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Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World fans: you can count among you, apparently, Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey, who took to Twitter late last month to float the idea of funding more Re:Zero anime. Luckey, who’s worth a reported $700 million, is specifically interested in …Read more »
News is now circulating that Hinata Takeda—artist for the Gosick light novels, as well as writer and illustrator for the Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth manga—passed away in January due to an undisclosed illness. The official announcement was made in the June issue of …Read more »
An anime adaptation was announced for Sekina Aoi's school comedy light novel series Gamers! last October, and an ad in Japan recently revealed some of the TV series' staff. Leading the charge is Manabu Okamoto (episodes director for The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls and Akame ga …Read more »
Clockwork Planet lists “manga by” and “character design by” and it feels like a manga weirdly shaped by opposing forces. The story takes place on a literal clockwork planet, made of springs and gears after Earth is destroyed. That’s at least two big science fictional …Read more »
That’s some pretty wild timing. Not a day after we posted a retrospective piece on Kino’s Journey , the 2003 anime series based on a series of light novels by Keiichi Sigsawa, it was announced those novels would be getting a brand-new anime adaptation. The …Read more »
The LIDEN FILMS anime adaptation of Akashic Records of bastard magic instructor , based on the light novels by Tarō Hitsuji, is set to premiere on TV in Japan on April 4. Ahead of that we have a new promo from Kadokawa, previewing more footage …Read more »
Anyone about to watch a series called Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? has to have a few questions floating around in their heads. Why is the title so long? What kind of dungeon are we talking about? And …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks is bringing Kyoto Animation's 2014 TV anime adaptation of Shoji Gatoh's Amagi Brilliant Park light novels to home video on February 28, so it's time to start meeting the English dub cast. Rather than simply rolling out a few names here and there, …Read more »
Is it wrong to make a spinoff of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? ? Not if it looks this cool, it ain’t. Sword Oratoria , the spinoff to the dungeon-crawling series that goes by DanMachi for short, is …Read more »
The year is coming to an end, and that means it’s list time. Getting the party started is Kono Raito Noberu ga Sugoi! ( This Light Novel is Amazing! ), a yearly guidebook that polls industry insiders to discover the best light novels of the …Read more »
J-Novel Club expanded its library further with the addition of two more light novel series. The latest licenses come from OVERLAP, Inc., and include The Faraway Paladin and Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension . Both series are available now on j-novel.club , which can be …Read more »
Anime Anime, one of Japan’s top anime news sites, runs a big survey every year asking its readers “what anime would you like to see get a sequel?” Kind folks they are, they’ve even broken the choices into original anime and stuff based on an …Read more »
Earlier this month we posted about J-Novel Club , the new simulpub service for Japanese light novels in English. They started with four titles and promised more by the end of the year, and now we know what two of the latest additions are. First …Read more »
There are a handful of streaming options for simulcast anime and simulpubbed manga, but how about light novels? That's a niche that J-Novel Club is looking to fill with the launch of a new website that lets readers dig into light novels in English as …Read more »
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be watching anime about gangsters. Fortunately, Japanese animation has provided a handful over the past few years. I’ve enjoyed practically all of them, but a valid criticism of most is that they don’t offer …Read more »
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