Gainax's new Kobe branch, Gainax West, has something cooking in the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt department. What started with a mysterious "coming soon" tweet featuring Panty and Stocking's familiar silhouettes was soon followed with the promise of more information on December 16. The original …Read more »
Noitamina, the alternative animation block on Fuji TV, has given us series like Mononoke , Psycho-Pass , Erased and Kababeri , so we’re always excited to see what’s next. Now we’ve got the trailer and some cast and crew details for Noitamina’s January series, Scum’s …Read more »
The Overlord anime series—based on the books written by Kugane Maruyama—will be revisited in theaters in a compilation film project, and more details have arrived since it was first announced. The latest update has the compilation being split into two parts, with Overlord: The Undead …Read more »
Earlier today Yen Press hopped on Twitter to make a few announcements, starting with plans to release Ayano Takeda's first Sound! Euphonium novel. The English release is currently slated for summer 2017 in North America. Also due out next summer is Mutsumi Okuhashi's Grimgar of …Read more »
In our recent Anime USA special issue, as part of an overview of anime studio BONES I expressed regret that their 2007 theatrical film Sword of the Stranger originally released by Bandai Entertainment was long out of print and more or less forgotten, if it …Read more »
Those holding out for the second season of the Ajin anime don't have much longer to wait. According to a recent Netflix listing, the adaptation of Gamon Sakurai's manga will continue on December 27. Ajin season two is currently running in Japan as part of …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: The classic Japanese anime fantasy film, Spirited Away , is coming back to cinemas nationwide for on Sunday, December 4 and Monday, December 5 only. The Sunday, December 4 showing will be dubbed in English, while the Monday, December 5 showing will …Read more »
Where would modern anime be without anthropomorphism? In anime series of recent years, boys and girls have been turned into computers, months, aircraft carriers and, perhaps most famously, countries involved in World War II. But starting in April it’s rice rice baby. Love Kome -We …Read more »
Say “Hiroshima” to someone from the west and someone from Japan, and you’re likely to conjure up two very different mental images. For most people in America, Hiroshima is synonymous with a single moment: 8:15 am, August 6, 1945, the world’s first use of a …Read more »
Meguru Ueno's Hajimete no Gal ( First-Time Gal ) is a high school romantic comedy that's been running in Kadokawa's Monthly Shonen Ace for just about a year. It's already going to make the transition to anime, though, and an official website for the TV …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka's classic Astro Boy is getting a prequel in the form of Atom the Beginning , which is officially set to air on NHK General TV in spring 2017. In addition to that, the staff for the anime has been updated, with production to …Read more »
What Seiya Kanie thinks is a confession he cannot refuse, delivered by recent transfer student Isuzu Sento, turns out to be quite another kind of proposal in the comedy Amagi Brilliant Park. Seiya is smart and attractive, and the problem is that he knows it. …Read more »
"The war is not over yet" for Gundam Thunderbolt , the anime series based on Yasuo Ohtagaki's manga of the same name. A second season is on the way, and Bandai Visual posted a teaser trailer for the spring 2017 continuation. Via Anime News Network …Read more »
In Taboo Tattoo , a 2016 action TV anime with direction by Takashi Watanabe and animation by J.C. Staff, Justice “Seigi” Akatsuka is an ordinary middle school student with a penchant for martial arts and a strong moral sense in favor of his namesake. He …Read more »
Funimation is bringing One Piece Film: Gold to North American theaters for a brief January 10-17 run, and ahead of that we have our first preview featuring the English dub. More information on theaters and screenings should pop up later on the official website , …Read more »
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