Disclosure: The author also works as Senior EN News Editor for Crunchyroll News, and a digital screener was provided for the film. Despite the fact that Kirito, Asuna and the rest of the Sword Art Online cast have really been put through the wringer over …Read more »
This week marked the arrival of Masaaki Yuasa’s INU-OH anime film on Blu-ray, coming just after the feature missed the chance to compete in this year’s Academy Awards. While it may not be up for an Oscar, INU-OH deserves all the praise it’s gotten over …Read more »
Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudo, a manga about being reincarnated into a world without the concept of religion, is getting the anime treatment in 2023. Now we know a little bit more about the series, including who’s directing and starring. Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudo …Read more »
Goodbye, Don Glees! centers around three teenage boys: Roma, Toto and Drop. The title comes from a nickname they call themselves. They’re not the cool kids, as they very well know, and they get blamed for a fire they didn’t start. There’s a drone out …Read more »
Tomona is a blind biwa priest who is haunted by the ghost of his dead father. And this isn’t the most unusual thing in the movie. Inu-Oh is musical surrealism, with trippy imagery set with memorable songs. Tomona’s life changes when he meets the titular …Read more »
Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO is the answer to all the fans throughout the years who have been asking for more focus on characters other than Goku and Vegeta. The movie’s main character this time around is Piccolo, who is tasked with bringing out Gohan’s …Read more »
Pompo isn’t your average film producer. She may look like a young girl on the surface, but she has the grit, determination and taste of a real Roger Corman under that adorable exterior. She works at a studio in Nyallywood that pumps out B-movies while …Read more »
Disclosure: The author of this review is also an editor for Crunchyroll News. Like an American comic book in the mid ’90s, Gege Akutami’s JUJUTSU KAISEN manga opted to explore the past in a zero-numbered prequel story. That tale—appropriately titled JUJUTSU KAISEN 0—served as the …Read more »
BELLE takes inspiration from the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, but it’s put into the modern world. Teenage Suzu has been struggling emotionally since a tragedy in her early childhood, but when she becomes “Bell” on the virtual platform U, things turn around for …Read more »
The “great anime titles we’ll never see released in the U.S.” list continues to shrink, because after 35 years of waiting—easy to write, but try LIVING it—it has finally happened: for the first time ever, the Greek mythology inspired Neo Heroic Fantasia Arion is legally …Read more »
Cross Academy has an interesting setup: during the day it teaches regular humans, but its night school caters to vampires. Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster, finds herself torn between her loyalty and feelings for Kaname, a Pureblood vampire of the Night Class, …Read more »
Shaman King was always an oft-underlooked part of the shonen anime circuit. While shows like Yu Yu Hakusho and Dragon Ball Z pulled in massive audiences, Shaman King was content to settle in the shadows and attract its own loyal audience. Still, despite a somewhat …Read more »
SAKUGAN makes its debut later this week, on October 7. From today, October 4, until December 19, a charity auction associated with SAKUGAN is taking place in Japan. SAKUGAN is working with auction site Mobaoku and charity group WakeAi, which helps with food and preventing …Read more »
I could barely believe it in 2012, when the United States finally saw a DVD release of the 1979 shojo anime classic, The Rose of Versailles. In 2020, I was taken even more aback by the release of an English version of Riyoko Ikeda’s original …Read more »
The most jacked featherweights ever The definitive boxing anime of the 2000s is back, and perhaps for the first time it’s getting a fair shot at success in the US. It took Jyoji “George” Morikawa roughly a decade before he would agree to permit his …Read more »
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