©2023 二月公/KADOKAWA/声優ラジオのウラオモテ製作委員会 I’m someone who’s just never been wired to invest in parasocial relationships. It means I tend not to be bothered by feeling like I’m “owed” anything by artists and creators. But that also means stories specifically extolling and exploring that relationship can require extra legwork for me to get invested in. That can
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Image via Shigekatsu Ihara’s Twitter account © Shigekatsu Ihara, Shogakukan The official Twitter account for Shogakukan‘s Weekly CoroCoro Comic website revealed on Wednesday that Shigekatsu Ihara‘s Story of Duel Masters Code Bestie — a worldview manga of Shigenobu Matsumoto‘s Duel Masters manga — is entering its final arc. The manga launched on Weekly CoroCoro Comic
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Admittedly, when I walked into Anime Central to review i☆Ris the Movie -Full Energy!!-, I envisioned the film as the typical fare of idol dancing via 3D models in dizzyingly pastel-rich environments with little to no story to chew on. While the movie is still very much all of the above, I was pleasantly surprised
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First volume goes on sale on October 1 Titan Comics revealed on Thursday in an exclusive with ANN the company has licensed Osamu Tezuka‘s adult fantasy manga I.L for release in English on October 1. The release will mark the first English release of the manga. Image courtesy of Titan Comics The company describes the
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Uchiyama plays Mithrun, Murase as Yaad Kadokawa revealed on Thursday two new cast and characters for the second half of Studio Trigger‘s television anime of Ryōko Kui‘s Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi) manga. The new characters will appear in the anime’s 21st episode also on Thursday. The newly announced cast are: Kōki Uchiyama as Mithrun,
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Suiseisha revealed on Wednesday that the anime adaptation of Suika‘s Yoasobi Gurashi! (Living in a F*** Room) manga by AnimeFesta (formerly Anime Zone and ComicFesta Anime) will premiere on July 7 on WWWave Corporation‘s Coolmic website. The anime’s website also opened on Wednesday and revealed the key visual, staff, and main cast. Image courtesy of
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Also licensed: How to Repair a Broken Cup, Diary of a Female Lead: Shujinkou Nikki, Checkmate manhwa in print Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it has licensed Nekota and Asahiko‘s light novel The Villainess and the Demon Knight, as well as Haka Tokura, Shin Arakawa, and Eiri Shirai‘s Magical Buffs: The Support Caster
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GKIDS screens 4K restoration at Chicago Critic’s Film Festival this summer before wide release GKIDS began streaming a trailer for the new 4K restoration of Mamoru Oshii‘s Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence film on Wednesday. The trailer reveals that GKIDS will screen the 4K restoration in theaters in North America from June 23 to
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© ぬじま・小学館／「怪異と乙女と神隠し」製作委員会 Despite some issues, this may have been my favorite episode of Mysterious Disappearances thus far. For what feels like the first time, it leans into its darker elements and folkloric connections, showing that it’s working within a framework of what amounts to folklore studies. The supernatural being, mostly referred to by the name
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Image via Apple TV+ © Legendary Television Apple TV+ announced on Tuesday that Drops of God, the new internationally co-produced, multilingual live-action television series of Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto‘s The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) manga, is getting a second season. Oded Ruskin (Absentia, No Man’s Land) is returning to direct the new
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