The Spring 2024 Anime Preview Guide

Hisaya Nakajo’s Hana-Kimi Shōjo Manga Gets Anime Crunchyroll to stream upcoming anime ― Aniplex and Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that the late manga creator Hisaya Nakajo’s Hana-Kimi manga is inspiring an anime. In addition, Crunchyroll announced that it will stream the anime when it premieres in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania,

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Kaiju No. 8 Anime Adds Makoto Furukawa to Cast

The official Twitter account for the anime of Naoya Matsumoto‘s Kaiju No. 8 manga confirmed one more cast member on Thursday. Makoto Furukawa will play Ryō Ikaruga, a platoon leader in the Defense Force’s 3rd Division. The character will appear in the sixth episode on May 18. ◢◤『#怪獣8号』新キャスト解禁💥◥◣ 斑鳩亮:#古川慎 5月18日(土)23時より放送の第6話「夜明けの相模原討伐作戦」に登場!お楽しみに👀 #KaijuNo8 pic.twitter.com/PhwbieVVtx — 怪獣8号【公式】 (@KaijuNo8_O)

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27th Detective Conan Film Stays at #1, Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top Opens at #6

Image via Detective Conan: Hyakuman Doru no Michishirube anime film’s Twitter account © 2024 青山剛昌/名探偵コナン製作委員会 The Detective Conan: Hyakuman Doru no Michishirube (Case Closed: The Million-dollar Pentagram) film stayed at #1 in its fifth weekend. The film sold 362,000 tickets and earned 534,319,890 yen (about US$3.41 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold

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First Look at Crunchyroll’s Spring Anime Series Slate

Shaking up their usual rollup to a new season of anime for Spring 2024, Crunchyroll held a press-only event at their office and on-site theater in Los Angeles. MC’d by Crunchyroll News’ Global Editor-in-Chief, Kyle Cardine, this event offered an early showing of some of the series mainlining Crunchyroll‘s upcoming season, namely Kaiju No. 8,

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Seven Seas Licenses The Barbarian’s Bride, My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files, 2 More Manga

Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it has licensed Noriaki Kotoba‘s The Barbarian’s Bride, Natsumi Ito‘s My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files, Mizuki Hoshino‘s Tiger & Dragon, and Sachiko Orihara‘s Nakamura-san, the Uninvited Gyaru manga all for an October 2024 print release window. The Barbarian’s Bride, Tiger and Dragon, and Nakamura-san, the Uninvited Gyaru

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A Girl and Her Guard Dog Manga Gets Live-Action Film

Image via Amazon Japan © Hatsuharu, Kodansha Hatsuharu‘s A Girl & Her Guard Dog (Ojō to Banken-kun) manga is getting a live-action film in spring 2025. The film stars Riko Fukumoto as Isaku and SixTONES idol group member Jesse as Keiya. Keiichi Kobayashi is directing the film. Yо̄suke Masaike is writing the screenplay. Yurika Koike

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Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf ‒ Episode 7

© 2024 支倉凍砂・KADOKAWA/ローエン商業組合 The next chapter of Lawrence and Holo’s long trek northward begins as all of their chapters should: with some light verbal sparring seasoned by food-based wordplay. These cart conversations are the series’ bread and butter. We must imagine that most of their journey takes place on the road, so these dialogues from

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