May is for Manga! Check out the new May releases in the guide, including SHAMAN KING FLOWERS, ELDEN RING: The Road to the Erdtree, and more!― Banner art by catfish Welcome to Anime News Network's Spring 2023 Manga Guide! You may have seen one of our seasonal Anime Preview Guides, where a team of critics writes up each new anime television premiere as it airs at the beginning of a season. Now, doing...
Show-ha Shoten! expands his comedy repertoire with new side-splitting characters.― Show-Ha Shoten! was a genuine surprise. I always like reading a good comedy that gets me to laugh and distracts me from the world being on fire outside my window. But I never thought I would find so much enjoyment in a series that's literally about breaking down what makes something funny. It's like reading a shonen a...
Kizuna Ai broke ground for the VTuber space when she debuted in 2016, earning worldwide recognition. As the VTuber-sphere expanded beyond her, the idol's virtual footprint shrank. The Kizuna no Allele anime looks to bring her to the forefront of the conversation again, but its approval-by-committee approach runs antithesis to the freedom that VTubing can bring creators.― Kizuna Ai broke ground for ...
Mukai plays reincarnated Shokatsu Kōmei (a.k.a. Zhuge Kongming/Zhuge Liang) this fall― Fuji TV announced on Monday that it is producing a live-action series adaptation of Yuto Yotsuba and Ryō Ogawa's Ya Boy Kongming! (Paripi Kōmei) manga that will premiere on Fuji TV this fall. Osamu Mukai (seen in costume below) will play the titular Shokatsu Kōmei (Zhuge Kongming, better known in history as Zhuge ...
Vice president, COO has been with company since 2014― In an email sent to Crunchyroll staff and shared with Anime News Network, anime retailer Right Stuf vice president and chief operating officer Christine Morgan has left Right Stuf and Crunchyroll as of March 31. Her LinkedIn profile lists her as working in Right Stuf from July 2014 to April 2023. ANN reached out to Crunchyroll for comment, but Cr...
Smartphone rhythm game launched in 2019― The official Twitter account for the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS smartphone game announced on Sunday that the game will end service on June 30 at 4:00 p.m. JT (3:00 a.m. EDT). The School Idol Festival game series will then be consolidated into the Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live! game, which just launched in Japan earlier this mon...
Anime season was slated for April premiere― The official website for the television anime of Hazuki Takeoka and Tiv's Masamune-kun's Revenge (Masamune-kun no Revenge) manga debuted a new television commercial and key visual for Masamune-kun's Revenge R (Masamune-kun no Revenge R), the show's second season, on Friday. The commercial announces that the season's premiere has been rescheduled to July 3....
Story is set in crime-ridden Tokyo with 100 detective teams― Kodansha announced on Monday Hundred Note, a new multimedia project which will have a YouTube anime, manga, and events. The project is set in the year 20XX in Tokyo City, now known as a city of criminals. Here, 100 detectives and their assistants clash in a battle of wits against criminals, with a three-man team of a detective and his two ...
#10 biggest ever worldwide animated film opens with US$14.3 million in Japan― The Box Office Mojo and The Numbers websites list The Super Mario Bros. Movie with estimated earnings of US$490,016,000 in the United States as of Sunday, April 30. It earned an estimated US$40 million from Friday to Sunday to top the U.S. weekend box office once again. Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Sunda...
With an assassin on the loose and the Queen bedridden, the Royal Family is on high alert in this second high-stakes spy romp.― If the first Crown Handler film is about Ange, this second film is about Charlotte. With an assassin on the loose and the Queen bedridden, the Royal Family is on high alert. This is especially true for those in the direct line of succession. With Richard (the third in line t...
MAN WITH A MISSION's Jean-Ken Johnny gushes to ANN about the theme songs in the newest Demon Slayer season, plus the band's upcoming international tour.― You can always count on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba theme songs to grab your attention. The opening and theme songs of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc feature a team-up between two top artists in Japan: rock band Man With a...
Concerned about the "mythologization" growing up around Ghibli British academic Rayna Denison offers several alternative perspectives on the acclaimed anime studio and spotlights its less-touted but still wildly talented staff.― It has been a decade since Studio Ghibli last released a hit film, Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises in 2013. Since then, anime films by other creators have challenged Ghibli'...
Its unusually inclusive official line-up makes Soaring Sky one of the most affirming magical girl series of recent years, as it speaks to the genre's promise that anyone can transform if given the chance.― From their earliest days, magical girls have always been about using the power within to transform into heroes. I can think of very few magical girl series that use that concept better than Soarin...
Ai, the legendary idol from 【OSHI NO KO】, has arrived as a 1/7 scale figure!― Lies are the greatest kind of love! Ai, the legendary idol from 【OSHI NO KO】, has arrived as a 1/7 scale figure!
We created this figure using a teaser visual from a concert scene with meticulous attention to detail in the molding and painting. Lies are the greatest kind of love! Her bright and fresh outfit, dynamic posing...