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My Hero Academia Anime's 5th Season Previews Opening Theme in New Video

Feb 27, 18:54

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DISH, the peggies perform theme songs for series premiering on March 27 ― Toho Animation began streaming a third promotional video on Saturday for the fifth season of the My Hero Academia anime. The video reveals and previews DISH's opening theme song "No.1." The video description also reveals that the peggies will perform the ending theme song "Ashiato" (Footprints). Kenji Nagasaki is again the chie...

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Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku Anime's New Episode Previewed in Video

Feb 27, 18:45

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New episode shipped with manga's 10th volume on Friday ― Ichijinsha began streaming a promotional video on Friday for the second original anime disc that shipped with the 10th volume of Fujita's Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Otaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii) manga on Friday. The episode on the disc centers on Naoya (Yuuki Kaji) and Kō (Aoi Yūki). Ichijinsha also posted an 11-minute video to commemorate ...

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The Night Beyond the Tricorner Window GN 4-7

Feb 27, 15:00

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This is a series with BL elements that has the potential to reach a much wider readership than many other series featuring romance between two men. ― It is, I admit, more than a little baffling that Tomoko Yamashita's The Night Beyond the Tricorner Window is only being published by Viz Media's SuBLime BL imprint. That's not a censure so much as it is a regret, because while there are still double-ent...

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This Week in Games - Shiny Objects

Feb 26, 20:57

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HOPE YOU LIKE SHINY THINGS CAUSE WE'RE GOING BACK TO SINNOH, Y'ALL ― ME: Phew, it's always exhausting covering a Nintendo Direct. I'm looking forward to a much more laid-back week in gaming news. GAME INDUSTRY: Urp. I don't feel so good. ME: Oh, Industry-chan, are you okay? You look kind of ill. GAME INDUSTRY: *hurk* ME: Oh. Oh no. Oh noooooooooo- GAME INDUSTRY: *vomits major news everywhere* Ugh, I ...

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Another World's Zombie Apocalypse Is Not My Problem! Novel 2

Feb 26, 15:00

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Mizuha's new world being a fantasy-horror hybrid does leave plenty of room for expansion. Zombies were really the only unusual creatures (aside from gods) in the first book, and Yayari takes this opportunity to change that. ― She should have known it would come to this. Erstwhile Japanese high school girl Mizuha, who in the previous volume was randomly selected by another world's goddess and isekaied...

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Set Sail with One Piece Treasure Cruise Producer Tomoya Yoshizawa

Feb 26, 10:00

games

Ahead of ONE PIECE Treasure Cruise's sixth anniversary, Anime News Network was able to talk to Producer Yoshi to discuss his favorite moments from the series and how the game has evolved over the last six years. ― The popular mobile game ONE PIECE Treasure Cruise is celebrating its sixth anniversary with a brand-new English-language campaign, "Operation: Bring Back Sanji ~Extremely Hellish Chaos?!~ ...

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A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow GN 5 & 6

Feb 25, 15:00

manga

Whether you see A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow as a romantic story or not, it does a lovely job of exploring not just the relationship between its two leads but does the same for each of them as individuals as well. ― The fifth volume of A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow is almost entirely devoid of Konatsu's presence. For a series that's built on the growing relationship between two girls, that's a r...

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Great British Bake Off Finalist Makes Lovely Laputa Cake

Feb 25, 13:45

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Steven Carter-Bailey, who was a finalist of series 8 of The Great British Bake Off and the winner of The Great New Year's Bake Off 2019, recently expressed his appreciation for Studio Ghibli's Laputa: Castle in the Sky in the most characteristic way possible: by making a lovely cake. Laputa, Castle in the Sky is my all time favourite @instaghibli movie! When asked to make cake, I jumped at the cha...

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This Week in Anime - Does Vlad Love Scratch That Nostalgia Itch?

Feb 25, 10:00

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It's referential, totally crazy, and stars a lesbian couple that includes a blood donor fanatic and a vampire. ― Acclaimed director Mamoru Oshii returns to his roots with a bombastic comedy that harkens back to anime of decades past. It's referential, totally crazy, and stars a lesbian couple that includes a blood donor fanatic and a vampire. Vlad Love is both familiar and totally unique. Jean-Karlo...

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Healin' Good Precure Streaming

Feb 24, 15:02

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Where the show really succeeds, however, is in truly separating itself from the norms of magical girl series. ― While Healin' Good PreCure is the third Pretty Cure series to become available in English, it is the first to stream as it aired in Japan, albeit starting after the first cour. (Tropical Rouge PreCure, the next in the franchise, will change this by fully simulcasting.) It also had the misfo...

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Takahiro Obata: Creating Musical Tension in The Promised Neverland

Feb 24, 12:00