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Pokémon’s Team Rocket, Professor Oak Voice Actor Retires Due To Cancer
James Carter Cathcart — the voice actor behind iconic Pokémon characters such as Professor Oak, his son Gary, and Team Rocket’s James and Meowth — is retiring from the anime after 25 years due to an advanced form of cancer.
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Lewd Ghibli Posters Now Very Sorry For Causing ‘Distress’
Earlier this month we reported that a small number of people had been taking and appearing in “lewd” photos with statues at Studio Ghibli’s new theme park, and that the act of posting those images on social media had reportedly “disturbed many people”.
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Pokémon Fans Crushed That Team Rocket Disbands At End Of Anime
The latest Pokémon Journeys: The Series episode just aired in Japan this Friday, and it has fans panicking. The anime is in its final season, and fans hoped that the most recent episode would satisfyingly wrap up Team Rocket’s story — but it was quite the opposite. Even Team Rocket’s haters feel that the villainous…
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Hayao Miyazaki’s Potentially Final Film Will Release In 2023
After a ten-year hiatus from feature films, Hayao Miyazaki is returning to the director’s chair with How Do You Live. Miyazaki has “retired” and then returned to direct another film many times over the past thirty years. Thank goodness he did, as he announced his first retirement a year before he decided to make Spirited…