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This Week in Games - Laboring LaDS

Aug 29, 11:00

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Love and Deepspace is too hot to ignore, former CAPCOM alums are starting a new studio, Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius shutters, and more Romancing SaGa is on the way! ― Welcome back, folks! Our Power Rangers charity stream last weekend was a success! It was such a blast to roleplay with the folks, fun times all around. I also took the opportunity to join some folks for an anime trivia night at a local ...

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Anime Dubs as Good as Cowboy Bebop

Aug 29, 10:00

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Cowboy Bebop may be the gold standard of English dubs, but it's hardly alone. There are plenty of shows that make the case for watching in English. Our editorial staff shares some of their favorites. ― Cowboy Bebop may be the gold standard of English dubs, but it's hardly alone. While some fans prefer subs over dubs, there are plenty of shows that make the case for watching in English. Our editorial...

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The Anime NYC Guide to Working in the American Manga Industry

Aug 29, 10:00

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Manga publishers at Anime NYC shared their advice on breaking into the industry from lettering and logo design to creating your very own comic. ― How many of the 148,000 attendees at Anime NYC 2025 want to find work in the manga business? Probably a lot of them - at least five panels focused on career-building, and even the question and answer segments on unrelated panels would frequently have someo...

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Producers Talk Shop about Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian Game

Aug 29, 09:00 games

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian banked on the franchise's history, and now it's making the transition from a mobile game to a full-fledged console RPG. ― With its magic shops and the many Alchemists who run them, Gust's Atelier series has quietly continued over the decades as a fan-favorite thanks to its charming characters and comfortable atmosphere. Atelier Resleriana: Th...

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Takashi Itsuki, Hisaya Shiraiwa's Ganglion Manga Gets TV Anime Debuting on October 3

Aug 29, 06:52 manga anime

Ayumu Watanabe directs anime starring Yōji Ueda, Fumihiko Tachiki, Tomokazu Sugita, more ― A website opened on Friday to announce that author Hisaya Shiraiwa and illustrator Takashi Itsuki's Ganglion manga is getting a television anime adaptation that will debut on October 3. The anime will air on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, AT-X, and BS Yoshimoto. The anime stars (character name romanizations are not confir...

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Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2025, Aug 19-25

Aug 28, 16:40 anime

Call of the Night and Anne Shirley see their best episodes yet, but it's not enough to move the top 10 cumulative. Below #10 everything is shifting around though. ― Let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season, based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews and on the Your Score page with the latest simulcasts. Keep in mind that these rankings are...

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Kill Blue Volumes 1-2 Manga Review

Aug 28, 12:00

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By its second volume, Kill Blue isn’t quite as good as it started. ― There are a lot of stories about second chances spanning all demographics of manga, anime, and light novels. In most of those cases, the protagonist of the story desperately wants a chance to go back and fix a mistake or rectify a problem, and many others wallow in the nostalgic notion that life was somehow better in high school. Bu...

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Voice Actor Takaya Hashi Dies at 72

Aug 28, 10:26

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Voice of Fist of the North Star's Toki died on August 27 ― Apte Pro announced on Thursday that its President, CEO, and voice actor Takaya Hashi died from a heart attack on August 27. He was 72. Hashi was born on January 8, 1952 in Tokyo. He joined the Seinenza Theater Company before becoming a voice actor. He later became the President and CEO of talent agency Apte Pro. His roles include Fist of the ...

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This Week in Anime - American Manga Awards 2025

Aug 28, 10:00

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The winners of the American Manga Awards are in! Coop and Lucas take a look at them and share their thoughts. ― The winners of the American Manga Awards are in! Coop and Lucas take a look at them and share their thoughts. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network. Executive editor Lynzee Loveridge is a judge for the Ameri...

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Hypnosis Mic Writer Yūichirō Momose Launches New Datewars Franchise

Aug 28, 02:55

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Franchise centers on criminal girls fighting time-traveling terrorists using songs from 70s to 2000s ― Hypnosis Mic franchise writer Yūichirō Momose announced a new project titled Datewars on Thursday, with Hanaharu Naruko (Kamichu, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Kandagawa Jet Girls) as character designer, and Mino as music producer, video creator, and music commentator. The "timeless music IP pr...

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Boku to Gyaru ga Fūfu ni Naru Made Manga Creator Shino Dies

Aug 27, 12:30

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Creator died in June ― The official X (formerly Twitter) account of Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine announced on Wednesday that manga creator Shino had died in June. The magazine serializes Shino's current Boku to Gyaru (Kimi) ga Fūfu ni Naru Made manga. The manga launched in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh in December 2022. Kadokawa published the manga's first compiled book volume in Aug...

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mono Anime Series Review

Aug 27, 12:00

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mono is an anime where the slice of life is done right, and makes for a worthy successor of its sibling series Yuru Camp. ― When I shipped up to Anime Boston this year, I distinctly remember a big banner advertising mono on display for any ongoers mozying their way up the escalator. Its display almost seemed boastful, as if it wanted to swallow people going further and further up the escalator with m...

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The Legal and 'Soft' Censorship Affecting Manga in America

Aug 27, 09:30

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Daniel Cruz of PEN America emphasized the toll censorship can take on authors: “Authors stop writing the content that's getting censored.” ― Panels about manga being targeted by book-banning campaigns have had a regular presence at anime conventions for as long as I can remember. In light of the current political climate (be sure to read Coop Bicknell's deep dive into the state of manga censorship in...

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Tower of God Creator SIU Looking Back on the Series a Decade Later

Aug 27, 09:00