree is definitely a sight to behold. https://twitter.com/Casonworld/status/1064874061505777665 It was created for the Aqua City Odaiba shopping center in Japan. Unfortunately this image runs 18 years back and the tree has not been updated since. But if you are willing to take on your own epic Christmas tree project hopefully here is some inspiration. While this may be considered old news there have been several Japanese bloggers uploading…

As a Thanksgiving treat Disney launched the official trailer for the new Lion King live action movie. As a super fan of the original Lion King animated movie that came out ’94 I was a little skeptical that this would hit all the beats. I should have trusted they would do it well because boy did they ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CbLXeGSDxg The trailer was quite impressive being narrated by none other than James Earl Jones himself as Mufasa. The music at the beginning sounds EXACTLY the same as the cartoon version. I’m not sure if they used the same track or…

Remember when they released Pokemon Pikachu? That little yellow digipet you had to shake to death for electricity points? Well Nintendo is doing us one better by giving us a tamagotchi version of many peoples favorite pokemon! Eevee! It was confirmed by the official tamagotchi website earlier this week that they were indeed coming out with this cute little guy. There will be two design options, “I love you, Eevee” or “Colorful Friends”. The Eevee version will be able to turn into one of the eight forms of his evolutions. The release date for this in Japan is January 26th,…

Yuumi Kato is representing Japan in the most epic way ever in this years Miss Universe contest. Her national outfit is that of the iconic Sailor Moon! https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaCb0cBuOJ/ Yuumi Kato was born in Nagoya and speaks four languages. She is set to compete December 17th in Thailand. This is only one of her outfits and she will wear others but what a statement! I mean look at all those sparkles! Let’s hope she triumphs over evil and the other contestants this Miss Universe pagent. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqZrc6pBA-H/ What do you think of the dress? Tell Nerdbot in the comments!

At Anime NYC VIZ Media announced that Sailor Moon Sailor Stars would be debuting in May of 2019. https://www.facebook.com/OfficialVIZMedia/photos/a.464403943551/10156940275953552/?type=3&theater Sailor Moon has been around for a while, and Sailor Stars has been around for 20+ years now. So why is everyone so excited that VIZ announced this last weekend that they were releasing the DVDs in spring next year? Well that’s because as long as it has been around, no one has ever dubbed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5txHGxJRwtQ Sailor Moon was first released in the USA dubbed by DIC in 1995. After trying to make it something of their own, and failing…