Wheee! I just read the Ohayo-con report and saw BS2 is finally coming out. Blue Seed is my favorite anime of all time and I've been waiting for several years for ADV to release more. Is anyone else excited about this?
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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...
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...
These were the stories and events that shaped the anime community in 2024.―
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...
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.―
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...
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...
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...
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...
Star Wars: Visions director Takanobu Mizuno helms, Gen Urobuchi pens Kamikaze Douga anime― Crunchyroll and game developer Sucker Punch Productions announced at Sony's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference on Monday that they are producing an anime series adaptation of Sucker Punch Productions and Sony Interactive Entertainment's Ghost of Tsushima: Legends game that will premiere exclusive...
App to offer manga in English in U.S., Canada, with plans to roll out in other languages― Crunchyroll announced during Sony's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference on Monday that it will launch a new manga app named Crunchyroll Manga later this year as a premium add-on to its subscription service. The app will launch first in English in the United States and Canada, but other language opt...
With this second season, I am beginning to think that Yuri Kitayama’s original light novel series is simply a poor fit for animated adaptation.― With this second season, I am beginning to think that Yuri Kitayama's original light novel series is simply a poor fit for an animated adaptation. That's not necessarily because the story is a bit hackneyed; it is, but that's hardly the problem here. The gr...
This episode serves as an inversion to the start of Fate/stay night with a Saber that shouldn't have been summoned and a protagonist who outright refuses to become one.― The 2023 special Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- began the story of Fate/strange Fake by introducing us to the various mages and their summoned heroes. It also laid down the ground rules for this story and how it deviated from ...