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The Spring 2019 Anime Preview Guide

Apr 20, 13:00

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Searching for the perfect new anime? The Spring 2019 Anime Preview Guide is here to help!

Available Now: Spring 2019 Shorts Roundup - Bungo Stray Dogs Season 3 - Sarazanmai - Wise Man's Grandchild - The Helpful Fox Senko-san - Isekai Quartet - Strike Witches 501st - One Punch Man Season 2 - RobiHachi - Namuamidabutsu! - Midnight Occult Civil Service - and much more! ― Welcome to Anime News Network'...

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The Promised Neverland GN 8

Apr 20, 12:00

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This tense volume finds new ways to circle round to Neverland's original premise, while also embracing some classic shounen tricks and twists. Nick Creamer has the details. ― As I've mentioned repeatedly in these reviews, perhaps the thing most unique to The Promised Neverland as a shonen manga was its instability, and promise of change. Both Emma's cat-and-mouse trials with Isabella and the threat o...

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ANNCast - Bursting the Bubble with Lance Heiskell

Apr 19, 15:33

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Industry veteran and former Funimation Director of Marketing Lance Heiskell takes a magical and occasionally terrifying journey through his storied career during the American anime DVD bubble of the mid-2000s. Strap in! ― ANNCast 349 - Bursting the Bubble with Lance Heiskell Industry veteran and former Funimation Director of Marketing Lance Heiskell takes a magical and occasionally terrifying journe...

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Manga Answerman - Does Manga Need An Anime Adaptation To Hit In The West?

Apr 19, 14:00

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Is there any truth to the perception that a manga series "needs" an anime adaptation in order to seriously catch on in the west? Deb digs in deep. ― A friend of mine and I had an argument about this and I was hoping you had an opinion on it. Do you think it's true that outside of a few cases, most manga needs an anime adaptation in order to really catch on in the west? Hm. Let me preface my thoughts...

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Rolling The Dice: The Very Best RPG Anime

Apr 19, 13:00

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Diehard tabletop RPG veteran Theron Martin takes a journey through the anime that do the best job capturing what it feels like to roll for initiative. ― Although the foundation of computer and console-based fantasy RPGs has always lain in tabletop fantasy RPGs (hereafter abbreviated TTRPGs), even from their earliest years some of them markedly strayed from their origins in terms of mechanics; featur...

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Eighty-Six

Apr 19, 12:00

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This wartime fantasy light novel explores issues of racial prejudice and government conspiracy in surprisingly engrossing ways. Theron Martin has the details. ― This novel is probably going to be most commonly classified as a military science fiction story, but it should be considered at least as much a horror story. While a few true horror elements do creep into the picture in the middle, when a phe...

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This Week in Anime - What's So Great About Fruits Basket?

Apr 18, 14:00

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Almost 20 years after it was first adapted to anime, this shojo classic got a fresh start with a reboot that's set to recount the entire story. Nick and Micchy share their own perspectives as a newbie and a prior fan respectively. ― Almost 20 years after it was first adapted to anime, the shojo classic Fruits Basket gets a fresh start with a reboot that's set to recount the entire story. This week, ...

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This Week in Games - Home Arcade Hell

Apr 18, 13:00

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Persona 5's Joker gets Smashed, Capcom's alarming home arcade system, the future of home consoles and this week's big releases! ― Know what I love writing about? Bad ideas and trainwrecks! And boooooy howdy, do we have a spectacularly hot mess to talk about this week… along with other interesting news. But first, a few things! For starters, I'm going to be at Seattle's Sakura-Con this weekend helping...

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30 Years Ago: The Best Anime of 1989

Apr 17, 14:00

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1989 was a massive year for anime, with enduring classics like Ranma 1/2 and Dragon Ball Z taking shape. Daryl Surat leads a tour through the classics! ― It keeps getting easier for audiences outside of Japan to see Japanese animation and read Japanese comics, with increasingly shortened delays. The largest entertainment companies in the world such as Sony and AT&T now have financial investments in a...

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Answerman - Why Do Funimation's Dragon Ball Z Re-Releases Look Like That?

Apr 17, 13:00

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Funimation announced a new 30th anniversary bluray box for Dragon Ball Z and the internet exploded over the picture quality - Justin explains why it looks the way it does. ― Several people asked: I've seen promo material for Funimation's upcoming Dragon Ball Z 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray boxed set, and it looks terrible! All of the film grain (and some detail) has been smeared away,...

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