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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is getting a theatrical film in fall 2022. Woo! The announcement comes as the the popular series finishes off its second season, and comes with a short teaser. Here’s how Funimation describes That Time I Got Reincarnated …Read more »
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya is preparing for a new chapter with the film Licht Nameless Girl. Originally created as yet another Fate alternate universe, the series has gained a major following of its own. And it’s not the only time that’s happened! Lots of magical girl …Read more »
As we celebrate 50 years of Lupin the Third onscreen, we’re having fun looking back at all his weird and wonderful adventures. And we realized… he’s gone up against some genuinely strange foes. We don’t just mean Zenigata in one of his moods either. We’re talking mad scientists, …Read more »
Last month we ran a reader poll on the best mecha franchise, and Mobile Suit Gundam won so handily that we just had to find out which Gundam series or standalone film was most popular. Given Gundam‘s history spanning over 40 years as one of …Read more »
For more than a century, Japan’s Takarazuka Revue has put on lavish stage musicals with all-female casts. From historical dramas to romances to anime-inspired stories in recent years, they’re always stunning. And, just as their shows sometimes include anime-inspired titles, anime tips its hat to …Read more »
We heard you like anime. How about an anime series hiding inside another anime series? With shows being pretty self-aware lately, you’re likely to find anime fans in the cast. That means they need something to watch… and that means a whole other show-within-a-show. Whether …Read more »
Whether you’re going back to school in person, online, or sending one of your own back, the new school year is always a little stressful. If only academia was more like anime… well, in some cases, at least. Here are a few upbeat school anime …Read more »
It’s been a while since Pop Team Epic was last on the air, but we’ll confess… we just can’t stop thinking about Hellshake Yano. Unless, of course, it’s because we’re thinking about Magma Mixer Murata. That goes double this week, considering the epic saga started in …Read more »
For decades, anime adaptations of shonen manga have represented the bulk of the most popular titles in Japan. Initially the anime brought to the United States was a little more genre-diverse, but Cartoon Network syndicated Dragon Ball Z in 1998, localized anime rapidly became as …Read more »
Ashie Taiyou is a teenager who’s always dreamed of making it as a rock musician, but so far stardom has eluded him. In his senior year, he plans to end high school with a bang by putting on a big performance, but his bandmates quit …Read more »
Teamwork, self-awareness, and optimism Baseball and anime seem to go hand in hand, from classic works like Touch and Princess Nine to this year’s repeated team-ups between Gundam and the Pacific League. The spring 2019 anime season has gifted us with two baseball series on opposite ends …Read more »
If you’ve been hoping to get your hands on the Madoka Magica smartphone game, Aniplex of America revealed some good news this weekend. Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story is coming to mobile devices in the United States and Canada, with a release currently scheduled for this …Read more »
If you thought the new Eminem track “Good Guy” sounded a bit, uh, ghoulish, now you know why. It turns out that producer illaDaProducer, who worked on the track, worked in a sample from the song “Glassy Sky” from the Tokyo Ghoul √A soundtrack. Initially …Read more »
Hitoshi Sakimoto is a well-known composer in the video game world, with a generations-spanning career that includes games like Final Fantasy Tactics , Final Fantasy XII , Valkyria Chronicles , and many more. We caught up with him at the Tokyo offices of BlazeGames, where …Read more »
Tetsuya Akutsu stands with his hands in his pockets, an embarrassed grin on his face. “I haven’t cleaned the place in a while,” he explains. In his defense, the place, a room on the second floor of a house in west Tokyo, isn’t so much …Read more »
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