Features - 2024
The Best Anime of 2024 (Dec 30 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Dec 17-23 (Dec 27 ) Most Anticipated Anime of Winter 2025 (Dec 25 ) The Worst Anime of Fall 2024 (Dec 24 ) The Best Anime of Fall 2024 (Dec 23 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Dec 10-16 (Dec 20 ) Exploring How a Manga is Printed at the One Piece Only Exhibition (Dec 20 ) Best New K-Comics to Read: December 2024 (Dec 20 ) NIJISANJI EN VTuber Doppio Dropscythe Joins the Anime Trailer Watch Party! (Dec 18 ) Fate Anime—Where to Start and What's Worth Watching (Dec 18 ) K-Comic Creator Spotlight: Moscareto (Dec 16 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Dec 3-9 (Dec 13 ) The Winter 2025 Anime Trailer Watch Party Has a New Guest... (Dec 13 ) Director Kenji Kamiyama Calls The War of the Rohirrim an 'Unprecedented Opportunity' for Anime (Dec 13 ) Not Your Average Anime about Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (Dec 11 ) Newtype Exclusive: Delicious in Dungeon Director Yoshihiro Miyajima Reflects on Season 1 (Dec 10 ) Brian Cox and Gaia Wise Share Their Voice-Acting Stories from LotR: The War of the Rohirrim Anime Film (Dec 9 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Nov 26-Dec 2 (Dec 6 ) Interview: BE:FIRST Vocal Group Returns to the High Seas of One Piece (Dec 6 ) Creators Discuss Reinventing the Dark Knight for Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League and Aztec Batman (Dec 4 ) The Coolest Upcoming Figures Shown at Tamashii Nation 2024 (Dec 2 ) The Awesome Anime Replicas of Tamashii Nation 2024 (Dec 2 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Nov 19-25 (Dec 1 ) WEBTOON and A New Era of Digital Comics (Nov 29 ) LeSean Thomas Schools New York on 'Consumer' Fans and Uplifting Animators (Nov 27 ) Newtype exclusive interview: My Deer Friend Nokotan Megumi Han as Noko Shikanoko × Saki Fujita as Torako Koshi (Nov 26 ) A New Saber Debuts at Fate/strange Fake Episode Premiere (Nov 26 ) The Anime News Network Holiday Gift Guide (Nov 25 ) Shinichiro Watanabe on How the John Wick Director Joined the Lazarus Anime Team (Nov 25 ) From Music Videos to Feature Film: An Interview with A Few Moments of Cheers Director POPREQ (Nov 24 ) Directors Takahito Sakazume and Shun Enokido on Adapting Fate/strange Fake to the Small Screen (Nov 23 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Nov 12-18 (Nov 22 ) Who is DAN DA DAN Heartthrob Ken Takakura? (Nov 22 ) Interview: Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 REMAKE Producer Kazuhiro Echigoya (Nov 20 ) Tokyo Ghoul Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Gory Interactive Exhibition (Nov 20 ) Inside DAN DA DAN Episode 7: Rising Talent Shuto Enomoto Discusses Storyboarding and Animation with Newtype (Nov 18 ) The Importance of 'Blue' in Blue Period: Interview with Tsubasa Yamaguchi (Nov 18 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Nov 5-11 (Nov 15 ) The Complete Sword Art Online Anime Timeline (Nov 15 ) The Complicated Process of Color Design in Anime - An Interview with Nokotan's Arisa Komatsu (Nov 15 ) The Fall 2024 K-Comics Guide (Nov 13 ) Onward to the Alvarez Empire: Hiroshi Kataoka Discusses FAIRY TAIL 2 (Nov 13 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Oct 29-Nov 4 (Nov 10 ) What Exactly Does an Animation Director Do? - An Interview with Nokotan's Karin Omura (Nov 8 ) How Witch Hat Atelier's Manga Creator Made Magic for Everyone (Nov 6 ) Newtype exclusive interview: Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Ryōhei Takeshita and Composition Writer/Screenwriter Yūki Yaku (Nov 5 ) Miki Yamamoto, Creator of A Smart and Courageous Child Manga (Nov 4 ) The Fall 2024 Light Novel Guide (Nov 2 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Oct 22-28 (Nov 1 ) Making The Colors Within: An Interview With Director Naoko Yamada and Composer Kensuke Ushio (Nov 1 ) New Director Kazuaki Kuribayashi is Risking it Big on KILLTUBE Anime Film (Oct 30 ) Newtype exclusive interview:Suicide Squad ISEKAI Director Eri Osada × Producer Sho Ohtani (Oct 29 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2024, Oct 1-21 (Oct 28 ) Voice Actors Masakazu Morita and Noriaki Sugiyama Celebrate 20 Years of BLEACH (Oct 28 ) Which Summer 2024 Anime are Popular in the U.S. Compared to Japan? (Oct 25 ) Interview: Danganronpa Creator Kazutaka Kodaka is Gambling His Studio's Future on His New Game (Oct 23 ) Korea's WEBTOON Entertainment In Midst of Labor Dispute (Oct 23 ) The Fall 2024 Manga Guide (Oct 21 ) From Vertical Scroll to Screen: Anime Adaptations of K-Comics (Oct 21 ) Interview: Bridging Dungeon Fighter Online and Dark Souls with The First Berserker: Khazan (Oct 19 ) Look Back: Director Oshiyama's Inherent Need to Draw (Oct 19 ) The Real Yokai of DAN DA DAN (Oct 18 ) Blood on the Tracks Manga Creator Shūzō Oshimi Can't Help But Get Personal (Oct 16 ) Newtype exclusive interview: Tower of God Season 2 Series Composition/Scriptwriter Erika Yoshida (Oct 15 ) The Giants Dance in Attack on Titan: The Musical's U.S. Premiere (Oct 14 ) A Bright and Colorful Adventure: An Interview with BAKERU Director Tadanori Tsukawaki (Oct 14 ) Palworld Will "March On" Amid Nintendo Lawsuit (Oct 11 ) Managing the Stress System: REYNATIS Creative Producer TAKUMI (Oct 11 ) The Top 5 Games from Nintendo's Holiday Line-Up (Oct 10 ) Mario & Luigi: Brothership Game Preview (Oct 10 ) The Cast of My Hero Academia: You're Next Go Beyond Plus Ultra on Red Carpet (Oct 9 ) Fresh and New Everytime: The Music of Creepy Nuts (Oct 9 ) Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! Interview with Director Shotaro Kitamura (Oct 8 ) Creating a Multi-Volume Rom-Com Manga from a One-Shot (Oct 7 ) Performing in the 2.5 Dimension: Producer Shimpei Yamashita on Oshi no Ko Season 2 (Oct 5 ) Bringing Hololive to the U.S.: An Interview With Motoaki Tanigo, CEO of COVER Corp (Oct 4 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024 (Oct 3 ) The Fall 2024 Anime Preview Guide (Oct 1 ) Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian: Interview with Sumire Uesaka as Alya (Oct 1 ) Guilty Gear's Artistic Identity and Upcoming Anime with Ken Miyauchi, Shoichi Kitazono, and Genki Mamada (Sep 30 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Sep 16-22 (Sep 27 ) The Staff of My Deer Friend Nokotan Were Shocked by Its Worldwide Popularity (Sep 27 ) The Most Anticipated Anime of Fall 2024 (Sep 25 ) Director Hiroshi Nagahama, From Wicked City to Uzumaki (Sep 25 ) The Worst Anime of Summer 2024 (Sep 24 ) The Best Anime of Summer 2024 (Sep 23 ) From Indie to Pro: Make A Girl Anime Film Director Gensho Yasuda (Sep 23 ) The Fall 2024 Anime Trailer Watch Party Returns with Mother's Basement! (Sep 21 ) This Life-Size Ainz Ooal Gown Statue is Only One of the Cool Things at the Overlord Exhibition in Tokyo (Sep 21 ) Shangri-La Frontier Cheat Codes: How Its Creators Built Its Video Game World (Sep 20 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Sep 9-15 (Sep 19 ) Creating a Game Space Where Anyone Can Gather: Hidetaka 'Swery' Suehiro on VR (Sep 18 ) Reimagining A World-Famous Monster: #DRCL Manga Creator Shin'ichi Sakamoto (Sep 16 ) Recreating a Video Game Classic with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Naoki Hamaguchi, Yoshinori Kitase, & Teruki Endo (Sep 13 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Sep 2-8 (Sep 11 ) Bringing Ghibli's Animated Worlds into Our Own: The Ghibli Park and Ghibli Exhibition (Sep 11 ) Hololive's Second English VTuber Concert was a Dimension-Breaking Success (Sep 9 ) ODDTAXI's Baku Kinoshita On His New Film, Housenka (Sep 6 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Aug 26-Sep-1 (Sep 5 ) TOUGEN ANKI's Main Cast Talks About Their Roles in the Upcoming Anime (Sep 4 ) Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes with Director Kamone Serizawa (Sep 2 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Aug 19-25 (Aug 31 ) Ghost in the Shell - Where to Start and What's Worth Watching (and Reading) (Aug 30 ) The Rise of Terminator Zero with Writer Mattson Tomlin & Director Masashi Kudo (Aug 28 ) A Chat with Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Producer Shuhei Matsumoto (Aug 26 ) From Page to Screen: DAN DA DAN Director Fūga Yamashiro and Voice Actor Shion Wakayama (Aug 24 ) Empathizing with Pregnancy: An Interview with My Girlfriend's Child Manga Creator Mamoru Aoi (Aug 23 ) When Old Work Reaches New Audiences: An Interview with Bubblegum Crisis' Kenichi Sonoda (Aug 21 ) Visualizing Lovecraft: An Interview with Manga Creator Gou Tanabe (Aug 19 ) How A Small Team Created a Huge Hit: Look Back Anime Film Director Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Aug 16 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Aug 5-11 (Aug 15 ) VTuber Mori Calliope Shares Her Favorite Suicide Squad Isekai Characters (Aug 14 ) Rick and Morty: The Anime Explores New Dimensions (Aug 12 ) Making Monsters Delicious with Delicious in Dungeon Manga Creator Ryoko Kui (Aug 12 ) From Pilot to Full-Series: Creating Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms (Aug 9 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Jul 29-Aug 4 (Aug 8 ) What to Expect in the Loner Life in Another World Anime Series (Aug 7 ) Interview: From Singing Naruto to Inspiring Bocchi the Rock!, 20 Years of ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION (Aug 2 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Jul 22-28 (Aug 1 ) Comparing Japanese and US Anime Viewership: Spring 2024 (Jul 31 ) Creating a New World with Familiar Characters in Suicide Squad ISEKAI (Jul 29 ) How Blue Lock Anime Brings the Action to Life (Jul 26 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Jul 1-21 (Jul 25 ) EXCLUSIVE: Preview Atsushi Kaneko's Search and Destroy, Reimagining of Dororo Manga (Jul 24 ) Small-town Horror: Interview with The Summer Hikaru Died Creator Mokumokuren (Jul 24 ) Playing the Long Game - The Story of Slam Dunk in North America (Jul 22 ) MAHO FILM's President Junji Murata on Creating a Better Anime Studio (Jul 19 ) HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT's Tomoyasu Miyazaki Talks Bringing Fan-Favorite Series into Gaming Arena (Jul 15 ) President Kondo and the Power of In-House Staff at Nihon Falcom (Jul 13 ) Bocchi the Rock! Staff Reflect on Growth and Change (Jul 12 ) My Hero Academia's Mamoru Miyano, Daiki Yamashita Discuss Manga's Imminent Conclusion (Jul 10 ) Interview: An Umineko Retrospective with Ryukishi07 & Sayaka Ohara (Jul 10 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024 (Jul 3 ) The Summer 2024 Anime Trailer Watch Party Starts Soon! (Jun 28 ) The London Cast of Your Lie in April: The Musical (Jun 28 ) Frank Wildhorn, Composer of Your Lie in April: The Musical (Jun 28 ) Lunar Legend Tsukihime: Revisiting the Anime that 'Doesn't Exist' (Jun 28 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, Jun 17-23 (Jun 26 ) The Summer 2024 Anime Preview Guide (Jun 26 ) The Most Anticipated Anime of Summer 2024 (Jun 26 ) Interview: Director Kumiko Habara & Scenario Writer Kenta Ihara on Bringing History to Life in Blue Miburo (Jun 26 ) The Worst Anime of Spring 2024 (Jun 25 ) Read 30 Pages of Tezuka-Reimagining Comic, Unico: Awakening (Jun 24 ) The Best Anime of Spring 2024 (Jun 24 ) Manga Guide to the Eisner Awards 2024 (Jun 21 ) Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 4K Release is a Sight to See (Jun 21 ) The Hindi Dub Cast of Kaiju No. 8 Take You Inside The Studio (Jun 21 ) Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Team Discuss Updating the Series After 25 Years (Jun 20 ) DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO Producer Explains the Long Wait for More (Jun 20 ) Assassin's Creed Shadows Makes Great Use Of Its Two Protagonists (Jun 20 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, Jun 10-16 (Jun 19 ) Cheering for Gunma: Narenare -Cheer for you!- Anime Producer Hayato Kanno (Jun 19 ) New Projects Bring New Opportunities for Kinema Citrus Anime Studio (Jun 17 ) Heavenly Delusion Director Discusses Keeping the Story Straight (Jun 14 ) Director Kawata and Producer Hirabayashi of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (Jun 13 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, Jun 3-9 (Jun 12 ) Monster Hunter Wilds Brings Players Back to Nature (Jun 12 ) Metaphor: ReFantazio Feels like Home for JRPG Players (Jun 12 ) An In-Depth Preview of Rusty Rabbit Game with Writer Gen Urobuchi and Producer Yuichiro Saito (Jun 12 ) Medicine and Fantasy: An Interview with Doctor Elise Manhwa Artist Mini (Jun 12 ) The First Anime That Made Us Cry (Jun 10 ) Like Magneto, Scar In Fullmetal Alchemist Was Right (Jun 7 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, May 27-Jun 2 (Jun 6 ) We Ranked the Official KONOSUBA Cocktails (Jun 5 ) Ghibli Park's Newest Area Brings Howl's Moving Castle and Kiki's Delivery Service to Life (Jun 3 ) My Oni Girl Director Asks Viewers To Be Honest With Themselves (May 31 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, May 20-26 (May 30 ) Anime Overperforms - An Analysis of Netflix's 2023 Viewership Data (May 29 ) 6 Interesting Things I Learned About Anime From the Legendary Producer Maruyama Masao Documentary (May 27 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, May 13-19 (May 24 ) First Episode Impression: Blue Archive the Animation (May 24 ) Straight Shooting with Game Creator Suda51 (May 24 ) Barely Glancing Ahead: Searching for the Future in Inio Asano's Works (May 22 ) Bringing Anime to Southeast Asia: Interview with Medialink, Ani-One Co-Founder Lovinia Chiu (May 20 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, May 6-12 (May 18 ) Demon Slayer Stage Play Cast Descend on NYC (May 18 ) My Happy Marriage Director Takehiro Kubota and Creating a New Fairytale (May 17 ) In the Shadow of the Beast: The Kaiju Genre & Kaiju No. 8 (May 15 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, Apr 29-May 5 (May 13 ) Pop Star Crystal Kay on Singing Anime Songs and Growing Up Mixed-Race in Japan (May 13 ) Creative Producer Goro Taniguchi, Director Junichi Yamamoto Talk Web3 Anime (May 10 ) Welcome Back, Spice and Wolf (May 8 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2024, Apr 1-28 (May 6 ) Producer Masakazu Kubo on Making an Anime for Hardcore Golf Fans (May 6 ) The Beauty of Stop-Motion Animation with Bottle George Director Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi (May 3 ) Manhwa and Manga: Similar but Different Art Forms (May 1 ) Anime to Watch if You Liked Shogun (Apr 29 ) Interview: Author Akihiro Nishino on Bottle George, His New Stop-Motion Animated Film (Apr 27 ) The Spring 2024 Light Novel Guide (Apr 27 ) The Story of Suikoden (Apr 26 ) Interview: Voice Actors Rika Hayashi and Hiroki Tōchi Talk About Their New Golf Anime, Tonbo! (Apr 24 ) The Spring 2024 Manga Guide (Apr 22 ) INTERVIEW: Small-Town Horror Comes to Life in Masaaki Ninomiya's GANNIBAL Manga (Apr 19 ) The Best Weapons in BLUELOCK to Build The Perfect Team (Apr 19 ) At 25:00 in Akasaka BL Drama Cast Discuss Kiss Scene, Personal Hobbies at Live Event (Apr 18 ) Fans Say Farewell to Yokohama's Life-Size Moving Gundam (Apr 17 ) Gundam SEED FREEDOM's Rie Tanaka, Sōichiro Hoshi Share Memories at Los Angeles Premiere (Apr 15 ) Chained Soldier Producer, Voice Actor Discuss Bringing Sexy Anime Series to Screen (Apr 8 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2024 (Apr 4 ) Studio Ghibli President Toshio Suzuki Sees His Anime Come to Life at Ghibli Park (Apr 4 ) First Look at Crunchyroll's Spring Anime Series Slate (Apr 1 ) The Spring 2024 Anime Preview Guide (Apr 1 ) Exploring the World of the SAND LAND Video Game (Mar 29 ) Anime Dad — How Mamoru Hosoda's Films Speak to Me (Mar 29 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2024, Mar 18-24 (Mar 27 ) The Most Anticipated Anime of Spring 2024 (Mar 27 ) The Worst Anime of Winter 2024 (Mar 26 ) The Best Anime of Winter 2024 (Mar 25 ) The One And Only Animerica Magazine (Mar 22 ) Frieren Knocks Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood Out of the Top Spot on Both MAL and ANN (Mar 20 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2024, Mar 11-17 (Mar 20 ) Interview: JYOCHO's Daijiro Nakagawa Talks About Composing Songs for Junji Ito and Banished From the Hero's Party (Mar 20 ) How Oshi no Ko Got Its Extra-Long Premiere (Mar 18 ) The Spring 2024 Anime Trailer Watch Party Will Be Live from Japan! (Mar 15 ) Sex Work, Kink, and Consent: Here's How the Anime Community Can be Better With Adult Content and Its Creators (Mar 15 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2024, Mar 4-10 (Mar 13 ) Who Can Beat Goku? The Monumental Legacy of Akira Toriyama (Mar 13 ) Mobile Suit Gundam: Where to Start and What's Worth Watching [2024 Edition] (Mar 11 ) Collect 'Em All: Other Video Games About Catching Monsters (Mar 8 ) Why Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai is One of the Greatest Shonen Anime (Mar 6 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2024, Feb 26-Mar 3 (Mar 5 ) Anime to Watch on Funimation Before They Disappear from Streaming (Mar 4 ) Roleplaying in Re:Zero, the Dark Souls of Isekai (Mar 1 ) Chatting About Food and Adventures with Delicious in Dungeon's Director and Voice Actors (Feb 28 ) Reflecting on Aerith's Death on the Eve of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Release (Feb 26 ) How Avatar: The Last Airbender Made Me A Late Bloomer Anime Fan (Feb 23 ) Another Code, Ace Attorney, and Adventure Games 20 Years Later (Feb 21 ) Veteran Animator Terumi Nishii on the Problems and Future Facing the Anime Industry (Feb 19 ) These Unofficial Soulsborne Figures are Amazing (Feb 17 ) Are There Any Figures at WonderFest for Retro Anime Fans? (Feb 17 ) The Eminence in Shadow Anime Producer Had His Own Cid Phase (Feb 16 ) Romance Anime to Make Your Heart Flutter (Feb 14 ) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training Red Carpet Premiere Report (Feb 13 ) Plastic Models as Art: Touring Kaiyodo's Headquarters and Hobby Land Museum (Feb 12 ) The Ultimate Madoka Recap and Homura's Lost Paradise (Feb 9 ) No More Yielding but a Dream: Paprika and the Waking World (Feb 7 ) Gundam: The Witch From Mercury's Lynn and Kana Ichinose Discuss Difficult Parents and Friendships (Feb 7 ) How the Shield Hero Director and Producer Pushed to Do the Series Justice (Feb 5 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2024, Jan 22-28 (Feb 2 ) A Photo Guide to the Real-Life Locations in Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki (Feb 2 ) The First Slam Dunk Anime Loves Basketball As Much As I Do (Jan 31 ) An Early Look at the Dragon Ball Daima Character Designs (Jan 30 ) Bringing His Ego to the Role: BLUE LOCK Voice Actor Kazuki Ura (Jan 29 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2024, Jan 1-21 (Jan 27 ) How Anime Helped Save Superman (Jan 26 ) Manhwa: What Korean Comics to Start Reading (Jan 24 ) Exploring the Delicious in Dungeon Pop-Up Café In Shibuya (Jan 22 ) Volunteers, Former Senior Staff Boycott Ohayocon Convention (Jan 19 ) Rainbow Gala 30 and the End of an Era: Hong Kong's Biggest Doujinshi Convention Set to Shutter (Jan 19 ) Yoshiki Gives Heartfelt Performance at Hollywood Unveiling Ceremony (Jan 17 ) ANN's Most-Read News and Interest Articles of 2023 (Jan 9 ) Bringing Imagination to the Sengoku Youko Supernatural Action Anime (Jan 8 ) Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023 (Jan 6 ) The Winter 2024 Anime Preview Guide (Jan 3 ) An Anime Insider's Take on the Netflix Engagement Report (Jan 3 )
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