Alliance Arts Brings Internet Chaos to Anime Expo 2026 with Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis and Drunken Goddess Reflux
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT MORE COVERAGE AT ANIME EXPO 2026 LOS ANGELES, CA- Publisher Alliance Arts and developer WHO YOU have crafted a gleefully unhinged love letter to early-2000s internet culture. Creator Fuyuki Hayashi pushes the limits of sanity with two wildly inventive titles…
Neverness to Everness Preview: Building a Life in Hethereau at Anime Expo 2026
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT MORE COVERAGE AT ANIME EXPO 2026 LOS ANGELES, CA- Neverness to Everness (NTE) drops you straight into Hethereau, a paranormal metropolis where the supernatural is just another part of the daily commute. Developed by Hotta Studio in Unreal Engine 5,…
Beyond the Screen: Inside Anime Expo 2026 and the Rise of Mainstream Anime Culture
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT MORE COVERAGE AT ANIME EXPO 2026 LOS ANGELES, CA- At Anime Expo, seeing where you needed to go was not the same as being able to reach it. A booth could sit directly across the exhibition hall, its logo clearly…
GIRLI Turns Opinionated Pop Into a Queer Feminist Rallying Cry at Lodge Room Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA- GIRLI, born Milly Toomey and raised in North London by actor parents who encouraged her creativity, has been doing this since she was a teenager, booking a Roundhouse rehearsal room for a pound an hour. Back then, the music room at…
Steve Aoki and Mia Takarabe’s “Heartless” Signals a New Global Era for J-Pop
LOS ANGELES, CA- Japan has been trending for years, making its way into our daily lives one anime episode or sushi roll at a time. But what about the music? Slowly but surely, more Japanese tracks have been landing on global streaming playlists, more…
Nobody Puts CHANMINA in a Corner: Inside the Japanese Superstar’s Defiant Rise at Zipangu Festival
LOS ANGELES, CA- The entertainment industry loves a neat label. One to slap onto an artist for an easy marketing campaign. Pop star. Hip-hop artist. Rocker. But what happens when an artist refuses the packaging? “CHANMINA! CHANMINA!” Before she even stepped onto the stage…
Sung Kang Talks Forza Horizon 6, Drifter, Tokyo Car Culture, and His Ultimate LoFi Driving Soundtrack
Sung Kang on the jacket that lit up Tokyo, a game he didn’t expect to love, and wearing LEDs to a car meet. LOS ANGELES, CA- I’ve stood under the neon glow of Tokyo at midnight, feeling the vibration of a modified engine hit straight…
MAN WITH A MISSION Bring Humor, Heart, and Arena-Level Energy to Zipangu Festival 2026
LOS ANGELES, CA- For years, Japanese artists have cultivated enormous international fanbases online while the Western live industry lagged behind. Zipangu felt like one of the first large-scale American festivals willing to fully meet that audience where it already exists. And if any band…
The Balloon Animals Redefine Soul and Rhythm with Unpredictable Performances
TOKYO, JP- When London-born vocalist Max Milner and Ecuadorian percussionist Pablo Vicencio met in Bali, the Island of Gods and a crossroads for artists in search of a new creative pulse. The collaboration that emerged was anything but ordinary. What started as informal jam sessions…
Bring Me the Horizon Reimagine Their Legacy with Surprise Lo-Fi Album “Lo-files”
LOS ANGELES, CA- For nearly two decades, Bring Me the Horizon have been one of rock’s most restless shape-shifters. Emerging from Sheffield in the mid-2000s with feral deathcore beginnings, they’ve evolved with near-obsessive reinvention, morphing from metalcore chaos into stadium-sized alt-rock, electronic experiments, and…
