Features - 2023
Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Dec 17-23 (Dec 28 ) The Winter 2024 Anime Trailer Watch Party! (Dec 28 ) The Best and Worst Anime of 2023 (Dec 28 ) Our Most Anticipated Anime of Winter 2024 (Dec 23 ) The Best and Worst Anime of Fall 2023 (Dec 22 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Dec 10-16 (Dec 21 ) The Moment That Undead Unluck's Yoshifumi Tozuka Decided to Create Manga (Dec 20 ) VShojo's Ironmouse is Crowned VTuber of the Year (Dec 19 ) The Most Popular Anime Series According to Netflix's Data Drop (Dec 19 ) Living as a Real Life “Hannah Montana” – An Interview with Virtual Singer KAF (Dec 18 ) Anime Director Masaaki Yuasa Reflects on His 20 Year Career (Dec 15 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Dec 3-9 (Dec 13 ) All I Want For Christmas Is More Classic Shōjo Anime! (Dec 13 ) Starting Over: Regrets and Redemption in Reincarnation Isekai Anime (Dec 11 ) New Shiren the Wanderer Game Director and Project Manager Talk About Going Back to Basics (Dec 8 ) Two Hours Hands-on with Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island (Dec 8 ) Why Does Japan Love Columbo? An Investigation (Dec 4 ) Princess Mononoke Comes to Life in Ghibli Park's New Area (Dec 1 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Nov 19-25 (Nov 29 ) The 1960s Graphic Designer Who Inspired Your Favorite Anime OPs (Nov 29 ) The Anime You Should Have Watched in Fall 2013 (Nov 27 ) The Academy Museum's Makoto Shinkai Retrospective Highlights Two Decades of Films (Nov 25 ) Everything Changes in Folktales and Frieren (Nov 24 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Nov 12-18 (Nov 22 ) How Jujutsu Kaisen Lies to You (Nov 22 ) The Newest Pokémon DLC is the Biggest Yet (Nov 21 ) The Many Awesome Figures of Tamashii Nation 2023 (Nov 20 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Nov 5-11 (Nov 14 ) Studio Trigger's Shigeto Koyama Design Work on Display in Manhattan (Nov 13 ) 3-2-1 Let's Jam at the Cowboy Bebop 25th Anniversary Exhibition (Nov 10 ) The Attack on Titan After Party Exclusive Audio Dramas Were Some Serious Tearjerkers (Nov 9 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Oct 29-Nov 4 (Nov 8 ) Making Things That Others Wouldn't: An Interview with Studio TRIGGER President Masahiko Otsuka (Nov 8 ) The Attack on Titan Online After Party is an Interesting Experiment (Nov 7 ) What Made Lucky Star's Anime So Iconic (Nov 6 ) Exiting Grief: The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes' Novelist Mei Hachimoku (Nov 3 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Oct 22-28 (Nov 1 ) Exploring the Fist of the North Star 40th Anniversary Exhibition (Nov 1 ) See the Best Anime and Video Game Costumes at Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Fes. (Oct 31 ) The Case For Remaking .hack//IMOQ (Oct 30 ) From Astro Boy to Pluto: The History of “The Greatest Robot on Earth” (Oct 27 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023, Oct 1-21 (Oct 26 ) Yearning Teens, Frustrated Romance, Pretty Skies — Is There Anything Else to Makoto Shinkai? (Oct 25 ) Godzilla 1954 and Godzilla MINUS ONE Sneak Peek (Oct 23 ) The Joy Of The Everyday: Emotional Intimacy Between Women in Slice-of-Life Anime (Oct 23 ) Final Fantasy XVI Producer Naoki Yoshida on the Game's Anime Influences and Design Philosophy (Oct 20 ) Developing a Diverse Cast in Kia Asamiya's Silent Möbius (Oct 18 ) Our Anime License Holy Grail (Oct 13 ) Animal Crossing Comes to the Seattle Aquarium (Oct 9 ) Bringing Jazz to the Big Screen with Blue Giant Director Yuzuru Tachikawa (Oct 6 ) WarioWare: Move It! Video Game First Impressions (Oct 3 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023 (Oct 3 ) The Fall 2023 Light Novel Guide (Sep 30 ) The Fall 2023 Anime Preview Guide (Sep 29 ) Getting Into Character with Ragna Crimson's Chiaki Kobayashi (Sep 29 ) An Explosive Youth: Discussing Megumin and Yunyun with KONOSUBA Series Composition Writer Makoto Uezu (Sep 27 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Sep 16-22 (Sep 26 ) The Most Anticipated Anime of Fall 2023 (Sep 26 ) The Fall 2023 Anime Trailer Watch Party! (Sep 25 ) The Best and Worst Anime of Summer 2023 (Sep 25 ) Crafting a Hell in Heaven with Heavenly Delusion Creator Masakazu Ishiguro (Sep 25 ) Confronting Life and Death in Heavenly Delusion (Sep 25 ) Two Sides of the Same Coin: Voicing Cid in The Eminence in Shadow (Sep 22 ) The Prodigious Legacy Of The Digimon Dub (Sep 20 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Sep 9-15 (Sep 19 ) J-Rock Star Yoshiki Talks About His Past and Future in London (Sep 19 ) Talking Fate/Samurai Remnant with the Game's Director, Ryota Matsushita (Sep 19 ) The Fall 2023 Manga Guide (Sep 18 ) Crafting Psychological BL Manga with Kyoko Aiba (Sep 17 ) Bringing Under Night 2 to the Arena: A Chat with Arc System Works CEO Minoru Kidooka (Sep 15 ) A Glimpse Into Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] (Sep 15 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Sep 2-8 (Sep 14 ) What Happens Next? Four Knights of the Apocalypse Interview at Otakon 2023 (Sep 13 ) Cherish this Time That Only Comes Once: Skip and Loafer Manga Creator Misaki Takamatsu (Sep 11 ) Drawing A Delicate Heart with Skip and Loafer Anime Director/Series Composition Writer Kotomi Deai (Sep 8 ) A New Decade of Anime: A History with Author Jonathan Clements (Sep 7 ) Bringing One Piece to the Screen with Yasunori Koyama, Kenji Yokoyama, and Tetsushi Akahori (Sep 6 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Aug 26-Sep 1 (Sep 5 ) 'We Are Limitless': Talking to Arc System Works about Guilty Gear -Strive- Season 3 (Sep 4 ) What's Your Anime Hidden Gem? (Sep 2 ) Live-Action One Piece Lives Up to the Amazing Manga (Sep 1 ) A Look Back on the Armored Core Series (Sep 1 ) Behind the Scenes of Action-Comedy Anime Undead Unluck (Aug 30 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Aug 19-25 (Aug 29 ) Playing Takao in the Stage Version of Makoto Shinkai's The Garden of Words (Aug 28 ) What Elden Ring Fans Need to Know Before Playing Armored Core VI (Aug 25 ) Crafting the Story of Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout with Yashichiro Takahashi (Aug 23 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Aug 12-18 (Aug 22 ) Three Generations of Love Live Idols on Overcoming Challenges and Finding Yourself (Aug 21 ) 8 Hours Hands-On with Fate/Samurai Remnant (Aug 18 ) Writing Relatable Villains with Bungo Stray Dogs Author Kafka Asagiri (Aug 18 ) Macross Goes Worldwide: An Interview with Shoji Kawamori and Hidetaka Tenjin at Otakon 2023 (Aug 16 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Aug 5-11 (Aug 15 ) Fate/Grand Order's New 'Memorial Movie' is Emotional Visual Storytelling at Its Best (Aug 14 ) Friends Remember Hiroe Tsukamoto, Aniplex USA Producer and Dub Advocate (Aug 12 ) Vinland Saga's Makoto Yukimura Shares Opinion on Violence: 'Consider Attack on Titan' (Aug 11 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Jul 29-Aug 4 (Aug 9 ) The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: A Spotlight on Quality or A Sticker for Sales? (Aug 9 ) Rune Factory 3 Special Game Preview (Aug 8 ) The Rise of Reiwa: Romance Manga's Current Era Explained (Aug 7 ) Revisiting D.N.Angel 20 Years Later (Aug 4 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Jul 22-28 (Aug 1 ) Resident Evil: Death Island Cast Jokes About Getting Weird in the Recording Booth (Aug 1 ) Resident Evil: Death Island Creatives Share Thoughts on Assembling the Team (Aug 1 ) Bringing The Suicide Squad Into the Anime World (Jul 31 ) Ryuta Koike and the Making The First Slam Dunk (Jul 28 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Jul 1-21 (Jul 26 ) BURNOUT SYNDROMES Talk About Writing and Singing Anime Theme Songs (Jul 26 ) Gearing-Up With the Mecha-Ude Anime Creator Okamoto (Jul 24 ) The Quiet Terror of PTSD Radio with Eisner-Nominated Horror Manga Creator Masaaki Nakayama (Jul 21 ) Resident Evil: Death Island Screening Brings Together Fans and Cast (Jul 19 ) The Nippon Gallery Presents Japan's Anime Sweeping the World (Jul 19 ) 'Everything is a Lie' — Yoko Taro, Hiroyuki Seshita, JIN, & Atsushi Ōkubo Discuss KamiErabi GOD.app Anime (Jul 17 ) Stirring Up Mysteries with Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Creator Kazutaka Kodaka (Jul 14 ) Friendship is Key to Making The Ancient Magus' Bride (Jul 12 ) Studio Bones Looks Back on 25 Years of Anime (Jul 10 ) Final Fantasy Artist Yoshitaka Amano Discusses Next Big Projects (Jul 6 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023 (Jul 4 ) The Summer 2023 Anime Preview Guide (Jul 1 ) The Most Anticipated Anime of Summer 2023 (Jun 28 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, Jun 17-23 (Jun 27 ) The Best and Worst Anime of Spring 2023 (Jun 26 ) After the Rain and Kowloon Generic Romance Manga Artist Jun Mayuzuki (Jun 26 ) Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening (Jun 22 ) Centaurs Manga Creator Ryo Sumiyoshi on Fantasy in Feudal Japan (Jun 21 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, Jun 10-16 (Jun 20 ) The Summer 2023 Trailer Watch Party! (Jun 19 ) Lonely Castle in the Mirror Director Keiichi Hara on Bullying and Other Social Issues Facing Children in Japan (Jun 19 ) How the SPY×FAMILY Creative Team Brought the Manga to Life (Jun 18 ) The Brilliant Minds Behind VINLAND SAGA Season 2 (Jun 16 ) Japan's Newest My Hero Academia Exhibition is Full of Awesome Photo Spots (Jun 15 ) Light Novels With Shōjo Manga Energy (Jun 14 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, Jun 3-9 (Jun 13 ) Game Preview - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Jun 12 ) “My Last War”: Finding a Peaceful World in Attack on Titan and Vinland Saga (Jun 12 ) The Anime You Should Have Watched in Spring 2013 (Jun 7 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, May 27-Jun 2 (Jun 6 ) The Anime Road To Street Fighter (Jun 5 ) LA's Gallery Nucleus Hosts 1st U.S. Exhibition for SSS Artist Group (Jun 3 ) Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress Staff Discuss Bringing the Hobby Anime Alive (Jun 2 ) MAPPA STAGE 2023: Cast and Staff Comments from Chainsaw Man, Attack on Titan, More (Jun 1 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, May 20-26 (May 30 ) How the Record of Ragnarok Director and Series Composition Writer Created a Faithful Adaptation (May 28 ) The Art of 【Oshi No Ko】: An Interview With Mengo Yokoyari (May 24 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, May 13-19 (May 23 ) The Best Series Out Now on the Viz Manga App (May 19 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, May 6-12 (May 15 ) Anime Aunties Visit Japan (May 14 ) What Mamoru Oshii Wants to Tell the Next Generation of Anime and Film Creators (May 12 ) Preview - Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg (May 10 ) How Accurate Is 【Oshi No Ko】 About the Japanese Entertainment Industry? An Interview With Aka Akasaka (May 10 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, Apr 29-May 5 (May 9 ) From Introvert Cringe to Yuri Harem—Watamote Turns 10 (May 8 ) Thorfinn Is Me, I Am Him (May 5 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2023, Apr 1-28 (May 3 ) MAN WITH A MISSION Talks New Demon Slayer Season, Upcoming International Tour (May 1 ) The Spring 2023 Light Novel Guide (Apr 28 ) Does Gunbuster Hold Up Today? (Apr 26 ) The Spring 2023 Manga Guide (Apr 24 ) Mamoru Nagano Speaks About His Theater-Exclusive Anime Gothicmade (Apr 19 ) How Rintaro's Newest Work Honors Japan's Silent-Film Era (Apr 17 ) Makoto Shinkai Talks Suzume and the Earthquake that Inspired It (Apr 15 ) The Real Wall Maria: Surveying Hajime Isayama's Hometown for the 'Attack on Hita' Tourism Project (Apr 14 ) Katsuhiro Otomo's Domu Pilot: An Unnerving Movie Adaptation That Could Have Been (Apr 12 ) Why International Anime Co-Productions Are So Rare (Apr 10 ) Marry, F---, or Kill with Alternative Manga Artist Shiu Yoshijima (Apr 9 ) Hands on With April Fools' Game Fate/Grail League (Apr 7 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023 (Apr 4 ) The Spring 2023 Anime Preview Guide (Mar 31 ) AnimeJapan 2023 Cosplay Gallery (Mar 30 ) Could Taisu Be the Ideal International Anime Collaboration? (Mar 29 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Mar 19-25 (Mar 28 ) Our Most Anticipated Anime of Spring 2023 (Mar 28 ) The Best and Worst Anime of Winter 2023 (Mar 27 ) A Glance into Junji Ito's Horror: Uzumaki, Black Bird, and Enigma at Amigara Fault (Mar 24 ) The Spring 2023 Trailer Watch Party! (Mar 23 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Mar 12-18 (Mar 22 ) What 'Witch' Means in Gundam: Witch From Mercury (Mar 22 ) Suiting Up to Battle Dinos in Exoprimal (Mar 20 ) Arc System Works World Tour Crowns Two New Champions (Mar 18 ) Everything You Need to Know Before Going to Super Nintendo World (Mar 17 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Mar 5-11 (Mar 15 ) No, You Can't Make Anime with AI (Mar 15 ) Top 10(ish) Games To Look Out For On Nintendo Switch Online (Mar 13 ) The Double Writer's Guide to Kamen Rider (Mar 10 ) Hands-on With NARUTO×BORUTO VR (Mar 8 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Feb 26-Mar 4 (Mar 7 ) Inside Bandai Namco's First Akihabara Arcade (Mar 6 ) The Many Adaptations of Death Note (Mar 3 ) Tonari Animation's CEO on Which Innovations Will Help the Anime Industry (Mar 1 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Feb 19-25 (Feb 28 ) Fan Meetup Celebrates Digimon's 25th Anniversary (Feb 27 ) PREVIEW: Arcana of Paradise - The Tower Game (Feb 26 ) PREVIEW: Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key (Feb 24 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Feb 12-18 (Feb 21 ) World's Collide at Demon Slayer: To The Swordsmith Village Red Carpet Premiere (Feb 20 ) Why Creators Root For Akane-banashi (Feb 20 ) The Newest Figures from Wonder Festival 2023 [Winter] - Shibuya Scramble Figure, Amiami, and S-Fire (Feb 18 ) How Ballmastrz: Rubicon Became an Anime with Creator Christy Karacas (Feb 17 ) Studio Chizu Shares Vision of the Future at JX '23 (Feb 15 ) Wonder Festival 2023 [Winter] Cosplay Gallery (Feb 14 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Feb 5-11 (Feb 13 ) Powerful Weirdos: Seeing my Neurodivergence in Shonen Protagonists (Feb 13 ) PREVIEW: Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Feb 9 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Jan 29-Feb 4 (Feb 8 ) How High Card's Staff Came Up With The Crazy Action (Feb 8 ) Honey and Clover, Then and Now (Feb 6 ) Norse Culture as a Source of Inspiration for the Vinland Saga Phenomenon (Feb 3 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2023, Jan 1-28 (Feb 1 ) Anime's 3-Episode Rule: Is It Still Valid? (Feb 1 ) Inside Polygon Pictures with Kaina of the Great Snow Sea Executive Producer Hideki Moriya (Jan 30 ) What in the World is a Final Fantasy XIV World Race? (Jan 27 ) PREVIEW: Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (Jan 26 ) Interview: Shuzo John Shiota, President of Polygon Pictures (Jan 25 ) Rocking Out in History With Inu-Oh Director Masaaki Yuasa (Jan 24 ) Make Everything E.X.P.L.O.D.E. — The Other Works of Akira's Katsuhiro Otomo in English (Jan 23 ) Not Every Artificial Intelligence is Out To Kill You: AI in Anime (Jan 20 ) 5 BL Manga That Deserve an Anime Adaptation (Jan 18 ) Interview: The Staff of the 2022 BASTARD!! Anime (Jan 16 ) The Most-Watched and Best-Rated Fall 2022 Anime (Jan 14 ) How Yakuza and Real-World History Collide in Like a Dragon: Ishin! (Jan 11 ) Is It Wrong to Try to Remember What's Going on in a Dungeon? (Jan 4 ) The Winter 2023 Anime Preview Guide (Jan 4 ) ANN's Most Read News and Interest Articles of 2022 (Jan 3 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2022 (Jan 3 ) Skimming Through the Pages: A Quick Refresher on Bungo Stray Dogs (Jan 3 )
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