Ten years ago, Puella Magi Madoka Magica arrived, shocking anime fans everywhere. While magical girls have always suffered and cute art has always hidden dark stories, it was still plenty notable. Ten years later, the series is celebrating a decade of influence, spinoffs, games, movies, and …Read more »
Fans are buzzing with excitement over the impending arrival of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. The sixth installment in Hirohiko Araki’s weird saga introduces Jolyne Cujoh, our first (and so far only) female JoJo. It also introduces tons more expectedly bizarre characters… including the baseball-uniform-wearing Emporio …Read more »
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since The Melacholy of Haruhi Suzumiya first aired. Based on the hit light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa and Noizi Ito, the show invaded our lives on April 2, 2006. And from there it went on to unprecedented …Read more »
Higurashi: When They Cry continues its celebrated return this summer with a new series. The SOTSU arc will add new twists and turns to the already twisty-turny revival of the horror classic. Equally twisty and turny, though, is the series’s life outside its own boundaries. From cameos …Read more »
In recent years, April Fools’ Day has gone from a day of lies and pranks (lame) to a day of entertaining but obvious gags (awesome). Comic artists switch strips, companies “rebrand,” and Google could be doing just about anything. But when it comes to elaborate …Read more »
Do you know what day it is? Neither do we. Between springing forward and… you know… other things… time seems kind of fluid right now. Kind of like it is in these time travel anime! (Yes, in a pinch, we can bring anything back to …Read more »
These days, a lot of our favorite anime tunes are coming from fictional idol groups. Whether it’s the school idols of Love Live!, the many bands of BanG Dream!, or whatever’s going on with Uma Musume, we love cheering for our hopeful animated stars. But while ladies continue …Read more »
When we think of magical fighters in anime, we tend to thing of girls. Sailor Moon, Madoka, and many more top the list. But it’s not just girls having all the fun… there are a fair few magical boys in the anime world, and they’re …Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Kara Dennison
