To find the perfect match of food and wine, we must travel the world and try new things, then come home and appreciate the familiar. ― Twice in Volume 9, someone rolled their eyes at someone else's melodrama during the big showdown, and I was 100% there for it. It actually made me like the whole story better. The first half of this arc is spent redeeming Chef Mikasa, the accomplished French chef whos...

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Chie Shinohara's Red River Shōjo Manga Gets TV Anime This Summer

Feb 14, 22:48

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Waccha PriMagi!'s Kōsuke Kobayashi directs anime at Tatsunoko Production ― Tatsunoko Production announced on Sunday that it will produce a television anime adaptation of Chie Shinohara's Red River (Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori) shōjo manga. The anime will debut this summer. Shinohara drew an illustration to commemorate the announcement. Kōsuke Kobayashi (Waccha PriMagi!, Alice or Alice) is directing t...

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Firefly Wedding Volumes 2-4 Manga Review

Feb 14, 12:00

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With richly detailed art and well-considered characters, Firefly Wedding is a traffic accident that you can’t look away from. ― If the first volume of Firefly Wedding set off warning bells in your head with its harsh story and themes of unwilling marriage and sexual predation, you may want to skip the rest of this series. It is hard to think of another ostensible romance that has as many flashing red...

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The Winter 2026 Manga Guide After Dark (18+)

Feb 14, 10:00

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Happy Valentine's Day, and welcome to the steamy side of ANN's Winter Manga Guide! ― Welcome to the steamy side of ANN's Winter Manga Guide. All of these titles are intended for readers 18 and older, ranging from spicy to something a bit more, and featuring a variety of tropes, groupings, and fetishes. Come find your next adult read - there's plenty to choose from. DECEMBER The Cuckolding Wizard's A...

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The Camphorwood Custodian Event Report

Feb 14, 09:00 anime

The cast shared their memories working on the whimsical series and what they would take care of if they were "custodians." ― 2026 is off to a strong start with anime films, with the release of The Camphorwood Custodian on January 30. Adapted from Keigo Higashino's 2020 novel of the same name, the story follows Reito Naoi as he takes on the duties of the titular Camphorwood Custodian. The film has a w...

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This Week in Games - Nintendo Partner Direct 2026 and Fatal Frame Producer Makoto Shibata Interview

Feb 13, 15:44

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Jean-Karlo spoke with Makoto Shibata about the highly-anticipated Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE horror game. ― Welcome back, folks! The 2026 Winter Olympics are up and running. As always, the Olympics are a great time to remember all of the Olympic video games we'd get every Olympic year. Such a shame we can't get new Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games titles! My fondest memory with an Oly...

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Fureru. Anime Film Review

Feb 13, 12:00

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This is the kind of material that’s bread and butter for screenwriter Mari Okada, who as usual, brings a sharp eye for what makes human beings tick. ― The internet is awash with think-pieces discussing the “male friendship recession.” In our fast-moving, fragmented Western society, where once tightly-knit communities have been replaced by hyper-individualism, and face-to-face communication by digital...

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The Final-Boss Prince is Somehow Obsessed with the Chubby Villainess: Reincarnated Me Manga Gets TV Anime

Feb 13, 10:42

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Anime stars Haruka Shiraishi as Celine, Takeo Ōtsuka as Wilfred ― An official website opened on Friday to announce that author Kotoko and artist Kaname Hanamiya's The Final-Boss Prince is Somehow Obsessed with the Chubby Villainess: Reincarnated Me (Odebu Akujo ni Tensei Shitara, Nazeka Last Boss О̄jisama ni Shūchaku Sareteimasu) manga is getting a television anime. The website unveiled a promotional...

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Anime in 2025: Is the Crunchyroll Cage Real?

Feb 13, 09:00

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Is it a death sentence when anime series stream outside of Crunchyroll? Kalai Chik looks at the numbers to see whether the common conception is true. ― Over 250 anime titles premiered in the U.S. across Crunchyroll, Netflix, Amazon's Prime Video, HIDIVE, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max in 2025. To no surprise, series exclusive to Crunchyroll make up almost half of the anime that reach the U.S. market. Con...

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Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade Time-Travel Manga Gets TV Anime in 2027

Feb 12, 22:02

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Natsuyuki Rendezvous creator's story about girl time-traveling to late Meiji-era Japan ― Kotowari announced on Friday that Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade (Namidaame to Serenade) manga is inspiring a television anime in 2027. Kawachi drew the below visual to celebrate the anime's announcement. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga, and will begin releasing the manga in two-in-one omnibus vol...

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With FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE, We're in a Horror Game Golden Age

Feb 12, 20:00

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When I got the chance to preview the opening chapters of FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE, I was excited to be reintroduced to the familiar tale. What immediately struck me, though, was just how thorough and considered a reconstruction this really is. ― If there is one thing that I can say has been uniformly great about surviving the 2020s (so far), it's that we've gotten to experience a new ...

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Ushiro no Shōmen Kamui-san Manga Gets TV Anime

Feb 12, 16:26

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Eroki, Shinko Konoshiro's manga debuted in 2020 ― An official X/Twitter account opened on Friday to announce that author Eroki and artist Shinko Konoshiro's Ushiro no Shōmen Kamui-san (Kamui-San Directly Behind You) manga is getting a television anime in summer 2026. WWWave Corporation's Deregula anime label is producing the anime. The account unveiled a logo and shared commemorative illustrations fr...

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Hyakki Yakou Shou Manga Gets Series of Anime Shorts (Updated)

Feb 12, 15:06

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Anime based on Ichiko Ima's Beyond Twilight manga debuts in April ― The official X/Twitter account for Asahi Shimbun Publications' Nemuki+ magazine announced on Friday that Ichiko Ima's Hyakki Yakou Shou (Beyond Twilight) horror manga is getting a television anime adaptation in April. The anime will be a series of shorts, and will also stream online. Aurora Publishing, Inc. had previously published t...

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Tougen Anki Episodes 13-24 Anime Series Review

Feb 12, 12:00

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This is hands-down, one of the worst shounen series I think I've ever seen. ― I was very harsh with the first half of this season of Tougen Anki. I thought this show was a by-the-numbers shounen that barely had anything new or inventive to bring to the table. Anything unique it did bring was vastly undercooked to the point where it barely mattered at all in the grand scheme of things. I thought the d...

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This Week in Anime - Fantasy Football

Feb 12, 10:00

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Are you ready for some football? No, not that kind - Coop and Lucas are talking about the football you actually play with your feet. ― Are you ready for some football? No, not that kind - Coop and Lucas are talking about the football you actually play with your feet. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warni...

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My Thoughts After 20 Hours With Monster Hunter Stories 3

Feb 12, 10:00 games

The same things that will inevitably make this game more tedious for some players will also scratch a hyper-specific itch for others. ― Monster Hunter is one of those game franchises like Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons, where it's not totally uncommon to find people who get super into it, have encyclopedic knowledge of it, and have save files easily exceeding 300 hours. I… am not one of those people. ...

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