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The Spring 2017 Anime Preview Guide
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The Spring 2017 Anime Preview Guide has begun!
Available Now: The Royal Tutor - Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor - Starmyu Season 2 - Frame Arms Girl - The Laughing Salesman - Alice & Zoroku - Granblue Fantasy - Attack on Titan season 2 - My Hero Academia Season 2 (English Dub) ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Spring 2017 Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics write up th...
Available Now: The Royal Tutor - Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor - Starmyu Season 2 - Frame Arms Girl - The Laughing Salesman - Alice & Zoroku - Granblue Fantasy - Attack on Titan season 2 - My Hero Academia Season 2 (English Dub) ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Spring 2017 Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics write up th...
Vice & Luna - 04/04/2017
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Crisis strikes, which forces Vice, Luna and the rest of the team to suck it up and finally use some fairy magic.
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Nichijou Sub.Blu-Ray + DVD
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After many long years in licensing limbo, this fan favorite comedy is finally available on a modest Blu-ray release. Nick Creamer explains just what makes this series so special.
― Nichijou's had a rough ride making it over here. First produced in 2011, it was initially slated for release by Bandai Entertainment, before Bandai shut down their Western release arm. Stuck in limbo ever since, it's been ...
Answerman - Quick Answers Part 2
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It's another lightning round for the Answerman! Pirate anime streaming sites, transformation scenes, anime director's cuts and much more!
― I wasn't intending to do another one of these so soon, but that's what the contents of the Answerman inbox seem to be pointing towards today, so... let's do this. James asks: Many Japanese media have transformation sequences, most notably mecha, super sentai, an...
Shelf Life - Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation
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Can this lady-Sherlock with a talent for osteology solve any mysteries worth watching? Paul Jensen deduces the answer, along with all this week's new anime releases!
― Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seems like each new anime season usually gets off to a slow start. We get a few days of reasonably average premieres, and then the heavy hitters show up. Well, that ain't the case this spring; bo...
Kemono Friends Episodes 1-12 Streaming
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How did Kemono Friends go from panned kiddie show to the biggest meme and unexpected hit of the last season? Nick Creamer reveals the secrets of Japari Park.
― I'll get this out of the way right at the start: Kemono Friends is not a beautiful show. Combining relatively pleasant painted backgrounds with jarring, simplistic CG characters, it's not going to be winning any best art or animation awards. T...
The Mike Toole Show - The Other 100 Best Anime Movies of All Time, Part 2
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Mike's back with Part II of his list of the "other" best 100 anime movies of all time, counting down 75-50! From Fullmetal Alchemist to Dr. Slump, how many have you seen?
― UPDATE: Alright, since this is broken into four parts, I'll lead off by re-iterating: this project is an "answer" of sorts to a generally terrific list of 100 essential anime films by Paste Magazine. You can read my reasoning for ...
Boruto - Naruto Next Generations GN 1
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Naruto and Hinata’s son, Boruto Uzumaki, tackles the Chūnin exams while struggling to connect to his famous father in this manga behind this season's brand-new Naruto sequel!
― By and large, the first volume of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga matches about the first half of the the Boruto: Naruto the Movie film released in 2015. This isn't entirely surprising, given the manga's writer, Ukyo...
The List - 7 Times Technology Went Totally Wrong
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What hath science wrought?! These seven anime tried to warn us about technology going too far, but did we listen? The gruesome answers lie in this week's list...
― Most of you are probably nose-deep in Attack on Titan fervor right now, but another little adaptation came out in theaters this week starring ScarJo as The Major. Hollywood's Ghost in the Shell premiered to mixed reviews, but no matter yo...
Attack on Titan Photo Contest
Re-enact your favorite Attack on Titan moment, win cool stuff.
― Win Attack on Titan prizes by submitting your best Attack on Titan re-enactment photo by April 16th! Surely everyone at some time has imagined he or she was a giant, towering monster, stomping through a city, kicking down skyscrapers, grabbing puny tiny humans by the handful and ramming them into your mouth. Tremble before my footsteps...
Water Dragon's Bride GN 1
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This unusually dark fantasy romance is a good read for fairytale fans who want an escape with a little more bite to it. Rebecca Silverman dives in.
― As readers of Rei Toma's previously translated series Dawn of the Arcana know, she writes fantasy with teeth. The Water Dragon's Bride (not to be confused with the manhwa series Bride of the Water God, although there are some similarities) is not a char...