Your Score: Simulcast Week of 2025-01-02

This Week in Games - Who Owns Sonic's Freedom Fighters?

Jan 17, 10:00

games

Hatsune Miku joins Fortnite and we learn who owns Sonic's pals at long last. Plus Nintendo finally reveals their new console! ― Welcome back, folks! I look forward to every column's debut because I look forward to how all of you receive it, especially since more than a few of you have brought some interesting stuff to my attention. Remember that you can hit me up on Bluesky with questions or comments...

interview

Overtime Is Bringing Sports and Young Anime Fans Together

Jan 17, 09:00

comics

Founded in 2016, Overtime looks to marry social media, youth sports, and anime fandom. Their latest project? The Overtime Elite webcomic created by Brandon Chen and Inuupen. ― The idea that dorky hobbies and media are niche and ridiculed by more mainstream culture persists in the public consciousness despite there being a growing number of examples to the contrary. Olympic 100-meter dash gold medali...

news

Nanateru's Alma-chan Wants to Have a Family! Manga Gets TV Anime

Jan 17, 04:00

manga anime

Comedy centers on girl superweapon, scientists who created her ― Kadokawa announced on Friday that Nanateru's Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai (Alma-chan Wants to Have a Family!) manga is getting a television anime adaptation. Nanateru drew an image to celebrate the announcement. Kadokawa also revealed the show's main staff. Yasuhiro Minami (episode director for several Gintama anime, Turn A Gundam) is...

news

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Alice in Wonderland Novel Gets 1st Anime Film by P.A. Works

Jan 16, 20:49

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manga

Dive in Wonderland offers modern take with Nanoka Hara, Maika Pugh on August 29 ― Anime studio P.A. Works announced on Friday that it is producing Japan's first anime film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's novel Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). Titled Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland- (With Alice in Wonderland -Dive in Wonderland-), i...

review

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Galette Manga Magazine Volume 1 Review

Jan 16, 12:00

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manga

This is not a one-for-one version of the original Japanese volume; it is an adapted edition for the English-reading audience. ― In the mid-2010s, the runs of two of the three existing quarterly yuri manga magazines, Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari published by Shinsokan and Tsubomi published by Hobunsha came to an end, leaving some yuri artists with unfinished series and no place to serialize them. Some o...

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This Week in Anime - Girlfriend's Gotta Have a Gimmick

Jan 16, 10:00

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anime

Lucas and Coop take a look at this season's other overwhelmingly popular genre: romcoms! ― Lucas and Coop take a look at this season's other overwhelmingly popular genre: romcoms! 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. I'm Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!? is avail...

news

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Nintendo Unveils Bigger Switch 2 System for Launch This Year

Jan 16, 08:45

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games

New system plays exclusive games, both physical & digital Switch games with exceptions ― Nintendo formally unveiled its Switch 2 system with a first-look trailer on Thursday. The trailer indicates a physically larger system (along with a larger kickstand with more adjustable angles) that is slated for later this year. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa had said in November that games for the origin...

review

MF Ghost Season 2 Anime Series Review

Jan 15, 12:00

anime

While it would’ve been nice to see this series pick up some much-needed speed, all it did was put the brakes on. ― Suffice it to say that season 1 of MF Ghost, the newest series by Initial D creator Shuichi Shigeno, didn't exactly drive me wild. In a word, it was underwhelming. So, going into MF Ghost season 2, I was expecting another middle-of-the-road racing anime. And my expectations, as it turns ...

news

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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live Stage Show Gets N. American Tour in March

Jan 15, 10:46

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live-action

Tour begins in March in N. America, February in London ― A new offiical website opened on Wednesday for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live, a performance show based on Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga, to announce that the show is getting a North American tour starting wikth a preview showing on March 12 in Pittsburgh, PA. There will also be 23 performances in London between February 3-Marc...

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'With You, Our Love Will Make it Through' Shōjo Manga Gets TV Anime This Fall

Jan 14, 22:04

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anime

Manaka Iwami, Takuya Eguchi voice leads ― Distribution company REMOW announced on Tuesday that Chihiro Yuzuki's With You, Our Love Will Make it Through (Kimi to Koete Koi ni Naru) manga is inspiring a television anime that will premiere this fall. Manaka Iwami voices protagonist Asaka Mari, while Takuya Eguchi voices the beastfolk Hidaka Tsunagu. Yen Press is releasing the manga in English, and it de...

news

Komi Can't Communicate Manga Ends in 2 Chapters

Jan 14, 17:00

manga

Series debuted in May 2016 ― This year's seventh issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine announced on Wednesday Tomohito Oda's Komi Can't Communicate (Comi-san wa Comyushō desu.) manga will end in two chapters. The manga entered its final arc on July 24. Viz Media is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story: Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that's just the way he...

review

The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest Anime Series Review

Jan 14, 12:00