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This Week in Anime - Girls Band Drama
Chris and Steve plumb the depths of the girl band genre and wonder how things got so dark.
― Chris and Steve plumb the depths of the girl band genre and wonder how things got so dark. 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. BanG Dream It's MyGO!!!!!, Ave Mujica, Given,...
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Anime Streaming Review
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and 2202 show how to handle a reboot with masterful precision.
― Certain series will always hold a special place in your heart because of the time when you watched them. Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 will always be one such work for me. Once upon a time, this was the show that brought me back from a decade-long hiatus from anime fandom. I had no...
Square Enix, Sunrise Make 'As One' Anime Film Prequel to Starwing Paradox Game
Detective Conan movies' Kobun Shizuno directs, Evangelion's Yoshiyuki Sadamoto designs characters
― Square Enix and Sunrise announced on Tuesday that they are producing a feature-length theatrical prequel anime to Square Enix's Starwing Paradox game titled As One, which will open in Japan this summer. Kobun Shizuno (Detective Conan movies 15-21) is directing the film. As with the game, Yoshiyuki Sada...
The ANN Aftershow - The Fuji TV Scandal Explained
If it's been under your radar, there are big things shaking up at one of Japan's major broadcasters. The ANN team is here to explain what's going on at FujiTV and what it could mean for its anime programming.
― The Fuji TV Scandal Explained If it's been under your radar, there are big things shaking up at one of Japan's major broadcasters. The ANN team is here to explain what's going on at FujiTV an...
Suikoden Franchise Gets Anime, New Mobile Game, New Manga, Stage Play, Concert
Also revealed: new Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars trailer
― Konami announced during the "Gensō Suikoden Live 2025.3.4" livestream on Tuesday an anime adaptation of the Suikoden II game's story, a new mobile game Gensō Suikoden: Star Leap for the iOS and Android, a stage play adaptation of Suikoden I, a new concert, and a new trailer for Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate R...
History of Saban: Part 3
Haim Saban pulls Disney into his circle, alongside politicians. Meanwhile Power Rangers gets a fresh coat of paint.
― Fox Family Flops and Saban Gambles With Disney By the end of the year 2000, while the Fox Kids programming block was still doing great, the Fox Family Channel had become a debt-ridden disaster for the company and had not recovered in the ratings over the last three years; even having ...
Wonderful Precure! Episodes 37 - 50 Anime Review
At the end of the day, Wonderful Precure! is all about hope.
― It's an inevitability of children's media that deals with animals that, sooner or later, the topic of death comes up. Most animals people love as pets don't live as long as humans, and the loss of a pet is often one of the first encounters with death a child has. I was four when my cat Oliver passed, and the conversation my parents had wi...
Answerman - How Bad is School Truancy in Japan?
Jerome looks at the issue of futokō as it appears in anime and the upsetting trend behind it.
― Julie W. asks: I've noticed in some recent anime that it's apparently possible for Japanese kids not to go to school for long periods of time. Does this happen in real life as well? Do Japanese parents allow their kids the option of just not going to school altogether? I know this would NEVER happen in co...
Giant Ojō-sama Comedy Manga Gets TV Anime by Tatsunoko
Nikumura Q's story of wealthy young lady who grows to gigantic proportions
― Shogakukan announced on Monday that Nikumura Q's Giant Ojō-sama (Giant Young Lady) manga is inspiring a television anime from Tatsunoko Production. The story centers around Oriko Fujidō, the scion of an ultra-wealthy family who finds herself growing to gigantic proportions. She had received an entire town as a present on her...
Sound! Euphonium Season 1 Blu-ray Review
Nearly ten years after it first aired, Sound Euphonium’s first season comes back to us on Blu-Ray, and it’s as dazzling as ever.
― The release of this Blu-ray comes at a very timely moment. Its December release marked the six-month anniversary of Sound Euphonium's triumphant final act, and this upcoming April will mark an entire decade since the anime first aired on Japanese airwaves. To watch this B...
Yūsha Party o Oidasareta Kiyō Binbō Light Novels Get TV Anime
Fantasy series about jack of all trades being kicked out of party to star Takeo Ōtsuka
― Bandai Namco Filmworks announced on Monday that storywriter Itsuki Togami and illustrator Yuri Kisaragi's Yūsha Party o Oidasareta Kiyō Binbō (The Jack of All Trades Was Kicked Out of the Hero's Party) light novel series is getting a television anime adaptation. Bandai Namco Filmworks also revealed the main cast ...
Yuri Dark Fantasy Manga I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day Gets TV Anime
Rie Takahashi, Rina Hidaka star in Nachi Aono's story animated by ROLL2
― Kadokawa announced on Sunday that a television anime adaptation of Nachi Aono's I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day manga has been green-lit. Below is a pilot film for the anime: Aono and the anime's character designer Kyoko Yufu drew illustrations to celebrate the news: The cast members are: Rie Takahashi as Sheena Totsuki ...
2nd Haikyū!! Anime Sequel Film Confirmed With New TV Short
"Where Monsters Go" short covers Fukurōdani-Mujinazaka game
― The "Haikyu!! 10th Event -Next Step-" confirmed on Sunday that production on the anime film Gekijōban Haikyū!! VS Chiisana Kyojin (Haikyu!! Vs. The Little Giant) has been green-lit. ||◤『劇場版ハイキュー!! #VS小さな巨人』 スーパーティザービジュアル解禁！ ◢||監督・脚本 #満仲勧制作 Production I.Gライバルたちとの激闘を超えついに春高、準々決勝へ！続報をお楽しみに！#ハイキュー#hq_anime pic.twitter.com/FQ9hRDiPjg— アニメ「ハイキュ...
Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse Season Two Part One Anime Series Review
This may not be the best shounen fantasy series out there, but it's still good enough to get its hooks into you and keep them there.
― What is Camelot? Most lore will tell you that King Arthur's fabled court is a Medieval utopia, a land where equality rules and everything is just as it should be. Far be it from The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse to throw that out entirely; original...
New Is the order a rabbit? Anime Green-Lit
Announced at Saturday event
― The "Is the order a rabbit? Rabbit House Talk Party 2025" event announced on Saturday that production on a new Is the order a rabbit? anime has been green-lit. 特報「ご注文はうさぎですか？」新作アニメの制作が決定いたしました‼️🎉https://t.co/QjtY50t5fW#TalkParty2025#gochiusa#ごちうさ pic.twitter.com/XFwabMWzU4— TVアニメ『ご注文はうさぎですか？』 (@usagi_anime) March 1, 2025 The first season of the anime premiered in Japan i...
The Anime Backlog - Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1
Yu Yu Hakusho has made me a shonen battle manga convert.
― The sun's out today but it's still damn cold, however, I found a workaround for that whole "going outside" issue I mentioned last month. That goal was, in part, to increase physical activity. My job has me at a desk all day, and I'm approaching 40. I'd like all my joints to work for the foreseeable future. I got one of those desk treadmills,...
BanG Dream Franchise Gets New Mini-Anime TV Series in 2025
Directors Kenshirō Morii, Seiya Miyajima return for 52 new episodes
― The livestreamed "BanG Dream! 10th Anniversary Special!" announced on Friday that the BAnG Dream! franchise will have a new mini-anime series that will air and stream this year. Directors Kenshirō Morii and Seiya Miyajima are returning from the BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico anime and its sequels for the new 52-episode series. ...
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