Film sells 1.05 million tickets to earn 1.37 billion yen― The official website for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Guren no Kizuna-hen), the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime franchise's anime film, revealed on Friday that the film has sold 1,050,000 tickets and has earned about 1.37 billion yen (about US$10.67 million). The staff will hos...
Gen Sato, Sayaka Senbongi, Hibiku Yamamura star in series― The official website for the television anime adaptation of Masakazu Ishiguro's Heavenly Delusion (Tengoku Dai Makyō) manga revealed the anime's main cast and April debut on Friday. The anime will stream exclusively on Disney+ worldwide, and will air in Japan on Tokyo MX, Hokkaido TV, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, TV Aichi, MBS, and BS11. The w...
Manga to return on February 20― The official Twitter account for Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia manga announced on Thursday that the manga is taking a hiatus for two weeks due to Horikoshi's poor health. The manga was scheduled to have a new chapter in this year's 10th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on Sunday. It will return in the magazine's 12th issue on February 20. The manga...
Ryotaro Okiayu, Toshio Furukawa, Kousuke Toriumi join cast― A livestream presentation for the Demon Slayer franchise revealed on Friday that Man With a Mission and milet will perform the opening theme song "Kizuna no Kiseki" (Bonds of Miracle) for the upcoming Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-Hen) television anime. Aniplex is streaming a pre...
Toshiyuki Morikawa, Tetsuya Kakihara join cast― The official website for the My Hero Academia anime revealed two more cast members on Saturday for the show's sixth season. The characters will appear in the 18th episode of the sixth season on Saturday. Toshiyuki Morikawa as Hikage Shinomori, the fourth generation One For All Tetsuya Kakihara as En, the sixth generation One For All The anime's sixth s...
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Is Love the Answer? is a book that looks to start a conversation about asexuality, agender, and the equal parts comforting and terrifying feelings that come with sitting on any branch of the LGBTQIA+ tree.― We are lucky to live in a time and place that understands, or is at least beginning to understand, that there really is no such thing as a universal “normal.” That doesn't mean that it's easy to ...
What was once the go-to event for new games and consoles looks like it's lost its fandom relevancy. Jean-Karlo breaks down the recent news, including new game announcements!― Welcome back, everyone! I hope that freak freeze billowing over the country doesn't have you guys trapped. I know folks have really been feeling the ice down in Texas. Even in my town, it's viciously cold in the mornings; there...
Yukimura built up his narrative as less history lesson and more expedition at sea, throwing several pieces of insight for us to fish out.― Bringing forward an outstanding set of legendary figures and mixing them well enough to create an original narrative in Vinland Saga, Makoto Yukimura raised the standards for historical storytelling. With its heart for tragedy and unforgiving violence, season two...
Fans of old-school shōjo and soapy melodrama won't want to miss this.― Haikara-san: Here Comes Miss Modern is one of the latest adaptations of the manga series of the same name, written by Waki Yamato and published between 1975 and 1977. The series has largely become Yamato's defining work, and with good reason: she won the first Kodansha Book Award for shōjo manga in 1977 for this series. It was al...
The latest film from Ghibli alumni directors shares some themes with Princess Mononoke but proves it has the heart to stand on its own.― The latest film from Ghibli alumni directors shares some themes with Princess Mononoke but proves it has the heart to stand on its own. This movie is streaming on Hulu Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the vie...
The ANN Aftershow hosts sexy dirtbag Wolfwood, whether E3 matters anymore, and our favorite Sailor Guardians this week!― Wolfwood Joins Trigun Stampede! The ANN Aftershow is back after a one-week break, and what's a better reward than WOLFWOOD? One of anime's original crushes has a brand-new look in the latest episode of Trigun Stampede! Also: we pick our favorite Sailor Guardians before the new mo...
In these first thirty episodes, the series is living up to its reputation as a stone-cold classic, and I'm completely on board for the next batch.― I'm not kidding when I say that folks like me have been waiting years to finally get their hands on Monster. Even though Naoki Urasawa's original manga is a legendary part of the modern manga canon, not to mention the fact that the anime adaptation is eq...
We're starting the busiest season ever, with 44 titles in the rankings! Can we survive such a deluge of crisscrossing lines?― 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 on how people rated individual ...
You've heard it before. "Give it three episodes and see what happens." It's considered tried-and-true advice before dropping an anime, but is still useful?― Generally speaking, certain rules and tropes in anime are somewhat universally agreed upon: In romance anime with multiple love interests, the childhood friend will likely not get together with the main character; or on the lewder side, if the m...
Don't judge this manga based on its back cover copy; it has more in common with Perfect Blue than idol fare like Love Live!― Warning: of necessity, this review will contain some spoilers not covered in the book's back copy. If you pick up Oshi no Ko based solely on the back copy and expecting the cute story of an obstetrician caring for his favorite idol during her pregnancy, you are bound to be dis...
The Ancient Magus' Bride season 2 is still a ways off, but there are OVAs to tide us over. Nick and Steve are here to tell you why you shouldn't overlook these side story episodes.― The Ancient Magus' Bride season 2 is still a ways off, but there are OVAs to tide us over. Nick and Steve are here to tell you why you shouldn't overlook these side story episodes. This series is streaming on Crunchyrol...