Like many events around the world, this year's New York Comic Con (NYCC) will happen remotely. Check out all the anime and manga content you won't want to miss (like Kunihiko Ikuhara!)― Like many events around the world, this year's New York Comic Con (NYCC) will happen remotely. The event, which boasted over a quarter of a million attendees in 2018, will continue online via Reedpop's Metaverse site...
Sometimes an illustrious staff does not equal an impressive production. Enter Gibiate, a series with time travel, samurai, mutating monster people, and the silliest twist in years.― Sometimes an illustrious staff does not equal an impressive production. Enter Gibiate, a series with time travel, samurai, mutating monster people, and the silliest twist in years. Join Nicky and Steve as they slide thr...
If The Wind Rises fails to completely live up to the impossible legacies set by Miyazaki's other masterpieces, it is only because the movie is telling a decidedly different story.― The most telling scene in The Wind Rises is, for me, one of its dream sequences. Our protagonist, Jiro Horikoshi, has been visiting German airbases on behalf of Japan and the company he designs aircraft for, Mitsubishi. T...
Heidi checks out the upcoming Monster Hunter game, and reminiscences about the anime mobile game casualties of 2020.― Hello again! Well, um… pretty slow week for gaming news, huh? Let's see… Cyberpunk 2077 went gold and kicked off a bunch of talk about industry crunch again, which is a conversation we're still afraid to have as an industry… Masahiro Sakurai showed off more Alex and Steve gameplay fo...
It's here! The story continues in YASHAHIME: Princess Half-Demon! Check back all day for continuous updates. Also Available NOW: Akudama Drive • Strike Witches • Noblesse • Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear • Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World • IWGP • Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle • Moriarty the Patriot • Talentless Nana • Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club • The Irregular at Magic High School • Wandering Witch • Jujutsu Kaisen...and more!
Cue the beats, because Marc Schulz is here to take you on a journey through Japanese hip-hop and how its popularity birthed this season's craziest anime, Hypnosis Mic― Hypnosis Mic, King Records' multimedia project about crews of anime boys fighting each other in rap battles, made its way onto airwaves this month. While HypMic (as it is more often called by fans) already has a noticeable following i...
NYCC may have gone online only this year as part of the “New York Comic Con x MCM Comic Con Metaverse” but there are still some cool figures be had—especially these Dragon Ball and Star Wars figures.― NYCC may have gone online only this year as part of the “New York Comic Con x MCM Comic Con Metaverse” but there are still some cool figures be had—especially these Dragon Ball and Star Wars figures. Y...
2021 show with Blue Exorcist's Kazue Kato designing, The Empire of Corpses' Toh Enjoe writing― Netflix announced on Wednesday that it will stream the Godzilla Singular Point anime series globally in 2021. Atsushi Takahashi (Blue Exorcist movie, Doraemon the Movie: "Kachi-Kochi" Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic, Rideback) is directing the series at BONES and Orange, which are collaborating t...
Hiroshi Kobayashi to direct, Hiroshi Seko to write screenplay, Shūhei Handa to design characters― The staff of David Production's new anime series based on Hiroshi Takashige and Ryōji Minagawa's Spriggan (Striker) manga revealed on Tuesday the anime's staff members, visual, and 2021 premiere on Netflix. Hiroshi Kobayashi (Rage of Bahamut Genesis assistant director, Kill la Kill episode director) is ...
In 2014, Ping Pong was adapted into a groundbreaking anime by auteur director Masaaki Yuasa. As his star has only risen in recent years, more and more fans have turned to Yuasa's past work.― Ping Pong doesn't seem at first like the sort of manga to do well in the United States if you look purely at that above description. Until fairly recently, sports series were a hard sell, especially on a sport l...
Tite Kubo is back in a big way with the anime adaptation of his newest manga, Burn The Witch. Dragons wreck havoc, burninating across the English countryside. Ninny and Noel are two witches who seek to manage dragons before they get out of control.― Tite Kubo is back in a big way with the anime adaptation of his newest manga, Burn the Witch. Dragons wreck havoc, burninating across the English count...
Rebecca Silverman goes to the source of this anime season's dark crime series in Moriarty the Patriot.― Despite his legacy as Sherlock Holmes' greatest foe, Professor Moriarty only appears (or is mentioned) in six of Arthur Conan Doyle's canonical works, and he is, it must be admitted, relatively underdeveloped. Enter Ryosuke Takeuchi's Moriarty the Patriot, which seems to take as its raison d'être ...
Film producer Yōsuke Kinoshita spoke to Anime News Network about the messages of maturity in the Kizuna film, the bonds that make a chosen family, and what it means to grow up.― Tai is now a university student, living alone, working hard at school, and working every day, but with his future still undecided. Meanwhile, Matt and others continue to work on Digimon incidents and activities that help peo...
Like any good con artist, Great Pretender understands that knowing when to make an exit is just as important as nailing the first impression.― Any of Great Pretender's con artist characters will tell you that first impressions are essential – they set expectations for everything that comes after, and will continue to color your perception until the very end. Great Pretender makes a fantastic one, wi...