The latest anime addition from Sentai Filmworks is Magical Warfare . The 12-episode magical action anime comes from director Yuzo Sato ( Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge ), with Kazuyuki Fudeyasu ( Miss Monochrome , Princess Resurrection ) on series composition and Jiro Kouno ( …Read more »
Marvel vs. Capcom . Mortal Kombat vs. DC . Super Smash Bros . Fighting games have a long and proud tradition of throwing together a bunch of characters you’d never normally see in the same place. Namco Bandai Games are taking up the mantle this …Read more »
What happens when an orca is accused of murder? In our world it might simply get put down, depending on the circumstances, but in the world of Ace Attorney there's always more to the case than that. Thus, it's a no-brainer that Phoenix Wright and …Read more »
This past weekend saw the Sengoku Basara 4: Basara Matsuri 2014 ~Shinshun no Utage~ event held at Tokyo's Nippon Seinenkan Great Hall. While there's already plenty to celebrate about Capcom's series, including Sengoku Basara 4 on PlayStation 3, the event also revealed a new TV …Read more »
Amazing Twins —the two-episode OVA from Sailor Moon and Kaleido Star director Junichi Sato—is coming to Japan soon. The first episode will make its Blu-ray debut on February 26, with the second to follow on March 26. The short series is based on an original …Read more »
Things are looking pretty good for Yana Toboso's Black Butler series lately. In addition to a live-action movie set to open in Japan on January 18, the February issue of Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy magzine is announcing a new Black Butler anime. There's not …Read more »
Another year is over and somehow, despite my best efforts to streamline and condense my DVD collection, the anime continues to overflow my shelves, threatening to burst the hinges off the Vault of Error. 2013 is dead and gone, leaving me with little more than …Read more »
The live-action adaptation of Eiko Kadono's Kiki's Delivery Service fantasy novels—most known for the Studio Ghibli anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki—is coming to Japanese theaters on March 1. We've seen some footage in the past, and now website Crank In!! has some fresh stills …Read more »
As usual, Discotek Media took to Facebook to relay its latest announcements, and those made earlier today centered on one date: April 29. That's the day we'll be able to get our hands on DVDs of the first Mazinger Z collection, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade …Read more »
Fans of shoujo fare have a new anime to look forward to this spring with the announcement of a Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii ( Even So, The World is Beautiful ) adaptation. Based on the manga by Dai Shiina, serialized in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume …Read more »
Original anime World Conquest Zvezda Plot made its debut over the weekend, but if you're not completely sold yet you can peep a brand new English preview. Aniplex of America has a second English trailer for the latest from A-1 Pictures, the studio responsible for …Read more »
Even if it didn’t include directing Sword of the Stranger , Hanasaku Iroha , and Blast of Tempest , Masahiro Ando’s resume would be still be pretty darn impressive. Starting his career as a key animator, Ando’s action sequences in films like Jin-Roh , Cowboy …Read more »
My twitter feed has only recently stopped talking literally all the dang time about Pokémon XY , the recent Pokémon game for the 3DS that came out in October of last year, and already we’re getting news about the next Pokémon movie. The Pokémon Company’s …Read more »
2013 was a tumultuous year for the Japanese manga industry. Why, according to the ebookjapan.com newsletter I just got in my inbox, manga sales year-to-year in Japan are down to just 3/5ths of what they were during their peak way back in 1996. Something you …Read more »
This isn’t something I’ve actually thought about (I swear), but… how much would it cost to live in your favorite anime character’s house or apartment? I’m not a realtor, but the good folks at Movoto took it upon themselves to dig deep and find out …Read more »
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