Anime's production committee states in apology that armband "evokes images of discrimination"― The official website for the Attack on Titan The Final Season anime announced on Monday that the anime's production committee has decided not to offer the Eldian armband as commercial merchandise for the anime, after acknowledging that the armband evokes images of discrimination. The site initially announc...
Lynzee and James discuss Adult Swim's new Blade Runner: Black Lotus, the early review for Netflix's Cowboy Bebop, and 'daddy juice' which only makes sense if you watched last week's Ranking of Kings!― The ANN Aftershow - Futuristic Catastrophes Lynzee and James discuss Adult Swim's new Blade Runner: Black Lotus, the early review for Netflix's Cowboy Bebop, and 'daddy juice' which only makes sense i...
Don't take this romantic comedy at face value, the primary couple is far from "annoying." Nick and Jean-Karlo check out this series starring one short office lady, her burly coworkers, and Kazama, who had too much Monster this morning.― Don't take this romantic comedy at face value, the primary couple is far from "annoying." Nick and Jean-Karlo check out this series starring one short office lady, ...
The Japan Magazine Publishers Association (JMPA) has revealed that the print circulation of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine fell to 1,371,818 copies during the period of July to September 2021. The fall continues a steady decline in circulation the magazine has undergone in at least the last eight years, nearing about half of the January-March 2014 number of 2,715,834. Weekly Shonen Jump's ...
Character is 4th in new 4th season pass― This year's 50th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that Sasuke Uchiha (Final Battle) will be the 27th DLC character for Bandai Namco Entertainment's Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker game. The DLC will release "soon." The character will be the fourth character in the game's fourth season pass. The season pass will have a total...
Manga launched in 2015― The December issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Coro Coro Comics magazine revealed on Monday that Hiro Morita's Beyblade Burst manga will end with its next chapter in the magazine's next issue on December 15. Morita launched the manga in Monthly Coro Coro Comics in July 2015. Shogakukan published the manga's 18th compiled book volume on March 26. The first Beyblade Burst anime pre...
Mieruko-chan overcomes her slow start to shoot up in the cumulative, while Sakugan does the opposite. Find out how your favorites fared in the turmoil this week!― Our team of reviewers are following 28 anime series of the Fall 2021 season and readers are rating each episode as the reviews go up. So let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season. Keep in mind that ...
Madoka is just your average shoujo heroine entranced by her favorite trope – the adorable, innocent, slightly younger boy. But unlike many a manga character, she's also largely aware that he only exists in the realm of fiction.― Madoka is just your average shoujo heroine entranced by her favorite trope – the adorable, innocent, slightly younger boy. But unlike many a manga character, she's also larg...
Right from the very start, Sword Art Online was a work of compromise. Its constant self-revisions are the source of its biggest storytelling flaws, but also its most interesting qualities.― Right from the very start, Sword Art Online was a work of compromise. When Reki Kawahara first began writing the novel 20 years ago in the hopes of submitting it to the Dengeki Novel Prize, he struggled to make h...
As metaphors for the 60s go, it's a pretty good one, and Urasawa is a good enough creator to really make it work. Things are building to the point where choices are going to feel much more limited, and that, too, can be a metaphor for living in uncertain times.― After a moderate slowdown in the previous volume, Asadora! is back on track as the monster appears off Enoshima Light, swamping a fishing v...
Because the anime adaptation made some questionable artistic choices, it's worth mentioning that the manga is much more attractive on the art front.― Oslo, Norway is probably not one of the places you expect to be the setting for a science-fiction spy caper manga, but that's precisely where most of the action of Tesla Note's first volume takes place. The reason for this is that Norway is where the f...
With the release of Blade Runner: Black Lotus, it's time to revisit the original Blade Runner and its profound influence on anime.― In 2017, it's very easy to forget that 1982's Blade Runner was neither a commercial success at the time of its release nor the mainstream critical darling it is nowadays. Although it derailed director Ridley Scott's film career for many years, dedicated sci-fi fans of t...