Episodes 517-518 air on Saturday― The official Facebook page for Adult Swim's Toonami programming block announced on Wednesday that the One Piece anime will return to the block on Saturday at 1:30 a.m. EST (effectively, Sunday). Toonami will air episodes 517-518 in a one-hour timeslot this weekend. The full lineup for January 22 includes: 12:00AM – Blade Runner: Black Lotus 12:30AM – Assassination C...
"Boy-meets-girl high fantasy" set on world being swallowed by the Great Snow Sea― The "2022 Fuji TV "+Ultra" Lineup Presentation" offered more details on Ōyukiumi no Kaina (working title, literally translated as Kaina of the Great Snow Sea), the new project from BLAME! and Knights of Sidonia collaborators Tsutomu Nihei and Polygon Pictures, on Thursday. The "boy-meets-girl high fantasy" is set in a ...
Sequel to February 4's 2nd Yamato 2205 film― The staff for the modern remake projects of the Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) anime franchise announced on Wednesday that the next project is Yamato yo Towa ni: Rebel 3199. Yamato yo Towa ni (Be Forever Yamato) is the title of the 1980 sequel to the original Yamato anime projects. The new project is a sequel to the Uchū Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratan...
Polygon Pictures animates TV anime & film, Square Enix develops smartphone game― The "2022 Fuji TV '+Ultra' Lineup Presentation" offered a promotional video on the Estab-Life original anime project by Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass, Planetes, Back Arrow). The video reveals that the project will have a television anime, smartphone game, and anime film, which have the themes of "escape," "records," and "v...
From the creator of Dorohedoro comes a new series about a man, his supposedly magic bones, and the out-of-this-world characters who try to obtain them.― There's really no one working in manga quite like Q Hayashida. Her first manga released in English, Dorohedoro, gained a cult following for its grimly chaotic, dystopian worlds filled with brutal, thoughtless murder, populated with lovable character...
If you wrote off Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 2 based on its galaxy-brain premise, you may have missed out on one of the most emotionally compelling sports series in years.― If you wrote off Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 2 based on its galaxy-brain premise, you may have missed out on one of the most emotionally compelling sports series in years. This series is streaming on Crunchyroll Disclaimer...
The Duke of Death And His Maid had a lot more meat to it than I originally gave it credit for. I was surprised at how much love, wholesomeness, and affection could be squeezed out from such a dreary and at times lewd premise.― Despite the rather dark implications of the overall premise, I thought it was just another entry in the growing list of anime that are now making up this “teasing genre.” Than...
Disney Twisted-Wonderland stands out among the other Japanese-developed collaborations because of how unabashedly otaku it is.― Disney Twisted-Wonderland isn't the first time Disney has collaborated with prominent Japanese game creators on bold new interpretations of classic Disney properties. The most obvious example is, of course, Kingdom Hearts, but there have been other examples over the years: ...
Discotek's long journey to restore this ridiculously entertaining dub is finally complete and is now available for streaming. Is Joe a slick enough dude to save an alien princess, find all the ninja robots and restore peace to outer space?― Discotek's long journey to restore this ridiculously entertaining dub is finally complete and is now available for streaming. Is Joe a slick enough dude to save...
Lynzee, Jacki, and James dive into the newest season of Attack on Titan! What is Eren's end game? Is he lying to everyone about sterilizing the Eldians? Is Levi still alive? Also, the biological processes of Titans are confusing!― The ANN Aftershow - Return of the Titans Lynzee, Jacki, and James dive into the newest season of Attack on Titan! What is Eren's end game? Is he lying to everyone about s...
Even with limited character designs and plots that don't quite hit as hard as they need to in the end, it's hard to fault Rumiko Takahashi's shorter work.― Even with limited character designs and plots that don't quite hit as hard as they need to in the end, it's hard to fault Rumiko Takahashi's shorter work. In part this is because she's not stretching her ideas to translucency in order to keep a s...
As a fan, it pains me to see an entry to one of my favorite franchises fall to such low lows. But what exactly are the decisions that got us here?― Unlike animation, video games are in large part a disposable medium. Games once hailed as era-defining breakthrough titles upon their release often become antiquated and awkward within a little less than a decade. And so we see a plethora of remakes and ...
Now that the fall 2021 anime season is over (and winter 2022 under way), we want to know what you thought of all of last season's anime in our second giant season survey
Composer kensuke ushio, who has collaborated before with director Naoko Yamada on critically-acclaimed films such as A Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird, talks about the challenges behind creating the hauntingly beautiful soundtrack.― Based on a work of classical Japanese literature of the same name, The Heike Story anime tells the story of the fall of the Heike clan through the point of view o...
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