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Everyday♪ Today's MENU for EMIYA Family

Jun 12, 12:00

games

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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Fruits Basket The Final Anime Casts Hiroshi Kamiya, Matt Mercer as God

Jun 11, 19:30

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anime

Anime airs 11th episode on June 14 ― Funimation revealed on Friday that Hiroshi Kamiya and Matthew Mercer will join the Japanese and English casts, respectively, of the Fruits Basket the Final anime season as the voice of God. Funimation streamed the first episode of Fruits Basket the Final with an English dub on Friday, March 19, two weeks before its April 5 television premiere in Japan. Funimation ...

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Wonder Egg Priority Anime's Special Edition Finale to Be 1 Hour Long

Jun 11, 19:00

anime

Special Edition finale premieres first on Japanese streaming services on June 29 ― The official website for CloverWorks' original television anime Wonder Egg Priority revealed on Friday that the anime's "Special Edition," the June 29 broadcast that will serve as the continuation of the anime's 12th and final episode as well as the overall story's ending, will be one hour long. The Special Edition fin...

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Touken Ranbu

Jun 11, 12:30

games

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 ...

Unleash the Power of the Mind in SCARLET NEXUS

Jun 11, 12:28

games

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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novels

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 ...

interview

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

Jun 11, 10:00

anime

"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

anime

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

anime

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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games

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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Yakuza Lover GN 1

Jun 9, 12:00

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manga

However, without going into too much information, my taste in erotica has proven to be much more selective and harder to satisfy. For all its frivolity, Yakuza Lover appealed to me where most series with similar subject matter and audience left me feeling alienated. ― Yakuza Lover is smut. There's just no way around it. This is a story with the goal of providing its readers with titillating content, ...

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The Enemy Within in the War of 86

Jun 9, 09:00

anime

Society has this larger stereotype of war stories being a male pursuit. 86 is a great story about war, one that was written by a woman. As a member of society, I'm also not immune to making bad prejudgments.

And neither are the characters of 86. ― I got into 86 some weeks after its first episode, about when both anime-only viewers and light novel readers were on the same page of this war story: it's...

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The ANN Aftershow - My Hero Academia Class 1-A vs 1-B Grand Finale!

Jun 8, 14:00

anime

Deku's new quirk is unleashed in the midst of the battle with Class 1-B. Will he be able to get it under control and cinch the win? ― The ANN Aftershow - My Hero Academia Ep 99: Class 1-A vs 1-B Grand Finale! Deku's new quirk is unleashed in the midst of the battle with Class 1-B. Will he be able to get it under control and cinch the win? Meet the Hosts! As executive editor of Anime News Network, Ly...

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This Week in Anime - Moon Family Values

Jun 8, 13:09