Demon Girl and Heroines are keeping their high momentum from the previous week. Discover which other series are shooting upward in our weekly user 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 the latest simulcasts. Keep in mind that these rankings are based...
Isekai light novels are here to stay, in part thanks to retailers' own systemic recommendations. Kim Morrissy explains how Amazon and other online stores help push sales.― It's been over half a decade since the isekai light novel anime boom, and it's still showing no signs of letting up. Western anime fans are partly responsible for this; isekai anime are regularly among the top-viewed titles on Cru...
We're updating daily with a new batch of manga just for you! Today check out the Given creator's latest, Links! Plus: Blackguard, Banished From The Hero's Party, Hen Kai Pan, A Galaxy Next Door, and High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku!― Banner art by catfish Welcome to Anime News Network's Spring 2022 Manga Guide! You may have seen one of our seasonal Anime Preview Guides, where a team of critics wr...
Yui Ogura, Sumire Uesaka reprise lead roles in anime from Passione, Studio Lings― A website opened on Saturday to announce that Miman's Yuri Is My Job! (Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto Desu!) manga is inspiring a television anime. Yui Ogura and Sumire Uesaka are reprising their roles of Hime Shirasagi and Mitsuki Ayanokōji, respectively, from the seventh manga volume's promotional video. Hijiri Sanpei (...
New season pass will launch this year with 5 new characters― Bandai Namco Entertainment America began streaming an announcement video for the fifth season pass for its Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker game on Friday. The video states that the season pass will add five new characters to the game and will launch in 2022. The theme of the characters in the new season pass is "Legacy." A "stage renovat...
Square Enix announced game in 2020― The official website for The irregular at magic high school Reloaded Memory, Square Enix's upcoming smartphone game for the The irregular at magic high school franchise, revealed on Thursday that the game will debut this summer. The game for iOS and Android will be free to play, with purchasable optional in-game items. Original novel writer Tsutomu Satou is overse...
Live-action adaptation also premieres in July― The official website for the anime of Reiji Miyajima's Rent-A-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu) manga posted a character promotional video and "date visual" for Chizuru Mizuhara from the second season on Saturday. The website and video announced that the season will premiere in the Super Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and 26 affiliates on July ...
The dramatic side of Free has always been its weakest point, as the story once again draws on the same conflicts before racing to its predictable conclusion.― Note that this review contains spoilers for the first Free! The Final Stroke film. The first Free! The Final Stroke film ended with Haru and Rin symbolically parting ways, as they struggled to reconcile their dreams of world-class swimming wit...
Suikoden was never an action game, and now that series creator Yoshitaka Murayama returned to it with Eiyuden Chronicle, what better form for its prequel to take than a side-scrolling action title with some RPG trappings?― Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising makes a certain degree of sense. It's a prequel to Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, which is itself the spiritual revival of the Suikoden series that s...
Now playing in theaters, Anime News Network chatted with English voice actors Ry McKeand, Xanthe Huynh, David Wald, Tiana Camacho, and ADR Director Howard Wang about the Ryoma! The Prince of Tennis film's **SPOILER** ending.― Opening in theaters in the U.S. on May 12, Anime News Network chatted with English voice actors Ry McKeand (Ryoma), Xanthe Huynh (Sakuno), David Wald (Nanjiro), Tiana Camacho (...
My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders is a highly personal book that shines a light on how the neurodivergent navigate a world that isn't set-up for them.― I was diagnosed with ADHD in my mid-20's. For my entire life, I struggled with things other people, including my twin sister, seemed to have no issue with. I had trouble turning in homework, even if I had alread...
While Duke Nukem drama is forever, the latest Tales mobile game certainly isn't. Heidi discusses the shuttered mobage game and a kerfuffle over Street Fighter in This Week in Games!― I don't know what I was expecting in game news this week, but I can say that I certainly didn't expect the revival of decades-old gaming drama. But here it is. Someone managed to get ahold of an old build of Duke Nukem ...