Warner Bros. Japan released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation of the popular mobile strategy game Girls’ Frontline (Dolls’ Frontline in Japan). The teaser trailer also announced the …
Anime is renowned for covering a remarkable variety of genres, story archetypes, settings, time periods and far more. And, of course, any animated series worth its salt will know how …
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Western culture has embraced and celebrated the achievements of anime and manga for decades. It’s influenced popular films like The Matrix and Inception along with cartoons like Steven Universe and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Though arts and culture from the eastern …
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Shogakukan’s magazine Big Comic Original announced in a press release that manga artist Rumiko Takahashi will be publishing a new one-shot called “Mukashi no Onna” (The Woman From the Past) …
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for My Hero Academia #306, by Kohei Horikoshi, Caleb Cook and John Hunt, available now in English from Viz Media. My Hero Academia #306 has …
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Chapter #56, “Code,” of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations by Masashi Kishimoto, Mikio Ikemoto, Mari Morimoto and Snir Aharon, now available in English from Viz …
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Warning: The following contains spoilers for World Trigger, Season 2, Episode 10, “The Upper Ranks”, now streaming on Crunchyroll. Round 6 of the B-Rank ranking battle in World Trigger Season 2 begins after …
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 1 of Pacific Rim: The Black, now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s Pacific Rim: The Black flips the franchise on its head when it …
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While manga is what many think of in terms of popular Japanese literature, there’s another medium that’s almost as massive: light novels. Many popular anime got their start as light …
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Episode 23 of Jujutsu Kaisen, “The Origin of Blind Obedience -2-,” now streaming on Crunchyroll. As Itadori, Fushiguro and Kugisaki investigate a recent string …
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