Your Name has earned some of your money. The film, which (finally) opened in U.S. theaters April 7, made an estimated $1.6 million dollars over the weekend. Your Name , which is being released in dubbed and subtitled form by Funimation, opened on 303 screens …Read more »
Whenever I watch Drifters: Battle in a Brand-New World War, that opening exchange from 1985’s Rambo: First Blood Part II comes to mind. It’s a top-rate action movie, hugely influential on film and video games (you’d have no Metal Gear without it), but it’s also …Read more »
Once upon a time, anime and manga fans actually thought Dragon Ball Z was a long series. The notion seems ridiculous now—Akira Toriyama’s original manga ran for 519 chapters across a total of 42 volumes, each of which has been collected in myriad ways since—but …Read more »
Hailed by its director Shinichiro Watanabe as a series that is a genre unto itself, Cowboy Bebop has enthralled millions of fans around the world. Debuting in 1997, the series rocked the world of anime with its impeccable pacing, imaginative and believable world, and well-defined …Read more »
The best heroes of shonen manga have defined themselves by their ability to leap countless miles beyond whatever limitations may be holding them back. Maybe it’s some stringbean kid who thinks he’s going to be King of the Pirates, or a ninja-in-training who seems too …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name , which debuted in Japan this August, has become not only one of the most successful anime films of all time, but the seventh highest-grossing film in Japanese cinematic history, scoring more ticket sales than Ponyo , Avatar and Star Wars …Read more »
Anime series have just about covered the entire “player gets stuck in video game” spectrum of stories from A to Z, from reluctant players to those who want to pretend to be in-game gods. So much, it’s almost gotten to the point that it’s downright …Read more »
Funimation recently announced all of the fall anime series that will be getting the SimulDub (formerly known as Broadcast Dubs) treatment, from Drifters to Mob Psycho 100 . While launch dates for the latter are still to come, an updated post has revealed timing for …Read more »
One Piece Film Gold , the latest theatrical, uh, piece of the One Piece universe, will be getting a theatrical release early next year courtesy Funimation, who have licensed the film. Give the folks at Funi a gold star. The film will play in U.S. …Read more »
Today Crunchyroll and Funimation announced a huge partnership that will ultimately give fans greater access to anime. It's the best of both their respective worlds as Crunchyroll members get access to subtitled versions of Funimation's summer simulcasts and, in the weeks to come, FunimationNow viewers …Read more »
Now that the summer anime season is underway, Funimation went ahead and rolled out its full lineup of Broadcast Dub shows. 15 series from the summer season will be streaming each week with English dubs, with FIRST LOVE MONSTER set to kick things off on …Read more »
Funimation started lining up its anime streaming plans for the summer 2016 season , kicking things off with 14 simulcast titles, some of which will begin on July 2. Many of the titles will also be selected for the Broadcast Dub (near-simulcast English dubbing) program, …Read more »
Funimation announced plans to bring the live-action trilogy of Rurouni Kenshin films to home video, starting with the first entry—localized for North American release as Rurouni Kenshin: Origins —this fall. The Takeru Satoh-lead trilogy will continue after that with home video releases of Rurouni Kenshin: …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: When a ragtag group of six stowaways awakens from stasis in the depths of outer space aboard a derelict ship named Raza , they quickly find themselves with no choice but to roam the galaxy on a quest for answers. Their action-packed, dramatic …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Mamoru Hosoda has been delighting anime fans with instant classics for years, from 2006's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time to 2010's Summer Wars and 2012's Wolf Children . Now his latest anime film The Boy and the Beast is finally getting ready …Read more »
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