The SHIKIZAKURA TV anime is bringing together creators from throughout Japan’s Tokai region, including Shinya Sugai (CGI director for The Ancient Magus’ Bride) as general director, Go Kurosaki (CG director for Love Live! Sunshine!!) as director, and Naruki Nakagawa (Scar-red Rider XechS) as series composition …Read more »
This past weekend’s Adult Swim Con didn’t just have more info on the Blade Runner: Black Lotus CG anime, it also served up the reveal of a brand new Crunchyroll and Adult Swim production. Fena: Pirate Princess is an original anime from the folks at …Read more »
If you’ve been holding out for more info on the Demon Slayer: Mugen Train movie, you just have less than a week to wait. More details are officially on the way, with the next update to be unveiled on the Abema streaming service’s Anime 2 …Read more »
New CG-animated feature Stand By Me Doraemon 2 was supposed to arrive in August, but has since been delayed. There’s currently no new release date, but there is a new trailer along with some fresh additions to the cast. Grown-up Nobita will be played by …Read more »
Man, if you’d told me a decade ago there’d be not one but multiple Blade Runner anime productions, I’d have submitted you to a Voight-Kampff test to make sure you weren’t lying. And you’d have passed it, because in the wake of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Black …Read more »
Hey Death Note fans: remember the watch Light Yagami wore with a secret compartment for taking secret, death-related notes? Now that watch can be yours thanks to the folks at SuperGroupies. That’s the apparel maker behind a lot of the licensed anime merch we’ve featured …Read more »
We can’t wait to see what Flowers of Evil director Hiroshi Nagahama does with Junji Ito’s Uzumaki, but we’re going to have to for just a little longer. This weekend’s Comic-Con@Home brought with it a new trailer and an updated plan that has the four-episode …Read more »
What happens when you have Takeshi Sano, director of the Tower of God anime adaptation, helm a Rick and Morty short? Thankfully, Adult Swim came through to answer that question during this weekend’s Toonami block. “Rick and Morty vs. Genocider” is a special short animated …Read more »
If you’ve been keeping up with the delightful Pokémon: Twilight Wings series of anime shorts, it’s almost time for the next chapter. Twilight Wings episode 7 is officially set to debut in Japan on August 6 at 10:00pm Japan Time, which is 6:00am Pacific/9:00am Eastern. …Read more »
Sunghoo Park, director of the Crunchyroll Original The God of High School, knew he wanted to get into animation since a young age. It started with his love of Macross in elementary school, he told Crunchyroll in an interview. “To make that dream [of becoming …Read more »
Ryudai Ishizaka’s sports manga Iwa Kakeru! -Climbing Girls- manga is coming to TV in the form of an anime adaptation titled Iwa Kakeru! -Sports Climbing Girls-, and a release date has officially been set. The series will premiere in Japan this October, so now’s a …Read more »
The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of The Gods is finally hitting Netflix. The series, which ran from October 2019 to March, is set to hit the streaming service August 6. Hey, isn’t sloth one of the seven deadly sins? We kid, we kid. Sort …Read more »
With the new Inuyasha spinoff on the way this October, fans are feeling nostalgic for the Rumiko Takahashi classic. Now a pop-up cafe celebrating the series is set for the major Japanese cities of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Like most of these anime-themed pop-up cafes, …Read more »
With the Rent-A-Girlfriend anime officially underway, it’s time to turn our attention toward its ending theme, which comes from anison singer halca. A two-minute version of her music video for “Kokuhaku Bungee Jump,” which is also her sixth single, recently debuted, and she appropriately takes …Read more »
While everyone is getting sucked into Re:ZERO season two, series creator Tappei Nagatsuki has another project on the way to the small screen. Nagatsuki’s latest is an original TV anime titled Warlords of Sigrdrifa, which is scheduled to premiere in Japan this October following a …Read more »
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