Gintoki and the rest of the cast of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama are heading back to Japanese theaters this summer in Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya , and Warner Brothers is teasing the film with a short new clip. In addition to …Read more »
Author Reki Kawahara has made a name for himself by writing the light novel series Accel World and Sword Art Online , both of which have gone on to expand into multimedia franchises. Kawahara will be attending Seattle's Sakura-Con later this month—the convention takes place …Read more »
Wolf Children is Mamoru Hosoda’s third full-length feature (and the third to premiere in the U.S. at the New York International Children’s Film Festival) and it continues his streak of artistically superior works of animation that also happen to be real crowd-pleasers. As good as …Read more »
Ok, so you may not exactly be able to get the IMAX experience through a mere embedded YouTube video, but the latest promo for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods is here to promote an even bigger release for the upcoming anime film. When Battle …Read more »
The used anime section is a cultural wasteland. Younger anime fans may not remember the days when anime on American home video didn’t generally come in full-season or half-season chunks. In the late Nineties and early Aughts, a typical twenty-six episode television series would run …Read more »
What happens when the fish you keep reeling in turns out to be Miss Muromi, a crazy, hard drinking mermaid? You end up with Miss Muromi on the Beach , an anime adaptation of Keiji Najima's Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san that's slated to make its debut …Read more »
Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo is still playing in Japanese theaters as of this writing. The film has been out since mid-November, which means that it has been playing for about 3½ months now. Weekday showings were apparently still sold out at the end …Read more »
Another famed and respected voice actor has left us with the passing of Gorō Naya . Among his most beloved roles are heavy-hitters like Inspector Zenigata in Lupin the Third, Captain Okita in Space Battleship Yamato , and Yupa in Nausicaä of the Valley of …Read more »
Toonami held a panel at this weekend's MomoCon, and they had a doozy of an announcement to make regarding new additions. The biggest reveal was the confirmation of One Piece joining the anime block's lineup, with FUNimation's dub of the Straw Hats' adventures set to debut …Read more »
We've seen a couple trailers showing off what to expect from the upcoming Dragon Ball Z theatrical feature, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods , but sometimes it's nice to take a step back and gawk at a few high quality stills . Goku and …Read more »
The Fairy Tail anime is scheduled to come to an end on March 30 with the airing of episode 175, but it's not disappearing completely from the airwaves. Reruns of the series are set to kick off on April 4 with Fairy Tail Best , …Read more »
After a few years of largely uncontested reign over (legal) anime streaming sites, Crunchyroll now faces competition from the Japanese themselves. The new streaming site Daisuki! is a collaboration of heavy hitters like Aniplex, Toei, TMS, and Sunrise, along with quite a few production and …Read more »
Aniplex of America has a new addition to its anime lineup with the announcement of Oreimo season 2 . The series will start streaming via Crunchyroll on April 6, with details on the home video release planned for a later date. The second season of …Read more »
Yūki Kodama's horror action manga Blood Lad —licensed in North America by Yen Press—is getting the anime adaptation treatment courtesy of production house Brains Base ( Durarara!!! ). Directed by Shigeyuki Miya ( Buzzer Beater ), the show is set to kick off this year, …Read more »
Back in January we posted a preview for Studio Trigger's Little Witch Academia anime short, which is part of this year's government-funded Anime Mirai young animator training project. Now it's anime studio Madhouse's turn with a look at their entry, Death Billiards . Death Billiards …Read more »
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