Interviews
- Aniplex of America President Henry Goto (Sep 12)
- Nami Sano, Author of Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto (Sep 7)
- Knights of Sidonia Mangaka Tsutomu Nihei (Aug 26)
- 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)
- Yoshitaka Amano (Oct 29)
- Yuu Asakawa (Oct 19)
- Takahiro Omori (Oct 8)
- 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)
- Ein Lee (Sep 4)
- Eiko Tanaka (Aug 30)
- Haruhiko Mikimoto (Aug 28)
- Toshio Maeda (Aug 22)
- Naoki Urasawa (Aug 20)
- Kanta Kamei, Director of Bunny Drop (Aug 3)
- Corp.IAM directors Toshiaki Ueno, Junji Yamada and Ryo Horikawa on Magical Dreamers (Jun 18)
- May'n (May 16)
- Razmig Hovaghimian, Co-founder and CEO of Viki.com (Apr 25)
- 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)
- Makoto Shinkai (Aug 16)
- 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)
- What's Up Doc? Irabu's Office director Kenji Nakamura (May 19)
- Evan Stone (May 9)
- Berryz Kobo (Apr 27)
- 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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Anime Spotlight - Sound! Euphonium 2
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North Uji High School Wind Ensemble won a gold award in the Kyoto prefectural contest. Next stage: Kansai regional contest.
― Sound! Euphonium 2 Visit the Official Site › Story Characters Trailer Cast & Staff Gallery On air starting October 5, 2016 in Japan Key Staff Director: Tatsuya Ishihara (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Air, Nichijou - My Ordinary Life) Series Composition: Jukki Hanada (The...
The Fall 2016 Anime Preview Guide
anime
The Fall 2016 Anime Preview Guide has begun! Check back daily for fresh previews of every new show this season!
Available Now: Natsume Yujin-cho Go - NANBAKA - Matoi the Sacred Slayer - Scorching Ping Pong Girls - Trickster - Show By Rock!!# - Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru - Magic-Kyun! Renaissance - Monster Hunter Stories: RIDE ON - and much more! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Fall 2016 Preview Guide!...
Available Now: Natsume Yujin-cho Go - NANBAKA - Matoi the Sacred Slayer - Scorching Ping Pong Girls - Trickster - Show By Rock!!# - Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru - Magic-Kyun! Renaissance - Monster Hunter Stories: RIDE ON - and much more! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Fall 2016 Preview Guide!...
The Best and Worst of the Summer 2016 Season
just for fun
The final rankings are in - find out which shows took the top spots as Best of the Summer 2016 season!
― 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. Keep in mind that these rankings are based on how people rated individual e...
Vice & Luna Bonus Round
anime
Luna introduces Maybell to just how bizarre anime can get with the Revolutionary Girl Utena movie!
― Editor's Note: We've had a slight schedule change - due to preview guide and an upcoming personal event, we'll be doing these shorter strips this week and next week. We'll be back to our usual story pages the week of October 17! Thanks for reading!
Corpse Party: Blood Covered GN 2
manga
This horror manga begins to find its feet in this second omnibus, although it's still lacking in some important aspects.
― This is the volume where Corpse Party: Blood Covered comes into its own. In what would have been volume three of the original Japanese release, the story stops playing with unsavory romance tropes and trying to reinvent itself as Higurashi: When They Cry Lite and gets down to the...
Shelf Life - Gundam Build Fighters Try
anime
James leaps from one Gunpla battle to the next in a spirited viewing of Build Fighters Try! Plus, all this week's new releases!
― It's Preview Guide time once again, and I'm excited to be working on that deluge of new anime for a second season. Speaking of lots of new anime, we've got another big week of new physical releases, so let's jump right into it. Welcome to Shelf Life. Jump to this week's r...
Haikyu!! GN 4
manga
Training camp begins for Karasuno's volleyball team, as Hinata still struggles to find his place within the team. Can they get their act together before the big practice match against Nekoma High?
― The previous two volumes in Haruichi Furudate's volleyball series were mostly concerned with assembling a full team for Karasuno High School, which was really a stand-in for how shattered the team had bec...
Anime Spotlight - Girlish Number
anime
Wanna be a Voice Actor? Wanna hit the Jackpot!?
― Girlish Number Visit the Official Site Story Characters Trailer Cast & Staff Gallery On air starting October 6, 2016 in Japan Key Staff Director: Shota Ihata ("KanColle(TV)" as episode director (eps 2, 11),"Medaka Box (TV)" as episode director (eps 1, 5, 8, 12)) Series Composition: Wataru Watari ("My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!" as original creat...
Anime Spotlight - Matoi the Sacred Slayer
anime
Middle school student and part-time shrine maiden who wants nothing but an ordinary life ends up as an exorcist
― Matoi the Sacred Slayer Visit the Official Site Story Characters Trailer Cast & Staff Gallery On air starting October 4, 2016 in Japan Key Staff Director: Masayuki Sakoi (Needless, Strawberry Panic!) Series Composition: Yousuke Kuroda (Big Windup!, Gundam Build Fighters,Hayate the Combat...
Anime Spotlight - Kiss Him, Not Me
anime
"A prince should be with a prince."
― Kiss Him, Not Me Visit the Official Site Story Characters Trailer Cast & Staff Gallery On air starting October 6, 2016 (in Japan) Key Staff Director: Hiroshi Ishiodori (Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino (TV), Peach Girl (TV)) Series Composition: Michiko Yokote (Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion (movie), Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!, Genshiken, ReLIFE, xxxHOLiC)...
The Mike Toole Show - Two Princes
anime
Mike compares the two versions of The Heroic Legend of Arslan: the gorgeous 90s OVA and the recent Hiromu Arakawa series. Both have their charms - and a ton of different English names between them!
― I've been in work hell lately, which means I haven't had time to play the video games I was enthusing about last time. No Super Robot Wars, and just as importantly, no Arslan: Warriors of Legend. It's fi...
The List - 7 Female Anime Directors Worth Checking Out
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It can often be tough for women to build a career in the entertainment industry, but these seven standout female directors have all shown they've got what it takes to inspire!
― The anime industry, not unlike Hollywood, is widely a male-dominated business outside of certain roles. Plenty of women fill artistic roles like colorists and animators, and to some degree script writing, but few actually di...
My Pathetic Vampire Life GN 1
manga
Is it worth it to be an all-powerful vampire with eternal life if you have to spend that life repeating the 10th grade forever? Koide's beginning to have his doubts in this slightly absurd new comedy series.
― Can you think of anything more horrible than repeating your first year of high school for 150 years? That's the fate of poor Koide, a vampire who was turned at age sixteen back in the Meiji era...