BELLE's English dub impressed us with its casting of the 19-year-old Kylie McNeill in her first voice acting role. Lauren Orsini spoke to the voice team about the casting and performances in NYAV's dub. ― BELLE, the latest film from Mamoru Hosoda, is also one of the director's most ambitious. Aside from its smooth animation and fairytale art, it also features a score of bold, evocative musical number...

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KLab to Distribute JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Mobile Game Worldwide

Jan 23, 19:07

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Shanghai-based Shengqu Games develops game ― KLab announced on Thursday that it has acquired the rights to distribute Shanghai-based Shengqu Games' upcoming mobile game based on the anime adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga worldwide outside of Japan. Shengqu Games had announced in August 2020 that the game would launch in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The co...

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The Girl With the Sanpaku Eyes Manga Listed as Ending in 5th Volume

Jan 23, 18:54

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5th volume ships on March 22 ― Online retailer Rakuten is listing the fifth volume of Shunsuke Sorato's The Girl with the Sanpaku Eyes (Sanpakugan-chan wa Tsutaetai.) manga as the final volume. The volume ships on March 22. Denpa is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story: Meet Amane Mizuno a girl with fierce sanpaku eyes and a pure heart! She has recently fallen for a boy named Ka...

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Netflix Adds Fishbowl Wives Live-Action Series, 2 One Piece Films

Jan 23, 18:53

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One Piece: Episode of Chopper, One Piece: Episode of Alabasta anime films will stream "soon" ― Netflix announced on January 6 that it will add the Fishbowl Wives live-action series adaptation of Kurosawa R's Kingyo Tsuma manga on February 14 worldwide. The below video may not be safe for work. Netflix describes Fishbowl Wives: In a luxury apartment tower, six different women in unhappy marriages end ...

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End GN 2

Jan 23, 12:00

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manga

All in all, this volume of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End turns out to be just as good—if not better—than the first. ― In general, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is a manga that utilizes both serialized and standalone storytelling. Sometimes, events may flow naturally from one chapter to the next. Other times, we get a chapter that is unrelated to any overarching narrative. And there are also one-shots...

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Sing a Bit of Harmony

Jan 22, 12:00

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Ahead of its opening in North American theaters, find out why Kim Morrissy calls the new film by Time of Eve director Yasuhiro Yoshiura a "breezy family-friendly film that's easy to recommend to pretty much anyone." ― In a year with both Mamoru Hosoda's BELLE and WIT Studio's Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-, a story about a singing AI robot doesn't seem like much of a novelty. But although Sing a Bit of H...

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Video Interview: Sing a Bit of Harmony's English Dub Cast

Jan 22, 12:00

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Jacki Jing spoke with the English voice cast of Sing a Bit of Harmony about why you must see this emotional anime movie. ― Jacki Jing spoke with the English voice cast of Sing a Bit of Harmony about why you must see this emotional anime movie, including Megan Shipman (Shion), Risa Mei (Satomi), Jordan Dash Cruz (Toma), Ian Sinclair (Gotchan) and Brina Palencia (ADR Song Director).

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This Week in Games - What A Twist

Jan 21, 14:00

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Good lord. What a week to be into games, am I right? I'm sure everybody has thoughts and hopes and fears about Microsoft's impending Activision-Blizzard assimilation… and I'd like to hear all of them! ― ~~ 𝒯𝓊𝑒𝓈𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝒥𝒶𝓃 𝟣𝟪𝓉𝒽 ~~ -- 𝒜𝓅𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓍𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝟩:2𝟢 𝒜𝑀 𝒫𝒮𝒯 -- *may be slightly dramatized Ahh, crap. Why the hell did I wake up so early? I stayed up way too late last night tidying up my Windjammers 2 revi...

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I'm Looking for Serious Love! GN

Jan 21, 12:00

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Even if the content isn't an issue for you, the book is firmly mediocre, something you'd pick up if you ran out of other things in the genre to read, because it's better than nothing – more or less. ― While I always glance at the content warnings for a volume of manga, they rarely make much of an impression, unless it's one of Viz's sarcastic ones. But the warning on the back of Tokyopop's release of...

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Belle

Jan 21, 11:21

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Now playing in U.S. theaters, Richard Eisenbeis reviews Mamoru Hosoda's newest film and its meaningful look into the lingering effects of loss and the seemingly hopeless struggle to overcome it. ― It doesn't take a genius to see that acclaimed director Mamoru Hosada's Belle takes a ton of inspiration from Beauty and the Beast, specifically the Disney adaptation. All the trappings are there: We have a...

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BELLE Lead Composer Taisei Iwasaki

Jan 21, 09:00

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ANN's Richard Eisenbeis had the opportunity to talk with Lead Composer Taisei Iwasaki about the process of creating the music that is so central to BELLE's narrative and themes. ― It is perhaps an understatement to say that music is an important component to Mamoru Hosoda's latest film BELLE; after all, BELLE revolves around a grief-stricken girl named Suzu who finds shelter and salvation by creating...

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Dai Dark GN 1

Jan 20, 12:00

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From the creator of Dorohedoro comes a new series about a man, his supposedly magic bones, and the out-of-this-world characters who try to obtain them. ― There's really no one working in manga quite like Q Hayashida. Her first manga released in English, Dorohedoro, gained a cult following for its grimly chaotic, dystopian worlds filled with brutal, thoughtless murder, populated with lovable character...

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This Week in Anime - Horse Girls Are Easy

Jan 20, 10:00

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If you wrote off Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 2 based on its galaxy-brain premise, you may have missed out on one of the most emotionally compelling sports series in years. ― If you wrote off Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 2 based on its galaxy-brain premise, you may have missed out on one of the most emotionally compelling sports series in years. This series is streaming on Crunchyroll Disclaimer...

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