This book is a bit darker than your typical yuri manga. Hinako is desperately trying to figure out a way through life when we meet her – she's about to have a date with a man who is financially successful, nice, and good-looking, and she really, really doesn't want to go. ― You could be forgiven for thinking that the word “toxic” gets overused these days. But there's a good reason for it – while hist...

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Voice Actress Haruka Nagashima Passes Away at 33

Jun 12, 20:12

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Voice of Shiki's Kaori Tanaka, Sparrow's Hotel's Tamaki Shiokawa was under medical treatment ― The talent agency Three Tree announced on Friday that voice actress Haruka Nagashima passed away on May 30. She was 33. She had been under medical treatment for an unspecified ailment. Her family held a private service. Nagashima was born on September 21, 1987 in Yamagata prefecture. She played Kaori Tanaka...

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Castlevania Animated Show Gets New Spinoff Series Featuring Richter Belmont, Maria Renard

Jun 12, 20:10

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New series will take place in France in 1792 ― Executive producer Kevin Kolde, director Sam Deats, and assistant director Adam Deats of Adi Shankar's Castlevania animated series revealed during Netflix's Geeked Week livestream on Friday that the show is getting a new spinoff series, and it is in the works. The new series will star Richter Belmont (a descendant of the original show's protagonists Syph...

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The Spring 2021 Manga Guide

Jun 12, 12:07

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The Manga Guide updates with new volumes from May! Now: Its beefy men and their lovely cats in Hard-boiled Stories from the Cat Bar! Also: Bite Maker: The King's Omega, With the Sheikh in His Harem, Hazure Skill, Thigh High: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy, Dungeon Toilet, Undead Unluck, Boys Run Riot, Dick Fight Island, The Not-So-Lonely Planet Travel Guide, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, Stitch and the Samurai, I Was a Bottom-Tier Bureaucrat for 1,500 Years, Call of the Night, Your Turn to Die, A School Frozen in Time, and more!

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Everyday♪ Today's MENU for EMIYA Family

Jun 12, 12:00

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With its sparse content, performance issues, and tepid dialogue, Everyday♪ Today's Menu for Emiya Family is a bad game even by the standards of low-budget anime tie-ins. ― With its sparse content, performance issues, and tepid dialogue, Everyday♪ Today's MENU for EMIYA Family is a bad game even by the standards of low-budget anime tie-ins. To be fair, it's not like I had no fun with the game at all; ...

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Touken Ranbu

Jun 11, 12:30

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Touken Ranbu. It's out in English now, almost six years after its initial release in Japan. I've played it for about two months, and I believe I can safely say… I'm not sure I get it. ― Touken Ranbu. It's out in English now, almost six years after its initial release in Japan. I've played it for about two months, and I believe I can safely say… I'm not sure I get it. I mean, yeah, on the one hand, I ...

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Unleash the Power of the Mind in SCARLET NEXUS

Jun 11, 12:28

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Unleash the Power of the Mind in SCARLET NEXUS. The highly anticipated action JRPG video game is set to release this month! There's a lot to look forward to. About The Game In the far distant future, a psionic hormone was discovered in the human brain, granting people extra-sensory powers and changed the world as we knew it. As humanity entered this new era, deranged mutants known as Others began ...

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The Spring 2021 Light Novel Guide

Jun 11, 11:00

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The first half of Anime News Network's Light Novel Guide is live! Kim Morrissy and Rebecca Silverman check out the latest releases from Yen On, J-Novel Club, Cross Infinite World, and Seven Seas! ― Isekai may still dominate the light novel game as presented by English-language translations, but we're certainly seeing more variations on its theme. That's immediately noticeable in the batch of volume ...

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Bringing Manila Folk-Horror to Life: TRESE Director Jay Oliva, Creators Kajo Baldisimo and Budjette Tan

Jun 11, 10:00

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"It feels like my entire career has set me up to do this – because I really felt that I could bring something authentic to this comic that some others might not be able to do." ― Based on the Filipino graphic novel of the same name by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo, the Netflix Original Anime Trese follows detective Alexandra Trese as she takes on the supernatural criminal underbelly of the city of ...

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Sailor Moon Is Darker Than You Think

Jun 11, 09:00

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Sailor Moon is the poster child for the magical girl genre, a genre often associated with a younger audience and “less mature” content. But what if I told you it covered topics like genocide, human experimentation, incest, and other similar ideas? ― Sailor Moon is the poster child for the magical girl genre, a genre that's often associated with a younger audience and “less mature” content. But what ...

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This Week in Anime - Dynazenon is Tokusatsu Dynamite

Jun 10, 13:00

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Trigger's sequel to SSSS.Gridman started as a slow burn, but as Jean-Karlo and Nick find out the fuse is quickly burning up to set off a bombastic action spectacle. Come for the emotional stakes, stay for the kaiju battles in SSSS.Dynazenon! ― Trigger's sequel to SSSS.Gridman started as a slow burn, but as Jean-Karlo and Nick find out the fuse is quickly burning up to set off a bombastic action spec...

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Ninja Gaiden Master Collection

Jun 10, 12:00

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For a certain vintage of gamer, Ninja Gaiden is a name that carries a certain amount of fear. Grant Jones revisits the franchise to see if the games still hold up to their legacy. ― The Ninja Gaiden Master Collection is hard to talk about in isolation. In many ways, you need a dramatic, long-winded cut scene to get the context for the release. So if you'll indulge me, I'll try to spin the tale as bes...

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