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Anime Spotlight - Sound! Euphonium 2

Oct 5, 00:00

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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...

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The Fall 2016 Anime Preview Guide

Oct 4, 17:50

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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!...

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The Best and Worst of the Summer 2016 Season

Oct 4, 12:52

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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...

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Vice & Luna Bonus Round

Oct 4, 11:26

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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!

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Corpse Party: Blood Covered GN 2

Oct 4, 10:39

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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...

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Shelf Life - Gundam Build Fighters Try

Oct 3, 11:00

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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...

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Haikyu!! GN 4

Oct 3, 07:00

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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...

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Anime Spotlight - Girlish Number

Oct 3, 06:00

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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...

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Anime Spotlight - Matoi the Sacred Slayer

Oct 3, 04:00

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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...

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Anime Spotlight - Kiss Him, Not Me

Oct 2, 23:00

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"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)...

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The Mike Toole Show - Two Princes

Oct 2, 12:00

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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...

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The List - 7 Female Anime Directors Worth Checking Out

Oct 1, 11:00

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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...

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My Pathetic Vampire Life GN 1

Oct 1, 10:00