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Film opens in Japan on June 11, worldwide in August― Toei began streaming a "Part 3" 30-second ad on Friday for Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the second anime film in the Dragon Ball Super franchise. Toei also streamed several 30-second and 15-second ads over the last two weeks: Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures will screen the film in theaters worldwide this summer starting in August, but an exact dat...
Game launches in Japan on July 28, worldwide on July 29― Bandai Namco Entertainment began streaming a trailer on Thursday for the Digimon Survive hybrid visual novel and tactical role-playing game. The video previews the game's characters, story, and gameplay: The game will ship for PlayStation 4 and Switch in Japan on July 28, and for PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and PC via Steam worldwide on July 29. Th...
Stills from episode 1 also posted from July series― The official website for the live-action series of Reiji Miyajima's Rent-A-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu) manga announced on Friday that Mio Kudō (Kamen Rider Ghost, Saki Achiga-hen episode of side-A, Mashin Sentai Kiramager, seen below) will join the cast as the character Ruka Sarashina. The staff also posted stills from the first episode: #ドラマ...
Daisuke Hiramaki, Chao Nekotomi direct anime at Doga Kobo― Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari's Oshi no Ko manga is getting an anime by Doga Kobo. Daisuke Hiramaki (Selection Project) and Chao Nekotomi (Love is Like a Cocktail) are directing the series. Jin Tanaka (The Misfit of Demon King Academy) is handling series composition. Kanna Hirayama (Rent-A-Girlfriend) is designing the characters. The manga'...
Lightkravte features gorgeous art and is interesting both as a prequel and as a game in its own right.― The fourth game in Alice in Dissonance's fault series, Fault StP Lightkravte may raise a few eyebrows since it's being released ahead of Milestone Two: Side Below, meaning that series fans have to wait a bit longer to continue the main story. (On Steam, the developers have said that staffing issue...
Chainsaw Man is a manga known for a lot of things, but above all else, what truly impressed me about this manga is its ability to convey complex, often incredibly dark emotions while the actual dialogue says very little or even nothing at all.― Chainsaw Man is a manga known for a lot of things. Explosive action set pieces, breakneck pacing, striking visuals, but above all else, what truly impressed...
As Shaman King enters into the back half of this reboot, the show enters into a seemingly hopeless battle on two fronts. Jairus Taylor questions if, following the show's missteps along the way, this reboot needed to happen at all.― As Shaman King enters into the back half of this reboot, the show enters into a seemingly hopeless battle on two fronts. The first being Yoh trying to find a way to put a...
Leaks and new trailers abound this summer. Heidi checks out the promising new look of Street Fighter 6 and salvages what she can from the underwhelming Summer Game Fest.― So, not long after I submitted last week's column for editing, a huge leak of Street Fighter 6 information started making the rounds. Which, given the history of Capcom in general and Street Fighter in particular, isn't terribly su...
For a show occupying a unique premise this season, Fanfare of Adolescence can't decide what it wants to focus on. One thing's for sure, it could certainly use more horses.― For a show occupying a unique premise this season, Fanfare of Adolescence can't decide what it wants to focus on. One thing's for sure, it could certainly use more horses for a jockey anime. This series is streaming on Crunchyro...
Metal Max Xeno Reborn can be a lot of fun, but it does make you work for it. Its oblique objectives and wild difficulty curves can definitely be off-putting—and yet there's fun to be had in driving around the wasteland, scrounging for scrap metal, and blasting away mobs of cannon fodder.― Fans of old PS2 JRPGs might remember the obscure Metal Saga; what you might not have known is that it's one in a...
Revue Starlight The Movie addresses and fixes nearly all my quibbles with the series by burning off the fat and violently compressing the remaining stylistic meat into a brilliant multi-faceted diamond.― Revue Starlight The Movie is a sequel in the familiar sense of the word. It follows up on the conclusion of the television series, and gives its characters another chance to soak in the limelight be...
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress and The Wings of Farewell have had official English subtitles for nearly a decade. Here's the story of a trio of fans and the team at YTV who made it happen.― Fun fact: the final scene was left out of the script of Wings of Farewell to avoid any leaks of who Alto would choose. Sheryl or Ranka? Photo credits: Sean McCann On May 20th 2022, Big West and Fathom Ev...