Event was scheduled on March 21-24 at Tokyo Big Sight ― The organizers of the AnimeJapan 2020 event announced on Thursday that they have decided to cancel the event due to concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, and the Japanese government's recent proposal to cancel large-scale events. The event is offering refunds for admission tickets beginning on March 6. AnimeJapan 2020 was...

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Interview: Rock M. Sakura, Anime Queen from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12

Feb 26, 14:00

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The next season of the phenomenally popular reality competition show features a queen who loves anime as much as you do - meet Rock M. Sakura! ― There's no denying RuPaul's Drag Race is a national phenomenon – the overwhelmingly popular reality competition show has become a staple of pop culture across the country in the last decade, introducing the world to a wide and diverse variety of highly talen...

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Anime News Nina Returns! Part II

Feb 26, 13:00

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The second installment of our special limited series - featuring the return of Anime News Nina - is live now! ― Editor's Note: Welcome to a special limited series of three brand-new strips from Robin Sevakis, the creator and writer of our classic comic strip Anime News Nina! We'll have a new one for you on Wednesday and Friday of this week - and as always, thanks for reading! Click the image for a fu...

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My Hero Academia the Movie -Heroes: Rising- English Dub

Feb 26, 12:11

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The smashing, action-packed new My Hero Academia movie, featuring an all-new villain, is in theaters tonight! But how's the dub? We've got the details. ― Going purely by the synopsis, one could be forgiven for expecting Heroes: Rising to be a carbon copy of the preceding MHA movie, Two Heroes. Both are wholly isolated adventures predicated on putting the cast on an anime-original island, and pitting ...

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This Week in Anime - Saturday Morning Astro Boy

Feb 25, 14:00

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1963 does 2003 in anime's first foray in television. Osamu Tezuka's vision of the future-past is one hell of a ride. ― Step into the time machine because we're going to a place beyond color and reason. The year is 1963 and Osamu Tezuka's Astroboy is flying through the airwaves. The futuristic vision of 2003 was full of boy robots, fencing sphinges, and furries of course. Let's crank it up to 100,000...

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Magical Girl Raising Project BR

Feb 25, 12:00

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Although this dark magical girl series does a lot of other things at least relatively well, it is ultimately limited by problems with its tone. ― Although this 2016 series is listed primarily as a magical girl series (which it unquestionably is), a more accurate way to describe it might be as a hybrid of magical girl and survival game series, as it has nearly as much in common with a King's Game or D...

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Anime News Nina Returns!

Feb 24, 15:20

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Anime News Network's first original comic strip is back - for a limited time only! Nina, Kevin and Myoopi return in the first of our special series. ― Editor's Note: Welcome to a special limited series of three brand-new strips from Robin Sevakis, the creator and writer of our classic comic strip Anime News Nina! We'll have a new one for you on Wednesday and Friday of this week - and as always, thank...

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The List - 5 Anime We Most Want to See in Live-Action

Feb 23, 14:00

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Imagine if Hollywood gave us the keys to all that hot, hot live-action adaptation money... ― Live-action anime adaptations long had an iffy reputation. There's that Dragonball movie that nobody talks about for good reason, but that doesn't mean Hollywood isn't trying. Popular shows like Cowboy Bebop, My Hero Academia, Naruto, and even One Piece have live-action films and TV series in the works. So I...