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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet DLC: The Teal Mask Game Review

An intriguing story can't hide how appallingly poor The Teal Mask DLC runs on the Switch system.

The Fall 2023 Manga Guide

This season's guide includes over 70 new series to discover! Today's series includes the soon-to-be-an anime I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness and a new take on The Deer King plus several isekai manga that got our reviewers' seal of approval!

The ANN Aftershow - Jujutsu Kaisen's Shibuya Throwdown!

The series' biggest battle is underway and Itadori is fighting...a bug? Zom 100 is back with a new episode, so let's check in on Akira and see if he's still human.

The Prodigious Legacy Of The Digimon Dub

What is it that gives this old collection of voices such staying power, especially compared to other anime dubs from the same era?

Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Sep 9-15

My Happy Marriage overtakes Jujutsu Kaisen and with this climbs to #2 in the cumulative! Find out how your favorite shows performed in our weekly user rankings.

This Week in Anime - The Legacy of Buichi Terasawa

Join Chris and Steve as they dive into Space Adventure Cobra, Goku Midnight Eye, and other Terasawa's works that made him one of the legends in the industry.

Baki Hanma Season 1 Anime Series Review

I thought Baki Hanma lacked same surprise and spectacle that most fans have come to expect from the series. And then, in the next episode, Baki kidnaps a legally distinct George W. Bush.

J-Rock Star Yoshiki Talks About His Past and Future in London

The X Japan and The Last Rockstars singer made his directorial debut with the YOSHIKI: UNDER THE SKY music documentary.

Talking Fate/Samurai Remnant with the Game's Director, Ryota Matsushita

We spoke to Matsushita about the game's Keian period setting, new servants, and more.
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Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts ‒ Episode 23

Sariphi has been instrumental in showing that her being a human doesn't make her any less of a person than the beasts and carefully changing the hearts and preconceptions of everyone she has encountered throughout the series.
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My Happy Marriage ‒ SEASON FINALE

The clock may strike midnight, as it does, but now we can believe that even when the carriage becomes a pumpkin, Miyo will be all right.
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Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 ‒ SEASON FINALE

Was there really no other way? With the choices made, it falls to hindsight to answer, and we all know how well that tends to work out.
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Hi Score Girl Manga Vol. 9-10 Review

Hi Score Girl remains the same, and that's a solid positive. It shows Rensuke Oshikiri's deftness with the pen, as writing conflicts with increasing stakes that still predominantly work within the same fundamental elements is a serious challenge. ― Note: There are minor spoilers for the finale of the manga in this review, so if you wish to avoid any reveals, the short version is that they're good, an...
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The Fall 2023 Manga Guide

This season's guide includes over 70 new series to discover! Today's series includes the manga version of the hit series The Mandalorian, a new menu for your palate in Drops of God Mariage, and a promising series about building homes for fantasy creatures in Soara and the House of Monsters. ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Fall 2023 Manga Guide! You may have seen one of our seasonal Anime Preview G...
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead ‒ Episode 8

With the arrival of Beatrix Amerhauser, the circle is now complete. The Fellowship has been formed.
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One Piece ‒ Episode 1076

Thus ends an eye-watering long arc of anime and a new era dawns for the series.
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Horimiya: The Missing Pieces ‒ Episode 12

Just when I was starting to come around and appreciate Kyouko and Izumi as a couple, this episode needed to ruin it by reminding me why you should think otherwise.
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The Fall 2023 Manga Guide

This season's guide includes over 70 new series to discover! Today's series includes the soon-to-be-anime story of an overworked adventurer in My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer, the nitty-gritty of the female reproductive system in Cells at Work! Lady, two witch-friendly series, and more! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Fall 2023 Manga Guide! You may have seen one of our ...
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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout ‒ SEASON FINALE

When we get a show like Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout that uses its final episode as an epilogue—well, I'm already enjoying it on principle alone.
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II ‒ Episode 11

Throughout this season, one question has been looming over the story: Why won't Sylphy just come out and tell Rudeus who she is?
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Sweet Reincarnation Anime Series Review

This show is an uncomfortable combination of engaging and utterly dull. ― When you do a little research and realize just how many light novels Sweet Reincarnation currently has, you know that the anime adaptation can only scratch the surface in twelve episodes. With twenty-four books out as of July 2023, the show has two options: condense like mad or resign to serving as an advertisement for the sour...
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ‒ Episode 11

While last week was more than a bit of a mess, this episode is the exact opposite.
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Dark Gathering ‒ Episode 11

One thing I haven't mentioned about Dark Gathering is how its shonen-magazine origins and comparatively longer run as an anime adaptation have become apparent in its episode structures as of late.
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Yohane the Parhelion -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR ‒ SEASON FINALE

This is a Love Live! show and even with added magic and flying motorcycles, it was always going to end with a triumphant musical number, and that's what we get here.
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The Fall 2023 Manga Guide

This season's guide includes over 70 new series to discover! Today's series includes the sumptuously gothic #DCRL, Tatsuya Endo's Blade Of The Moon Princess, the spicy I Can't Refuse S, the genderbender Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout, the understated supernatural series Glitch, and a magical Cinderella story I'll Never Set Foot in That House Again! ― Welcome...
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The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 3 ‒ Episode 22

Everything that is being talked about is done off-screen so I don't get to witness or feel the weight of what Emi is dealing.
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BanG Dream! It's MyGo!!!!! Anime Series Review

As a fresh start spin-off and ongoing multimedia tie-in, the MyGO crew has accomplished something remarkable here, crafting an anime that fulfills those obligations while still standing, screaming, on stage as itself. ― Even if you're unfamiliar with the broader BanG Dream franchise, new-generation spin-off It's MyGO will still probably stick out from the jump. The series stands apart from the broade...
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The Gene of AI ‒ Episode 10

If anything, the internet, arguably the most significant of these developments, seems to have fostered more regression than progression.
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Crafting Psychological BL Manga with Kyoko Aiba

Manga creator Kyoko Aiba discusses Derail, a compelling portrait of two men attempting to hide their vulnerabilities while simultaneously pulling the other one into closer and closer intimacy. ― Kyoko Aiba has been making moves lately. Her first work in English, I Love You Enough To Tie You Up (from Juné Manga), is a series of steamy and erotic BL short stories about dysfunctional couples pushing ea...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Season 2 ‒ Episode 23

I am more than happy to put these zombies back in the grave and never speak of them again.
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The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior ‒ Episode 11

The cave scene in episode 11 legit looked like it was from Johnny Quest.
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Reign of the Seven Spellblades ‒ Episode 11

They had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
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Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Kōjō Anime Film Review

You'll never age. You'll never die. Your child will never be born. The newest thought experiment from the mind of acclaimed writer Mari Okada is centered around living in the hell that is existing in a truly static world. ― Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Kōjō is the newest thought experiment from the mind of acclaimed writer Mari Okada (Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blo...
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Undead Murder Farce ‒ Episode 11

Shizuku waking up nude, sandwiched between a pair of werewolf girls, also marks the second arc in a row where she's stumbled into a sapphic situation.
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Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Season 2 ‒ Episode 23

Lafalle is perhaps better compared to a cult leader because he's convinced the other fairies that he's their savior and that they will be redeemed by doing what he decrees.
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This Week in Games - The Game Industry Uniting Against Bad Decisions

Japan sets a precedent for Let's Play content, and Unity just pissed off the sleeping dragons that are The Pokémon Company, Disney, Activision-Blizzard, and China. Plus: the announcements from Nintendo Direct and Sony's State of Play. ― Welcome back, everyone! Y'know, I thought this would be a pretty calm week; I hadn't had a game assigned to me, and it didn't seem like there would be any big announc...
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Samba De Amigo: Party Central Game Review

Sega diehards and casuals should consider adding Samba de Amigo: Party Central to their rotation of party games, along with Mario Kart and Wii Sports. ― Sega has finally seen fit to bring back one of their missing party-game favorites; Samba de Amigo: Party Central now exists in a world where Guitar Hero and Rock Band no longer dominate the rhythm game genre and where the most people can look forward...
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Bringing Under Night 2 to the Arena: A Chat with Arc System Works CEO Minoru Kidooka

Kennedy speaks to Arc System Works CEO Minooru Kidooka about Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes], Guilty Gear -Strive-, Arc System Works' 35th anniversary, and more. ― Founded in 1988, Arc System Works (or ArcSys for short) is the game developer/publisher behind many iconic anime fighting games such as BlazBlue, Dragonball FighterZ, and Guilty Gear—whose most recent entry recently surpassed 2.5 milli...
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A Glimpse Into Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]

Kennedy speaks to French Bread's Kamone Serizawa and Seiichi Yoshihara about the upcoming Under Night sequel: Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]. ― Founded in 1995, French Bread is the game development studio behind anime fighting games such as Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, Melty Blood, and Under Night In-Birth. They were present at EVO 2023 with Arc System Works, where they announced that they're...
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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 ‒ Episode 32

Ko-guy the Locust Guy is a fun enough enemy for a Monster-of-the-Week type, I suppose, but his throwdown with Yuji eventually devolves into little more than an incoherent montage of smeary punches and blurry dodges.
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The ANN Aftershow - Attack on Titan the Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2 is a real anime

We've got a release date for the last installment of the Attack on Titan anime and it's only taken 10 years! Plus, Miyazaki might be 82 years old, but he's still not ready to hang up his director's hat. ― Attack on Titan the Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2 is a real anime We've got a release date for the last installment of the Attack on Titan anime and it's only taken 10 years! Plus, Miya...
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This Week in Anime - The Dynamic Direction of Mamoru Hatakeyama

Mamoru Hatakeyama, the director of Undead Murder Farce has a career as colorful as the anime. Steve and Chris invite us to take a look at his other amazing and stylish works. ― Mamoru Hatakeyama, the director of Undead Murder Farce has a career as colorful as the anime. Steve and Chris invite us to take a look at his other amazing and stylish works. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by th...
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Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts ‒ Episode 22

Because everything is so fraught and emotions are so high, Sariphi's good deed of stepping in and putting a stop to that little horror show is all but ignored.
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Phoenix: Eden17 Anime Series Review

The Phoenix: Eden17 anime is an exploration of greed and human nature birthed from the mind of the legendary Osamu Tezuka. ― Phoenix: Eden17 is an adaptation of the sixth volume of the manga Phoenix, the seminal work of Osamu Tezuka—the man known colloquially as "The God of Manga" for his lasting influence on the medium that persists even today. Phoenix is an exploration of the nature of humanity thr...
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Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Sep 2-8

With very strong episodes, One Piece and Bungo Stray Dogs overtake Jujutsu Kaisen in the cumulative! Discover what else is moving in the 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 on how pe...
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Helck ‒ Episode 10

Helck wants to take another week off from telling us what's going on back home.
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Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon ‒ Episode 11

In the middle of his existential quandary, we get the story of a zombie child who visits Boxxo each night.
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Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 ‒ Episode 60

Does it get much worse than this?
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My Happy Marriage ‒ Episode 11

It's not healthy to pin all of your hopes on one person, and in Arata's case, he was doing so with someone who didn't even know he existed.
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Pokémon: To Be a Pokémon Master Streaming Anime Review

So this is it, the end of an era. ― So this is it, the end of an era. I know these episodes technically aired in Japan almost a year ago, and the reality has long since set in. But watching the English iteration of Ash's final episodes exactly 25 years after the first official U.S. episode aired in America still hits me emotionally. There is no way that I can be unbiased when talking about this final...
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What Happens Next? Four Knights of the Apocalypse Anime Interview at Otakon 2023

Can The Seven Deadly Sins newbies watch Four Knights of the Apocalypse? We asked manga editor Yuya Matsuda, anime producer Takuma Kishida, and lead voice actors Shou Komura and Kanna Nakamura. ― Nakaba Suzuki's Four Knights of the Apocalypse is a sequel to his popular manga, The Seven Deadly Sins. The series focuses on the young boy Percival, who discovers he is destined to be part of a group of four...
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One Piece ‒ Episode 1075

It seems as though the Wano arc delivers nothing but knock-down, drag-out fights, week after week. But episode 1075 shows us that there can be just as much action and drama in the space of a single punch.
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One Piece Live-Action Series Review

I am happy to report that our fears were misguided and that all signs seem to point to us living in a universe in which miracles can, at least occasionally, occur. Let it be known, mateys: Netflix's One Piece is good. It's really good. ― As I mentioned in my preview of One Piece's first episode, I've only recently been converted into the massive flock of fans that Eiichiro Oda's manga has grown over...
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II ‒ Episode 10

When it comes down to it, this episode is about one thing alone: Rudeus discovering that he has feelings for Fitz.
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This Week in Anime - Do You Have Pokémon Nostalgia?

Ready to bid farewell to Ash Ketchum and his timeless adventures? Not quite? We get you. Join Nick and Nicky this week as they explore the 25-year legacy of Pokémon before the start of a new era. ― Ready to bid farewell to Ash Ketchum and his timeless adventures? Not quite? We get you. Join Nick and Nicky this week as they explore the 25-year legacy of Pokémon before the start of a new era. Disclaim...
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The Gene of AI ‒ Episode 9

I suppose even this series has its limits, however, as the two topics covered in “A Proper Society” show us Gene at its most openly didactic and acerbic.
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Horimiya: The Missing Pieces ‒ Episode 11

It's the classic Valentine's Day episode, and with the promise of chocolate comes rising expectations and crippling anxiety.
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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout ‒ Episode 11

With Empel and Lila temporarily out of the picture, it's up to Ryza and friends to take down the dragon before the horrendously under-equipped party led by Boz gets themselves killed.
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Angel's Egg Anime Film Review

Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's Angel's Egg remains an enigmatic entry in both creators' careers. Surreal and beautiful, we can only hope more legitimate exposure may lead to broader availability. ― Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's Angel's Egg remains an enigmatic entry in both creators' careers. Years out from his iconic directorial turn with Ghost in the Shell, Oshii wrote the film's story wit...
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ‒ Episode 10

Once again, we get one of these episodes of The Misfit of Demon King Academy where an insane amount is thrown at the viewer—and is made all the more complicated by a stream of proper nouns (some of which we've never heard before).
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Yohane the Parhelion -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR ‒ Episode 12

The fact that I felt inspired to quote an unrelated song for this review should tell you how hard this episode hit me.
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Dark Gathering ‒ Episode 10

If you hadn't already clocked that this storyline kicked off by Ai was going to be a longer one, then this week's episode of Dark Gathering should make that fully apparent.
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Cherish this Time That Only Comes Once: Skip and Loafer Manga Creator Misaki Takamatsu

Misaki Takamatsu talks about the manga's creation, the inspiration behind Skip and Loafer's lead pair, and the guidance Takamatsu provided during the creation of the anime. ― Recently, NewType magazine in Japan was able to sit down and talk with Misaki Takamatsu, the creator of the Skip and Loafer manga. During the interview, Takamatsu talked about the manga's creation, the inspiration behind Skip an...
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Hell Mode Novel 1 Review

Hell Mode does play a few isekai tropes a bit differently, but it also clearly wears its influences on its sleeve. So yes, this is another one of those books. ― Are you sick and tired of isekai light novels that feature a protagonist reborn in a fantasy world that operates very similarly to an MMORPG, complete with stats and skills? If so, you can stop reading here – Hell Mode is unapologetically a n...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Season 2 ‒ Episode 22

Much like the memetic version of Batman, he's always super-humanly prepared for any and every eventuality, no matter how much it strains narrative credulity.
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The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior ‒ Episode 10

1 minute 36 seconds in, my heart skipped a beat, because Stale, Pride, Arthur, and Gilbert are incognito on the human trafficker's cart!
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The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 3 ‒ Episode 21

We're finally starting to see the build-up and fall-out to all of the conspiring that has been going on.
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Persona 4 Arena GN 1-3 Review

Persona 4 Arena gives the spotlight to Yosuke and he is forced figure out if he has really changed or not—and in the process step out of Yu's shadow and become an independent hero all his own. ― Persona 4 Arena is based on the 2012 fighting game of the same name. However, it's simply not possible to do a one-to-one adaptation of that game. Instead of having a single, unified story, the game's story i...
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Reign of the Seven Spellblades ‒ Episode 10

Who amongst us is immune to hot buff wolf-boys?
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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 ‒ Episode 31

JUJUTSU EVANGELION !!
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Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Season 2 ‒ Episode 22

It is one of the world's incontrovertible truths that the people most likely to want power are those least suited to having it. Case in point: Lafalle Fenn Lafalle.
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Undead Murder Farce ‒ Episode 10

This tribalism—the obsession with the in-group versus the out-group—is the thematic core of this arc, and it especially comes through via the elder's words.
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The ANN Aftershow - The Jujutsu Kaisen Anime is Finally Back!

After a dry August, we're finally back with new episodes of Jujutsu Kaisen. Yūji Itadori just might get a girlfriend and Geto is there...wait, Geto?! ― The Jujutsu Kaisen Anime is Finally Back! After a dry August, we're finally back with new episodes of Jujutsu Kaisen. Yūji Itadori just might get a girlfriend and Geto is there...wait, Geto?! The ANN After Show streams live on YouTube, Facebook, and ...
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Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron Anime Film Review

As a culmination of his career, Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron is a work of art—one that only becomes grander when put together as part of the greater whole. ― It's been 10 years since Hayao Miyazaki, arguably the most famous anime director of all time, made a feature film. In 2013, Miyazaki himself was content to retire and let The Wind Rises be the last film that he would ever make. This ra...
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This Week in Games - There Is No Joke, Just Treat Game Developers Better

SAG-AFTRA eyes a strike on the video game industry to get the same wage increases for video game performers as for those who work under the film and television contracts. Plus updates on Nikke/Nier, Zelda DLC, and more! ― Welcome back, everyone! As you might have seen, my Rune Factory 3 Special review went up on Tuesday (and right after Laybuh Day). It's a fun game, definitely worth interrupting a Xe...
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Drawing A Delicate Heart with Skip and Loafer Anime Director/Series Composition Writer Kotomi Deai

Director and scriptwriter Kotomi Deai talks at length about the creation of the Skip and Loafer anime—especially the challenges that came with adapting the manga's pacing and art style to the small screen. ― In a recent interview with Japan's Newtype magazine, director and scriptwriter Kotomi Deai talked at length about the creation of the Skip and Loafer anime—especially the challenges that came wit...
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FLCL: Grunge's Premiere Lacks Its Own Identity

It is, in a word, ugly. In more words, the animation is as lifeless as it is failing in nearly every attempt to replicate the madcap energy that defined the original. ― Did anyone want or need FLCL: Grunge? The original FLCL, back in the year 2000, was a huge, generation-defining work that tapped into both the specific sensibilities of its Heisei audience while being a tale of male sexual awakening t...
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This Week in Anime - Why Is It So Hard to Make Anime Into Live-Action?

With live-action One Piece receiving favorable reviews from critics and fans alike, Nick and Steve look back and previous attempts to bridge the gap between anime and live-action in Hollywood...and why they didn't work. ― With live-action One Piece receiving favorable reviews from critics and fans alike, Nick and Steve look back and previous attempts to bridge the gap between anime and live-action i...
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Record of Lodoss War: The Crown of the Covenant GN 1-3

The only negative comment our reviewer could find with this manga series is that there isn't more of it. ― The original Record of Lodoss war is a classic fantasy epic following several groups of adventurers as they attempt to save their war-torn land from everything up to and including evil emperors and dark gods. The Crown of the Covenant, on the other hand, centers its story on a single family: the...
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A New Decade of Anime: A History with Author Jonathan Clements

Historian Jonathan Clements discusses the advent of artificial intelligence, what fractured the Chinese-Japanese anime investment pipeline, and the buying power of otaku. ― Jonathan Clements' name is familiar to many Anime News Network readers. He translated anime back in the 1990s, when he was already one of Britain's most prominent pundits on the medium. Today, he hosts the annual Scotland Loves An...
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Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon ‒ Episode 10

“Hey, remember these characters? They're still around!”
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Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts ‒ Episode 21

Remember when Anubis was the worst, most hateable character in this show? Ah, those were the days.
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My Happy Marriage ‒ Episode 10

Viewer-rage aside, this is a very good episode for Kiyoka's emotional trajectory. We see him go through a variety of emotions that he hasn't been able to fully express before.
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Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 ‒ Episode 59

But really, the biggest question is – can anyone really make it out of this undecayed?
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I Don't Know Which Is Love GN 1

I Don't Know Which Is Love is all about wallowing in the delirious indecision of being the cheese in a quintuple-decker girlburger, and has no patience for anything approaching subtlety. ― It's not too often we get a full-on yuri harem manga, and this first volume is eager to show off both of those aspects immediately. By about page three, before we even hit the table of contents, our love-lorn heroi...
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Helck ‒ Episode 9

This episode felt like filler in every sense of the word.
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Bringing One Piece to the Screen with Yasunori Koyama, Kenji Yokoyama, and Tetsushi Akahori

We spoke to One Piece's series director, production manager, and animation director about building on Eiichiro Oda's hit manga for TV. ― One Piece has become one of the largest multimedia franchises in the world, with a top-selling manga, long-running anime, various video games, and a live-action Netflix series on the horizon. The anime, in particular, has gained worldwide acclaim, currently in the ...
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Rune Factory 3 Special Review

Longtime fans will undoubtedly appreciate that Rune Factory 3 Special gives us all a second chance at a forgotten entry to the series Rune Factory 4 was long considered the crown jewel of the Rune Factory series, and fans were delighted to see it escape Nintendo 3DS Jail and receive updated ports across a variety of modern systems. XSeed and Marvelous decided to look back a bit further and give the...
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This Week in Anime - What is the Future of Anime and AI?

The AI wave reached anime shores a long time ago - will anime ever be the same again? Join Chris and Nicky this week in their discourse about anime and AI. ― The AI wave reached anime shores a long time ago - will anime ever be the same again? Join Chris and Nicky this week in their discourse about anime and AI. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not...
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Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2023, Aug 26-Sep 1

Bungo Stray Dogs grabs the top spot this week and is now neck and neck with Zom 100 in the cumulative. Check out 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 on how people rat...
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead ‒ Episode 7

“Truck Stop of the Dead” is one of those episodes that sounds like it has all the right ingredients on paper. Yet, it feels ever so slightly like less than the sum of its parts when everything is said and done.
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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout ‒ Episode 10

So she and her friends head out: not for selfish, foolhardy adventure, but to save those who will otherwise die.
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II ‒ Episode 9

At this point, I'd be surprised if this week's events weren't what gives her the push to divulge her real identity to him shortly.
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ‒ Episode 9

This week's Misfit of Demon King Academy is a rather straightforward one—putting on screen all the things that have been hinted at over the series so far.
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The Gene of AI ‒ Episode 8

Love is in the air for this week's Gene of AI. Love…and lobotomies.
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One Piece ‒ Episode 1074

The battle of the serious and the silly continues with One Piece 1074, with the same high-quality results that Toei has been turning in, week after week.
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Yohane the Parhelion -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR ‒ Episode 11

It's important to remind myself that everything happening here makes sense for our characters, and within the frame of this franchise, that's always going to be more important.
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Yami-hara Novel

From the author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror, this horror novel, uses its text to slowly create, build, and eventually not quite resolve its creeping sense of terror. ― At first, it doesn't feel like this is from the same author as Lonely Castle in the Mirror. That novel (and its film adaptation) is a sensitive look at what it means to be bullied and the ways people cope with it. Yami-hara, on the ...
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Dark Gathering ‒ Episode 9

Dark Gathering still has plenty of terrifying tricks up its sleeve.
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The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 3 ‒ Episode 20

There aren't many episodes left, but it would be nice to read some definitive closure about all these moving pieces, but only time will tell.
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Horimiya: The Missing Pieces ‒ Episode 10

This season has, for the most part, been inoffensive, but this episode has genuinely highlighted some major problems that the original series had.
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'We Are Limitless': Talking to Arc System Works about Guilty Gear -Strive- Season 3

Kennedy speaks to Arc System Works’ Ken Miyauchi, Akira Katano, and Kenta Asano about Guilty Gear -Strive- season 3. ― The latest entry in the heavy metal-inspired Guilty Gear series, Guilty Gear -Strive- is without question the largest Guilty Gear game yet—and one of the largest fighting games of the current generation overall, amassing more than 2.5 million players. At EVO 2023, Arc System Works an...
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A Reincarnated Witch Spells Doom GN 1

This is also a very nice acknowledgment that magic can't solve all of your problems. Sena will need to overcome her agoraphobia, second life or no. ― Most reincarnated characters granted a second life in another world take the opportunity to start over completely, no matter what their issues were back in ours. But Sena is different. During her first eighteen years in Japan, she suffered from agorapho...
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The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior ‒ Episode 9

We got another emotional one, people! Val, the criminal, is back!
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This Week in Games - Nintendo Presents: Super Mario Elephants

Plenty of news coming from every corner of the gaming industry this week ranging from a new character in Street Fighter 6 and free distribution of Cave Story to Nintendo Direct! ― Welcome back, everyone! With Autumn creeping ever closer, we're seeing the last of the big games getting released this summer. As you read this, my retrospective on the Armored Core series should be out by now. It's very gr...

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