Shinshu Fuji, Yoko Hikasa, Minori Suzuki star in Astro Boy world's reimagining by M2― Netflix confirmed in a "sneak peek" video on Tuesday that it will present the animated series of Naoki Urasawa's Pluto manga this year, and it also confirmed the project's main Japanese voice cast and studio: The Japanese cast members are: Shinshu Fuji as Gesicht Yoko Hikasa as Atom Minori Suzuki as Uran GENCO is s...
Taku Yashiro, Rumi Okubo, Toshiki Masuda, Atsushi Imaruoka join cast; Takanori Nishikawa performs opening― The official website for the Edens Zero franchise began streaming a new promotional video for the second season of the franchise's anime on Wednesday. The video reveals the cast members for the Element 4 group, reveals and previews the anime's opening theme song "Never say Never" by Takanori Ni...
Screenings have sold 1.47 million tickets in 1st 10 days― "World Tour Jōei: Kimetsu no Yaiba Jōgen Shūketsu, Soshite Katanakaji no Sato e" (World Tour Screenings: Demon Slayer: The Upper Ranks Gather and Onward to the Swordsmith Village), the theatrical screenings of the upcoming Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-Hen) television anime, earned...
Tezuka joined company in 1983; became CEO, president in 2020― Toei Company, Ltd. announced on Tuesday that its president and CEO Osamu Tezuka (no relation to the manga creator of the same name) has passed away. He was 62. Tezuka's funeral will be limited to close relatives, but a memorial ceremony will be held at a later date. Tezuka was born in March 1960. He joined Toei in April 1983, and was made...
Spinoff shorts include Valentine's Day-themed episodes― Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it has added the "Junior High and High School!! Kimetsu Academy Story" spinoff shorts for the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime. The company is streaming the shorts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Central America, and South America. The company lists that it will stream the sho...
Trigun Stampede episode six is the best in the series yet, with amazing animation and a heart-wrenching backstory for Wolfwood.― The Best Episode of Trigun Stampede Yet! Trigun Stampede episode six is the best in the series yet, with amazing animation and a heart-wrenching backstory for Wolfwood. Also, this week we'll discuss all those recent anime delays this season, the Pluto anime, and what make...
I was lukewarm about the first volume of Tokyo Aliens, but I thought it had potential. Unfortunately, volume 2 does not do enough to capitalize on said potential.― I was lukewarm about the first volume of Tokyo Aliens, but I thought it had potential. Unfortunately, volume 2 does not do enough to capitalize on said potential. To be sure, there are no critical missteps here. Akira and Tenkubashi are t...
Studio producer Yuichiro Saito emphasized family as the global core value, which the studio uses as a compass to “chart a map” into a “brighter, more hopeful future.”― Hosted at the Grammy Museum, the inaugural JX '23 honored Studio Chizu as a cultural pioneer for its global success in film. JX, which stands for Japan Crossover, brought together guests from all facets of the entertainment industry u...
Steve and Nicky check out this season's stand-out romantic comedy starring an athletic girl and her oblivious jock crush. Is this a new romantic comedy to add to your queue or are the characters just too frustrating?― Steve and Nicky check out this season's stand-out romantic comedy starring an athletic girl and her oblivious jock crush. Is this a new romantic comedy to add to your queue or are the...
Check out all the cosplayers from this year's event, featuring characters from current series and some classic throwbacks!― After a snowy and dreary Friday and a national holiday on Saturday, cosplayers were ready for the beautiful weather for Wonder Festival 2023 [Winter]. There were certainly a lot of cosplay of older works at the event, but if you looked around, there were plenty of newer franchi...
This autobiographical manga recounts "an otaku with the fashion sense of a twelve-year-old" and her haphazard attempts to attract the cool, short-haired woman of her dreams.― Relationships are hard. It's a fact that even people who have engaged in many successful ones can attest to, and things can be even more challenging for those who struggled to accumulate that kind of experience. Art and storyte...
Continuing on directly from the final episode of Kaguya-sama: Love is War Ultra Romantic, this film is all about the fallout—namely the complete and total destruction of the status quo.― Note: This review contains spoilers for Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic-. Continuing on directly from the final episode of Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic-, this film is all about the fallout—namel...
The Eminence in Shadow is going all-out as it approaches its finale. Discover which other series stand out 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 on how people rated ...
All in all, Record of Ragnarok Season 2 is better than Season 1. But the quality jump is minor at best, and the novelty of its tricks is already wearing a bit thin― Record of Ragnarok returns and executes on its premise with greater success than the first season. The question is whether that success is enough to keep people watching. When the first season of Record of Ragnarok dropped back in the su...
On top of shōnen heroes' potential for deep, powerful storytelling in their undying determination, fighting-against-the-world narratives, they also serve as a fantastic source of neurodivergent representation.― There's more than meets the eye to Goku—in fact, there's more than meets the eye to Naruto, Luffy, Asta, and most shonen battle protagonists. Though they seem like just simple-minded, rude, a...
Along with being one of the most consumable light novel series in English translation at only three volumes of main story, The Holy Grail of Eris is also one of the best.― If left to its own devices, history is perfectly willing to repeat itself. Whether that's down to human nature or the cyclical nature of events is possibly up for debate, but when history tells us that ten years ago, a young woman...