While the top spots are stable, we see Suicide Squad Isekai and Senpai is an Otokonoko gradually rise through the middle ranks. Check out our weekly user rankings! ― Let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season, based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews and on the Your Score page with the latest simulcasts. Keep in mind that these rankings ar...

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Shadow of the Ninja Reborn Game Review

Sep 5, 12:00

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Is Shadow of the Ninja Reborn a sharp remake of a semi-classic NES game? Or is it something much more? ― The original Shadow of the Ninja had its moment, but it wasn't very long. Critics and players rightly saw it as a well-crafted and harshly challenging side-scroller back in 1990, yet it arrived in the busiest time for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was rapidly swept aside without gaining se...

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This Week in Anime - Cashing In

Sep 5, 10:00

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Chris and Lucas dive into the Sargasso Sea of marketable plastic goodies and the all-consuming monster that is capitalism in the anime world. ― Chris and Lucas dive into the Sargasso Sea of marketable plastic goodies and the all-consuming monster that is capitalism in the anime world. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Net...

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The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System Manga Gets TV Anime by GoHands

Sep 4, 23:29

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Anime based on Brocco Lee's manga of Nekoko's light novels ― The 11th compiled book volume of Brocco Lee's manga adaptation of Nekoko's The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System (Tsuihō Sareta Tensei Jū Kishi wa Game Chishiki de Musō Suru) light novel series confirmed the franchise's listed a television anime adaptation on Thursday. The announcement noted that the anime is specifically ada...

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Case Closed: The Bride of Halloween Anime Film Review

Sep 4, 12:00

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The film feels a bit awkward for non-diehard fans—but if you can push through that awkwardness, there's quite an exhilarating movie here. ― They say only one truth prevails, but is that the case with the mystery of The Bride of Halloween? Case Closed is one of the longest ongoing franchises in Japan. It has a solid following here in the United States with a very…interesting English release history. ...

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TOUGEN ANKI's Main Cast Talks About Their Roles in the Upcoming Anime

Sep 4, 09:00 anime

Recently, Anime News Network was able to sit down with voice actors Kazuki Ura, Koutaro Nishiyama, and Hiroshi Kamiya to talk about their roles in TOUGEN ANKI. ― Recently, Anime News Network was able to sit down with voice actors Kazuki Ura, Koutaro Nishiyama, and Hiroshi Kamiya to talk about their roles in the upcoming anime TOUGEN ANKI—as well as the tricks of the trade that help them get into char...

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I Left My A-Rank Party Manga Gets TV Anime Next January

Sep 4, 05:47

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Hiromu Mineta, Hana Inami, Natsumi Kawaida, Nene Hieda star in BN Pictures anime ― Bandai Namco Filmworks announced on Wednesday that Kōsuke Unagi, Yūri, and Super Zombie's I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! (A-Rank Party o Ridatsu Shita Ore wa, Moto Oshiego-tachi to Meikyū Shinbu o Mezasu.) manga is inspiring a television anime in January 2025. The company re...

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Pupposites Attract Volume 1 Manga Review

Sep 3, 12:00

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This is the dog-person equivalent to many of the cat-person manga out there. ― For whatever reason, there's much more of a history of cat manga in English translation than dog manga. That doesn't mean that there aren't any—Doomsday With My Dog and Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs both have English editions, and that's not even counting series like Yuzu the Pet Vet with its periphery focus on canines. (We perh...

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This Week in Anime - Banned Together

Sep 3, 10:00

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Demonizing comics hasn't gone out of style since 1954. Nick and Steve discuss the most recent round of bans of such horrifying series as Sasaki and Miyano to look at what book bans mean for manga today. ― Demonizing comics hasn't gone out of style since 1954. Nick and Steve discuss the most recent round of bans of such horrifying series as Sasaki and Miyano to look at what book bans mean for manga t...

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Riviere and the Land of Prayer Manga Volume 1 Review

Sep 2, 12:00 manga

It feels like it's supposed to be an episodic series where our leads go out and solve problems—but it's hard to do that when the story doesn't establish the rules of its world. ― Despite being raised Catholic and going to a Catholic high school, I don't consider myself a very religious person. The idea of praying for a better life can be found throughout multiple religions and there is a certain leve...

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Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes with Director Kamone Serizawa

Sep 2, 09:00 games

ANN got to chat with UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes director about what’s in store for its future, and Serizawa’s other favorite fighting games. ― Since its release earlier this year, fighting game fans have been loving French-Bread's UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes—which, just as Arc System Works CEO Minoru Kidooka expressed hoping for at EVO last year, was fought on by players on EVO's mainst...

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