Josh explores what Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy has to offer, plus a new MOBA from China and two miHoYo games! ― Hello, and welcome once again to This Week in Mobile Games, your bimonthly-ish look at the latest in mobile games. Due to a run of crunch time at the day job I've been far away from mobile games, staring at bad screen for far too long and missing Fate/Grand Order's White Day event in the...

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The Spring 2026 Anime Trailer Watch Party Premieres Tomorrow Night!

Mar 23, 19:30

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Flowers are blooming, and a new anime season is looming! Get a taste of the entire spring 2026 anime season with us tomorrow on YouTube! ― Flowers are blooming, and a new anime season is looming! Anime News Network's Lynzee Loveridge, James Beckett, and Jacki Jing are happy to announce that YouTube personality Geoff Thew (Mother's Basement) is joining us to watch over 60 trailers from the upcoming an...

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Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2026, Mar 12-18

Mar 23, 17:30 anime

Journal With Witch goes down to #2 for the first time in 10 weeks as Frieren wows us with magic battle extravaganza! Check out our weekly user rankings! ― Let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season, based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews and on the Your Score page with the latest simulcasts. Keep in mind that these rankings are based on ...

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Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku Box Set Manga Review

Mar 23, 12:00 manga

At times, Gabimaru’s surprisingly vulnerable, and even a little adorable – like a white-haired, fluffy murder-puppy. ― It's telling that the Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku manga is unavailable to read directly on the Shonen Jump app, at least not on Apple devices. It can only be read digitally via the Shonen Jump website. This is no doubt due to the manga's much higher-than-average (at least for Shonen ...

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Answerman - Hiding Behind Pen Names

Mar 23, 10:00

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How did the MangaONE scandal happen? Jerome explains. ― A Reader asks: "How does someone convicted of a serious crime simply reappear in manga under a pen name, and nobody raises a flag? Do publishers run any checks on the actual person behind the pseudonym, and why are pen names becoming more and more popular for manga creators, writers, and artists? Should proper background checks become a regulat...

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The Best Anime of Winter 2026

Mar 23, 09:00

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This winter season offered a bounty of viewing choices. How many anime did you watch this season, and what made your top 10? ― This winter season offered a bounty of viewing choices. For the first time in a while, I found myself stretched between girls murdering one another in death games, a heartfelt family drama about grief and identity, cackling historical heroes, and at least two anime about mal...

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Making 'Bad' Animation Beautiful: An Interview with ChaO Director Yasuhiro Aoki

Mar 23, 09:00 anime

"with ChaO, I just did what I wanted to do, and I've always liked looking at things from a different angle, and finding something different, and I think that's what I've done." ― Studio 4°C's feature film ChaO opened in Japan this August, by which time it had already been acquired by GKIDS. Now it's finally opening in theaters in North America on April 10. ChaO screened at international festivals, in...

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Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Game Review

Mar 22, 12:00

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While it might require some trial and error, you’re sure to have plenty of fun experimenting with a wide array of playstyles and eventually find a fighting style that suits you perfectly. ― I wouldn't blame you for feeling skeptical that the mechanics of Monster Hunter—which either famously or infamously, depending on who you ask, can often go into granular levels of detail—would translate well as a ...

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Hana-Kimi Anime Gets 2nd Season

Mar 22, 10:33

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Season 1 ended on Sunday ― The anime of late manga creator Hisaya Nakajo's Hana-Kimi manga ended its first season on Sunday with an announcement of the second season: Viz Media describes the Hana-Kimi story:Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan...but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she's going to an...

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'Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None' Anime Gets 2nd Season

Mar 22, 10:00

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Character designer, manga artist drew illustrations in celebration ― The staff for Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None, the television anime of storywriter Itsuki Togami and illustrator Yuri Kisaragi's Yūsha Party o Oidasareta Kiyō Binbō (The Jack of All Trades Was Kicked Out of the Hero's Party) light novel series, announced on Sunday the anime will get a second season. Character designer Yuri Kisar...

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Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Volumes 7-10 Manga Review

Mar 21, 12:00

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Building on earlier information and seemingly throwaway comments and characters, the story continues to delight as it pushes its characters to develop in meaningful ways. ― One of the strengths of Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun is that it rarely lets anything become a one-off joke. Ameri's surprisingly demure alternate self in volume six not only makes Ronové look even more ridiculous, but it als...

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One Piece Live-Action Season 2 Review

Mar 20, 12:00

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This feels like the best version of a live-action One Piece that we ever could have dared to hope for. Hail to the King of the Pirates, baby. ― Netflix's live-action adaptation of One Piece should never have worked. We've already seen how hard Hollywood has struggled to adapt manga and anime that keep at least one foot in the realm of recognizable reality (or need I remind you all of Netflix's doome...

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This Week in Games - Fateful Delays, Switch Fidelity Raise, and 30 Years of Farming

Mar 20, 10:00

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The Harvest Moon/Rune Factory/Story of Seasons franchises are having a big birthday this year, which might help to take some of the sting out of Fate/EXTRA Record's indefinite delay. ― Welcome back, folks! I've been watching a bunch of Atop the Fourth Wall videos lately and it's made me want to get into collecting the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog trade paperbacks. It's my understanding that the IDW run has...

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Interview: Masahiko Ohta, the Go-To Director for Anime About Eccentric Young Girls, On His New Anime

Mar 20, 09:00

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From Himouto! Umaru-chan to My Deer Friend Nokotan, Masahiko Ohta's greatest hits have all been about crazy high school girls. His newest, The Demon King's Daughter is Too Kind, changes up the formula by having a much younger protagonist. ― Recently, Anime News Network was able to sit down with Director Masahiko Ohta and talk about his newest anime, The Demon King's Daughter is Too Kind. In the proce...

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Strike Witches Director Kazuhiro Takamura Unveils Original TV Anime Vertex Force in 2026

Mar 20, 06:17

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Takamura teases anime with "cute girls," "cool mecha" ― Strike Witches and Vividred Operation director Kazuhiro Takamura is helming Vertex Force, an original television anime that will premiere this year. The tagline on the teaser visual is, "Engine, start!": Takamura gave a message about the anime in which he said that he likes cute girls, cool mecha, and anime, and this original anime crams in ever...

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Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! Novels Get TV Anime

Mar 20, 05:30

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Reiji Kawashima, Hana Hishikawa star in J.C Staff anime next January ― A website opened on Friday to announce that a television anime of Haka Tokura's Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! light novel series will air next January. The main cast members are: Reiji Kawashima as Wim Strauss Hana Hishikawa as Heidemarie Hideki Okamoto (2.5 Dimensional Seduction, D.C. II: Da Capo...

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