Sentai Filmworks had some fall 2017 anime season plans to roll out earlier today. The latest license has the Girls’ Last Tour anime series coming to Amazon’s Anime Strike channel in the U.S., with a home video release to follow at a later date. Girls’ …Read more »
New Theatrical Movie Initial D Legend 1: Awakening is the first in a trilogy of anime films that retells the early chapters of Shuichi Shigeno’s Initial D manga. Sentai Filmworks previously announced plans to bring the films to North America, and those plans have been …Read more »
The devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey cannot be understated, and the homes and people of Texas and other affected areas will have a tough time rebuilding. This includes our friends at Sentai Filmworks, who are attempting to crowdfund to support some of …Read more »
We know of FUNimation and Sentai Filmworks as two companies that do a great job of bringing us fun anime, but now they’re doing a great job by helping people impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Since the two companies are headquartered in Texas, it’s no surprise …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: What originally started as an 8-minute ONA (original net animation) from the Rebuild of Evangelion project’s anime studio Khara is now a feature-length adventure! The Dragon Dentist follows a girl with a mighty, nay, colossal task ahead of her, and it can be …Read more »
This story originally appeared in the August 2017 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls is a simultaneously adorable and lewd series with plenty of interesting situations revolving around, well… monster girls. Following one Japanese student, Kimihito Kurusu, who’s suddenly …Read more »
This story originally ran in the December 2015 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. The “monster girl” scene has been mounting as a bit of a fad as of late, taking women (and men, in some cases) who look like monsters and slotting them in stories …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks announced the license of Sword Oratoria: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side earlier today. The spin-off series will simulcast exclusively on Amazon's Anime Strike channel this spring. Youhei Suzuki ( The "Hentai" Prince …Read more »
Nurse Witch Komugi was a colorful, frenetic OVA that lasted for six episodes, originally released back in 2002. It was meant as a parodical spinoff of the series SoulTaker , with several of the characters that appeared in that anime taking on weird parodical versions …Read more »
Okay, so there was never really any doubt the second season of the mega-hit Food Wars! would be getting licensed for release in the States. Still, it feels good – nay, delicious – to get the official word. As was the case with the first …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Most of us will never get the chance to work at an actual anime studio, but at least we can live vicariously through Shirobako . You can dive into the behind-the-scenes fun at home with Sentai Filmworks' Shirobako Collection 1, Even the …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Maybe you've seen it streaming, kept up with the kill count after each week of Adult Swim, or just want to know what in the world is up with Akame ga Kill! Now you can answer that question or relive the insanity at …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: We all have our own unique childhood stories. Some of us follow the natural path of birth and growth, while others start their lives as a baby floating in a river inside a giant peach. Okay… maybe that's not so normal, but that's …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Old habits die hard, especially when those old habits involve living in a fantasy world of your own design. Try as you might to escape it, some things come hurling back no matter how far you run, and that's what Ichiro Sato discovers …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks announced a couple new licenses since last we checked in with them, including winter 2016 addition Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation . That's right, now the anime is going to come out in English before the actual game. The Japanese broadcast kicks …Read more »
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