This is a very useful guide for visiting EVERY prefecture if you’ve got the money, while also emphasizing it's okay to make detours if you miss out on your planned destination. ― If you could go to Japan, where would you want to go? It's a question every anime fan has asked before. Plenty of anime often double as tourism ads for specific prefectures, so it only makes sense that they'd want to visit t...

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Show, Don't Tell: Sentenced to Be a Hero Director Hiroyuki Takashima, Screenwriter Kenta Ihara

May 27, 09:00 anime

In this super-size interview, the anime staff behind the hit series Sentenced to Be Hero reveal one of the production's biggest edicts: no inner monologuing. ― Studio KAI's Sentenced to Be a Hero anime adaptation wrapped up in March, with a promise of a second season in the wings. Over the course of 12 episodes, first-time anime director Hiroyuki Takashima and Saga of Tanya the Evil and Vinland Saga...

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Creamy Mami: Forever Once More Anime Review

May 26, 12:00

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anime

Creamy Mami: Forever Once More gives you enough to understand the new material and is a successful coda. ― If you want to watch Studio Pierrot's original magical girl TV series, you are, as of this writing, largely out of luck. While the series received a crowdfunded DVD release back in the days of Anime Sols and was later streamed on RetroCrush, the DVDs are out of print, and RetroCrush no longer st...

column

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This Week in Anime - The End of Isekai as We Know It?

May 26, 10:00

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anime

With recent trends suggesting that the isekai anime bubble might soon burst, Coop and Lucas dive into why this may be and what this could mean for the anime industry in general. ― With recent trends suggesting that the isekai anime bubble might soon burst, Coop and Lucas dive into why this may be and what this could mean for the anime industry in general. The views and opinions expressed by the part...

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Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2026, May 13-19

May 25, 13:00

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anime

Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun rockets into #1 this week, also climbing 6 spots in the cumulative! Find out how your favorite shows performed in 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 ...

review

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Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider Episodes 15-24 Anime Review

May 25, 12:00

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anime

When it comes down to it, the main theme of this anime is the power of love. ― With the back half of Tojima Wants to Be A Kamen Rider, the plot solidifies into one interconnected arc. Bat Man is taking a stab at world domination through the Japanese idol industry. Rather than turning only the strongest into Combatmen, Bat Man has turned every possible Japanese idol into one—and that's only step one o...

review

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Detective Conan: FBI Intervention Anime Series Review

May 24, 12:00

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anime

This has certainly been the lowest point of this creative endeavor. ― I knew it was only a matter of time before the series reached this point. Given the unorthodox nature of these episodic releases and the impressive awkwardness of the original Black Organization episodes, I had a feeling TMS would run into this particular problem. It's impressive that it took this long for this issue to surface. Th...

news

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Detective Conan, Star Detective Precure! Anime Get Crossover Episodes in May, June

May 24, 02:15

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anime

Star Detective Precure! episode featuring Conan airs on May 31, Detective Conan episode featuring Cure Answer airs on June 6 ― The websites for the Detective Conan and Star Detective Precure! anime announced on Sunday the two anime will each have a crossover episode in the coming weeks. The 18th episode of Star Detective Precure!, titled "Meitantei no Assemble" (Great Detectives Assemble), will featu...

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