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This Week in Anime - 2025

2025 [14]

February 2025 [6]

The Boys in Toyland (Feb 20)
Anime Ads and Commercials (Feb 18)
A Parade of Pink Anime Girls (Feb 13)
Shelf Life (Feb 11)
Anime That Feels Like a Bad Trip (Feb 6)
Traversing the Emotional Themes in Naoko Yamada's Works (Feb 4)

January 2025 [8]

How ZENSHU Is Breaking the Isekai Mold (Jan 30)
Snuggling in with Cozy Anime (Jan 28)
Viewer Discretion is Advised (Jan 23)
Jigglefest 2025 (Jan 21)
Girlfriend's Gotta Have a Gimmick (Jan 16)
An Isekai a Day Keeps the Doctor Away (Jan 14)
(Shonen) Jump Right In (Jan 9)
Is Anime Incest Really Wincest? (Jan 7)

2024 [89]

2023 [90]

2022 [98]

2021 [100]

2020 [104]

2019 [101]

2018 [93]

2017 [54]

Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2025, Feb 12-18

Feb 21, 20:10 anime

Thanks to another great episode, Zenshu climbs the cumulative by severals spots. Meanwhile Übel Blatt suffers the opposite situation. See how your favorite shows stack up this week! ― 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...

giveaway

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BLEACH G.E.M. Series Figurine Giveaway

Feb 21, 12:15

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merch

Follow ANN on BlueSky and you could win this gorgeous 12" tall MegaHouse G.E.M. Series: BLEACH - Gin Ichimaru figure. ― Surprise ANN Community! We have an awesome giveaway figurine for you! Released in 2021 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bleach, this MegaHouse G.E.M. Series Figure of Gin Ichimaru is 30cm in height (approximately 12-inch). The figure captures a specific moment in a battle scene ...

review

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Sengoku Youko: Thousandfold Chaos Arc Episodes 1-10 Anime Streaming Review

Feb 21, 12:00

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anime

It’s a narratively and thematically rich show that rewards close attention to character development and dialogue in-between moments of larger-than-life characters beating seven kinds of hell out of one another. ― After the bitter disappointment that was The Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer's abysmal anime, Satoshi Mizukami fans were understandably wary about studio White Fox's subsequent adaptation of ...

giveaway

MACROSS -Shooting Insight- Digital Key Giveaway

Feb 21, 12:00 games

Together with Red Art Games, we are giving away four Digital giveaway keys of MACROSS -Shooting Insight-! Two keys for Switch, and two keys for PS5. ― MACROSS -Shooting Insight- is an all-new MACROSS game, the latest entry in the landmark science fiction franchise! When multiple dimensional folds suddenly occur across space-time, pilots and songstresses alike find themselves inexplicably transported...

news

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The Cat and the Dragon Novels/Manga Get TV Anime

Feb 21, 10:58

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anime

Announcement trailer teases voice of Nekoryū ― A new official website opened on "Neko no Hi" (Cat Day) on Saturday to announce that Amara's Neko to Ryū (The Cat and the Dragon) novels are getting a television anime. The website streamed an announcement trailer featuring the as of yet unannounced voice of Nekoryū speaking in cat language. The website posted a visual from character designer Mai Ōkuma. ...

column

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This Week in Games - Isekai Gaming

Feb 21, 10:00

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games

What happens when your game takes you to a whole other world? Jean-Karlo looks at isekai-flavored gaming adventures plus impressions of Elden Ring: Nightreign, Shūhei Yoshida's recent interview, and more. ― Welcome back, folks! My long President's Day weekend turned out to be a bit longer than normal: we got snowed in from a freak winter storm (we sometimes get those in February up here). I was able ...

feature

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Best New K-Comics to Read: February 2025

Feb 21, 09:00

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korean comics

For the romance-focused month, we've got sweet BL, a writer in a wardrobe, daring love affairs, and just enough to spice to keep it interesting. ― Ah, February, the shortest month with those two most venerable holidays, Valentine's Day and the even more beloved (and fake) Cheap Chocolate Day. It's no surprise that a lot of the K-Comics coming out across reading platforms are so romance-heavy this mon...

review

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Vagabond Definitive Edition Volume 1 Manga Review

Feb 20, 12:00

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manga

Inoue’s art is startlingly good. His keen eye for composition and posing, already put to amazing use in Slam Dunk, almost makes the characters leap from the pages. ― At its core, this initial three-volume collection of Takehiko Inoue's (Slam Dunk) adaptation of Eiji Yoshikawa's fictionalized biographical novel Musashi is about the terrible life decisions made by two seventeen-year-old boys. Full of h...

column

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This Week in Anime - The Boys in Toyland

Feb 20, 10:00

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anime

Coop and Chris explore the world of marketable plastic goodies and how anime can turn out to be a half-hour toy commercial. ― Coop and Chris explore the world of marketable plastic goodies and how anime can turn out to be a half-hour toy commercial. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion ...

daily briefs

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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All Anime Confirmed

Feb 19, 22:33

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anime

Kadokawa confirmed the anime adaptation of Sumiko Arai's The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All (Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta) manga on Thursday. Kadokawa is streaming an announcement video for the manga. Yen Press licensed the manga and released the second volume on Tuesday. Yen Press describes the manga's story: Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya falls head over heels f...

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The ANN Aftershow - The Anime Gang's All Here!

Feb 19, 16:30 anime

Jacki joins the ANN After Show to discuss Orb, ZENSHU., and surprise hit Sakamoto Days! ― The Anime Gang's All Here! Jacki joins the ANN After Show to discuss Orb, Zenshu, and surprise hit Sakamoto Days! The views and opinions expressed in the After Show belong solely to the show's participants. The ANN After Show streams live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter Spaces on Tuesdays at 6pm PT/9pm ET. Yo...

review

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Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions Season 2 Anime Series Review

Feb 19, 12:00

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anime

This anime doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but what it does, it does well. ― By now, Sherlock Holmes has been reimagined through the anime filter more times than I can count and to mixed levels of success. Usually, it's done more through the lens of inspiration—which is to say, having a character who's Sherlock Holmes-inspired but isn't supposed to be Sherlock Holmes. As I sit here typing this, we have t...

interview

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The Beginning After The End Web Comic's TurtleMe on His Upcoming Anime Adaptation

Feb 19, 09:00

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comics anime

A decade after launch, The Beginning After The End is getting the anime treatment. We spoke with the series creator about developing the world and any concerns about the format change up. ― The Beginning After the End is a lot of things. It's a web novel, a webcomic and in 2025, it's going to be an anime directed by Keitaro Motonaga at studio A-CAT. Written by TurtleMe, the story starts with King Gr...

game review

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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Game Review

Feb 18, 12:00

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games

This is the most fun I've ever had playing Like a Dragon, and that is saying something given the series' pedigree. ― God bless Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. It has been an incredibly wild ride this past decade to watch the mad lads from RGG take their cult franchise of weird little crime adventure games to the upper echelons of gaming's most respected institutions. I remember when I first discovered these ga...

This Week in Anime - 2025

2025 [14]

February 2025 [6]

January 2025 [8]

2024 [89]

December 2024 [8]

November 2024 [7]

October 2024 [5]

September 2024 [5]

August 2024 [8]

July 2024 [7]

June 2024 [8]

May 2024 [9]

April 2024 [8]

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February 2024 [9]

January 2024 [7]

2023 [90]

December 2023 [6]

November 2023 [8]

October 2023 [6]

September 2023 [7]

August 2023 [10]

July 2023 [6]

June 2023 [7]

May 2023 [9]

April 2023 [6]

March 2023 [9]

February 2023 [8]

January 2023 [8]

2022 [98]

December 2022 [8]

November 2022 [8]

October 2022 [6]

September 2022 [9]

August 2022 [9]

July 2022 [7]

June 2022 [8]

May 2022 [9]

April 2022 [8]

March 2022 [10]

February 2022 [8]

January 2022 [8]

2021 [100]

December 2021 [7]

November 2021 [8]

October 2021 [7]

September 2021 [9]

August 2021 [9]

July 2021 [9]

June 2021 [9]

May 2021 [8]

April 2021 [9]

March 2021 [9]

February 2021 [8]

January 2021 [8]

2020 [104]

December 2020 [10]

November 2020 [8]

October 2020 [9]

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May 2020 [7]

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December 2019 [7]

November 2019 [6]

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