Your Score: Week #1 of Fall 2025 Simulcasts

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Anime Film Review

Oct 1, 12:00

anime

Emotionally resonant and visually stunning, this is simply one of the must-watch anime films of the year. ― A large part of this story is made to highlight just how inhuman Denji is. He grew up socially isolated and lacking the vast majority of creature comforts that even the most meager of us tend to have. He sold an eye and a kidney to survive--and three meals a day of tasty food is all it takes fo...

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Kindergarten Wars Manga Gets TV Anime

Oct 1, 11:02

anime

Atsumi Tanezaki, Kentarō Kumagai star ― Bandai Namco Filmworks announced on Thursday that Yu Chiba's Kindergarten Wars (Yōchien Wars) manga is getting a television anime. Chiba shared an illustration to commemorate the announcement: The anime stars Atsumi Tanezaki as Rita and Kentarō Kumagai as Doug. Shueisha's MANGA Plus website publishes the Kindergarten WARS manga digitally. Yen Press published th...

game review

Digimon Story: Time Stranger Game Review

Oct 1, 10:00

games

What even is a Digimon, anyway? You're sure to learn as you play Time Stranger - and you'll have fun doing it! ― Digimon fans have waited a long time for a video game adaptation that truly succeeds at doing justice to Digimon's expansive world. The Digimon games have always struggled on that front, with even games within the same sub-series having wildly different mechanics and settings. The good new...

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Live-Action Film Director Yoshiyuki Okuyama on Adapting Makoto Shinkai's Classic 5 Centimeters Per Second Anime

Oct 1, 10:00

live-action

One of Shinkai's beloved works is now a live-action film. We spoke with young director Yoshiyuki Okuyama about what probing the past can do for the audience and the filmmaker. ― Makoto Shinkai's anime classic 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) received a live-action adaptation this year, which premiered this week at the Busan International Film Festival. Directed by photographer and filmmaker Yoshiyuki ...

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The Fall Anime 2025 Preview Guide summoned by Crunchyroll

Oct 1, 09:00

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A new line-up of shows awaits! The Fall Anime Preview Guide is here with Hero Without a Class, Dusk Beyond the End of the World, A Wild Last Boss Appeared!, Who Made Me a Princess, Cat's Eye, A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai, and Yano-kun's Ordinary Days! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Fall 2025 Anime Preview Guide summoned by Crunchyroll! Here's how it goes: our team of critics writes up their i...

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Tetsudō Musume Train Characters Inspire Original TV Anime

Oct 1, 08:09

anime

Tetsuryō! meet with Tetsudō Musume anime slated for 2026 debut ― A website opened on Wednesday to reveal the original television anime Tetsuryō! meet with Tetsudō Musume, based on the Tetsudō Musume (Railway Girls) characters. The website revealed the anime's teaser visual, main staff, teaser video, and 2026 premiere. The teaser video introduces the anime's main characters Misaki Sata, Usa Harutachi,...

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Apprentice Nail Artist in a Foreign Land Manga Gets Anime

Oct 1, 00:14

anime

Isekai manga about gel fingernail artist sent to world where nail art grants magical powers ― Shufu to Seikatsu Sha annonuced on Wednesday that Marukawa's Apprentice Nail Artist in a Foreign Land (Ikyō no Tsumenuri Minarai) manga is inspiring an anime. The announcement did not reveal the anime's format. Tokyopop licensed the manga, and will release the first volume in English on April 7, 2026. Tokyop...

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Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? Manga Gets Anime in 2026

Sep 30, 23:43

manga

Manga by Norishiro-chan, Sakan Uozumi follows unlikely friendship between otaku guy & popular girls ― Coamix announced on Wednesday that Norishiro-chan and Sakana Uozumi's Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? (Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa inai!?) manga is inspiring an anime that will debut in 2026. The announcement did not reveal the format of the anime.Norishiro-chan and Uozumi drew the two illustrations below...

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Matsurika Kanriden Fantasy Romance Light Novels Get TV Anime

Sep 30, 23:02

anime

Chinese history-inspired novels center on court lady wooed by emperor ― Kadokawa announced on Wednesday that Rinne Ishida and Izumi's Matsurika Kanriden (The Tale of the Scholar-Official Matsurika) light novel series is inspiring a television anime. The announcement included the below teaser promotional video, but did not reveal any other details on the anime. Izumi, the illustrator of the light nove...

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This Week in Anime - Anime Across Generations

Sep 30, 18:15

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Coop and Lucas look at the ways different generations got into anime and remind us that we're all fans in the same fandom. ― Coop and Lucas look at the ways different generations got into anime and remind us that we're all fans in the same fandom. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network. Executive editor Lynzee Loveridg...

review

Baki The Grappler Volume 1 Manga Review

Sep 30, 12:00

manga

The fighting is utterly ridiculous, but so much fun, it is hard not to be entertained by this modern-day Lancelot whose strength is as ten because his heart is pure. ― This year at the American Manga Awards, Ashita no Joe: Fighting For Tomorrow won a very well-deserved Classic Manga Award. This post-war bildungsroman of a young man discovering himself through boxing is a moving tale. Now, we also hav...

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Marriage Toxin Manga Gets TV Anime

Sep 30, 11:27

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Haruki Ishiya, Shion Wakayama star in 2026 anime by BONES Film ― Shueisha announced on Wednesday that Jōmyaku and artist Mizuki Yoda's Marriage Toxin manga is getting a television anime in 2026. The company unveiled an English-subtitled teaser trailer, visual, cast, and staff: The anime stars: Haruki Ishiya as Hikaru Gero Shion Wakayama as Mei Kinosaki Motonobu Hori (Carole & Tuesday) is directing th...

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Thunderbolt Fantasy: Tōriken Yūki 3 Series Review

Sep 29, 12:00

anime

If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve seen so far of Urobuchi’s puppet perfection, I have no doubt you’ll enjoy the third season as well. ― There's nothing out there doing it quite like Thunderbolt Fantasy, full stop. Gorgeous, ambitious, and oozing with theater kid energy, it's by far one of the more creative shows out there. Less self-contained than previous seasons, this particular season of Gen Urobuchi'...

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Hotel Inhumans Anime Gets 2nd Season

Sep 28, 12:40

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anime

Season 1 ends with new season's announcement ― The television anime of Ao Tajima's Hotel Inhumans manga ended its first season on Monday with an announcement that the series will get a second season. Tajima drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement. The anime debuted on TV Tokyo and its affiliates on July 6. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired. The anime stars Yūsuke Kobayashi as Ikur...

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Grave of the Fireflies Novel Review

Sep 28, 12:00

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Reading the book through the film, there are many startling “omissions." ― For decades, literature lovers have fretted that some classics have been obscured by their animated film adaptations, which youngsters might see as definitive. How many people, for instance, now think of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Bambi and The Jungle Book as being films by Disney, rather than books by Lewis Carroll, Fe...

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Yokai Cats and Time Travel: Twenty-One Volumes of Rumiko Takahashi's Mao

Sep 28, 11:00

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Taking a more aggressive horror angle, Mao bridges time from the Heian Era to the Taishō Era to today, telling a story about insatiable greed for power and those who try to stop it. ― I always try to admit when I'm wrong. Mao, Rumiko Takahashi's current long-running manga series, didn't wow me with its first volume. I uncharitably compared it to earlier Takahashi works in both look and plot, and I ad...

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An Ode to Kikyo: In Defense of one of Takahashi's Most Hated Characters

Sep 28, 09:00