Video celebrates "The Crown Tundra" game expansion's launch on October 22 ― The Pokémon Company unveiled the "Gotcha!" music video with animation by BONES on Tuesday. The video features the song "Acacia" performed by Bump of Chicken (Tales of the Abyss, Granblue Fantasy the Animation, Karakuri Circus theme songs). Rie Matsumoto (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Yes! Precure 5) directed the music video at ...

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The Eminence in Shadow Novel 1

Sep 30, 15:00

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What if an ordinary otaku who was obsessed with becoming the shadowy mastermind behind a secret hero group was reborn into a fantasy world in need of one but thinks he made it all up? ― The Eminence in Shadow has a great premise: what if an ordinary otaku who was obsessed with becoming the shadowy mastermind behind a secret hero group was reborn into a fantasy world in need of one but thinks he made ...

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The Role of Memoria Freese in DanMachi World-Building

Sep 30, 13:00

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If you wrote off Memoria Freese as just another mobage, Theron Martin is here to tell you all the juicy plot details hiding inside. ― In June 2017, Wright Flyer Studios debuted DanMachi ~Memoria Freese~ (hereafter DanMemo), a mobile app game based on the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? franchise. The franchise proved popular enough overseas that Crunchyroll cut a deal to localize t...

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Our Most Anticipated Anime Of Fall 2020

Sep 30, 13:00

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It's the final countdown to the Fall 2020 anime season. Our critics weigh in on the series they can't wait to watch! ― Our Most Anticipated Anime of Fall 2020 Rebecca Silverman Most Anticipated: Moriarty the Patriot I haven't been in this position for a few seasons – there are so many shows I'm looking forward to that I had a hard time picking the one I'm most excited for. Of course, I also made it h...

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Kirakira Precure a la Mode Streaming

Sep 29, 15:00

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It has been a long time coming, but finally English-speaking anime fans are getting the chance to legally watch the unadulterated versions of some of the titles in the sprawling Pretty Cure franchise. ― It has been a long time coming, but finally English-speaking anime fans are getting the chance to legally watch the unadulterated versions of some of the titles in the sprawling Pretty Cure franchise....

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This Week in Anime - The Made in Abyss Movie Will Crush Your Soul

Sep 29, 13:00

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The new film Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul is a whole new level of hell as our spritely spelunkers finally come face to face with Bondrewd and his sinister machinizations. ― The Made in Abyss anime series is hardly known for its sunshine and rainbows but the new film Made In Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul is a whole new level of hell as our spritely spelunkers finally come face to face with Bon...

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Holmes of Kyoto Novel 1

Sep 28, 15:00

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Mochizuki says in her afterword that her motivating factor in writing the series was to combine her long-held desire to write a “light mystery” with her reactions upon moving to Kyoto, and that's precisely what she's done. ― While an adaptation's quality is not always the best indicator of what the source material is like, such is the case of Mai Mochizuki's light novel series Holmes of Kyoto and its...

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The Best (And Worst) Anime of Summer 2020

Sep 28, 14:00

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Summer has fallen and it's time for autumn to rise! ANN's editorial team looks back at the hottest series of the season and which turned out to be real stinkers. ― The Best (and Worst) of Summer 2020 Caitlin Moore Best: Appare-Ranman This season, Appare-Ranman joined the ranks of brilliantly creative, tragically underwatched original anime along with such fantastic titles as Stars Align, Granbelm, an...

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The Fairy Tale of Inuyasha: 20 Years Later

Sep 28, 13:00

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Ahead of the highly anticipated Yashahime premiere, Christopher Inoa revisits the classic that ushered in a new wave of anime fans. ― When we last left the world of Inuyasha, the series' titular character and Kagome Higurashi, the now high school graduate from another world and reincarnation of his first true love Kikyō, are living happily together in feudal era Japan. Kagome decided to forgo her lif...

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Lapis Re:LiGHTs

Sep 27, 15:00

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The series does have somewhat of a plotline, though it is thin and typically functions to link other components together rather than guide the story. ― This Summer 2020 series is the anime branch of a multimedia project that will eventually include a smartphone game and a manga. Based on the way it ends, and the way it painstakingly introduces about two dozen named girls (even at the expense of stray...

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