This year, Japan’s industry event AnimeJapan went fully digital. The weekend was full of live appearances and announcements for shows past, present, and future. It’s an opportunity for studios to roll out big news, and that’s exactly what we got. It would take forever to …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: VIZ Media There’s nothing quite like a great antagonist, and Castlevania season 3 has some of the best in the form of the deliciously wicked Council of Sisters. The third season of the hit animated series is now available in a complete Blu-ray …Read more »
If you’re any sort of sports fan in Japan, you can count on anime collaborations at some point or another. Baseball’s Pacific 6 have teamed up with Gundam, BanG Dream!, and famous baseball series, to name a few. Horse racing fans are in for a special …Read more »
Spring is here, and that means a brand new anime season! In the midst of all the new and continuing shows, we’ve got our eyes on some returning isekai anime. This trio of otherworldly adventures kicks off next month, bringing us back to some of …Read more »
The third season of the action-packed Castlevania animated series is about to make its home video debut on DVD and Blu-ray, making this the perfect time to reflect on what the series has done right so far. Thanks to its ability to nail some of …Read more »
Suzue Miuchi’s intense theatrical shoujo series Glass Mask has been running off and on since 1979. For more than 40 years, actresses Maya Kitajima and Ayumi Himekawa have vied for one unique honor: exclusive rights to play the lead in The Crimson Goddess. Two anime adaptations later, the …Read more »
Back in March, Yuuki Kikuchi’s web manga A Crocodile Who Will Die in 100 Days published its final installment. And, despite readers’ hopes that the 100th update would be a fake-out, it did just as advertised. One year later, a film inspired by the short …Read more »
What is Hideaki Anno really like? What inspired him to return to the world of Evangelion? What went into making the fourth and final Evangelion film? Those were some of the many questions probed in a long-form documentary that hit the airwaves in Japan March …Read more »
Big news for Ace Attorney fans this year: the game series’s annual orchestra concert is going global! Viewers worldwide can purchase a ticket and enjoy the music of the expanded game series. And, of course, that has us thinking about just how much we love the …Read more »
Anime can take you to all sorts of different places — from alternate dimensions to the distant past. Sometimes, though, the best settings are the least presumptuous. Take these small-town anime, set in rural spots you won’t find on any map. These low-key settings let …Read more »
As nice as it would be, not all our problems can be solved via brute force. Fortunately, there are smart anime characters on hand to get things done… in their respective shows, of course. We don’t have access to those smarts in the real world. …Read more »
We all know that the younger you are in an anime, the more likely you are to be severely overpowered. Teens and preteens are becoming magical girls and getting in robots. But most of the time, they’re still fairly benign with what they can do. …Read more »
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a year old! Oh, dear. It doesn’t feel that way, but we have a pretty good idea of why. Regardless, the game has been a major way for people to connect, socialize, and keep busy over the last 12 months. …Read more »
Sakura and anime. They go together like Brock and jelly donuts. For a lot of us, anime is where we first learned about the beauty and importance of cherry blossoms in Japan. Unless you live somewhere with its own cherry trees, of course. But while …Read more »
Waiting for the continuation of your favorite anime can seem like torture. Sometimes it’ll get picked up, sometimes it’s over for good. Especially when it’s based on a manga or light novel, there’s no telling if you’ll be left hanging. Without an announcement, of course. …Read more »
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