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Giveaway has ended! Are you one of our lucky winners?― As a treat for ANN readers in the US and Canada, Irodori Comics is giving away 3 sets of My Wife is an Oni volumes 1 and 2. About the Series My Wife Is an Oni is a series about Tomoyuki and Mitsuki: childhood friends turned lovers who are now a married couple. But there's a catch! Mitsuki is an oni who shows a lot of spikes on the outside but t...
Returning staff includes Akiyuki Simbo, Akio Watanabe, more at SHAFT― Aniplex announced on Thursday that the Off Season and Monster Season books in NisiOisin's Monogatari series are getting an anime adaptation at studio SHAFT titled Monogatari Series Off & Monster Season. Aniplex did not reveal the type of anime. The announcement states the anime is being "produced" this year. Akio Watanabe drew the...
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training- premieres in N. America on February 23― Crunchyroll and Aniplex of America announced on Thursday that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training-, the theatrical screening of the one-hour first episode of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc television anime and the final episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaib...
Nick and Chris weigh in on the vitriol and misinformation swirling around AI usage and localization in anime and manga translation.― Nick and Chris weigh in on the vitriol and misinformation swirling around AI usage and localization in anime and manga translation. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning...
The final entry for the Winter 2024 Anime Preview Guide is here...and it's a love letter to giant robots! What did our reviewers think of Bang Brave Bang Bravern?― What is this? Lewis Smith and Isami Ao are enemy pilots. Lewis is a pilot for the U.S. armed forces who pilots the armored humanoid weapon Titanostride. In the midst of battle, he meets Isami Ao, the ace pilot for Japan's Ground Self-Def...
Despite the low-quality reputation that compilation films tend to have, I'd go so far as to say it's the best single compilation film I've ever seen.― While anime compilation films are nothing new, Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp, isn't made up of footage from a TV show. Rather, it is the combination of three films: Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (2016), Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu (2016), and Kizu...
Less beefy than it's Science Adventure predecessors, Anonymous;Code nevertheless introduces an interesting gameplay mechanic to keep players engaged.― Anonymous;Code is the newest title in the Science Adventure series of games and is in the same world as Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes, and Chaos;Head. If you've played any of these visual novels (or seen their anime adaptations), you likely know what to...
Rock star and X Japan member is the first Japanese artist in almost 100 years to add handprints to Chinese Theatre.―
Famed rock star, Yoshiki, revealed the permanent location of his imprints in front of Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre. As the first Japanese artist to be honored by the theater since the start of the tradition in 1927, he shared how grateful he is to be a part of this prestigious mom...
James, Jacki, and Lynzee give their final thoughts on Jujutsu Kaisen: Shibuya Incident Arc, social media, and gear up for Solo Leveling!― Is So, About That Jujutsu Kaisen Ending James, Jacki, and Lynzee give their final thoughts on Jujutsu Kaisen: Shibuya Incident Arc, social media, and gear up for Solo Leveling! The ANN After Show streams live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter Spaces on Tuesdays a...
Nicky and Nick return to this season's isekai mines and manage to excavate one (1) actually good anime.― Nicky and Nick return to this season's isekai mines and manage to excavate one (1) actually good anime. 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. @Lossthief @BeeDubs...
It's hard to decide what to focus on in this tonally inconsistent anime series starring a young vampire constantly bombarded by her horny maid.― From the outset, The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess is a lot. The first episode throws so much scattershot world-building jargon at the viewer, along with some very uncomfortable, non-consensual fetishistic yuri fanservice, that if it weren't for m...
Your votes are tallied, and the results are in! Here are the anime getting episode reviews this season.― It's a quiet winter season, if the Daily Streaming poll results are anything to go by. The top anime choices are both continuing from fall: Frieren and The Apothecary Diaries. While many of the choices might seem predictable (did anyone think Metallic Rouge and Solo Leveling wouldn't make it?), ...
while it also doesn't escape all the trappings that held back its first season, Perish in Frost still shakes out to be a more confident and complex installment.― Arknights, my gacha of choice when it comes to hiring lizard ladies with magic rock cancer, returns to the anime world with Perish in Frost. In terms of continuity, this second leg of the adaptation is direct and unsurprising, and that's a ...
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 exists in a truly static world. Now streaming on Netflix.― 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 ...