Netflix's new animated series blends retro grindhouse with Mexican supernatural elements for an ass-kicking good time. Micchy and Nick have all the details.― Netflix's new animated series blends retro grindhouse with Mexican supernatural elements for an ass-kicking good time. Micchy and Nick have all the details. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are n...
Heidi chronicles this week's Fortnite saga - along with fighting game news and the return of Fat Pikachu!― As mainstream as games are nowadays, I'm still weirded out when a game manages to make national headlines. But when you're as big a force in popular culture as Fortnite is right now, almost any degree of shakeup is going to make some big waves. Epic had dubbed what was going to happen in Fortni...
"Even as the weakest volume so far in this series, it provides enough intriguing details to press the story forward."― Volume 5 ended with a massive cliffhanger about the Shun timeline still lingering, but that scene doesn't get addressed or continued at all in volume 6. In fact, the way volume 6 plays out, the story may not get back to that timeline for quite a while. Unlike all previous volumes, v...
New York's biggest pop culture convention has wrapped, but we've got a perspective - and some photos - on the experience from correspondent Cindy Sibilsky.― Autumn in New York -- the weather fluxes almost daily from sweltering and summery to brisk enough to begin turning the leaves another tone. Halloween may be just around the corner but the event that ushers in October with its costumes, creativit...
Suzume's spur-of-the-moment confession to what she thought was a sleeping Shishio turns out to have greater repercussions than she imagined when she realizes that he heard her.― If there's one major fault in a lot of student/teacher romances (besides the obvious, but we are talking about fiction), it's that the older person in the relationship very rarely seems to think about the inappropriateness o...
LIDEN FILMS takes on the gory manga classic Blade of the Immortal, delivering more slicing and flying limbs than ever before. What is it about the classic tale that will keep Steve and Andy tuning in every week? Besides the rolling heads, anyway.― LIDEN FILMS takes on the gory manga classic Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura, delivering more slicing, dicing, and flying limbs than ever before. ...
Anime NYC welcomes the globally renowned Lantis Matsuri concert series to New York City for the first time! As a treat for ANN readers, three lucky winners will be able to win one ticket each to watch this highly-anticipated concert!― Anime NYC welcomes the globally renowned Lantis Matsuri concert series to New York City for the first time! This special concert at New York City's largest Japanese p...
The Chouheiwa Busters - with a script by the prolific Mari Okada - are back with a third film set in Okada's hometown, a drama about aspiring musicians. Kim Morrissy has the scoop.― Her Blue Sky is the third anime in what I like to call "the Chichibu trilogy." Like Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and The Anthem of the Heart before it, the story of Her Blue Sky is credited to the Chouheiwa Buster...
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