You thought it was over, but the Preview Guide continues with Oshi no Ko and Tis Time for "Torture" Princess! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Winter 2026 Anime Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics writes up their impressions instantly, to be posted here as they go along. Each critic will cover as many shows as they can handle, giving you alternate takes on almost every show. The ...

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My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending Volumes 1-2 Manga Review

Jan 14, 12:00 manga

Kazuki is a very boring, nothing character that is strictly driven by his survival and he needs to spend most of the story riding a very thin line. ― On the one end, I do appreciate a series that really likes to just cut out all the fat. When Death Flags starts, we don't get any set-up or preamble about our protagonist's past life or how he found himself in the circumstances that he does. He just wak...

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A Tour of World Masterpiece Theater's Historic Nippon Animation Studio

Jan 14, 09:00

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The studio that fostered talents like Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and brought to life Anne of Green Gables, Future Boy Conan, and more opened its doors to offer ANN a tour through where the magic is made. ― About an hour's train ride outside of Tokyo, nestled in a quiet neighborhood in Tama City lays one of the anime industry's most storied studios: Nippon Animation. This studio has brought joy...

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The Greatest Wolf of My Life Volume 1 K-Comic Review

Jan 13, 12:00 korean

The Greatest Wolf of My Life is an immensely entertaining story in its first volume. ― In any other manhwa, or manga or light novel, a pop star moving into the apartment next door would be the first sign of a budding romance for an ordinary young woman. Not in Ran's The Greatest Wolf of My Life - for Eunbyul, having Kang Bin show up in the shabby rooftop studio next door to hers, it's the beginning o...

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This Week in Anime - Drama Over Anime

Jan 13, 10:00

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Sylvia and Lucas seek to remedy a shared blindspot with an exploration of shoujo anime and live action series. ― Sylvia and Lucas seek to remedy a shared blindspot with an exploration of shoujo anime and live action series. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. Crunc...

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KonoSuba – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Anime Confirms Season 4

Jan 13, 09:00

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2026 mobile/PC game, 10th anniversary event, exhibit, audio drama, song box also announced ― The "KonoSuba – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Anime 10th Anniversary Livestream" confirmed on Tuesday that the franchise's previously announced sequel anime is a fourth television anime season. The staff also commemorated the anime's 10th anniversary with a new visual and announced a new mobile/PC g...

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What Winter 2026 Anime Should ANN Review?

Jan 12, 14:07 anime

It's time to vote for our Daily Streaming review coverage! What anime should we focus on this season?

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A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Anime Series Review

Jan 12, 12:00

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In an anime landscape where video game isekai are standard issue, A Wild Last Boss Appeared! is easily one of the more ambitious—and certainly better animated—such titles. ― We never technically learn the name of the protagonist of A Wild Last Boss Appeared! (henceforth WLB). In fact, we only catch brief glimpses of what he actually looks like. Still, we do learn that he's one of the all-time best pl...

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Answerman - How many light novels that got official publication originated on Narou?

Jan 12, 11:00

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What does the Narou-to-anime pipeline actually look like? Jerome has answers. ― A reader asks asks: “How many light novels that receive an 'official' publication originate on the Shōtetsuka ni Narō (“Narou”( web-publishing platform)?” First off, what the hell is Narou? It's short for Shōsetusuka ni Narō, the massive Japanese website where amateur authors publish free web novels. The English translat...

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2025 ANN Readers' Choice Awards

Jan 12, 09:00

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The voting period is over, and it's time to announce the winners of this year's Readers' Choice Awards! ― The voting period is over, and it's time to announce the winners of this year's Readers' Choice Awards! First and foremost, we would like to thank the community for participating in this event.To start…Leading Woman of the Year: Maomao of The Apothecary DiariesOur favorite apothecary does it agai...

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Bushiroad Reveals Zero Rise Basketball Project With TV Anime, Stage Play

Jan 12, 08:15

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Stage play runs on May 2-17 in Tokyo ― The "Cardfight!! Vanguard 15th Anniversary: Bushiroad New Year Announcements 2026" event announced on Monday that Bushiroad's ZERO RISE cross-media project will have a television anime, as well as a stage play on May 2-17 at the Hikōsen Theater in Tokyo. The project also presented its animation and character promotional videos, and announced its cast members who...

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Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight's Project Gets New Anime Sequel by Kinema Citrus

Jan 12, 04:47

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Starlight Project also marks 9th anniversary with exhibition early this summer ― The "Cardfight!! Vanguard 15th Anniversary: Bushiroad New Year Announcements 2026" event announced on Monday that a completely new animated sequel in the Starlight Project franchise is in production at Kinema Citrus. The franchise teased the production under the name "Someday, ___ will reach someone." The event also anno...

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Drops of God Season 2 Live-Action Series Review

Jan 12, 00:00

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Sometimes the only way to save something you love is to destroy it utterly. Sometimes, destroying what you love doesn't save anything at all. ― Drops of God, Season 2, has some of the absolute finest acting I have ever seen. Which is both wonderful and devastating, as this sequel to the live-action television series on Apple TV is a difficult and very tightly wound sequel to the live-action televisio...

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My Awkward Senpai Chapters 1-104 Manga Review

Jan 11, 12:00

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What starts as comedic social awkwardness soon becomes an example of someone that is a workaholic and plagued by a deep fear of emotional dependency. ― I always find it at least a little bit funny when a series portrays an incredibly capable person in a field that requires a lot of social interaction only for the twist to be that they actually have no social skills whatsoever. Maybe there are some pe...

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Firefly Wedding Manga Gets TV Anime by David Production in October

Jan 11, 10:19 anime

Urusei Yatsura's Takahiro Kamei helms anime with designs by Your Lie in April's Yukiko Aikei ― A website opened on Monday to announce that a television anime adaptation of Oreko Tachibana's Firefly Wedding manga will premiere on the Fuji TV network this October. Takahiro Kamei (2022-2024's Urusei Yatsura) is directing the anime at david production, and Yukiko Aikei (Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, ...

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Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers Novels Get TV Anime

Jan 11, 06:36

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Isle Osaki's story of minor goddess uniting with RPG player from our world ― The "Overlap Bunko All-Star Gathering Special 2026 Part I" livestream event announced on Sunday that a television anime adaptation of Isle Osaki's Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers (Shinja Zero no Megami-sama to Hajimeru Isekai Kōryaku or Clear the world like a game with the zero believers godde...

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