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 ...
Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation stars Yoshimasa Hosoya, Kana Hanazawa, more― The One Piece YouTube channel unveiled the cast and January 22 premiere for the Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation anime in a new trailer on Sunday. The series adapts Eiichiro Oda's "Monsters: Ippaku Sanjō Hiryū Jigoku" one-shot manga. The cast includes (from left to right):
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ryuma
Kana Hanazaw...
Anime to star Ayasa Itō as Elfuda― Akita Shoten announced on Monday that Synecdoche's Plus-Sized Elf (Elf-san wa Yaserarenai.) manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation that will debut this year. Ayasa Itō stars in the anime as Elfuda. Plus-Sized Elf launched in Wani Books' Comic Gum website in December 2016, and Wani Books published the seventh compiled volume in October 2020. The manga ente...
Iconic Events is teaming up with ANN to give away TWO original US theatrical release posters for the film signed by the English voice cast leads!― Spike Spiegel may have said “hunger is the best spice” but here at ANN we think that giveaways are the best spice. And we have a great one for readers this week thanks to our friends at Iconic Events. Caught up in a world of dreams, lost in the cruelty o...
A middle-of-the-road school romance story, Dreaming Boy lives and dies on whether you can connect to its main character, Wataru, as he disentangles himself from his romantic interest.― I think we've all had that moment where we realize things aren't like the movies. The good guy doesn't always win, and persistence isn't some magic spell that grants ultimate victory. As a wise man once said, "It is p...
This season's anime premieres are wrapping up and we've got all your reviews right here with BUCCHIGIRI?!, Witch and Beast, Metallic Rouge, Blue Exorcist, Mashle Season 2, Solo Leveling, and more!― Welcome to Anime News Network's Winter 2024 Anime Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics writes up their impressions instantly, to be posted here as they go along. Each critic will cover ...
This boundary-pushing ecchi series has a surprising amount of emotional intelligence behind it.― Which anime of 2023 was most unjustly ignored by the masses? While my vote would probably go to fall's Migi & Dali, a fantastic and uncomfortable comedy thriller that seemed to pass most anime fans by, I also harbor a soft spot for ecchi comedy Ayakashi Triangle, murdered by severe production woes. Initi...
More layoffs, Genshin Impact developer miHoYo adopting AI, and the fear of harassment for a Last of Us TV series actress are the focus this week.― Hello all, I hope your week was equal parts chill and exciting because this week is gonna be a mixed bag of not-so-fun news with a dash of neato news for good measure. Yes, I know we're only two weeks deep into 2024 to have bad news. Unfortunately, like a...
The characters' vulnerability is a significant part of what makes the ensuing blossoming relationship so sweet and cute; they're both odd puzzle pieces that fit together.― When I first watched My Dress Up-Darling, I remember it feeling much different than other romance anime, and upon rewatching via My Dress Up Darling: The Complete Season Limited Edition, I can whole-heartedly confirm it has someth...