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The Art of Pain: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness Creator Nagi Kabata

May 14, 10:00

manga

In her first North American appearance at the virtual Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Harvey award-winning comic creator Kabi Nagata shared intimate anecdotes about her experience writing and drawing her famous series. ― Harvey Award-winning manga author Kabi Nagata made her first on-screen North American appearance at the virtual Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Her works include My Lesbian Experience with...

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The Castlevania Ending Explained!

May 14, 09:00

anime

We're heading straight for the castle! It's time to talk about the big reveals in the final season of Castlevania and where the characters are now: Trevor, Lenore, St. Germain, and Dracula himself! ― The final season of Castlevania has dropped! Talk about a heavy, climactic conclusion… Certainly, It's Been a Strange Ride (wink) That's the name of the last episode. Anyway, let's break it down! I'm Ja...

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Nozomi Ent. to Release All of 'Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei' Anime Franchise

May 13, 22:46

anime

Company explains delay of release is due to lack of scripts in Japan ― Right Stuf announced in a behind-the-scenes video on February 17 that Nozomi Entertainment will release the entire anime franchise based on Kōji Kumeta's Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei manga, including all three television anime seasons and both original video anime (OVA) works. Nozomi Entertainment announced at Anime Expo in July 2019...

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Netflix's Eden Anime Reveals English Dub Cast

May 13, 19:46

anime

Ruby Rose Turner, Neil Patrick Harris, Rosario Dawson, David Tennant, more star in May 27 anime ― Justin Leach, a producer for Netflix's four-episode original anime Eden, revealed the English dub cast for Eden on Wednesday. The dub cast includes: Ruby Rose Turner as Sara Neil Patrick Harris as Zero Rosario Dawson as A37 David Tennant as E92 JP Karliak as S566 Cassandra Lee Morris as Zurich Julie Nath...

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This Week in Anime - What's the Big Deal With 86?

May 13, 11:00

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anime

Everyone's talking about 86, a recent light novel anime that tackles racism head on. While initially it seemed to be handling its moral quandary in a very basic way, 86 has since broke away for something deeper and even more horrific. ― Everyone's talking about 86, a recent light novel anime that tackles racism head on. While initially it seemed to be handling its moral quandary in a very basic way,...

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Castlevania Season 4

May 13, 09:00

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anime

Here's the good news: This season of Castlevania is, in almost every conceivable way, and improvement on its third. Everything that past seasons of Castlevania have done well, Season 4 does better. ― Badass monster murder-fights aside, Castlevania's third season was largely an experiment in determining what strange new directions writer Warren Ellis could push the world and the characters of his exte...

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How Castlevania Tried to Dodge the Game of Thrones Finale Debacle

May 13, 09:00

anime

Jacki Jing interviews executive producer Kevin Kolde about the final season of the hit animated series and gets the nitty-gritty on the ending! ― After three successful seasons, the sun is rising on the popular animated adaptation of the video game series Castlevania. ANN's Jacki Jing spoke with executive producer Kevin Kolde about the final season and how the production team avoided slipping up in i...

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May 12, 15:35

Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. Think of it like having a friend who reads everything so you don't have to—and then sums up the highlights right in your inbox. ― There's a lot of news every week and it can be pretty hard to follow! Subscribe to The weekly ANNouncements Newsletter you can expect to wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most...

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Hanasakeru Seishōnen BD

May 12, 12:00

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anime

Hanasakeru Seishōnen is an interesting mix of intrigue and insane shoujo romance premise. It can get a bit too intense at times, and there are definitely points where you need to just back away slowly because of that, but overall it's a good story. ― Hanasakeru Seishonen, based on the manga of the same name by Natsumi Itsuki, is a bit deceptive. It begins, like many another shoujo romance of the 1980...

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Imitations, Fakes and Piracy in Manga and Anime

May 12, 09:00

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anime manga industry

LUDiMUS COO Takumi Furusato details the history of piracy in Japan from the 1950s on and how the government continues to combat leaks, fakes, and knock-offs. ― 150 million copies; 39.6 billion yen (US$364.67 million) of box office sales; 28.7 million viewers. The numbers above are all related to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Since the manga debuted on Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2016, this dark ...

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This Week in Anime - Randy Randy Fairy Ranmaru

May 11, 15:00

anime

What happens when you take the magical girl formula, replace it with muscly fairy men and throw in some Buddhism for good measure? Fairy Ranmaru almost defies classification but its outer silliness is hiding a much deeper, more thoughtful show. ― What happens when you take the magical girl formula, replace it with muscly fairy men and throw in some Buddhism for good measure? Fairy Ranmaru almost def...

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The ANN Aftershow - The Grossest Moment in My Hero Academia Yet

May 11, 13:00