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There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~ Episodes 13-17 Anime Review

Feb 16, 12:00

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Originally, the series was a bit unclear about why Renako was in denial or always quick to run away from the romantic advances of others. This arc makes it explicitly clear that she does not think she is a good person who is deserving of any of that love. ― There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… was an interesting series that mixed funny comedic hijinx with solid character writing. While...

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Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2026, Feb 5-11

Feb 16, 11:55

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Despite starting second from the bottom with middling reviews, The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom has surged to #5 this week. Consider my curiosity well and truly piqued by this week’s rankings. ― 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...

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Lovely Angels Done Dirty? The Dirty Pair Kickstarter Saga

Feb 16, 09:00

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Dirty Pair fans came out of the woodwork to back this project—to the tune of US$731,406 what they got were years of delays, authoring problems, and a disc wrapped in a napkin. What happened? ― Full Disclosure: Coop regularly works with Justin Sevakis and MediaOCD, including the modern incarnation of AnimEigo. His opinions given here are purely his own and do not reflect those of his employers. On Oc...

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CyberConnect2 Announces New .hack//Z.E.R.O. Action RPG

Feb 16, 07:47

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CyberConnect2 plans, develops, publishes game with music by Taro Hakase ― The game company CyberConnect2 announced the new game .hack//Z.E.R.O. on Monday, the 30th anniversary of its founding. The announcement indicates that the action role-playing game is for consoles, as opposed to arcades or personal computers, and that it is part of a bigger project across multiple forms of media. CyberConnect2 h...

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Drops of God: Mariage Volume 8-10 Manga Review

Feb 15, 12:00

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To find the perfect match of food and wine, we must travel the world and try new things, then come home and appreciate the familiar. ― Twice in Volume 9, someone rolled their eyes at someone else's melodrama during the big showdown, and I was 100% there for it. It actually made me like the whole story better. The first half of this arc is spent redeeming Chef Mikasa, the accomplished French chef whos...

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Chie Shinohara's Red River Shōjo Manga Gets TV Anime This Summer

Feb 14, 22:48

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Waccha PriMagi!'s Kōsuke Kobayashi directs anime at Tatsunoko Production ― Tatsunoko Production announced on Sunday that it will produce a television anime adaptation of Chie Shinohara's Red River (Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori) shōjo manga. The anime will debut this summer. Shinohara drew an illustration to commemorate the announcement. Kōsuke Kobayashi (Waccha PriMagi!, Alice or Alice) is directing t...

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Firefly Wedding Volumes 2-4 Manga Review

Feb 14, 12:00

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With richly detailed art and well-considered characters, Firefly Wedding is a traffic accident that you can’t look away from. ― If the first volume of Firefly Wedding set off warning bells in your head with its harsh story and themes of unwilling marriage and sexual predation, you may want to skip the rest of this series. It is hard to think of another ostensible romance that has as many flashing red...

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The Winter 2026 Manga Guide After Dark (18+)

Feb 14, 10:00

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Happy Valentine's Day, and welcome to the steamy side of ANN's Winter Manga Guide! ― Welcome to the steamy side of ANN's Winter Manga Guide. All of these titles are intended for readers 18 and older, ranging from spicy to something a bit more, and featuring a variety of tropes, groupings, and fetishes. Come find your next adult read - there's plenty to choose from. DECEMBER The Cuckolding Wizard's A...

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The Camphorwood Custodian Event Report

Feb 14, 09:00 anime

The cast shared their memories working on the whimsical series and what they would take care of if they were "custodians." ― 2026 is off to a strong start with anime films, with the release of The Camphorwood Custodian on January 30. Adapted from Keigo Higashino's 2020 novel of the same name, the story follows Reito Naoi as he takes on the duties of the titular Camphorwood Custodian. The film has a w...

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This Week in Games - Nintendo Partner Direct 2026 and Fatal Frame Producer Makoto Shibata Interview

Feb 13, 15:44

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Jean-Karlo spoke with Makoto Shibata about the highly-anticipated Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE horror game. ― Welcome back, folks! The 2026 Winter Olympics are up and running. As always, the Olympics are a great time to remember all of the Olympic video games we'd get every Olympic year. Such a shame we can't get new Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games titles! My fondest memory with an Oly...

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Fureru. Anime Film Review

Feb 13, 12:00

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This is the kind of material that’s bread and butter for screenwriter Mari Okada, who as usual, brings a sharp eye for what makes human beings tick. ― The internet is awash with think-pieces discussing the “male friendship recession.” In our fast-moving, fragmented Western society, where once tightly-knit communities have been replaced by hyper-individualism, and face-to-face communication by digital...

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The Final-Boss Prince is Somehow Obsessed with the Chubby Villainess: Reincarnated Me Manga Gets TV Anime

Feb 13, 10:42

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Anime stars Haruka Shiraishi as Celine, Takeo Ōtsuka as Wilfred ― An official website opened on Friday to announce that author Kotoko and artist Kaname Hanamiya's The Final-Boss Prince is Somehow Obsessed with the Chubby Villainess: Reincarnated Me (Odebu Akujo ni Tensei Shitara, Nazeka Last Boss О̄jisama ni Shūchaku Sareteimasu) manga is getting a television anime. The website unveiled a promotional...

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Anime in 2025: Is the Crunchyroll Cage Real?

Feb 13, 09:00

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Is it a death sentence when anime series stream outside of Crunchyroll? Kalai Chik looks at the numbers to see whether the common conception is true. ― Over 250 anime titles premiered in the U.S. across Crunchyroll, Netflix, Amazon's Prime Video, HIDIVE, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max in 2025. To no surprise, series exclusive to Crunchyroll make up almost half of the anime that reach the U.S. market. Con...

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Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade Time-Travel Manga Gets TV Anime in 2027

Feb 12, 22:02