Kodansha starts countdown to April 9 finale on Eren's birthday― The editor of Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan manga announced on Twitter on Tuesday that Kodansha has begun taking legal action against "several accounts & individuals" to prevent illegal uploads and early leaks of the manga's final chapter. The editor specified that the company is working to prevent leaks of either images or text, and...
Special edition serves as continuation of 12th episode, which aired on Tuesday― The official website for CloverWorks' original television anime Wonder Egg Priority announced on Tuesday that the anime will get a "Special Edition" broadcast on NTV on June 29 at 12:00 a.m. JST (effectively, June 30). Wonder Egg Priority Special Edition will be a continuation of the anime's 12th and final episode, which...
Is Love and Heart's first volume full of red flags or red herrings? That's the central question you may be left with after reading it.― Is Love and Heart's first volume full of red flags or red herrings? That's the central question you may be left with after reading it. In either case, the fact that both literary devices rely on the color red may not be a coincidence here, because symbolically red c...
Hold on to your hats, the Spring 2021 anime season is right around the corner and its gearing up to be on the biggest yet.― Most Anticipated: SSSS.Dynazenon This one's not even a contest. 2018's SSSS.Gridman felt like the most ‘made for me’ anime I'd seen, a once-in-a-lifetime tokusatsu mashup by Trigger that could only happen because of the specific nerdy predilections of Akira Amemiya and his cre...
After four years and over 150 episodes, Black Clover is taking a break. Long time fan Rachel Trujillo looks back on the important messages in the show and how it earned a permanent place in her heart.― Since 2017, Black Clover fans all over the world have accompanied Asta's journey towards becoming the next Wizard King by watching the anime produced by Studio Pierrot. Some fans have devoutly followe...
It's the final episode of Attack on Titan...for now! Lynzee, Jacki, and James discuss the big cliffhanger and where the characters currently stand. ALSO: That MHA premiere and some anime industry developments concerning a certain CLAMP series.― The ANN Aftershow -Attack on Titan Episode 75 - Pieck vs. Eren! It's the final episode of Attack on Titan...for now! Lynzee, Jacki, and James discuss the bi...
It's really those final three episodes where things really begin to fall apart as the story shifts into warp speed. But in all fairness, throughout the entire show there's a nagging feeling that perhaps the pacing is too slow to wrap this up decently in twelve episodes.― Even if we ignore the fact that the final episode of Hortensia Saga is just screaming for a sequel, there's something mildly unsat...
The unsatisfactory conclusion left fans reeling last week. Jairus Taylor looks at what might have been and where the anime series started to go wrong.― When an anime adaptation of The Promised Neverland was announced back in 2018, I was pretty excited. The manga had caught my attention as one of the most uniquely exciting entries to Shonen Jump's line-up, and I was pumped both to see it gain a large...
Valve's strategy game is the latest inspiration for Studio Mir, the studio behind Legend of Korra and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Unlike those series, this one is for grown-ups, so get ready for plenty of F-bombs and sexy shenanigans. Also dragons.― Valve's strategy game is the latest inspiration for Studio Mir, the studio behind Legend of Korra and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Unlike those series, ...
Most of the characters use what I can only describe as Horror Movie 101 character logic. Everyone makes the worst possible choices, constantly, for dozens of pages at a time.― I tend to try to look for the positives and potential of a work when reviewing it, and even if it is not for me I at least attempt to think about how it might appeal to someone else. With King of the Labyrinth… I'm really stru...
Winter season is melting away for a brand new spring crop. ANN's critics look back at the best of the best and which series failed to launch.― Best Anime: SK8 the Infinity This was a tumultuous season filled to the brim with ambitious new originals, returning favorites, and a few highly controversial messes, so there were a lot of options to pick from for both best and worst. But I knew, in my hear...
Like every other instance of gruesome murder that occurs in High-Rise Invasion (and there are a lot of them), this sequence is presented with all of the gravitas and severity of a Saturday morning cartoon.― Here is everything you need to know about the tone that High-Rise Invasion is shooting for throughout the duration of its first season: At one point, around Episode 7, one of the disposable side ...