At this point it’s unlikely that anyone is powerful enough to actually stop the Straw Hats of One Piece, but a crew in Japan that named their ship after Luffy’s is currently in some hot water. Nine crew members were taken into custody on charges …Read more »
The news that always seemed inevitable is finally here, as the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean TV anime has officially been announced. The reveal came during the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure the Animation Special Event that was held in Japan, and Ai Farouz (Hibiki Sakura in …Read more »
It’s almost time to go back to class with Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun season 2! The adaptation of Osamu Nishi’s manga continues when the show premieres in Japan on April 17, followed by a simulcast on Crunchyroll, and you can see more footage in …Read more »
It’s time for a very short break for the My Hero Academia manga. The official Shonen Jump Twitter account announced that the series will be taking a week off due to the health of author Kohei Horikoshi. The series is off in the issue that …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 »
The Kamen Rider series is celebrating its 50th this year, and it’s off to a big start with the first phase of its anniversary project. Futo Detectives—the manga sequel to the 11th Heisei series, Kamen Rider W—is getting a web anime adaptation, with the premiere …Read more »
Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle, which debuted in Japan last fall, will become available to Western gamers this summer. However, the exact date hasn’t been revealed yet. This Nintendo Switch game is a continuation of the online game Shadowverse. An English trailer recently dropped. This is the …Read more »
The otome game Obey Me!, about a normal girl at a school for demons, is being turned into an anime. The anime will debut this summer, and a short animated scene was released along with this news. The comedic scene has seven handsome demon brothers …Read more »
The movie Sidonia no Kishi: Ai Tsumugu Hoshi (translated as Knights of Sidonia: The Star Where Love is Spun) will hit Japanese theaters on May 14. A new trailer for it has been released. Among other things, the trailer lets us hear a snippet of …Read more »
It seems Masaomi Ando, who directed Scum’s Wish and Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun, is back to work on another project. Studio Lerche is also involved. The anime is called Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shojo, which can be translated as Turnabout World’s Battery Girl. A description of the …Read more »
Publisher Shueisha has referred to 2021 as “My Hero Academia Year,” and it’s no wonder. The fifth season just debuted, its third movie will come out in a few months, it’s getting its own art exhibit, and now we’ve learned that it has more than …Read more »
Megumi Hayashibara is something of a Renaissance woman. She’s been a voice actress in countless anime franchises, including Evangelion, Ranma ½, Love Hina, Cowboy Bebop, Slayers, Pokémon and Shaman King. She’s coming out with a new book from Yen Press titled The Characters Taught Me …Read more »
Yasuke—a Netflix original anime that has LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) directing and Takeshi Koike (Redline) handling character designs at anime studio MAPPA—revealed its April 29 premiere plans early last month. The story of real-life African samurai Yasuke stars Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah) …Read more »
Well, I guess this is no longer an unlikely collaboration, because here it is right before our very eyes! Love Live! Sunshine!!‘s school idol group Aqours is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and one of the ways the nine-member VA unit is doing so is with …Read more »
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