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Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024

Jan 3, 17:00

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What a surprise! After reigning supreme all season, Dan Da Dan loses the top spot at the very last second! Were the fans frustrated by the last episode's cliffhanger? Check out the final ranking according to viewer votes! ― Let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season, based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews and on the Your Score page with ...

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This Week in Games - Super Fighting Robots

Jan 3, 14:45

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Jean-Karlo looks at the history of the Mega Man U.S. cartoon, the NIKKE mascot that has escaped gacha containment, and a new visual novel from Success! ― Welcome back, everyone! Taking a week off from writing This Week in Game feels weird; I'm almost always working on it, so it's odd to sit back and see something on Bluesky and think, "Oh, I gotta remember to cover that... next week. At any rate, a f...

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Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Anime Review

Jan 3, 12:00

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More kinetic than Legend of the Galactic Heroes (but sharing its naval theme) and less frenetic than Macross, Yamato strikes a good middle ground for exciting animated space warfare. ― Much like that other pillar of classic anime space sci-fi, Macross, the Space Battleship Yamato franchise experienced a frustrating journey to Western TV screens. The original 1974 series came to the US as Star Blazers...

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The Best Video Games of 2024

Jan 3, 10:00

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From new, original masterpieces and powerhouse sequels to game-redefining expansions and reimagined classics, gamers feasted this year. ― 2024 was a great year for games. From new, original masterpieces and powerhouse sequels to game-redefining expansions and reimagined classics, gamers feasted this year. But which were the best of the best? Let's get into that, shall we? Here, in no particular orde...

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Crescent Moon Marching Volumes 1-6 Manga Review

Jan 2, 12:00

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Crescent Moon Marching becomes a story of how young Mizuki understands what it means to be passionate about music and how crucial it is to improve yourself while understanding others. ― Originality is a tough thing to come by. The great Salvador Dali once said that those who imitate nothing produce nothing. Considering the infinite artists, musicians, writers, and other types of pen-wielders who have...

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The Best Manga and Light Novels of 2024

Jan 2, 10:00

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Which manga and light novels kept you turning pages, chapter after chapter? If you haven't flipped through these titles yet, better late than never. ― Which manga and light novels kept you turning pages, chapter after chapter? Anime News Network's critics narrowed down their must-read lists to find the best series, both new and continuing, of the year. If you haven't flipped through these titles yet...

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The Winter 2025 Anime Preview Guide

Jan 1, 13:07

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The Preview Guide is underway with new reviews for Tasokare Hotel, I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class, Sorairo Utility, Ave Mujica - The Die is Cast -, and more! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Winter 2025 Anime Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics writes up their impressions instantly, to be posted here as they go along. Each critic will cover as many shows as they...

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Viral Hit K-Comic Review

Jan 1, 12:00

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Viral Hit is very hard to read because of how relatable it is on two major fronts. ― Viral Hit is very hard to read because it is relatable on two major fronts. The first one is its depiction of modern-day bullying and humiliation. The second is that Viral Hit very much leans into seeing life through the perspective of an absolute self-aware loser. Our protagonist, Hobin, is someone who is physically...

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Futari Solo Camp Manga Gets TV Anime in July

Jan 1, 10:05

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Daiki Hamano, Mizuki Niizaki star as "solo campers" who end up camping together ― Yūdai Debata's Solo Camping for Two (Futari Solo Camp) manga is inspiring a television anime that will premiere on Tokyo MX and other stations in July. Daiki Hamano and Mizuki Niizaki star as Gen Kinokura and Shizuku Kusano respectively. Jun Hatori (Taisho Otome Fairy Tale, Too Cute Crisis) is directing the anime at Syn...

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The Best Anime Moments of 2024

Jan 1, 10:00

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Here are the shocking, hilarious, and truly touching moments from anime that stayed with our writers all year. ― A truly great moment comes in multiple forms. Sometimes, the biggest payoff is the denouement. This is when all the threads come together to reveal the truth of the matter, and it can be shockingly effective in fiction. Anime is no exception, pulling back the curtain to reveal the true in...

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Happy New Year From Around the Anime World: Snakes on a Plane Part I

Jan 1, 00:50

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Featuring Ghibli, CLAMP, Final Fantasy, JoJo's, Shoko Nakagawa, & more! ― The Year of the Dragon has come to a close, and the Year of the Snake has begun. With the new year comes greetings from across the anime and manga world: Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team (mobile game) Please continue enjoying Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team this year, too CLAMP Final Fantasy series Girls' Frontline Jojo's Bizarre Advent...

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Trillion Game Anime Streaming Review

Dec 31, 12:00

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Author Inagaki asks us to find entertainment in the story of a man who wants to be the most viciously successful corporate shark of them all. I say, “No thanks”. ― At any point in history, has a man ever been more wrong than in my recent review of Trillion Game's manga? I rated it four out of five and remarked, “I love it.” I highly anticipated the anime version and quite enjoyed the first few episod...

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This Week in Anime - What the (Hot Goblin) Doctor Ordered

Dec 31, 11:00

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Chris and Lucas see what the (hot goblin) medicine seller has to offer in the Mononoke The Movie: Phantom in the Rain film. ― Chris and Lucas see what the (hot goblin) medicine seller has to offer in the Mononoke The Movie: Phantom in the Rain film. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion ...

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The Top 10 Anime of 2024

Dec 31, 10:00

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This was another great year for anime, from sci-fi spectacles like DAN DA DAN to the fantastical foodie adventures of Delicious in Dungeon. Read on to find the very best anime had to offer in 2024. ― This was another great year for anime, from sci-fi spectacles like DAN DA DAN to the fantastical foodie adventures of Delicious in Dungeon. In between were heart-pulling dramas about girls trying to mak...

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The Best Anime Characters of 2024

Dec 31, 10:00