Daily Briefs - September 2025

Assassination Classroom Manga Removed From U.S. School Libraries at Least 54 Times in 2024-2025 Year

Oct 14, 13:30

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School districts in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, South Carolina have banned Yusei Matsui's series ― Non-profit organization Pen America revealed in a report documenting public school bans earlier this month that Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga has been removed at least 54 times from school libraries in the United States throughout the 2024-2025 year. Each individual volume ba...

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Time to Choose! Fall Anime Reviews

Oct 14, 13:25 anime

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Silent Hill f Game Review

Oct 14, 12:00

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This game will cling to the darkest corners of my nightmares for a very long time to come. ― I have been a Silent Hill fan all of my life, and I have just recently completed my project of replaying and recording every single game in the franchise (well, except for Silent Hill: Book of Memories, since my PlayStation Vita broke years ago). That said, for as much as I absolutely adore Bloober Team's re...

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'Yowaki MAX Reijō nanoni, Ratsuwan Konyakusha-sama no Kake ni Notte Shimatta' Light Novels Get TV Anime

Oct 14, 05:01 anime

Miku Itō, Ryōta Ōsaka reprise roles from voice drama of Hiro Oda's isekai romantic comedy ― Kadokawa announced in a video on Tuesday that Hiro Oda's Yowaki MAX Reijō nanoni, Ratsuwan Konyakusha-sama no Kake ni Notte Shimatta (Even Though She's a Timid Young Lady to the Max, She Agreed to Her Shrewd Fiancé's Bet) light novel series will receive a television anime. Kadokawa also revealed a teaser visua...

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A Couple of Cuckoos Season 2 Anime Series Review

Oct 13, 12:00

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It’s a colorful, comforting anime that requires minimal brain power to consume. ― For me, A Couple of Cuckoos Season 2 is like “Sunk Cost Fallacy: The Anime.” I enjoyed the far-fetched and dumb, but sweet, twenty-four-episode first season, and found myself sleepwalking into the second out of a misplaced sense of duty. Like many long-running anime romcoms, the “plot progression,” if one could even des...

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From Lovecraft to the Fear of the Unknown: Silent Hill f and Fatal Frame: Crimson Butterfly

Oct 13, 09:00

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Why is this niche so beloved, and what else can we expect to see as we return to games that focus on Japanese folklore, culture, and horror? ― Japan-set games are experiencing a much-needed Renaissance, with Silent Hill f's releaase on PC and consoles this month, as well as the announcement of a Fatal Frame: Crimson Butterfly Remake coming in 2026, along with a release for Nioh 3 in February and Ghos...

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1st Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Film Breaks 25-Year Record as #1 Non-English International Film in U.S.

Oct 12, 20:19

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Finale trilogy's 1st film also tops How to Train Your Dragon as 2025's #5 film globally ― The Numbers and Box Office Mojo services reported on Sunday that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai, the first film in the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle trilogy, has earned an estimated US$128.6 million in North American markets as of this weekend. It has now become th...

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The Fall Anime 2025 Preview Guide summoned by Crunchyroll

Oct 12, 18:49

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The Fall Anime Preview Guide is almost complete! Read our reviews of With You, Our Love Will Make it Through, Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right, Spy×Family Season 3, One Punch Man Season 3, Gnosia, Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray, Digimon Beatbreak, My Hero Academia Final Season, and more! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Fall 2025 Anime Preview Guide summoned by Crunchyroll! Here's how it goes: our t...

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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Game Review

Oct 12, 12:00

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Sonic Racing CrossWorlds is hands-down the best racing game in the entire franchise. ― Sonic's racing game history has been very mixed over the years, and that's being generous. You would think that for a franchise that focuses on a character that's faster than the average mascot platform, we would have better and more beloved racing games throughout the past couple of decades. I have not played ever...

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Shun Numa's Super Psychic Policeman Chojo Manga Gets TV Anime in 2026

Oct 12, 11:32

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Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion director Junichi Yamamoto helms anime at Arvo Animation ― The digital version of this year's 46th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Monday that Shun Numa's Super Psychic Policeman Chojo (Chōjun Chōjō Senpai) manga is getting a television anime in 2026, and revealed a teaser visual and the anime's main staff. (Note: The magazine is...

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Alice in Borderland (Live-Action) Season 3 Series Review

Oct 11, 12:00

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This continuation of Netflix's live-action version of Haro Aso's death game manga stretches the patience more than the previous seasons, but it's still ultimately worthwhile. ― The third live-action season of Alice in Borderland, based on the death game manga by Haro Aso, drops onto Netflix with big disadvantages. One is that it's released almost three years after the second season, which seemed to e...

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Let's Go Kaikigumi Horror Comedy Manga Gets TV Anime in 2026

Oct 11, 07:00 anime

Byū's story of coward who helps revive group in charge of scary supernatural creatures ― A website opened on Saturday with a teaser promotional video to announce that a television anime adaptation of Byū's Let's Go Kaikigumi manga will premiere next year. The horror comedy manga begins one fateful day when the cowardly (unnamed) protagonist meets Mechako, the leader of the "Kaikigumi" organization wh...

Studio Ghibli Animation Cels and More Hit the Auction Block!

Oct 11, 03:43