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This Week in Games - Pirate Things, Dancing, and the Robot Boy Who Couldn't
Jean-Karlo gives the lowdown on the latest Like a Dragon direct, Bayonetta's anniversary, and the sad saga of Mighty No. 9.
― Welcome back, folks! I don't know if this relates to my adblocker, but Nintendo's eShop website is always so twitchy for me. Whenever I try to make a purchase, it asks me to log in and then throws up a wonky error page. It's annoying since I'll have to make the purchase on Swi...
Hulu to Add Multiple Macross Anime on January 13
Macross Plus, Macross Zero, Macross Frontier, Macross Delta, more listed in U.S.
― Hulu is listing that the following Macross anime will begin streaming on the service on January 13 in the United States: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again
Macross Plus
Macross Plus Movie Edition
Macross Delta
Macross Delta: Passionate Walküre (Ma...
Be Forever Yamato: Star Blazers: REBEL 3199 Episodes 1-6 Anime Review
I'm happy to report that Star Blazers REBEL 3199 blasts out of spacedock, immediately firing on all cylinders.
― Space Battleship Yamato is back with a bang in this latest continuation of the
remake series that began in 2012 with Yamato 2199, and continued with Yamato 2202 and
Yamato 2205 over the subsequent decade. While 2199 was top-tier space opera, 2202 wasn't as universally loved, with a muddled...
Choose Your Daily Streaming Anime Reviews: Winter 2025
You've read the Preview Guide, you've watched the shows, now it's time to choose which anime series you want reviewed every week.
A Tokyo Exhibition Celebrates Giant Anime Robots Through The Decades
The “Giant Robots: The Core of Japanese Mecha Anime” exhibition in Ikebukuro chronicles the genre from Gigantor to The Big O!
― The history of anime giant robots is, well, giant. It's pretty much inevitable that the current Tokyo exhibition, “Giant Robots: The Core of Japanese Mecha Anime,” which runs at the Sunshine City complex in Ikebukuro until January 13, offers only a select guide to the genre....
The Water Magician Isekai Novels Get TV Anime in July
Ayumu Murase, Kazuki Ura, Kaede Hondo star in anime
― TO Books revealed on Friday that Tadashi Kubō and Nokito's The Water Magician (Mizuzokusei no Mahōtsukai) light novel series is inspiring a television anime that will premiere on TBS and other channels in July. The cast includes: Ayumu Murase as protagonist Ryō Kazuki Ura as the adventuring swordsman Abel Kaede Hondo as the elf adventurer Sera Hid...
This Week in Anime - (Shonen) Jump Right In
Coop and Lucas browse the Shonen Jump app to sort out the good, the bad, and the Fujimoto-flavored.
― Coop and Lucas browse the Shonen Jump app to sort out the good, the bad, and the Fujimoto-flavored. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. Chainsaw Man, Fire Punch, D...
The Winter 2025 Anime Preview Guide
Can Übel Blatt fill the Berserk-shaped hole in our hearts? Also check out the latest reviews for Apothecary Diaries, Dr. Stone, Farmagia, I May Be a Guild Receptionist, Aquarion: Myth of Emotions, Solo Leveling Season 2, 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...
Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Anime Series Review
There are no deeper themes to be explored or musings of human nature break down. However, there is a cast of silly characters and fun fantasy mysteries.
― Let This Grieving Soul Retire! is far from the first anime about a dummy of a protagonist who lucks their way into victory while still managing to lose on a personal level time and again. The issue with stories like this is that all too often, the ...
AJA: Anime Industry Grew by 14.3% to New Record High in 2023
Foreign anime market overtakes Japanese market for 2nd time since 2002
― The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) released its Anime Industry Report 2024 findings (for the year 2023) on December 22. The report found that the wider anime industry (including merchandise, music, and other areas) grew by 14.3% in 2023 compared to 2022, for a total market value of 3.3465 trillion yen (about US$21.27 b...
Sanrio's My Melody, Kuromi Characters Get Netflix Stop-Motion Anime in July
Pui Pui Molcar series director Tomoki Misato helms My Melody & Kuromi anime
― Netflix Japan announced on Thursday that it will produce the stop-motion animation series My Melody & Kuromi, based on the titular Sanrio characters, which will premiere in July. This year marks the 50th anniversary of My Melody, and the 20th anniversary of Kuromi. The story is set in Maryland where My Melody and Kuromi liv...
KamiErabi GOD.app Season 2 Anime Series Review
This feels like a show that wants so badly to be deep.
― Let me be up front about something: I didn't enjoy the first season of KamiErabi. Its three cardinal sins were poor writing, characters who made no sense, and rigid CGI. So the prospect of a second season—which was confirmed pretty early on into the first season's airing—wasn't exactly something I was thrilled about. A sentiment among viewers w...
ANN's Most-Read News and Interest Articles of 2024
These were the stories and events that shaped the anime community in 2024.
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2024 was a year for monsters, whether laying waste to the nearest metropolis or becoming a feast for dungeon crawlers. Anime News Network readers were hungry for new information about the King of Monsters; news articles focused on Godzilla ranked high as fans tracked Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Oscar-winner Godzilla...
Creating Realism in a Sports-Romance Anime: An Interview with Blue Box Director Yuichiro Yano and Series Composition Writer Yuko Kakihara
When the two began working together, they found they shared a bit of a problem when it came to making a high school sports anime: neither of them played sports in high school.
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Currently airing anime Blue Box is a love story about a pair of sports-playing high school kids. The way it mixes the romance and sports genres to create a grounded story has made it a hit with audiences both inside Japan an...
ANN Reader's Choice Awards 2024
The nominations are closed, tallied, and now... it's time to cast your vote for the top anime characters and anime series for the year 2024!
This Week in Anime - Is Anime Incest Really Wincest?
Chris and Steve open the forbidden door of incest romances in anime.
― Chris and Steve open the forbidden door of incest romances in anime. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. Yosuga no Sora, Bakemonogatari, Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks...
Love Live! Superstar!! Season 3 Anime Series Review
More superlative ideas occasionally break through, but overall, this is easily the weakest season of what had been the strongest series of Love Live! yet.
― The second season of Love Live Superstar felt like the kind of miracle the school idols of this franchise so frequently make happen. Classic Love Live series writer Jukki Hanada and director Takahiko Kyogoku built upon the smart foundation of Sup...
MF Ghost Manga Ends in 6 Chapters
Shuuichi Shigeno's series enters climax of "final battle" on Friday
― Amazon's listing for this year's seventh issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine shows the magazine's cover, which reveals that Shuuichi Shigeno's MF Ghost manga will end in six chapters. The magazine will ship on Friday. The series is entering the climax of its "final battle" in the same issue on Friday. The manga went on hiatus...
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