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Manie Manie: Neo Tokyo Anime Film Review
This collection still stands tall as a time capsule for an essential era in the history of Japanese anime. ― It's always wonderful when classic, out-of-print anime make their way onto legal streaming services. While a full-blown restoration on a nice home-media format would obviously be ideal, the fact that we can sit here in the year 2025 and watch Manie Manie: Neo Tokyo at all is something to be th...
From Sanji to Kotetsu T. Kaburagi — An Interview with Hiroaki Hirata at Animazement 2025
The One Piece and Tiger & Bunny actor spills the beans on Tiger & Bunny 2 production and a whole season worth of scripts that weren't used. ― For two-and-a-half decades, audiences around the world have known Hiroaki Hirata as the Straw Hats' womanizing, chain-smoking chef Sanji. But just as One Piece started to take over the Western world and long before I knew what a “Going Merry” was, I'd come to ...
Isekai Quartet Anime Gets 3rd Season
Season to feature characters from Overlord, KonoSuba, Re:Zero, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Rising of the Shield Hero, Eminence in Shadow ― Kadokawa announced on Friday that the Isekai Quartet crossover anime series is getting a third season titled Isekai Quartet 3. The show's staff also revealed a visual and 11 cast . The series will feature characters from Overlord, KonoSuba, Re:ZERO -Starting Li...
Ninja Kamui Anime Gets 2 More Seasons
Sola Entertainment returns for Season Two: Red Vendetta on Adult Swim ― Adult Swim officially announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Thursday that the Ninja Kamui anime will have two more seasons from Sola Entertainment. The first of the two additional seasons, Ninja Kamui Season Two: Red Vendetta, "will follow Higan as he uncovers a new conspiracy of cataclysmic proportions...
This Week in Anime - The Danmei Controversy
Coop and Chris discuss the censorship of Chinese novels focusing on the romantic attraction between men and the legal persecution of its authors. ― Coop and Chris discuss the censorship of Chinese novels focusing on the romantic attraction between men and the legal persecution of its authors. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime ...
Look Back Director Discusses Artistic Struggles, Anime Adaptation Philosophy, and AI's Role in Creativity
― Studio Durian's film adaptation of Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto's emotionally resonant one-shot manga, Look Back, is arguably one of the most moving pieces of art to come out of animation in quite a while. As evident by its booming box office success both in Japan and North America and numerous award circuit sweeps, Look Back stands as a testament both to the grueling labor of love that ...
100 Meters Anime Movie Review
Debuting at Annecy, 100 Meters is a gorgeous work from the creative team behind On Gaku: Our Sound and the creator of Orb. ― If you were to map the film onto the circumstances of its making, Kenji Iwaisawa's feature debut ON-GAKU: Our Sound fit perfectly—a project made by self-taught animators about embracing your love of art despite your level of talent. His sophomore feature 100 Meters is less clea...
'Light-novel Anime' Project Announced Adapting 4 Original Stories From Popular Light Novelists
Anime omnibus project based on 4 original stories streams on YouTube, also airs on TV starting on July 12 ― A website launched on Thursday to announce a new "Light-novel Anime" project, which will feature four anime works adapting original stories from popular light novel authors, partnered alongside character designs from popular illustrators. The short anime are being released in parts as vertical ...
Yūki Dōmoto's I Want to End This Love Game Manga Gets TV Anime
Romantic comedy manga about childhood friends playing love game until high school launched in 2021 ― Shogakukan announced on Thursday that Yūki Dōmoto's I Want to End This Love Game (Aishiteru Game o Owarasetai) manga is getting a television anime adaptation. Dōmoto posted an illustration to commemorate the announcement. Dōmoto launched the manga on the Sunday Webry website in 2021. Shogakukan publis...
Jinsei Anime Film Review
There is an eclectic collection of influences at play in Jinsei, from acclaimed Norwegian comedy-drama The Worst Person in the World to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ― It's easy to reduce Jinsei, 30-year-old Ryuya Suzuki's feature directorial debut, to this year's On-Gaku: Our Sound. It's not like the two films have nothing in common, either. Both share a sheer sense of independent filmmaki...
Samurai Troopers Gets New Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers Sequel Anime
Hiiro Ishibashi stars in new Sunrise anime in January 2026 ― Sunrise announced during an anniversary screening for the Yoroiden Samurai Troopers anime at Shinjuku Piccadilly on Wednesday that the series is getting a new sequel anime Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers in January 2026. The staff unveiled a teaser trailer and visual: The anime stars: Hiiro Ishibashi as Gai Yōichi Fujita (Gintama, Mr. Osoma...
The Last Blossom Anime Film Review
The first film from the creator of Odd Taxi makes it clear Baku Kinoshita loves to show the gradual cracks in the shell of a taciturn man. ― Alhough the debut feature film from Baku Kinoshita, The Last Blossom, is strikingly different from his series OddTaxi, it's clear the man loves to show the gradual cracks in the shell of a taciturn man. In this case, it's the stoic yakuza Minoru Akutsu, first sh...
This Week in Anime - Want Your Bad Romance
Lucas and Steve explore the "Toxic Together" K-Comic special on Lezhin. ― Lucas and Steve explore the "Toxic Together" K-Comic special on Lezhin. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. Every manhwa title mentioned in this column is available to read on Lezhin. @RiderS...
Your Anime Rankings - Best of Spring 2025, May 27-Jun 2
While The Apothecary Diaries is solidifying its hold on the cumulative, slow-starting series Ninja & Assassin and Too-Perfect Saint are lately picking up steam. ― Let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season, based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews and on the Your Score page with the latest simulcasts. Keep in mind that these rankings are b...
Oni no Hanayome Light Novels Get TV Anime
Light novels, manga have 5.8 million copies in circulation ― The official X (formerly Twitter) for Kureha's Oni no Hanayome (Bride of the Ogre) light novels announced a television anime adaptation on Monday. The manga adaptation artist Jun Togashi drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement. The illustrator for the light novels, Yū Shiroya, also created an illustration in celebration. ...
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