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Aniplex Festival Online 2022

by ANN Newsroom, Sep 25th 2022

Aniplex's annual Online Festival, Aniplex Online Fest, was held on September 24 at 12:00 p.m. JST. The event featured information, announcements and trailers from over 20 anime series and featured live music performances. The event was in both English and Japanese, featuring hosts Sally Amaki and Hisanori Yoshida.

You can still view the full 5-hour, 42-minute on YouTube. Below are our articles from the event.

HIDIVE to Stream New Urusei Yatsura Anime
bilibili to also stream series premiering in Japan on October 13

Mashle: Magic and Muscles Anime's Promo Video Reveals Staff, Cast Member
Chiaki Kobayashi stars as Mashle in 2023 anime

Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence TV Anime's Promo Video Reveals Cast, April 2023 Debut
Hime Sawada plays Cecilia, Kaito Ishikawa plays Lawrence

UniteUp! YouTube Project Gets TV Anime in January 2023
CloverWorks produces idol anime

Ayakashi Triangle Anime Unveils Main Cast
Shōya Chiba, Miyu Tomita, Kana Ichinose, Tesshō Genda star in gender-bending ninja romcom

My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999 Manga Gets TV Anime in 2023
Inori Minase, Kōki Uchiyama star in series at Madhouse

Fate/strange Fake Spinoff Story Gets TV Anime Special on December 31
Simultaneous English subtitles, dubbing offered

Rascal Does Not Dream Gets Sequel Anime Adapting 8th, 9th Novels
Anime to feature returning cast, staff

A-1 Pictures Produces Eisen Flügel Anime Film With Director Seiji Mizushima
Gen Urobuchi wrote novel series originally published in 2009

The Misfit of Demon King Academy II Anime's Promo Video Reveals January 2023 Premiere
New season will feature returning staff

NieR: Automata Anime's Promo Video Reveals Staff, Cast, January 2023 Premiere
2 character videos, 8-minute staff interview video streamed

Tomo-chan is a Girl Anime Reveals New Video, 2 New Cast Members
Kōhei Amasaki, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka join cast for series premiering in January with Crunchyroll streaming

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Anime's New Short Trailer Streamed With English Subtitles
Anime premieres on October 10, will have "simulcast"

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition TV Anime's 3rd Promo Video Features New Song by Susumu Hirasawa
Crunchyroll streams TV version of 2012-2013 film trilogy starting on October 1

Aniplex.exe Reveals Hirahira Hihiru Novel Game
Game will release in 2023 on PC

ATRI: My Dear Moments Novel Game Gets TV Anime at Troyca
Makoto Katō directs anime

New Rurouni Kenshin TV Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, 2023 Premiere on Noitamina
Anime to re-adapt main manga series

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The ANN Aftershow - Will You Watch Solo Leveling Season 2?

Apr 24, 18:00

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James and Lynzee reflect on the end of Solo Leveling and whether its worldbuilding is worth its edgy turn. PLUS: The big monsters of Kaiju No. 8, & court intrigue in Yatagarasu! ― Will You Watch Solo Leveling Season 2? James and Lynzee reflect on the end of Solo Leveling and whether its worldbuilding is worth its edgy turn. PLUS: The big monsters of Kaiju No 8, court intrigue in Yatagarasu, and a li...

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Dark Moon: The Blood Altar Volumes 1-2 Manhwa Review

Apr 24, 12:00 manga

Some books are good. Some books read like self-insert fanfiction from the early days of AO3, but you can't stop reading and enjoying them. Dark Moon: The Blood Altar is one of those. ― Some books are good. Some books are not and read sort of like self-insert fanfiction from the early days of AO3, but even though you recognize that they aren't objectively filled with literary merit, you can't stop rea...

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Interview: Voice Actors Rika Hayashi and Hiroki Tōchi Talk About Their New Golf Anime, Tonbo!

Apr 24, 09:00

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Hayashi and Tōchi play mentee/mentor in heart-warming golf anime series. ― Golf anime Tonbo! is one of the new anime premiering in the Spring 2024 season. At Anime Japan 2024, we sat down with lead voice actors Rika Hayashi and Hiroki Tōchi to talk about their characters, their experiences with golf, and the positives of country life in Japan. In her first voice acting role as a main character, Hayas...

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Japanese TV Special Ranks Top Anime Songs, as Chosen by Foreign Fans

Apr 23, 19:16

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What are non-Japanese anime fans' top choices? ― Fans have been debating the greatest anime songs as long as anime has been around. Japanese TV regularly raises the topic for domestic fans, but every so often, Japan also presents the international perspective. On April 21, TV Asahi hosted a nearly three-hour special ranking favorite anime songs by non-Japanese and non-domestic anime fans. In a March ...

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This Week in Anime - So, Is Sound Euphonium Queerbaiting or Not?

Apr 23, 13:30

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The third season of Sound Euphonium reignites the fandom controversy over Reina and Kumiko's relationship. Chris and Steve delve into it and why 'queerbaiting' is such a loaded term. ― The third season of Sound Euphonium reignites the fandom controversy over Reina and Kumiko's relationship. Chris and Steve delve into it and why 'queerbaiting' is such a loaded term. Disclaimer: The views and opinions...

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Wonderful Precure! Episodes 1-12 Anime Review

Apr 23, 12:00

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You can't accuse the Pretty Cure franchise of resting on its laurels. Wonderful Precure! could move too slowly for some viewers. But these episodes are full of unmitigated joy. ― You can't accuse the Pretty Cure franchise of resting on its laurels. While there are distinct similarities between all iterations of the long-running Magical Girl franchise, recent years have done their best to maintain the...

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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation Manga Ends Due to Artist's Health

Apr 23, 09:09

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Series launched in 2016 ― The official Twitter account for Micro Magazine's Comic Ride magazine announced on April 1 that Shō Okagiri's That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation spinoff manga of Fuse and Mitz Vah's That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken) light novel series will end prematurely due to Okagiri's health. The company stated ther...

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Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Part 1 Anime Film Review

Apr 22, 12:00

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Part District 9 meets O Maidens in Your Savage Season, part grimdark deconstruction of Doraemon. ― Many anime films are adapted from manga and Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction is no exception. Usually, a film will cover a single arc of the greater plot—giving the story on screen a solid beginning, middle, and end. However, this is not the case with the first Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destructi...

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Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Game Review

Apr 22, 00:30

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People might think of this game as a celebration of the energy and experimentation of RPGs past, a tribute to a time when archetypes and genre conventions hadn't yet calcified and anything was fair game. And for once, they'd be right. ― There's a point that Lady Perielle returns to often when people ask her why Nowa, a young warrior from a small village, is the leader of the resistance front against ...