"Part of the manga's appeal is that there are moments where you're not entirely sure what's happening between one panel and the next."― MARRIAGETOXIN director Motonobu Hori and BONES Film producer Tatsuya Saito took to the stage at Anime Expo for an exciting panel celebrating the action-romcom MARRIAGETOXIN. The series, adapted from the manga by Joumyaku and Mizuki Yoda, follows an assassin named G...
Director Kenji Kamiyama has worked on some of fiction's most storied franchises, from The Lord of the Rings to Star Wars to Blade Runner to Ghost in the Shell. Soon, he'll add Gundam to his list.― Director Kenji Kamiyama has worked on some of fiction's most storied franchises, from The Lord of the Rings to Star Wars to Blade Runner to Ghost in the Shell. Soon, he'll add Gundam to his list. RetroCru...
Is Rhythm Heaven Groove the best game in the series? No, but it's one heck of a runner-up.― Rhythm Heaven Groove is a return to the Rhythm Heaven games of old—i.e., Rhythm Tengoku, Rhythm Heaven, and Rhythm Heaven Fever. Gone is the attempt at story in Rhythm Heaven Megamix, and instead you simply work your way up columns of mini-games, clearing each to unlock the next. Rhythm Heaven Groove is massi...
Stylish, well-choreographed, and featuring some excellent new character designs by Kei Mochizuki, there's nothing out there that looks quite like this film.― It's hard to overstate the lasting influence of Osamu Tezuka's The Princess Knight. With the manga published between 1953–56 and an anime that aired from 1967–68, it's widely considered a foundational title for all things shojo, magical girl, a...
Oku: "To be honest, I just don't have the energy to keep drawing anymore."― Manga creator Hiroya Oku (Gantz, Inuyashiki, GIGANT) revealed in an interview with Courrier Japon published on Tuesday that he plans to retire after he finishes his latest manga Kanrekihime (The Sweet Sixty Princess). In his interview, he said: "No, this is it. I've made up my mind. To be honest, I just don't have the energy...
It's super-sized column as Josh catches us up on the latest summer updates, from Genshin Impact and Heaven Burns Red to Fate/Grand Order and Suikoden Star Leap!― This week's This Week in Mobile Games is being sponsored again by our friends at Grand Summoners!Hello, and welcome once more to the latest installment of the column! With everything happening and set to happen in mobile games over the next...
Most of the misfits never even considered that there’d be a thirteenth member of the class, and that’s just how Soi Purson wants it.― Sharp-eyed readers (and anime viewers) already knew that there was a thirteenth student in the Misfit Class. It makes sense even if you didn't spot the sleepy-eyed, bob-haired demon in the background: everything important in this series plays with the numbers thirteen...
Yume Miyamoto, Akira Sekine star in series directed by Itsurō Kawasaki at BENTEN Film― A new official website opened on Monday to announce the television anime of Aito Aoyagi's Akazukin, Tabi no Tochū de Shitai to Deau (Red Riding Hood: A Detective Story, or literally Little Red Riding Hood Encounters a Dead Body During Her Journey.) novel, which will debut next year. The website also revealed the a...
The Elder Sister-Like One is an original manga series created by manga artist and illustrator Pochi Iida. Theis Chiya 1/6 Scale Figure is a recreation based on an original illustration drawn by Pochi Iida for Comic Market. She is sculpted with a bewitching expression as she shoots an upward glance that seems to beckon its viewer.― The Elder Sister-Like One is an original manga series created by mang...
At Anime Expo, we talked about Ghost in the Shell's legacy and how, despite all of its technological advances, the series' creation is still powered by humans.― Ghost in the Shell may be one of the most revisited worlds in the anime medium. Across decades, fans have followed Major Motoko Kusanagi across multiple continuities, each imbued with a vision of a startling technological future. Following ...
Of all the arcs so far in Classroom of the Elite, this one is the first to feel like Ayanokoji is in any real danger.― If this season of Classroom of the Elite were to be described in one word, that word would be “chaotic.” Over the first three seasons, we've steadily gotten to know all the major players of freshman (now sophomore) classes A through D—with many supporting characters getting at least...
Writer Gwon Gyeoeul, artist SUOL's series centers on otome game's villainess trying to avoid death ending― Kakao's Piccoma online manga and novel service announced on Sunday the end of the main story and the television anime adaptation of writer Gwon Gyeoeul and artist SUOL's Villains Are Destined to Die (Akuyaku no Ending wa Shi nomi) webtoon. The Tapas service describes the story: This game's got ...
Halfway through the season now, the girls of BanG Dream! YUME∞MITA have come a long way. They've reached milestones in their personalities and relationships, including adding a new member to their number in Ritsu. Now they find themselves having delivered a live performance that has resulted in a make-or-break moment for their career!― Halfway through the season now, the girls of BanG Dream! YUME∞MI...
Magical girl fans owe it to themselves to watch Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly; here's why.― It's been two decades since Studio Pierrot last released a magical girl series. The studio made its mark on the genre in the 1980s with Creamy Mami, Magical Emi the Magic Star, Magical Fairy Persia, and Magical Idol Pastel Yumi before taking a break for roughly ten years, returning in the 90s with Fancy Lala....