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Pokémon Horizons Season 3 - Rising Hope Part 2 Anime Series Review
The show is still taking advantage of the timeskip to tell a slightly more mature story; most of the cast is given a lot more depth, the symbolism is stronger, and the animation has greatly improved.
― The status quo has shifted, the villains are in power, and the Rising Volt Tacklers are on the back foot. But now that they're finally back together, it's time to start launching a counterattack or at ...
The Spring 2026 Anime Preview Guide
This is not a drill - Purson has finally made his official appearance in Season 4 of Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun! Also check out our reviewers' takes on Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4, and more!
― Welcome to Anime News Network's Spring 2026 Anime Preview Guide! Here's how ...
Creating a Fanclub: Director Sou Toyama on Kirio Fan Club
What makes Kirio Fan Club a more realistic look at high school crushes? Director of the upcoming anime, Sou Toyama, gets into it.
― Kirio Fan Club is not your typical tale of high school love. Aimi and Nami eschew many of the romanticized aspects we've come to expect from anime high school girls: they're weird and loud and more than a little goofy while still taking themselves and their crush on clas...
Journal with Witch ‒ SEASON FINALE
“I witness you.” Spoken in English from Chiyo to Asa, these words are the fulcrum around which Journal with Witch's finale pivots.
Demon King's Daughter Is Too Kind!! Anime Series Review
The Demon King’s Daughter is Too Kind!! is, in a word, harmless.
― Whether you find The Demon King's Daughter is Too Kind adorable or irritating is going to come down to your feelings about artificially cute kids. Doux, who appears to be somewhere between three and five years old, is a squeaky-voiced moppet with a tendency to shriek “waiii” at every opportunity. She lisps, she giggles, and she makes ...
Golden Kamuy Final Season ‒ SEASON FINALE
Golden Kamuy has once again put all of its pieces into an interesting but immediately legible scenario, and I know I’m going to have a blast seeing it all play out once this season resumes!
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 ‒ SEASON FINALE
This season didn't ruin my faith in this series, but it definitely made me lose a lot of the goodwill I had for it.
Tamon's B-Side ‒ SEASON FINALE
I hope we get plenty of merch for this show. Utage deserves some fan shrines.
Hell's Paradise Season 2 ‒ SEASON FINALE
Am I frustrated that this all built up to a giant cliffhanger? Absolutely.
Rooster Fighter ‒ Episode 3
I didn't even miss not having any Demon fights this episode, because I think the best part of Rooster Fighter is just following our chickens around.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 ‒ SEASON FINALE
In a real way, this is not the story of an immortal elf. Rather it is the story of the goodness of one normal man echoing across history.
Be Forever Yamato: Star Blazers: Rebel 3199 Episodes 15-18 Anime Review
Perhaps I’m at my happiest with “spaceship go shooty blam bang oooh pretty colors."
― Forget my concerns about REBEL 3199's relative lack of action in my review of the preceding four episodes. The first three episodes of this next release quartet (also titled The Incandescent Galactic War) comprise essentially wall-to-wall intense space battleship combat from beginning to end, and for those viewers w...
You and I Are Polar Opposites ‒ SEASON FINALE
Whatever's next for the series, I'm sure it'll eventually find a way to make all these opposites attract.
Dead Account ‒ SEASON FINALE
This is a lackadaisical ending of anti-climactic proportions.
Fate/strange Fake ‒ SEASON FINALE
To end this season, we return to the events of Fate/Zero and see how Altria's lowest moment inspires Richard to reach for his highest.
Roll Over and Die ‒ SEASON FINALE
It's frustrating when a finale arranges an intriguing pattern of dominoes without proving to the audience that it has the gumption and foresight to knock them over correctly.
Trigun Stargaze ‒ SEASON FINALE
At least it was pretty, I guess.
Medalist Season 2 ‒ Episode 6
While I wish we'd gotten some actual interaction between Inori and Hikaru this week, the episode at least compensates for that with good humor.
Sentenced to Be a Hero ‒ SEASON FINALE
All of the season’s plot threads and concepts click perfectly into place in this final week.
Fire Force Season 3 ‒ Episode 24
Solving the meaning of life, the universe, and everything has never been Shinra Kusakabe's bag. He just needs to know where the nearest crisis is and whatever he needs to hit really freaking hard to make things right.
In the Clear Moonlit Dusk ‒ Episode 11
The question becomes, does In the Clear Moonlit Dusk believe that men and women can be friends?
Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 4 Anime Series Review
This is probably the worst season of this show so far.
― It's very easy to clown on Rent-A-Girlfriend because it does a lot of things wrong as either comedy or drama. It's a story that follows a protagonist who doesn't really have likable qualities, and anytime those likable qualities are showcased, they are either immediately walked back, or they're not strong enough to compensate for the sheer amou...
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 ‒ SEASON FINALE
This episode finally got me on the JJK hype train and it is one hell of a ride!
The Most Anticipated Anime of Spring 2026
There is no rest for dedicated otaku. The winter season offered a wealth of great stories, from action to romance, and spring is shaping up to do the same.
― There is no rest for dedicated otaku. The winter season offered a wealth of great stories, from action to romance, and spring is shaping up to do the same. We have the long-awaited return to Hole in Dorohedoro Season 2, a brand-new pint-sized h...
Chained Soldier Season 2 ‒ SEASON FINALE
I won't at all be surprised if we're reunited with everyone's favorite Sex Pokémon and His Harem of Deadly Supersoldier Mistresses sooner rather than later.
The Holy Grail of Eris ‒ SEASON FINALE
Scarlett, when paired with Connie, is Harmonia, Eris’ counterpart.
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife ‒ SEASON FINALE
It doesn't matter how you literally see things, what matters is how things feel and actually are.
Oshi no Ko Season 3 ‒ SEASON FINALE
Aqua and Ruby made up, and with textbook Oshi No Ko quirkiness, it’s time to Make It Weird.
This Week in Anime - The Interior Worlds of Tomoko Yamashita
Does manga creator Tomoko Yamashita know us better than we know ourselves? Sylvia and Coop have their suspicions.
― Does manga creator Tomoko Yamashita know us better than we know ourselves? Sylvia and Coop have their suspicions. The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. Crunchyroll...
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube ‒ SEASON FINALE
Who doesn’t want to non-consensually probe the deepest, darkest aspects of their teachers’ subconscious psyches?
Journal with Witch ‒ Episode 12
At times, Journal with Witch acts like a trained killer sent here to assassinate me specifically.
The Darwin Incident ‒ Episode 12
Everyone's still got growing to do. Granted, that growing now involves Charlie asking the only girl he's ever said more than ten sentences to if she wants to share a banana split with him.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 ‒ Episode 25
Wow, they really just tried to shove everything into the second last episode of the season didn
Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers ‒ SEASON FINALE
This season could be seen as a fascinating tangle of a creation, especially as a legacy follow-up to a classic franchise. But I don't know that it succeeded.
The Worst Anime of Winter 2026
With so many excellent anime this season, we had to dig a little deeper to find true disappointment.
― With so many excellent anime this season, we had to dig a little deeper to find true disappointment. There's the show that found magical reasoning to make a toddler an object of sexual desire, the "We Have Jujutsu Kaisen at home" series, and others that were just, well, boring. 5. An Adventurer's D...
Hell's Paradise Season 2 ‒ Episode 11
It feels weird that the first half of this episode is dedicated to him reflecting on how his wife's influence has changed him, but whether or not she's real anymore doesn't really come up.
Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter ‒ SEASON FINALE
I appreciate Bean Counter's approach to isekai: that until other worlds stop kidnapping teenagers or acknowledging that that’s a problem, the genre is going to be stale.
Wash It All Away ‒ SEASON FINALE
This anime’s curtain fall feels more like a long rush to the finish line than a properly satisfying conclusion.
Golden Kamuy Final Season ‒ Episode 61
Golden Kamuy has long earned praise for depicting the fullness of the human experience within its story, and this episode is a non-stop deep dive into the best, worst, and weirdest parts of the human condition.
The Spring 2026 Anime Trailer Watch Party Premieres Tomorrow Night!
Flowers are blooming, and a new anime season is looming! Get a taste of the entire spring 2026 anime season with us tomorrow on YouTube!
― Flowers are blooming, and a new anime season is looming! Anime News Network's Lynzee Loveridge, James Beckett, and Jacki Jing are happy to announce that YouTube personality Geoff Thew (Mother's Basement) is joining us to watch over 60 trailers from the upcoming an...
Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2026, Mar 12-18
Journal With Witch goes down to #2 for the first time in 10 weeks as Frieren wows us with magic battle extravaganza! 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 ...
You and I Are Polar Opposites ‒ Episode 11
This episode wasn't exactly lacking in charm, but it did leave me feeling a little starved on the romance front.
Trigun Stargaze ‒ Episode 11
I’m struggling to decide if the writers know what they’re doing, or if the last few plot twists have been symptoms of terminal idiocy.
Dead Account ‒ Episode 11
Another episode that is the same old same old, bearing all of the warts I’ve written about for what seems like an eternity now.
Fate/strange Fake ‒ Episode 12
Understanding this episode requires quite a bit of information not covered in this series specifically.
Rooster Fighter ‒ Episode 2
If Keiji is a photo-realistic Ferrari of a chicken, Piyoko is a bit like a week-old balloon animal, rasping as the air is being let out.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 ‒ Episode 9
Every once in a while, we need an episode like this one—one that reminds us what exactly Frieren’s journey is for.
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife ‒ Episode 11
If the episode ended with the cut to black while our two leads were leaving the village, it would have been perfect.
Roll Over and Die ‒ Episode 11
The uncomfortable introduction leads nicely into the confrontation with Dein, and while this manifests as a literal battle, it is better understood as an ideological conflict.
The Best Anime of Winter 2026
This winter season offered a bounty of viewing choices. How many anime did you watch this season, and what made your top 10?
― This winter season offered a bounty of viewing choices. For the first time in a while, I found myself stretched between girls murdering one another in death games, a heartfelt family drama about grief and identity, cackling historical heroes, and at least two anime about mal...
Making 'Bad' Animation Beautiful: An Interview with ChaO Director Yasuhiro Aoki
"with ChaO, I just did what I wanted to do, and I've always liked looking at things from a different angle, and finding something different, and I think that's what I've done."
― Studio 4°C's feature film ChaO opened in Japan this August, by which time it had already been acquired by GKIDS. Now it's finally opening in theaters in North America on April 10. ChaO screened at international festivals, in...
Fire Force Season 3 ‒ Episode 23
Fittingly, this climactic confrontation with Haumea is essentially the show's big 'Third Impact' moment… though I think it may work better on paper than in execution.
Sentenced to Be a Hero ‒ Episode 11
The only real criticisms that I have are that it is so joyful it almost feels tonally out of step with the rest of the series.
Medalist Season 2 ‒ Episode 5
Even if Tsukasa isn't necessarily using Inori as a way to redo his past failures, it's also true that training her has made it easier for him to continue running away from himself.
Chained Soldier Season 2 ‒ Episode 11
Maybe it would be more appropriate if I said this is “an episode that shoots for the stars…except, in this universe, all of the constellations have been replaced with crudely drawn doodles of big butts and bouncing boobs."
Tamon's B-Side ‒ Episode 12
I just want to stand on a roof and yell about what a great episode we got this week.
Champignon Witch ‒ SEASON FINALE
Life goes on, whether you’re a white witch, a black one, or something else entirely. The important thing is to keep trying and keep moving forward.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 ‒ Episode 58
This is probably the most frustrating episode of JJK so far this season, and I can’t wait to wash the taste of it out of my mouth next week with one of my favorite bouts from the manga.
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table ‒ SEASON FINALE
SHIBOYUGI is an indulgent tonic of equal parts empathy and anger that invites us to luxuriate in an elegy for a world gone insane.
In the Clear Moonlit Dusk ‒ Episode 10
To be treated as a girl is to be considered beautiful. To be considered dateable by boys and not dateable by other girls.
Interview: Masahiko Ohta, the Go-To Director for Anime About Eccentric Young Girls, On His New Anime
From Himouto! Umaru-chan to My Deer Friend Nokotan, Masahiko Ohta's greatest hits have all been about crazy high school girls. His newest, The Demon King's Daughter is Too Kind, changes up the formula by having a much younger protagonist.
― Recently, Anime News Network was able to sit down with Director Masahiko Ohta and talk about his newest anime, The Demon King's Daughter is Too Kind. In the proce...
The Holy Grail of Eris ‒ Episode 11
Will the goddess of discord’s grail be filled to the brim with blood? Or will someone spill it and finally put the past to rest?
STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 1st STAGE Review
There were a wealth of reasons to go into Steel Ball Run with mitigated expectations, which is why I'm so thrilled to say that this extra-long premiere is incredible by any measure.
― After years of speculation and anticipation, David Production is finally animating STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the seventh part of Hirohiko Araki's long-running manga series and what's generally considered ...
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube ‒ Episode 24
With traditional exorcism methods out of the question, Nube saves the day with something he’s particularly skilled at: empathy and heartfelt tears.
The Darwin Incident ‒ Episode 11
It's only fair that this follow-up episode is a bit more mechanically minded in getting all its gene-spliced ducks back in a row.
Hana-Kimi ‒ SEASON FINALE
Slice-of-life sitcoms like Hana-Kimi don't need to be a tightly-woven tapestry, but this is closer to a moth-eaten mesh.
This Week in Anime - Porn From Before We Were Born
What was anime porn like back in ye olde dayes? Sylvia and Chris check out Cream Lemon to find out!
― What was anime porn like back in ye olde dayes? Sylvia and Chris check out Cream Lemon to find out! Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. Content Warning: Sexual Ima...
Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers ‒ Episode 11
It's not that the show is devoid of ideas, it's just that it lacks the time, space, and structure to articulate them effectively.
Oshi no Ko Season 3 ‒ Episode 10
The way Aqua is making an enemy out of me, he should think twice before standing on a cliff.
Journal with Witch ‒ Episode 11
Journal with Witch paints an entire tableau with a few lines of dialogue. It casts light onto indeterminate shapes lurking within my soul.
Trigun Stargaze ‒ Episode 10
Perhaps this is yet another layer of narrative fakery, and episode eleven or twelve will culminate in a heartbreakingly nihilistic orgy of bloody ultra-violence where no-one survives.
Wash It All Away ‒ Episode 11
This episode comes across as a bag of the most mixed, divided of sorts: a second half that is as “what you see is what you get” as it comes, and a first half that’s just...there.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 ‒ Episode 24
This episode is finally hitting a lot of notes that I’ve been begging for all season!
Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter ‒ Episode 11
Seiichiro and Aresh’s relationship is so delightfully mutual now – they can call each other out on little things, yearn to be closer in ways they culturally understand, and are just so damn cute.
Golden Kamuy Final Season ‒ Episode 60
Animation issues aside, there’s a lot to love in this episode, and I hope future installments manage to look as good as this caliber of writing deserves.
Hell's Paradise Season 2 ‒ Episode 10
This episode of Hell's Paradise does something that I didn't realize the series could do.
Your Anime Rankings - Best of Winter 2026, Mar 5-11
While good ol' Frieren climbs back to #3 this week, let's give a nod to the ever-reliable You and I Are Polar Opposites, which has comfortably held its ground between #10 and #4 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 simu...
Rooster Fighter ‒ SERIES PREMIERE
It's what makes Keiji such an on-target protagonist. He embodies all the heroic traits, from his rippling chicken thighs to his relentless womanizing, but he's also… well, he's a chicken.
Fate/strange Fake ‒ Episode 11
Ayaka inspires Richard to dream again—to not be tied down by the grim reality he often lived.
You and I Are Polar Opposites ‒ Episode 10
While we're gonna have to wait a bit to see how each of these romantic escapades play out, the fact these pairs all have something going on is a testament to how well this show is handling its balancing act.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 ‒ Episode 8
It's not what a person believes that makes them good or evil, but rather the actions they choose to take. And Stark and Genau constantly make choices that firmly place them on the side of the angels.
Roll Over and Die ‒ Episode 10
Unfortunately, the content of this episode is only slightly more interesting than the murky fog rolling throughout the city.
Sentenced to Be a Hero ‒ Episode 10
We can see the scales of battle tipping back and forth in a constant 60/40 to 40/60 and back again.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea Anime Film Review
This film is not centered around Rimuru—and this ingenious choice is why the film works as well as it does.
― My favorite aspect of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime as a series is how much focus it puts on actions having consequences—most notably the unintended variety. Once again, this movie puts this idea front and center. With his immense magic powers and modern-day knowledge, it can be eas...
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife ‒ Episode 10
Meeting your partner's family is always complicated to a certain degree
Gnosia ‒ SERIES FINALE
It could have been worse, but it could have been so much better, too.
Dead Account ‒ Episode 10
Just when you thought this fight couldn’t be padded anymore, it does with the usual fanfare of unnecessary flashbacks and still animation.
Fire Force Season 3 ‒ Episode 22
Unfortunately, while the episode is just fine, it doesn't do nearly enough to capitalize on its opportunities.
Medalist Season 2 ‒ Episode 4
While this episode would have still been fine if all we got out of it was Inori's performance, it's what happens off the ice that makes this one shine
Champignon Witch ‒ Episode 11
If there are black witches and white witches, could there also be grey witches? Because right now, that’s what the Bird Magician is looking like to me.
Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest Anime Series Review
This is another “banished from the party” story that shows off the typical fantasy flair without giving too much thought to its substance.
― The biggest chip this anime has on its shoulder is its style. The Banished Court Magician Aims To Become The Strongest has moments of storytelling and lore that show their potential, had they not been buried underneath the usual bout of standard fantasy anime tr...
Chained Soldier Season 2 ‒ Episode 10
For once, the show truly has no time to waste on the smut that it can't save for gratuitous after-credits stingers. Even the one in-universe of fanservice that we get from Kuusetsu is meant to be an ominous spank-bank deposit.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 ‒ Episode 57
Someone get Takaba’s agent on the line! I don’t know what “it” is, but he’s got it!
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table ‒ Episode 10
Yuki can still recognize the awful waste of this violence for what it is, even as she participates in the system that set it all in motion. Even as she profits from it. Even as she Survives within it.
Interview: Ryuya Suzuki on Writing, Directing, Animating, and Scoring His First Feature Film, Jinsei
Jinsei isn’t your typical anime film. With a few exceptions, it was made entirely by one man.
― Jinsei isn't your typical anime film. It was written, directed, animated, and scored entirely by one man: Ryuya Suzuki. At the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival, Anime News Network sat down with him to discuss not only making the film but also the themes, messages, and ideas behind it. Turn the clock ...
In the Clear Moonlit Dusk ‒ Episode 9
After some light sightseeing, the group makes their way to the Ichimura family vacation home and… I’m sorry, but are they in a concrete bunker?
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