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The first volume of the Time Killing Arc opens with a horrific murder in 1985. From there, without explanation, we’re taken back to 1978. Tokyo police detective Akasaka is being sent to Hinamizawa, despite the fact that his wife is about to give birth. And …Read more »
At the beginning of the Demon Exposing Arc , Natsumi is a nice, normal girl who lives with her mother, father and grandmother. By the end the family is filled with horror and not everyone is still alive. Natsumi is having a good day at …Read more »
Shion hates her boarding school and decides to escape. It doesn’t occur to her that she might be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. Shion’s family had an old custom when it came to twins: “If twin successors are born, strangle …Read more »
Several people are in a house in the cursed village of Hinamizawa during a stormy night. One of them gets murdered and the murderer is among them. In Hinamizawa, this sort of awful thing was bound to happen. Arakawa came to Hinamizawa to write about …Read more »
MangaGamer has made a nice niche for itself through the sale of text-heavy dating-sim games—or "bishojo games," if you will—translated into English. If you're curious about any of their titles but have been holding off on giving them a spin for whatever reason, there's now …Read more »
Some journalists are content sitting behind their computers and working. Not Arakawa. After writing about Hinamizawa—a supposedly cursed Japanese village where the people were all killed one night—he decides to visit the ghost town himself. He’s warned not to, but all he can do is …Read more »
The anime movie The Colors Within (a.k.a. Kimi no Iro in Japanese) did really well at LA’s Animation Is Film festival over the weekend. For starters, it received its North American debut at the festival. Then, in terms of awards, it took home the Audience …Read more »
It’s October, which means a lot more Halloween-related things will be rolling out. Crunchyroll is doing a few things for the holiday, including making some of its horror titles more easily available. For starters, Crunchyroll is offering an additional 20 horror anime titles on their …Read more »
There is sad news coming out of Japan as we learn about the death of anime producer Hiroyuki Omori, whose credits include JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, When They Cry – Higurashi, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Highschool of the …Read more »
According to the seventh collected volume of Takashi Shiina and Katsuyuki Sumisawa’s Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon manga, the adaptation is getting ready to kick off the final battle. The announcement says that portion of the story will begin this fall when the eighth volume ships. The …Read more »
The latest anime film from director Naoko Yamada is Kimi no Iro, and last time we checked in on the project it had been pushed back to 2024, scratching its initial fall 2023 premiere plans. Now a date is in place, and it turns out …Read more »
An anime adaptation was announced for Cocoa Fujiwara’s The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies romance manga in November 2023, and now we have more information. The latest update came through with a key visual, voice cast members for the leads …Read more »
The Japanese website Comic Natalie put out a survey titled the “Shonen Sunday and Sunday Web Every Heroine General Election.” Rather than let the survey be a free-for-all of every female character with some prominence in the storyline, Comic Natalie then put out a list …Read more »
A new visual and trailer have arrived for the Hero Classroom anime, which is dashing toward us to adapt the fantasy light novel series by Shin Araki. Check out the introduction of six of the main characters below—including Blade (VA: Reiji Kawashima), Arnest Flaming (Misuzu …Read more »
The BL manga Mask Danshi: This Shouldn’t Lead to Love (or Mask Danshi wa Koishitakunai no ni in Japanese) is being turned into an anime! To be more specific, it will be an OAD, and in Japan it’s set to be bundled with the manga’s …Read more »
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