Welcome to the steamy side of ANN's Spring Manga Guide. All of these titles are for readers 18 and older, from spicy to something a bit more, and featuring a range of tropes, groupings, and fetishes. Come find your next adult read - there's plenty to choose from.
We're doing something a little different this week! Instead of recounting the bigger news regarding Japanese games this past week, we'll be discussing a particular theme: Japanese erotic games, better known as eroge!― Welcome back, folks! We're doing something a little different this week! Instead of recounting the bigger news regarding Japanese games this past week, we'll be discussing a particular...
Welcome to the steamy side of ANN's Spring Manga Guide.― Welcome to the steamy side of ANN's Spring Manga Guide. All of these titles are for readers 18 and older, from spicy to something a bit more, and featuring a range of tropes, groupings, and fetishes. Come find your next adult read - there's plenty to choose from. June If I Let Her Ruin My Life Erica Friedman, Lucas DeRuyterBolts Bride of the ...
During our chat, they revealed their favorite moments from the season, their hopes for future adaptations, how they strove to maintain a healthy production schedule, and their stance on AI in animation.―
To say the wait between Dorohedoro's first and second seasons was rough on fans would be an understatement. For years, fans worried that MAPPA's gloriously gory adaptation of Q Hayashida's manga ha...
Appearances aren't everything, but in a visual medium like anime, they're still pretty important. A design can tell audiences a lot about a character, giving them an idea or an expectation before their personality is expressed. This is why character designs for anime are often revealed quite in advance of the series itself premiering, and the girls of MewType from BanG Dream! YUME∞MITA are no exception.
Semantic Error still isn't going to be a story for everyone, even if you're a fan of queer romance fiction.― Semantic Error is, understandably, something of a hard read for some people. The first novel features the romantic interest embarking on an all-out harassment campaign based on the fact that he's unaware (or unable to understand) that Sangwoo is neurodivergent. While the novel does a better j...
K MANGA publishes Yachimoto's manga of resn's original story in English― A new official X/Twitter account opened on Friday to announce that author resn and artist Yachimoto's Destiny Unchain Online: How I became the Crimson Devil (Destiny Unchain Online ~Kyūketsuki Shōjo to Natte, Yagate "Aka no Maō" to Yobareru Yō ni Narimashita~) novels and Yachimoto's manga adaptation are inspiring a television a...
Producer Goshi Yoshida came running out of the back, looped around the panel room, and ran down the center aisle, high-fiving everybody in the audience.― The energy that producer Goshi Yoshida had for this panel was absolutely perfect. This man came running out of the back, looped around the panel room, and ran down the center aisle, high-fiving everybody in the audience. It was honestly great, and ...
Not having a lot to show meant that there’s a lot to this show that still needs to be unmasked.― A mask salesman. Masks with magical powers. One of them is very evil, apparently. And there's a gang of misfits who try to steal said mask. No, I'm actually not talking about Zelda: Majora's Mask here, although it sounds like it. At its Otakon premiere panel, one audience member even asked if it was ins...
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class goes in the pile of romance anime that remind me why I love this genre so much.― On paper, this show doesn't have anything going for it. It looks as basic as they come: a young, socially awkward man eventually gets together with one of the more popular girls in his class. The title almost seems like a misleading gimmick, considering that even...
Series director Kiyotaka Taguchi and Lay-duce animation producer Seiichiro Kuriyama describe their love of older cel animation and how that influenced their approach to adapting a modern fantasy series. Also, Kadokawa producer Kōsuke Arai explained how they got Ellie Goulding to make an ending song for the anime!― We got to sit with the staff of Clevatess ahead of the season two premiere at Anime E...
The Ninth Jedi is one of those anime I enjoyed watching in the moment and have become more enraptured with the more I think about.― First and foremost, The Ninth Jedi feels like Star Wars. Much of this is in how the story is told. While each episode is an individual story, the overarching series follows the classic Star Wars trilogy structure. The two Star Wars: Visions episodes make up the opening ...
Both to invest up to 4 billion yen into initiative― Anime planning and production company Twin Engine (production for Vinland Saga, Dororo, Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku) announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a strategic partnership with toy and merchandising company Bandai Co., Ltd., with the two companies planning to produce at least one new joint project. The companies' initiative will in...
While there are great individual episodes here, the awkward execution of its larger plot leaves this arc falling just a little short of being the whole sum of its parts.― With the first arc of Digimon Beatbreak doing a good job of setting up the show's foundations through its episodic format, and the second digging a little deeper into the darker sides of its setting through a more tightly focused p...
Norio Sakurai debuted manga in March 2018, which inspired TV anime in 2023― The 196th chapter of Norio Sakurai's The Dangers in My Heart (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu) manga revealed on Tuesday that the series will end in three chapters. The manga was also previously announced to end in its 14th compiled book volume. Sakurai launched the manga in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shonen Champion magazine in Ma...
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The 25th volume of Shō Aimoto's Kemono Jihen manga announced on Tuesday that the series will end in the next volume. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English and describes the story: Inugami is a Tokyo detective who specializes in the occult. One day, answering a call to a remote village leads him to Dorotabo: a peculiar boy nicknamed after a yokai that haunts...
Animation studio Passione produces anime― TOHO animation announced on Tuesday that Kamome Maruyono's Dokagui Daisuki! Mochizuki-san (I Love Dokagui! Mochizuki-san) manga is receiving a television anime adaptation. Animation Studio Passione is producing the anime. TOHO revealed the anime adaptation at the end of a one-hour cooking video loop that started streaming on Tuesday. Maruyono also drew an il...
While Beast of Reincarnation doesn't quite reach the heights of its truly brilliant inspirations, it still accomplishes more than enough to prove itself as a genuinely excellent game in its own right.― NieR: Automata is a top contender for my favorite video game of all time, so I am of two minds when I see some of these more recent games that are so clearly inspired and influenced by it. On the one ...
At the end of the day, while Echoes of Aincrad was an easy game for me to play and enjoy, it is a difficult product to recommend without including some major caveats.― I have to admit that I have maybe been too hard on Sword Art Online. In the 2010s, I was still finishing up college; I had only just recently gotten back into anime, and fancied myself quite the S.A.O. hater. Back then, it was easy to...
