Updated '3.0+1.01' version began playing with new pamphlet handouts ― Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time (Shin Evangelion Gekijō-ban :||), the "final" Evangelion film, sold 169,296 tickets for 265,876,900 yen (about US$2.42 million) this past weekend for a new grand total of 5,867,510 tickets for 8,965,306,780 yen (about US$81.7 million). This past weekend's box office is 939.5% that of the week...

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Square Enix, Koei Tecmo's Team Ninja Reveal Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin Action Game

Jun 14, 19:50

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games

Tetsuya Nomura, Kazushige Nojima work on game slated for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC in 2022 ― Square Enix revealed the Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin action game during its E3 livestream event on Sunday. Koei Temco Games' Team Ninja studio is developing the game for release on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The game, described as a "bold new ...

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Intern Annika - Meet Annika

Jun 14, 14:00

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just for fun

Nina's been feeling a little burned out, so she gets a new intern! ― Intern Annika is a special 6-part spinoff of Anime News Nina, and will run Monday - Wednesday - Friday this week and next. Enjoy, and let us know what you think in the comments!

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Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou: The Best Anime About Being an Artist

Jun 14, 09:00

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anime

Tonkatsu DJ Agetarō encourages us each to find out what's meaningful and interesting to us and channel that into our art. You can't make good anime by shutting yourself off to the rest of the world and only focusing on consuming anime. ― Did you know that being a DJ and being a chef are the same thing? That's the premise of Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou. Agetarou is a third-generation chef at his family's to...

review

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Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon GN 1

Jun 13, 12:00

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manga

This book is a bit darker than your typical yuri manga. Hinako is desperately trying to figure out a way through life when we meet her – she's about to have a date with a man who is financially successful, nice, and good-looking, and she really, really doesn't want to go. ― You could be forgiven for thinking that the word “toxic” gets overused these days. But there's a good reason for it – while hist...

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The Spring 2021 Manga Guide

Jun 12, 12:07

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manga

The Manga Guide updates with new volumes from May! Now: Its beefy men and their lovely cats in Hard-boiled Stories from the Cat Bar! Also: Bite Maker: The King's Omega, With the Sheikh in His Harem, Hazure Skill, Thigh High: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy, Dungeon Toilet, Undead Unluck, Boys Run Riot, Dick Fight Island, The Not-So-Lonely Planet Travel Guide, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, Stitch and the Samurai, I Was a Bottom-Tier Bureaucrat for 1,500 Years, Call of the Night, Your Turn to Die, A School Frozen in Time, and more!

game review

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Everyday♪ Today's MENU for EMIYA Family

Jun 12, 12:00

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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; ...

game review

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Touken Ranbu

Jun 11, 12:30

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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 ...

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Unleash the Power of the Mind in SCARLET NEXUS

Jun 11, 12:28

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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

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

Jun 11, 10:00

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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

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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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