The course of true love never did run smooth, to borrow a line from Shakespeare, but few relationships have such backwards beginnings as the one that blossoms between high school students Chiyo Sakura and Umetaro Nozaki, the protagonists of Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun . Driven to …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: There are plenty of reasons for Chiyo Sakura to have a crush on her classmate Nozaki, but one of his most striking features is a total secret. Watch as Chiyo finds out the hard way in now up for pre-order in advance of …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks started rolling out the English dub cast announcements for the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun anime. The series is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on March 29, and the first cast member to be revealed is Scott Gibbs as Mikoto Mikoshiba. Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun will …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks picked up the My Love Story!! anime license back in May of last year, and it looks like they have even bigger plans for this one. My Love Story!! , which adapts the romantic comedy manga written by Kazune Kawahara and illustrated by …Read more »
Hey, remember Fruits Basket ? The shoujo manga about a family who turn into zodiac animals, adapted into a popular anime series back in 2001, will get an online sequel courtesy manga website HanaLala this September. Fruits Basket another takes place after the original series …Read more »
In addition to the anime that's currently running, Kazune Kawahara and Aruko's My Love Story!! ( Ore Monogatari!! ) manga is getting a live-action film adaptation. Directed by Hayato Kawai ( Hanakage , Hachimitsu Drops ) and starring Ryohei Suzuki as extra-large protagonist Takeo Gouda, …Read more »
The internet seems to run on lists these days, and that’s no less true in Japan, where several sites have taken to regularly polling their audience and listing the results for fun and profit. But the constant creation of new polls means coming up with …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks added a couple more spring anime series to its lineup this week, with the latest being Triage X and MY Love Story!! . Both shows are being added to select digital outlets, with home video releases to follow. Triage X is based on …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA , Ink waxes poetic about Your lie in April , the A-1 Pictures anime based on the original manga by Naoshi Arakawa. The story follows piano prodigy Kousei Arima, who no longer has the ability to play like …Read more »
Diabolik Lovers is an anime adaptation of an otome visual novel franchise, and the way one approaches this title could have a real effect on how one ends up feeling about it. The main character Yui is a high school girl who goes to live …Read more »
A TV anime adaptation of Ayuko Hatta's Wolf Girl & Black Prince manga is set to premiere in Japan this October. The romantic comedy series is directed by Kenichi Kasai ( Bakuman. , Nodame Cantabile ), with Sawako Hirabayashi (scripts for My Little Monster and …Read more »
Early last month we reviewed Production I.G's anime film Hal . The movie was licensed by FUNimation, with plans for a Blu-ray and DVD release set for September 2, and a premiere of the full English dub planned for this week's Anime Expo. With the …Read more »
Reviewing a film that's so far out of your normal range, whose target audience is so obviously not you , is an interesting challenge. That's the task at hand as I sit down to write about the new film from Kyoto Animation, Tamako Love Story …Read more »
Io Sakisaka's shoujo manga Ao Haru Ride is getting an anime adaptation this year. The series is set to premiere in July, and the official website added the first promotional video today. Sakisaka's manga tells the story of Futaba, a girl who was in love …Read more »
Remember that Adam Sandler movie from a few years back (ten, actually!), 50 First Dates ? The idea was that Sandler’s love interest, played by Drew Barrymore, had a type of amnesia that prevented her from gaining new memories, so Sandler set up an elaborate …Read more »
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