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Answerman - How Will Netflix Producing Anime Change the Industry?
anime
Now that Netflix is pushing to create more original anime content for their service, how will this affect production and the industry as we know it?
― Jacob asked: Recently there was an announcement that Netflix was making an aggressive push for creating new, original content for 2018. What shocked me was that they were planning on funding and getting exclusive rights to over 30 anime series over th...
How the Wake Up Girls! Turn Disaster Into Dreams
anime
The girls of WUG have been hounded by awkwardness and failure from their humble beginnings, but is their underdog story secretly part of their appeal? Chris Adamson details the fall and rise of this truly unique idol group.
― The scene is Anime Central 2014, just outside Chicago. An enthusiastic crowd in Main Events has just watched Wake Up, Girls! The Seven Idols, the hour-long movie that kicked off...
A Bride's Story GN 9
manga
It’s all Pariya all the time in A Bride’s Story’s most laugh-out-loud funny volume yet. Nick Creamer digs into it.
― Kaoru Mori seems to understand she struck upon a truly brilliant character in Pariya. Plagued by all-too-relatable social anxieties and defined by the dichotomy of her shy exterior and blunt feelings, Pariya is a profoundly likable and consistently entertaining lead. In A Bride's Story...
This Week in Anime - What the Heck was ID-0 About?
anime
This 3DCG sci fi series from last spring recently arrived on Netflix with little fanfare, but is its confusing story worth checking out?
― Netflix snapped this 3DCG sci fi adventure up last spring, only to finally release it this month to little fanfare and a lot of head-scratching. This week in anime, Nick and Jacob try to decipher what ID-0 was even about and whether it's worth anyone's time. Discl...
Event Report: Sound! Euphonium Live Concert
events
Kyoto Animation held a spectacular event in Japan with a full concert from the incredible orchestra behind Sound! Euphonium - here's a full report!
― To commemorate their thirtieth anniversary as a company, Kyoto Animation's producers were looking for a title set in their locale of Uji, just outside Kyoto, to adapt into a series. Producers Eiharu Oohashi and Riri Senami each found a little novel writ...
The Fall 2017 Anime Preview Guide: SimulDub Edition
anime
The Fall 2017 Anime Preview Guide wraps with our previews of every new SimulDub this season!
Available Now: The Ancient Magus' Bride - Recovery of an MMO Junkie - Black Clover - A Sister's All You Need - Anime-Gataris - Kino's Journey: the Beautiful World - Code: Realize - Love Live! Sunshine!! - URAHARA - Dies Irae - Konohana Kitan - King's Game - Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond - Garo Vanishing Line - Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
Available Now: The Ancient Magus' Bride - Recovery of an MMO Junkie - Black Clover - A Sister's All You Need - Anime-Gataris - Kino's Journey: the Beautiful World - Code: Realize - Love Live! Sunshine!! - URAHARA - Dies Irae - Konohana Kitan - King's Game - Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond - Garo Vanishing Line - Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
Vice & Luna - The Top 5 Most Kissable Anime Skeletons
just for fun
Perry doesn't understand why anyone would want to hook up with the skull-faced guy from The Ancient Magus Bride, but Blume and Luna are here to help!
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Dance with Devils BD/DVD
anime
If you're in the mood for more campy demons than scary ones this Halloween, this reverse harem musical spectacular has you covered. Rose Bridges explains what makes this series seven hells' worth of fun.
― Dance with Devils is my kind of Halloween entertainment. It's campy, trashy, and a little spooky, but never seriously scary. Sure, it tries for some thrills, but this is a reverse harem musical, an...
Answerman - Quick Answers Part 5
anime
Justin's back with a lightning round of questions about sexual harassment in the industry, K-Pop, Japanese perceptions of English dubs, and the social problems posed by this season's Inuyashiki.
― It's been a while, and I've gotten some good questions lately that have pretty brief answers, so it's time for another lightning round! Branko asks: With the wave of sexual harassment reports spilling over...
Interview: Love Live! Sunshine!!'s Aqours
anime
With the second season of their smash anime on the air this fall, all nine members of Aqours answer some burning questions after their first-ever live performance in the United States.
― Exactly one year since six of the members of Love Live Sunshine!!'s Aqours first visited Los Angeles, they were back again, this time with the full set of nine and a concert experience planned for fans of Love Live! ...
Shelf Life - Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Rikka Version
anime
Paul finds out if this compilation film is worth watching for prior fans or Chunibyo newcomers. Plus, all this week's new anime releases and a Shelf Obsessed full of bishounen figures!
― Recovery of an MMO Junkie is one of my streaming review shows this season, and it's gotten off to a really good start over the last couple weeks. Between its charming romantic comedy and the inspired chaos of Gamers...
I Became the Secretary of a Hero! Novel 1
novels
When the Dark Lord kidnaps her younger sister, ordinary paralegal Aki becomes the Hero's secretary in this fun take on the isekai genre. Rebecca Silverman has the details.
― The latest of Cross Infinite World's female-oriented light novel translations, I Became the Secretary of a Hero is both the sweetest and the most lighthearted so far. It also features the oldest heroine we've yet seen – Aki is a ...
The Mike Toole Show - The Anime-Ville Horror
anime
Everyone knows there's a whole lot of horror anime out there, but what about HALLOWEEN anime, specifically? Mike's on the case!
― As the Andy Williams song goes, it's the most wonderful time of the year, because it's October and Halloween is right around the corner! Yeah, I know that the song is actually about Christmas, but tell me this: why are there thousands and thousands of Christmas songs, but ...
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers Novel 2
novel
This novel picks up where the anime adaptation left off, trading its initial whodunnit mystery style for classic suspense by giving the readers more information than the characters. Rebecca Silverman dives in.
― If the first volume of Ishio Yamagata's Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers light novel series played out like a classic mystery novel, this second volume takes its cues from contemporary suspen...