It’s time for another installment of Your Favorite Anime is Secretly Horrifying. Thank you for leaving the dark corner in your bedroom for long enough to read this article. This week we’re looking at one of the most popular anime franchises of all time. If …Read more »
Tokyo Station, the main hub for a whole mess of local trains, bullet trains in and out of the capital city, plus a vast underground shopping center, recently turned 100, and, naturally, an anime was released to mark the occasion. Because Japan. The short, which …Read more »
I don't think I would have believed the current state of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure even as recently as when we first shared our impressions of David Production's anime adaptation . When Part I: Phantom Blood kicked off, a small vocal fanbase let their feelings be …Read more »
It's been both rumored and expected, especially since the manga has been such a success, but it's now official : Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom is getting a TV anime adaptation, set to air on Fuji TV in 2015. That's not all, though, because the series …Read more »
Welcome back to Your Favorite Anime is Secretly Horrifying , where we make anime fans cry. We look at popular anime that are surprisingly dark when you peek under the surface. The conclusions we come up with probably weren’t the intentions of the creators, but …Read more »
It’s only a slight exaggeration to say if you’ve watched any anime in the last five years, you’ve seen something written by Mari Okada. An incredibly busy script supervisor, screenwriter and one of the most prominent women working in anime, Okada’s credits include (but are …Read more »
The people making the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure TV series have to do a lot of condensing to get through the original manga's sheer amount of content. The first part, Phantom Blood , was sped through in just nine TV episodes. The rest of the 26-episode …Read more »
The live-action superhero series Garo has had a major (likely pachinko-fueled) revival in the last few years. Garo's a Makai Knight, a Kamen Rider-like superhero. The show borrows the structure of a kids' hero show, but the contents are a little darker, the hero not …Read more »
You know what's sweet about robots? Docking. Docking definitely rules. Admit it, it's totally satisfying when two giant mechanical pieces lock into place like Legos. When two fire engines dock? That's pretty cool. When a man flies his little hovercraft into the head of a …Read more »
The first of two anime film compilations for Attack on Titan is coming to theaters in Japan later this year, covering the first 13 episodes of the TV anime. Advance tickets for "Guren no Yumiya" come with a B6-size mini clear file of two types …Read more »
The new take on Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga is gearing up for its big premiere, and Viz Media is celebrating by promoting the upcoming simulcast on Neon Alley and Hulu. Sailor Moon Crystal premieres on both services July 5, the same time as its …Read more »
To be honest, I walked into the screening of The Next Generation: Patlabor episodes two and three ready to write the whole thing off as a failure. I’d seen episode one and did not think too highly of it: it felt like another unnecessary, awkward …Read more »
If you're not aware, a long-overdue child pornography law was passed in Japan this week which finally bans the possession (production and sales were already outlawed) of pornographic depictions of children. The exception is, notably, comics and cartoons, rationale being that children aren't abused in …Read more »
Long heroes of the old-school anime fan, tiny anime distributor Discotek opts to avoid the latest, hottest stuff and opts instead to quietly license cult-- and typically older-- anime in cheap DVD box sets to the great joy of fans. At the risk of sounding …Read more »
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