Bring the magic to life with this romance fantasy isekai. Secure your stunning limited-edition hardcover box set of “The Tyrant's Etiquette Tutor” today!― It's a tale as old as time… or is it? Livia Blanche is the elegant and cold daughter of a Duke who upholds noble etiquette above all else. Croft is a lonely Emperor shrouded in dark rumors in dire need of a proper court education. It seems like t...
As is par for the course for Science SARU, the more surreal things get, the better this colorful film looks.― The Colors Within is not your standard coming-of-age anime for one simple reason: the complete and total lack of melodrama. No dark secrets are hiding in the wings and no painful love triangles to get caught up in. There are no moments where the characters scream and cry as the music swells ...
Also, Brazilian Miku, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and some adult visual novels.― Welcome back, folks! I discovered over the weekend: I don't think I like elk burgers. A local bar in my town offered them and I was feeling adventurous, but elk tastes a bit too game-y. Parmesan rosemary fries are killer, though. Also, my review for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI CHRONICLES went up earlier thi...
From films, TV series, and OVAs to novels, manga, and art books, join us for this exhaustive deep dive into everything Ghost in the Shell—and we mean everything.― Back in 1995, Shirow Masamune was already renowned in the West for his manga (and their respective anime adaptations) Appleseed and Dominion Tank Police. Fan excitement was high for his next big manga, Ghost in the Shell (GitS), first pub...
Child of Kamiari Month's Riko Nagase, My Girlfriend's Child's Kōta Nomura star― The television broadcaster MBS opened a web page on Friday to announce the live-action series adaptation of Shinichi Fukuda's My Dress-Up Darling (Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru) manga. Riko Nagase (Child of Kamiari Month, live-action Insomniacs After School) and Kōta Nomura (live-action My Girlfriend's Child, Perfect P...
Hirokazu Yasuhara's manga follows arcade worker who exchanges diaries with British girl― Hirokazu Yasuhara announced on X/Twitter on Thursday that his Game Center Shо̄jo to Ibunka Kо̄ryū (Cultural Exchange With Game Center Girl) manga is getting an anime adaptation. Yasuhara shared an illustration to commemorate the announcement: Yasuhara debuted the manga on X/Twitter in 2019 before it received a s...
This week, Steve and Chris use the whole Dirty Pair Kickstarter/Crunchyroll acquisition fiasco to explore the relationship between crowdfunding and anime.― This week, Steve and Chris use the whole Dirty Pair Kickstarter/Crunchyroll acquisition fiasco to look into the relationship between crowdfunding and anime. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not...
You're seriously telling me this franchise of all things doesn't include HORSE as an option for its basketball mini-game?― Getting the foal-cal mobile game for Uma Musume Pretty Derby in English has oddly proved a pipe dream thus far for fans of the anthropomorphized racehorse girls. In the meantime, players are presented with a horse of a different color to hop onto with Party Dash: a sports-festiv...
GB4 is a customizer's dream, we're here to show all the ways that you can customize your experience!― You could build 3,814,697,265,625,000,000,000 unique custom Gunpla (or thereabouts, we're still counting!), and just be scratching the surface of what's possible in GUNDAM BREAKER 4! GB4 is a customizer's dream, we're here to show all the ways that you can customize your experience! 1. Customize you...
Despite the low-quality reputation that compilation films tend to have, I'd go so far as to say Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp is the best single compilation anime film I've ever seen.― While anime compilation films are nothing new, Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp, isn't made up of footage from a TV show. Rather, it is the combination of three films: Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (2016), Kizumonogatari P...
Ahead of it's Netflix premiere, we spoke with the Terminator Zero director-writer team about the AI apocalypse and exploring James Cameron's sci-fi world.― Leading into the Terminator Zero premiere panel at Anime NYC Saturday night, a bit of the show's soundtrack started playing with that iconic Terminator "du-dum du-du-dum" beat. Just a couple of "du-dum du-du-dum" in, one audience member started ...
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Zombie Land Saga's Shigeru Murakoshi oversees 2025 story about hotel in post-apocalyptic Ginza― CyberAgent and its Cygames Pictures subsidiary unveiled their new original television anime Apocalypse Hotel on Wednesday. The anime, which will premiere in 2025, is set in a solitary hotel in Tokyo's Ginza district in a time when society has collapsed and humanity has disappeared, and nature has begun to...
Known for his work on the viral WcDonald's campaign, Acky Bright shares his artistic insight ahead of the exhibition's October opening.― The kawakakkoii (cute and cool) art of manga illustrator Acky Bright has become a recognizable presence in anime convention halls and advertising (his most famous work is probably this year's viral "WcDonalds" promotion). As Acky Bright returned to Anime NYC for h...
Girls Band Cry is an emotionally exhilarating show with a fantastic cast, uniquely strong animation, and fist-pumping songs. Missing out on it means missing out on one of the best anime of the year.― Looking at the credits, the most immediate connection to Girls Band Cry is the Love Live! franchise. Lead writer Jukki Hanada filled the same role for three of that franchise's four major anime projects...