Normally we have reservations when a long-standing anime superstar tries to go the CG route, but the new anime film Lupin III: The First, which came this year to America courtesy of GKIDS, made the translation flawlessly (live-action is even worse, by the way, and Lupin’s been there). But this time the classic designs by […]
Mamoru Hosoda is an anime director responsible for several award-winning films: Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Boy and The Beast, Wolf Children and others. His last film, MIRAI, was released in 2018 and was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award and an Academy Award; and actually did win […]
With the massive userbase the Switch is rocking these days, we find it odd there have barely been any streaming apps put on it. The 3DS had access to Netflix; the Switch does not? How does that make sense? Currently the only streamer that has a Switch app is Hulu. They put it on the […]
Aniplex’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba first started running last year. It’s the story of Tanjiro, a young man who has aspirations of being a Demon Slayer…an occupation that gets a lot of business in his neck of the woods. Demons are lurking everywhere, and they’re hungry for humans. It turns out, though, that Tanjiro […]
GKids is bringing a unique anime film to US audiences this December — On-Gaku: Our Sound. It’s a slacker buddy comedy like you’ve never seen the genre: animated in a minimal Japanese style. Three bored teenagers decide to form a rock band, not because they believe they can make it, even or fake it, but […]
It all ends here: many years after a launch that quickly turned into a breakout hit, Attack On Titan is winding down its story with its fourth and final season of episodes. And Funimation, who brought America the previous three seasons, is there to simulcast the sub on its streaming channel. Last season we found […]
The trailer of the second season of BEASTars got released today. This one of a kind Shounen is one of the biggest hits of 2019. It proved that a series about anthropomorphic animals still have a market. The author of this hit is Paru Itagaki. She is the daughter of the legendary Keisuke Itagaki, maker […]
For almost 957 million US dollars, Sony wanted to buy Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll is one of the few streaming services where you can watch and binge Anime fresh out of Japan with either English Subtitles or English voice acting. Crunchyroll started as an upload site where fans uploaded fansubbed Anime. It was a former pirated Anime […]
As one of the leading anime distributors in the US, Funimation is responsible for a lot of titles….some creepier than others. They’ve compiled a seasonal list of shows on their service that trade in the macabre. Not all of them are Halloween-themed or even have anything to do with monsters or ghouls, but they’re still […]
This Pandemic had harmed the income of theatrical box office releases around the world. It is a different story with Japan now. Theaters started re-opening, and the movie adaptation of the second story arc of the Manga Demon Slayer had slain the Japanese Box office! Even in the time of quarantine and social distancing, this […]
If you grew up with Anime serials like Magic Knight Rayearth, Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, and the crossover, Tsubasa Chronicles, then you are already familiar with CLAMP. A group of female Mangaka from the late 1980s to early 2000s who created those classics. These women had been collaborating for decades to make mangas of diverse genres. […]
My Hero Academia, one of the most successful anime properties of the past decade, has a new movie out…and if you missed the brief theatrical run (given the circumstances, you probably did), it’s coming to home video formats very soon. Class 1-A has arrived on Nabu Island, a tourist destination where they figure they can […]