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- Pop Idols Momoiro Clover Z (Nov 16)
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization's Yosuke Futami (Nov 1)
- Dragon Ball Super's Toyotarou (Oct 26)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Mega Man Legacy Collection's Rey Jimenez (Sep 1)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Jon Dobyns, Founder of Tiger Lab Vinyl (Apr 22)
- Hiroshi "Bamboo" Takeuchi, OVERDRIVE Producer (Mar 17)
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- JAM Project (Feb 5)
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- Masayuki Yoshihara, director of The Eccentric Family (Jan 6)
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- Yoshiki of X JAPAN (Dec 23)
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- Yousei Teikoku (Oct 13)
- Choucho (Sep 24)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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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)
- Corp.IAM directors Toshiaki Ueno, Junji Yamada and Ryo Horikawa on Magical Dreamers (Jun 18)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Funimation Discusses Leaked Episodes (Jun 5)
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- Square Enix's National Manager of Merchandise, Kanji Tashiro (Aug 3)
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- Liyin Liang, Anime Expo Convention Chairperson (Jun 30)
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- Greg Ayres and Brina Palencia, pt.2 (Dec 2)
- Takehiko Inoue at Kinokuniya NYC (Nov 21)
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- Otakon 2007 - Con Chair Interview (Aug 8)
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ANNCast - Quite A Number
anime
Zac and Jacob catch up with Yuri on Ice, Girlish Number, All Out and much more, plus your Twitter questions!
― ANNCast Episode 276: Quite A Number Zac and Jacob catch up with Yuri on Ice, Girlish Number, All Out and much more, plus your Twitter questions! You can listen to the show on our player here, direct-download the MP3 version here, check out the show on Stitcher here, and we're also on Google...
How Keijo Won the Gold in Fanservice
anime
Booby shows come and go, but Keijo!!!!!!!! is making major waves this season! Jacob Chapman explains what makes this anime about girls fighting with their butts such a hit.
― No ifs, ands, or butts about it, Keijo!!!!!!!! is one of the biggest hits of the Fall 2016 season. Fanservice-driven anime come and go with the mercurial whims of thirsty otaku, but it looks like Keijo(x8!) is really making wave...
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Novel 2
novels
Things keep getting worse for ol' Subaru in the second Re:ZERO novel, which also introduces everyone's favorite twin maids, Ram and Rem!
― Immortality sounds great, but it's much more of a double-edged sword. Usually we see the sadder side of it in literature, such as Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, but sometimes an author decides to go for the more depressing or frustrating aspects of the inabil...
Broadcast Dub Review Roundup
anime
We've got reviews of Funimation's biggest fall season simuldub premieres, and you can find them all right here!
― This fall, Funimation partnered with Crunchyroll to dub a heaping helping of their seasonal simulcasts. Now that we're several weeks into the season, we have reviews of most of these new dubs available from our daily streaming reviews team! (Shows from past seasons like 91 Days and Orange...
This Week in Games - Switch Rumor Roundup
games
There's a new Nintendo console coming - and the rumors are flying fiercely. Dustin runs down everything we think we might know about the Switch - plus Persona 5 and more!
― After a couple of very slow news weeks—in the world of video games, anyway—the valves have been opened and we're now drowning in a deep, dark ocean of announcements, reports, and rumors. So much so that there isn't even room enoug...
To Love Ru Darkness 2 Sub.Blu-Ray
anime
One of the most successful long-running fanservice franchises rolls out its fourth season. But how does Darkness 2 stack up against shinier new fanservice franchises of today?
― With 78 episodes spread amongst OVAs and four TV series (and a 79th pending in an upcoming OVA release), To Love-Ru is now the most expansive anime harem franchise that covers one single storyline. Over the course of eight ye...
Interview: Pop Idols Momoiro Clover Z
events
World-conquering idols Momoiro Clover Z sang theme songs for anime like Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball, and they're bringing their incredible show to New York and LA this weekend!
― Where do idol groups come from? They don't burst out, fully-formed, upon the streets of Akiba, that's for sure. A look under the hood of the Japanese entertainment business reveals that the girls’ idol singing business is ta...
Hosoda Collection Product Spotlight: Summer Wars
anime
It's been a few years now since the 2010 release of Mamoru Hosoda's breakthrough hit, Summer Wars - and it is finally returning to Blu-ray/DVD with a special release made for devoted collectors and fans of director Hosoda! This release is next in line for Funimation's new Hosoda Collection series of releases. These are a set of premium releases of the films of Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Chi...
The Beginner's Guide to Natsume Yūjin-Chō
anime
As this beloved series enters its fifth season, it may be tempting to see what all the buzz is about for yourself. Lauren Orsini has the lowdown on how to get into Natsume's Book of Friends!
― Since long-running, intimidating anime franchises tend to fall into the shounen action genre, it's rare that a gentle, supernatural shoujo series gets similar treatment. At first glance, it's downright mystifyi...
Ten Count GN 2
manga
Ten Count is a good story for its subgenre, but this may be the point where it will lose readers less willing to forgive its twisted take on love. Rebecca Silverman investigates.
― If you're studying or practicing psychology, or are just particularly well-informed on the subject, this is the volume of Ten Count that may make your skin begin to crawl. Whereas volume one was more focused on Shirotani b...
The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of Nov 5-11
anime
A new show snatches the top spot in the overall rankings, dethroning both Sound Euphonium and Yuri on Ice! Find out where your faves ranked this week.
― Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Fall 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 ranki...
Interview: The Cast of Sailor Moon R: The Movie
anime
The English voice cast of Sailor Moon R: The Movie chat about what it's like to be voicing some of the most iconic anime characters ever - in their most beloved theatrical film. No pressure!
― Sailor Moon R: The Movie was originally released in 1993, and by the time it finally arrived on bilingual uncut DVD in the year 2000 courtesy of then-licensee Pioneer Entertainment, the film had already gained ...
Review: NES Classic Edition
games
This little console full of Nintendo nostalgia might be the most sought-after gadget of the holiday season! Todd Ciolek breaks down the NES Classic Edition and all 30 games available in its library.
― The Nintendo Entertainment System wasn't just a gray-and-black box that played video games. It was a paragon of late 1980s pastimes. Seizing an industry left vacant after a widespread collapse, Nintendo...
Don't forget to *re*-vote in the Monster Musume Contest
manga
A coding error on our part lead to votes cast before November 14 to not be counted. To make up for this little mistake, we've added a ~$100 (10,000 JPY) BookWalker credit to the prize list. If you voted in the Monster Musume Favorite Character contest before the 14th, please vote again!
― Contest Giveaway Manga Sale 1. Contest Details Vote for your favorite Monster Musume character in this official ...