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Tsukkomi
: つっこみ
The "straight" or deliberately unfunny partner in a two-man manzai comedy routine. Also, the verbal or physical reprimand he administers to his partner, the boke.
The Third round of The Great Dr. STONE Battle Craft X Giveaway has launched. Enter now for your chance to win some of the $2000 of prizes we're giving away!― Dr. STONE Needs you! We are calling on all Dr. STONE fans to mobilize and support the official Dr. STONE Battlecraft X account (@dsbc_staff_en). 18 people who heed this call to arms will be rewarded with their choice of one US$100 prize package...
Outsiders is a book that should have been better.― Does this sound familiar? A teenage girl with a sense of being disaffected and socially dislocated, one day discovers that there's a whole supernatural world right under her nose, and becomes involved with a hot werewolf and a handsome vampire. It's not just Twilight that uses that setup, although it probably remains the most famous example of the p...
Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army is the gold standard that all PS2 remasters need to adhere to.― Originally a spin-off of the Shin Megami Tensei series, Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army separates itself from Atlus's other games. One aspect is that the story's tone sits between Shin Megami Tensei and Persona's. It's not as apocalyptic as Shin Megami Tensei, but y...
If you compare the anime industry to a historical document, Masao Maruyama has been around since ink was first put to parchment—or, in his case, paint to celluloid.― If you were to compare the anime industry to a historical document, Masao Maruyama has been around since ink was first put to parchment—or, in his case, paint to celluloid. In his over-60-year career, the prolific creative producer had...
Happy Pride! Steve and Lucas browse through some queer manga in celebration.― Happy Pride! Steve and Lucas browse through some queer manga in celebration. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. @RiderStrike @BWProwl @LucasDeRuyter @vestenet Lucas Steve, I know you an...
This Little Mermaid-inspired film just won at Annecy - come discover the charms that helped it to do so.― There have been many stories – even just told with animation – about love going beyond cultural lines, appearance, even specifically love between man and mermaid. As the film settles in to its premise, ChaO has a lot of work to set itself apart from these other films. Director Yasuhiro Aoki buil...
Nonsensical as this twenty-episode fever-dream of a show is, I can’t deny the potency of its mad imagery.― After finishing the second half of LIDEN FILMS utterly inscrutable anime adaptation of Tow Ubukata's Bye Bye, Earth novel series, I had to lie down for an hour so that my poor, confused brain could attempt to parse all that it had experienced. I don't know whether that helped, but the color-dre...
Asha Bardon explores sites off the beaten path and explains why so many anime fans are making their own pilgrimages.― It's the end of a much-loved anime movie: Makoto Shinkai's 2016 hit Your Name. The protagonists, Mitsuha and Taki, have just glimpsed each other on a subway train in Tokyo, only for both to get off at the next station and frantically try to find each other. Then they come to some ste...
Anime gets panel at Anime Expo on July 5― TOHO Animation began streaming a teaser trailer for the eighth and final season of the My Hero Academia anime on Monday: TOHO animation will host a “My Hero Academia Special Event” panel at Anime Expo on July 5 from 10:00-11:20 a.m. PDT at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Daiki Yamashita and Justin Briner, the Japanese and English voice actors for Deku, w...
Anime to have "censored," "original" versions, with original version debuting on AT-X on July 15― The staff for the New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt anime unveiled the main promotional video trailer and a key visual for the anime on Monday. The video confirms the anime's Anime Expo 2025 world premiere event on July 4, its July 9 broadcast premiere date, and its "censored" and "original" versions...
This is, at its heart, a send-up of otoge isekai.― No matter where you trace it back to, the subgenre of isekai where someone is reborn in the world of, specifically, an otome game, has become popular. It's not as well-loved (strictly in terms of popularity) as villainess or OP isekai, but there are enough stories that use it as a setting to make it deserving of its specific subgenre. It's got a bit...