73-page manga about "certain ceremony" releases on August 10 ― This year's 35th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that the magazine will publish a new 73-page chapter of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga in the magazine's combined 36th and 37th issue on August 10. The "new episode" for the manga will have a color page, and will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the manga's l...

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Asadora! GN 3

Aug 1, 12:00

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The plot may be thickening in this volume, but it's in the same way that instant pudding thickens in the fridge: in other words, it's just sitting there. ― The plot may be thickening in this volume, but it's in the same way that instant pudding thickens in the fridge: in other words, it's just sitting there. That's not to say that there aren't important pieces of the story; the reveal that Japan does...

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Digimon Franchise Gets New Fall TV Anime, New Digimon Adventure 02 Anime Film

Aug 1, 08:27

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anime

Digimon Ghost Game on TV this fall, Last Evolution Kizuna director, writer reunite for new film ― The "DigiFes 2021" event announced on Sunday that the Digimon franchise will have a new television anime and a new anime film. The Digimon Ghost Game television anime series will premiere this fall on Fuji TV and other channels. The teaser visual says, "Holograms…? Ghosts…?" The Digimon that appear in th...

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The Summer 2021 Preview Guide

Jul 31, 20:12

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This is the face of a girl ready for more anime! July closes out with THE GREAT JAHY WILL NOT BE DEFEATED! ― Adblock+ breaks this page, consider whitelisting ANN Welcome to Anime News Network's Summer 2021 Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics write 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 ...

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The Detective Is Already Dead Novel 1

Jul 31, 12:00

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novels

The book does suffer from its tenuous use of actual mysteries, a couple of which rear their heads and are almost painfully obvious in their solutions. ― If you go into nigozyu's light novel The Detective is Already Dead looking for a mystery, you may find yourself disappointed. Although the book deals with some of the tropes and elements of the genre, it's much less a mystery novel and more a mildly ...

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Ergo Proxy: Purpose in the Apocalypse

Jul 30, 14:00

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Humanity perpetually exists within an existential crisis, which exhibits no signs of ever reaching a legitimate conclusion.

Matthew Roe tackles life's biggest question through the lens of Manglobe's original series, Ergo Proxy. ― Human beings have been plagued with one particular question for the entirety of our written history: Why am I here? Whether we seek it out in religion, philosophy, friend...

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This Week in Games - Cotton Candy

Jul 30, 13:00

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Heidi tries out the classic 90s arcade series Cotton, a witch-led game where fairies' lives (and exotic candy) are on the line! ― Howdy again, folks. Kind of a slow news week… kind of. It's more a case of “everything else in gaming news seems rather insignificant compared to the ongoing shitshow that is the Activision/Blizzard lawsuit and its fallout. When mainstream press outlets like The New York T...

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Anti-Gravity Boy GN 1-3

Jul 30, 12:00

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The story may be full of basic shoujo plot events (A trip to Okinawa! Romantic rivals!), but it lets its characters come to their own emotional conclusions. ― If you've ever wondered what a stereotypical Ribon manga circa 2002 would look like, here's your answer. Ryo Azuki's Anti-Gravity Boy is probably the most typical manga of that period of the anthology's publication, with its wide-eyed, energeti...

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This Week in Anime - The Isekai Saturation Heightens

Jul 29, 13:00

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Nick and Nicky wade through this season's otherworldly offerings to search for at least one gem in a trove of trash. ― Nick and Nicky wade through this season's otherworldly offerings to search for at least one gem in a trove of trash. These series are streaming on Crunchyroll and Funimation Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime N...

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Stellvia Streaming Episodes 1-26

Jul 29, 12:00

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anime

Stellvia has long been a series that I thought deserved more love than it got. ― Stellvia has long been a series that I thought deserved more love than it got. Tatsuo Sato's (Martian Successor Nadesico, Bodacious Space Pirates) 2003 original anime and science fiction tale of teens in space never really found much of an audience, at least in the English-speaking anime fandom, and it's a shame. With fo...

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Why Could the Meta Liberation Army Be MHA's Best Villains Yet?

Jul 29, 09:00

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Honestly, the scariest thing about The Meta Liberation Army is most likely their secrecy. Any, and I mean any, of the pro heroes could be believers of The Meta Liberation Army's philosophy. ― SPOILERS FOR MHA ANIME AND MANGA AHEAD. YOU WERE WARNED My Hero Academia has shown us that while heroes are the face of all things good about society, there are always villains to counter them. The anime has sh...

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