Interviews
- Love Live Sunshine - Aqours (Aug 10)
- Okayado, The Father of Monster Musume (Aug 3)
- Xavier Lim, Bluefin's Gundam Guru (Jul 13)
- Unified Pictures and Vampire Hunter D (Jun 30)
- Ray Chiang, SPJA CEO, on Anime Expo 2016 (Jun 23)
- The World's Biggest Visual Novels with Visual Art's (May 31)
- Legendary Evangelion Illustrator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (May 17)
- Kazuya Sasahara on Dai-Shogun VR (Apr 14)
- Bluefin and the World of Anime Collectibles (Apr 7)
- Akira in Color with Steve Oliff (Mar 17)
- Eric Beckman, Founder & President of GKIDS (Mar 10)
- Animator Henry Thurlow on Judgment and Justice (Dec 31)
- The Pilot's Love Song director Toshimasa Suzuki (Oct 16)
- VAMPS' HYDE and K.A.Z (Oct 1)
- Koji Morimoto (Sep 29)
- Mangaka Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi (Sep 17)
- Kodansha Advanced Media on the Future of Manga (Sep 15)
- Mega Man Legacy Collection's Rey Jimenez (Sep 1)
- International Otaku Expo Association (Aug 27)
- Seiji Kishi (Aug 25)
- Shinji Takamatsu (Aug 18)
- GARO Producer Toru Kubo and Director Yuichiro Hayashi (Aug 11)
- The Cast and Crew of live-action Attack on Titan (Aug 4)
- Street Fighter V's Peter Rosas and Matt Dahlgren (Aug 3)
- Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches creator Miki Yoshikawa (Jul 30)
- Fullmetal Alchemist and Concrete Revolutio screenwriter Shou Aikawa (Jul 28)
- Madoka Magica's Ai Nonaka (Jul 27)
- The Art of Japanese Video Game Design With Suda51 (Jul 21)
- Kamisama Kiss mangaka Julietta Suzuki (Jul 20)
- Lauren Landa and Erica Mendez, Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus (Jul 17)
- The Cast and Crew of A Lull in the Sea (Jul 14)
- Unified Pictures and Vampire Hunter D (Jul 3)
- Hidetaka Tenjin (Jun 8)
- Aya Kanno (May 27)
- Tow Ubukata (May 20)
- Sword Art Online Producer Shinichiro Kashiwada & Voice Actor Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (May 18)
- SCANDAL (May 6)
- Under the Dog's Jiro Ishii and Koji Morimoto (Apr 27)
- Jon Dobyns, Founder of Tiger Lab Vinyl (Apr 22)
- Hiroshi "Bamboo" Takeuchi, OVERDRIVE Producer (Mar 17)
- Steve Blum (Feb 24)
- JAM Project (Feb 5)
- Saori Hayami (Jan 7)
- Masayuki Yoshihara, director of The Eccentric Family (Jan 6)
- Diana Garnet (Jan 5)
- Carlo Bernhardi (Jan 3)
- Yoshiki of X JAPAN (Dec 23)
- Sunao Katabuchi (Dec 9)
- Takeshi Obata (Oct 22)
- Yousei Teikoku (Oct 13)
- Choucho (Sep 24)
- Gen Urobuchi (Sep 17)
- Akihiro Kanayama (Sep 1)
- Shinji Aramaki (Aug 28)
- May'n (Aug 11)
- Thomas Sirdey, Co-Founder, Japan Expo (Jul 24)
- Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods with Justin Cook, Chris Sabat, and Sean Schemmel (Jul 22)
- Exclusive Interview: The New English Language Cast of Sailor Moon (Jul 16)
- The Accel World Interviews Part II - Masakazu Obara (Jun 5)
- The Accel World Interviews Part I - Reki Kawahara (Jun 2)
- Exclusive Interview: Viz Media's Charlene Ingram and Josh Lopez on Sailor Moon (May 16)
- The Space Dandy Interview: Part II - Bahi JD (Apr 16)
- The Space Dandy Interview: Part I - Thomas Romain (Apr 14)
- Bryce Papenbrook (Mar 29)
- Yuma Takahashi and Koji Kitakami, Chief Producers of AnimeJapan (Mar 21)
- Tomohiko Ito (Mar 12)
- Masahiro Ando (Mar 4)
- Michelle Lee (Feb 26)
- Atsushi Ootsuki (Feb 18)
- Mizuho Nishikubo (Feb 10)
- Jonathan Clements (Jan 28)
- Manuel Karamori (Nov 26)
- Neon Alley Program Director Kevin Kleinrock (Nov 15)
- Wikia's Masters of Animanga (Oct 30)
- BONES Studio President Masahiko Minami (Oct 25)
- Evangelion Character Designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Sep 19)
- Japan Expo USA First Impact CEO Sean Chiochankitmun (Sep 17)
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Sword Art Online's Kirito (Sep 5)
- Haruka Tomatsu, Sword Art Online's Asuna (Sep 4)
- Shinichiro Watanabe (Sep 3)
- Masahiko Otsuka and Yoh Yoshinari of Studio Trigger (Aug 28)
- Shinji Takamatsu (Aug 16)
- George Wada, Producer of Attack on Titan (Jul 23)
- Mamoru Hosoda, Director of Wolf Children (Jul 15)
- Megumi Han (Jul 12)
- Kazuya Murata, Director of Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (May 6)
- Makoto Shinkai (Apr 30)
- Kenji Yasuda, director of ARATA The Legend (Apr 19)
- Sword Art Online's Reki Kawahara (Apr 12)
- Satoshi Tasaki (Apr 10)
- Masakazu Ishiguro (Apr 2)
- Akiyuki Simbo (Feb 7)
- Aniplex Inc. President Koichiro Natsume (Dec 19)
- Andrew Partridge Talks About Anime Limited (Dec 14)
- President of NIS Sohei Niikawa (Dec 5)
- Henry Goto, President, Aniplex of America (Nov 8)
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- Chihayafuru's Asaka Morio, Kunihiko Hamada, Takuya Tsunoki (Sep 17)
- Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up: Ask A Question, Win The Show! Results Edition (Sep 11)
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- Naoki Urasawa (Aug 20)
- Kanta Kamei, Director of Bunny Drop (Aug 3)
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- May'n (May 16)
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- Soubi Yamamoto (Mar 28)
- Tomomi Mochizuki on House of Five Leaves (Mar 2)
- Eric Khoo (Jan 13)
- Koji Yamamoto, Ryo Ohyama, and George Wada on Guilty Crown (Nov 28)
- Hiro Mashima (Nov 8)
- Junko Takeuchi (Nov 1)
- Fate/Zero Screenwriter Gen Urobuchi (Oct 21)
- Atsuhiro Iwakami (Sep 7)
- Blood-C's Tsutomu Mizushima and Junichi Fujisaku (Sep 1)
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- Michio Fukuda, Director of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan ~Demon Capital~ (Jul 27)
- Kalafina (Jul 17)
- Danny Choo (Jul 13)
- Taku Kishimoto, Scriptwriter for Usagi Drop (Jul 6)
- Ryo from supercell (Jun 21)
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- Stereopony (Apr 25)
- Deadman Wonderland director Koichi Hatsumi (Apr 15)
- Round Table: The Cast of C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control (Apr 12)
- Blue Exorcist mangaka Kazue Kato (Apr 8)
- with Matt Greenfield - SMASH 2010 (Apr 7)
- Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Director of Gundam UC (Apr 7)
- with Yūko Miyamura - SMASH 2010 (Apr 5)
- with Tiffany Grant - SMASH 2010 (Mar 31)
- They Live By Night - Interview with Takahiro Omori (Mar 17)
- Garden of Sinners' Atsuhiro Iwakami and Hikaru Kondo (Feb 25)
- A Few Minutes with Kenichi Matsuyama (Jan 20)
- Michael Sinterniklaas and Stephanie Sheh on Gundam UC (Nov 4)
- Tow Ubukata (Oct 28)
- A Few Minutes with Takao Kato (Oct 25)
- A Conversation With Moto Hagio (Aug 4)
- Danny Choo (Jul 16)
- From Akiba to L.A. with AKB48 (Jul 8)
- Kenshi Hirokane (Jun 9)
- Daisuke Ishiwatari and Toshimichi Mori (Jun 8)
- Gilles Poitras (Jun 8)
- Gainax's Hiroyuki Yamaga (Jun 3)
- Gen Fukunaga on the status of Funimation (May 29)
- Satoshi Nishimura, director of Trigun: Badlands Rumble (Apr 22)
- Maxey Whitehead (Feb 15)
- Mamoru Hosoda (Dec 22)
- Shiro Sasaki (Dec 18)
- Tsuguhiko Kadokawa (Dec 16)
- with Kiseki Magazine (Nov 19)
- Madman National Cosplay Championship Grand Finalist Interview - Min (Nov 12)
- Madman National Cosplay Championship Grand Finalist Interview - Siera (Nov 5)
- Kouji Seo (Oct 30)
- Shinichiro Miki (Oct 29)
- Madman National Cosplay Championship Grand Finalist Interview - Jenita (Oct 29)
- Yousuke Kuroda and Seiji Mizushima (Oct 28)
- Fred Schodt (Oct 27)
- Yoshiyuki Tomino (Oct 23)
- Madman National Cosplay Championship Grand Finalist Interview - Robyn (Oct 22)
- Madman National Cosplay Championship Grand Finalist Interview - Christie Lee (Oct 15)
- 17 Minutes in Heaven With AKB48 (Oct 6)
- Yoshiyuki Tomino Press Conference (Sep 14)
- Toshiyuki Morikawa, voice of D.Gray-man's Tyki Mikk (Aug 27)
- Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata, Creators of Eyeshield 21 (Aug 20)
- Kurt Hassler (Jul 20)
- Yui Makino (Jun 29)
- Gen Fukunaga (Jun 25)
- Yoshiyuki Tomino (Jun 19)
- Funimation Discusses Leaked Episodes (Jun 5)
- Five with Vic Mignogna (Apr 4)
- Tony Oliver on Adventures in Voice Acting (Feb 22)
- New Generation Pictures and Street Fighter IV (Feb 17)
- Takashi Miike on Yatterman (Feb 9)
- Lance Fensterman and New York Comic Con (Feb 2)
- Satoshi Kon (Aug 21)
- Hiro Mashima (Aug 17)
- Square Enix's National Manager of Merchandise, Kanji Tashiro (Aug 3)
- Gainax on Gurren Lagann (Jul 28)
- Liyin Liang, Anime Expo Convention Chairperson (Jun 30)
- T.M.Revolution (Jun 20)
- Crunchyroll's Vu Nguyen (Mar 25)
- With The Fansubber (Mar 11)
- Greg Ayres and Brina Palencia, pt.2 (Dec 2)
- Takehiko Inoue at Kinokuniya NYC (Nov 21)
- Five Questions with Hiroaki Yura (Nov 15)
- Eric P. Sherman, President of Bang Zoom! Entertainment (Nov 7)
- Otakon 2007 - Con Chair Interview (Aug 8)
- Arina Tanemura (Aug 5)
- One-on-One with OLIVIA (Jul 20)
- Anime Expo 2007 - ORESKABAND Interview (Jul 17)
- Chase Wang on Anime Expo 2007 (Jul 13)
- Charlie Campbell & 009-1 (Jun 22)
- John Ledford (May 30)
- Shinichi "Nabeshin" Wantanabe (May 24)
- Seiji Horibuchi, Chairman of Viz Media (May 7)
- Fuyumi Ono, Author of The Twelve Kingdoms (Mar 18)
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Photos from Otakon 2016: Cosplay and More
cosplay
An enormous gallery featuring hundreds of photos of cosplayers from this past weekend's Otakon!
― Otakon 2016 was held at the Baltimore Convention Center August 12-14, 2016. IMG otakon2016-51.jpg IMG otakon2016-1.jpg IMG otakon2016-2.jpg IMG otakon2016-3.jpg IMG otakon2016-4.jpg IMG otakon2016-5.jpg IMG otakon2016-6.jpg IMG otakon2016-7.jpg IMG otakon2016-8.jpg IMG otakon2016-9.jpg IMG otakon2016-10...
This Week in Games - Pokemon Uranium
games
This week: a Pokemon fan game flies too close to the sun, a long-lost Game Boy Color game returns from beyond the grave, Konami stuns everyone with Metal Gear news and much more!
― Nobody's told me about any fires in the Anime News Network offices, so I'm going to go ahead and call the inaugural instalment of This Week in Games a success. That means it's time for another one! This week we've got a su...
My Monster Secret GN 2
manga
Asahi's life gets more complicated when the monster secrets in his life just keep piling up! But as its harem expands, how does this offbeat romcom hold up overall?
― There's something inherently charming about a good manga romcom. You know the character relationships are probably going to stagnate, and you know any steps toward true romance will likely be walked back in a chapter's last few panels, ...
The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of Aug 5-11
anime
Orange and Food Wars! stomp down the competition with outstanding episodes, but halfway through the season, can they shake up the status quo? Here are your weekly user rankings!
― Our team of reviewers are following 30 anime series of the Summer 2016 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. ...
Answerman - How Do I Introduce Old Anime To Younger Fans?
anime
Justin runs down some in-depth advice for people looking to introduce some of their old favorites to new anime fans who might not be open to the classics.
― Heather asks: I work at a local community college and have become involved with the anime club at the school. As a 30-something anime fan, my approach to and experience with anime is quite different from the younger people in the club. I was inv...
Your Ultimate Guide to Anime Ending Credits: Part IV
anime
The final installment of Kevin Cirugeda's guide to anime closing credits rounds out the creative team - learn about storyboarding, screenwriting, what exactly an Episode Director does and much more!
― If you found last time's quick look at the producers and studio interactions less exciting, you'll be glad to see this guide delve back into the artistic side of production. Right at the end of TV serie...
The Irregular at Magic High School Novels 1 & 2
novels
Although it suffers from some overwriting, The Irregular at Magic High School's first two novels generally go to show that sometimes the book really is better.
― After the release of its anime version and two manga variants, the original light novels of Tsutomu Satou's The Irregular at Magic High School have arrived in English, courtesy of Yen On. While they aren't likely to win over any readers who ...
Comiket 90 Cosplay Gallery
cosplay
Tons of photos of the incredible cosplay on display at last weekend's Comic Market 90 in Tokyo!
― Comic Market 90 was held this past weekend at Big Sight in Tokyo - we've got an event report for you right around the corner, but in the meantime, here's a gallery of the incredible cosplay on display over the weekend. IMG kimg1663.jpg IMG kimg1439.jpg IMG kimg1446.jpg IMG kimg1451.jpg IMG kimg1453.jpg I...
Vice & Luna - #10
just for fun
It's finally date night for Luna, and Maybell has big plans, but Vice has a little something to say about that first!
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ReLIFE
anime
This season's offbeat dramedy about an unemployed 27-year old getting a second chance at high school was released to Crunchyroll as a full series for binge viewing, but is it worth a 13-episode marathon?
― The Summer 2016 anime season has given us a number of unusual releases – one series that's only five episodes long (Planetarian), two concurrent series from the same franchise meant to be viewed si...
Answerman - How Superstitious Is Japan, Really?
anime
Anime and manga frequently reference superstitious tradition - but just how superstitious is Japan in real life? Justin gets into it.
― Brooks asks: Are Japanese people in real life really as superstitious as they're portrayed in anime? Like in every anime that takes place at a school, there always seems to be that one character that's deathly afraid of ghosts to the point of absurdity. Or you often...
Shelf Life - After War Gundam X Part 2
anime
After War Gundam X ramps up the stakes in its second half, but is it enough to elevate the overall story? Plus, all this week's new releases!
― I think I've been doing this unconsciously for a few seasons now, but I've figured out a method of watching simulcast shows that's been working well for me. I follow the episodic comedies and slow-paced slice of life stuff from week to week, then start the m...
Queen Emeraldas GN 1
manga
Queen Emeraldas runs the risk of only appealing to fans of Matsumoto or older manga, but it is worth giving a chance even if neither of those are within your usual purview.
― Technically, this review could simply consist of the words “lady space pirate” and possibly “Leiji Matsumoto” and pique a prior fan's interest in Queen Emeraldas. But as with most, if not all, Matsumoto titles, there's far more ...