All but the iconic crescent of the Moon has been obliterated, and even less could remain of Earth unless Class 3-E’s collection of misfits and underperformers can kill the super-powered perpetrator. As it so happens, the tentacled terrorist who’s threatening the world just became Class …Read more »
People are strange when you’re a stranger, but when you are acquainted, sometimes they’re stranger yet. In any random assortment of people, there’s bound to be an oddball or two. But to wind up in a group consisting of nothing but those with a few …Read more »
The Flying Witch anime is getting ready to adapt the manga by Chihiro Ishizuka, with a premiere date set for April. The 12-episode series follows a teenage witch-in-training as a move to live with her cousin's family takes her from Yokohama to rural Aomori. Now …Read more »
More details have been divulged for the upcoming March Comes in Like a Lion anime, which adapts the manga by Chika Umino. As revealed in this year's second issue of Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine, the anime will be directed by Akiyuki Simbo ( Puella Magi …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai independently released a five-minute anime short titled She and Her Cat back in 1999, and now it's returning as a TV anime. Kanojo to Kanojo no neko -Everything Flows- is coming to the Ultra Super Anime Time block on Tokyo MX and BS11, …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks picked up the My Love Story!! anime license back in May of last year, and it looks like they have even bigger plans for this one. My Love Story!! , which adapts the romantic comedy manga written by Kazune Kawahara and illustrated by …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Old habits die hard, especially when those old habits involve living in a fantasy world of your own design. Try as you might to escape it, some things come hurling back no matter how far you run, and that's what Ichiro Sato discovers …Read more »
The latest Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 footage from Bandai Namco pits new vs. old, with Naruto taking on his future son Boruto and Sasuke fighting future daughter Sarada. Those who pre-order will get Boruto and Sarada as playable characters, so see how they …Read more »
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk: Hōka Kenran is a PS Vita game based on Yuu Miyazaki and okiura's The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water light novels, and its release is looming on the not-so-distant horizon. Bandai Namco will be releasing the action-RPG in Japan …Read more »
Yoshiaki Sukeno's Twin Star Exorcists is getting an anime adaptation this year, and the February issue of Jump Square magazine has a preview of the character designs for its leading cast members. Tomohisa Taguchi ( Persona 4 Golden The Animation ) directs the adaptation, with …Read more »
Thought you were done with end-of-year lists, did you? Just one more, we promise: this one was too interesting to pass up. We bring you a lot of lists sharing the opinions of your Japanese anime-watching peers, but they’re often limited to rankings of characters …Read more »
Feast your eyes, Kuroko fans. The first visual for the upcoming Kuroko’s Basketball stage play, Kuroko’s Basketball The Encounter , has been revealed. And yeah, they kept the blue hair. Kuroko’s Basketball The Encounter , which premieres at Sunshine Gekijo in Tokyo in April and …Read more »
Hoping to gain more insight into where the industry is headed, Japanese site Anime Anime polled its readership late last year, asking exactly how they go about watching anime and about their home video buying habits. The first question asked was, “normally, how do you …Read more »
Those looking forward to the upcoming Shinji Higuchi/Hideaki Anno-helmed Godzilla film got a surprise today, as photos leaked from Toho Studios show the new version of the Big G set to hit screens in July. The photos, which were likely taken on a cell phone …Read more »
Talk to a Star Trek fan and chances are almost 100% that they’ve at least seen the original series from 1966 (that was nearly 45 years ago!), even if they only just recently became interested in the property thanks to the 2009 movie. Similarly, newly-made …Read more »
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