Sony and Netflix's anime-influenced action-musical KPop Demon Hunters is energetic popcorn entertainment with great senses of style and humor. ― Why don't we have more action musicals? Lin-Manuel Miranda has theorized, “Action movies, musicals, and porn movies are all fighting for the same storytelling real estate. When you can't talk anymore, you sing, fight, or f*ck.” KPop Demon Hunters is rated PG...

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Girls Band Cry Real Band TOGENASHI TOGEARI's Big Break

Jul 2, 10:00 music

TOGENASHI TOGEARI's popularity is soaring with concerts, an exhibition, and the upcoming Girls Band Cry films. We talked to the rock band about their characters, relationships, and prepping for LA's big performance. ― With their appearance at Anime Expo 2025 just around the corner, a concert at the Nippon Budokan in September, two compilation films releasing in October, and the final leg of the Girls...

Advance Merch Sale At The KADOKAWA Booth At Anime Expo 2025

Jul 2, 10:00 merch

The summer is here, and Anime Expo 2025 is right around the corner! Be sure to swing by the KADOKAWA booth to acquire some of the best and most high-quality anime merchandise on the market. ― The summer is here, and Anime Expo 2025 is right around the corner! If you're attending one of the biggest anime conventions in the state, be sure to swing by the KADOKAWA booth to acquire some of the best and m...

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The Buffest Luffy is Crowned at the One Piece Bodybuilding Competition

Jul 2, 09:00

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The BragMen One Piece Gym held a quest for the best (and strongest) Luffy! ― It's bodybuilding season, and that means muscular men showing off their oiled-up muscular man muscles. But, in the cacophony of bodybuilding contests, the One Piece Body Make Competition Presented by BragMen found its way into the Muscle Gate Kanagawa bodybuilding competition on June 1 at the Culttz Kawasaki gymnasium. The e...

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Anime Expo 2025 KADOKAWA Official Merchandise Details

Jul 1, 20:51

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Including items from Delicious in Dungeon, New PANTY ＆ STOCKING with GARTERBELT, Bungo Stray Dogs, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-,【OSHI NO KO】, The Summer Hikaru Died, OVERLORD:The Sacred Kingdom and Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian. ― June 18, 2025 (Tokyo, Japan): KADOKAWA Corporation announced the list of official merchandise at Anime Expo 2025 (to be held at the Los Angeles ...

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The New Prince of Tennis Manga to End Within a Year

Jul 1, 16:47

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Creator Takeshi Konomi marks original manga's 26th anniversary, plans sequel's end after 16 years ― The Prince of Tennis manga creator Takeshi Konomi posted on Tuesday that he plans to end the serialization of The New Prince of Tennis (Shin Tennis no Ōji-sama) manga within a year. His post commemorated the 26th anniversary of the original Prince of Tennis manga, and he noted that The New Prince of Te...

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Cosmic Censorship Volume 1 Manga Review

Jul 1, 12:00

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Confusion works decently well to keep readers on their toes, although if you like to fully understand what's going on at any given time, this may not be the book for you. ― According to the dictionary, a “censor” is, among other things, a wartime official who reads all communications to delete classified or dangerous information. That's not too far off from the way we more typically see “censor” and ...

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The Summer Anime Preview Guide sponsored by Crunchyroll

Jul 1, 11:03

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Welcome to the Summer Anime Preview Guide! We're kicking off July with Hell Teacher, Reborn as a Vending Machine Season 2, New Saga, Onmyo Kaiten, Clevatess, and Rent A Girlfriend Season 4! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Summer 2025 Anime Preview Guide sponsored by Crunchyroll! Here's how it goes: our team of critics writes up their impressions instantly, to be posted here as they go along. Each ...

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Leviathan Anime Series Review

Jul 1, 06:01

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Leviathan is a poignant and moving war story in a time when we need tales that shine bright through the darkness. ― Around this time last year, Netflix announced that it would be home to the next project from Studio Orange (Trigun Stampede, Beastars) and Qubic Pictures (Eden), Leviathan—an anime adaptation of the alternate history World War I novel trilogy written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated ...

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Haibara's Teenage New Game+ Novels Have Anime in the Works

Jun 30, 20:48

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Series inspired vertical comic adaptation June 2023 ― The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Hobby Japan's HJ Bunko imprint announced on Tuesday that Kazuki Amamiya's Haibara's Teenage New Game+ (Haibara-kun no Tsuyokute Seishun New Game) light novel series has an anime adaptation in the works. J-Novel Club publishes the series in English and describes the story: We all have embarrassing memor...

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The Best Anime of Spring 2025

Jun 30, 19:26

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The spring season seemed quiet if it weren't for the enormous mecha in the room. Check our the ANN reviewer team's picks for the best anime of spring! ― The spring season seemed quiet if it weren't for the enormous mecha in the room. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux dominated conversations week-to-week as Evangelion and Shin Godzilla director Hideaki Anno penned scripts alongside Utena's Yōji Enokido fo...

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Boys-Love Light Anime Label Balloon Launches with TV Anime in 2026

Jun 30, 17:55

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Label to adapt Tenma Asahi's Saioshi no Gikei Mederu Tame, Nagaikishimasu! isekai story ― Publishing and anime production company Imagica Infos announced on Sunday it has joined with Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), Cybird, and Blue Rights to form the boys love label Balloon. The label's first project is a "light anime" adaptation of Tenma Asahi's Saioshi no Gikei Mederu Tame, Nagaikishimasu! (In Order to ...

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My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Anime Gets 2nd Season in 2026

Jun 30, 13:35

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Crunchyroll to stream series worldwide excluding Asia ― Toho Animation announced on Monday the television anime of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals) manga will get a second season in 2026. The company made the announcement following the airing of the final episode of season 1. Crunchyroll will stream the series worldwide out...

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BLACK BLOOD Manga Review

Jun 30, 12:00 manga

If you are or have ever been a connoisseur of the clang-clang, rest assured that Kuku gets it, and has provided a book that delivers. ― The surface-level selling points of a story can often be all it needs. The premise of Hayate Kuku's BLACK BLOOD certainly lends itself to the potential of denser themes: the nature of the human soul, the validity of suppressed and manipulated emotions that make peopl...

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Best New K-Comics to Read in June

Jun 30, 11:00 korean

Horror, self-aware isekai, and of course, romance - it's all here in our June K-Comics roundup. Come find your next read! ― June is traditionally the month of blushing brides, but that's not the case in the webtoon sphere – for some reason, there's a plethora of divorce comics premiering! Aiming for the Alimony, The Dukedom's Men Interfere with the Divorce, Leave Your Divorce to a Professional Lawyer...

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The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen Anime Gets 2nd Season

Jun 29, 20:24

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1st season aired in July 2023 ― The official website for the television anime of Tenichi and Suzunosuke's The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (Higeki no Genkyō to naru Saikyō Gedō Last Boss Joō wa Min no tame ni Tsukushimasu.) light novel series announced on Monday that the anime will have a second season. Suzunosuke drew the below illustration to celebrate the announcement....

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Once Upon a Witch's Death Anime Series Review

Jun 29, 12:00

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This story about an improbably cheerful witch under a deadly curse is hampered by dull early episodes and a cliffhanger which may not be resolved, but it's still enjoyable and worthwhile. ― In Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service, the plucky title witch no sooner turned thirteen than she left home to make a living in a faraway town. Kiki, though, had it easy compared to Meg Raspberry, the heroine...