Today Crunchyroll and Funimation announced a huge partnership that will ultimately give fans greater access to anime. It's the best of both their respective worlds as Crunchyroll members get access to subtitled versions of Funimation's summer simulcasts and, in the weeks to come, FunimationNow viewers will get to watch Broadcast Dub versions of Crunchyroll's summer anime. 

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It's been a long time coming, but with Nintendo's recent branching out into the world of mobile games, Mario is about to make his debut on smartphones and tablets. Shigeru Miyamoto made an appearance at Apple's event this week to unveil Super Mario Run, which is a premium runner that takes Super Mario Bros. platforming and simplifies it with a single touch. 

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Hey otaku ladies: check it out.

You’ll soon be able to add a bit of anime flair to your compact, thanks to a new line by Bandai that shows off designs from Urusei Yatsura, Mr. Osomatsu and others. Now that’s geek chic.

Were you a fan of visual novel-turned-anime Chaos;Head? Did you ever wish it had… offspring?

Wish no more. Chaos;Child, the sequel, is coming to a TV near you, and now we have a first peek at what the series will look like with the series’ first visual, showing off character designs by Kazuyuki Yamayoshi.

The opening. A classic anime trope, and a way for a series to show its stuff in a one minute, thirty-second montage of greatness.

With hundreds of openings created every year, picking the top 10 of all time is a formidable challenge indeed, but readers of Anime Anime took to the task this week, ranking their top openings.

You would be hard-pressed to find an anime fan, casual or serious, who hasn’t come across at least one of the works of Shinichiro Watanabe. Whether it’s his benchmark sci-fi Cowboy Bebop, the hip-hop infused Samurai Champloo, the coming-of-age masterpiece Kids On The Slope, or the simulcast romp Space Dandy, Shinichiro Watanabe’s influence has unmistakably crossed cultures and borders.

Joined by his frequent collaborator and screenwriter Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, Eden of the East), Shinichiro Watanabe and Dai Sato sat down for a roundtable discussion with Otaku USA at the annual Nan Desu Kan convention in Denver, Colorado to talk about their influences, creative processes and thoughts on the constantly changing industry they work in.

“Be ready to work yourselves to the bone as the public’s dogs!!” That’s how new employees are greeted at the Health & Welfare Department, where patient bureaucrats sit behind windows answering the public’s questions and telling people how to fill out forms. Into this public servant life come three new hires: Yutaka (an annoying, flirtatious goof-off), Saya (a shy girl who’s always being cornered by elderly people wanting to tell her rambling stories) and Yamagami, our bookish, busty heroine...

Never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed that one of the most beloved anime titles of the 2010s would be a virtual word-for-word, scene-for-scene reenactment from a manga dating back over 20 years. I never thought I’d see the day where Hot Topic would be successfully selling T-shirts of a title from the classic shonen era, the kind where a villain might vent his frustrations by biting off the face of a random stranger’s dog and it doesn’t turn audiences away because at that point the viewing audience has accepted that all dogs shown suffer graphic dismemberment.

It’s not unusual to see shrine maidens in manga, but Kuma Miko has a special kind of shrine maiden: one who hangs out with a talking bear.

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It's hard to believe, but one of the mainstays of Shonen Jump is finally coming to an end. After 40 years of serialization, Osamu Akimoto is preparing to bring his Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo police comedy, more succinctly known as Kochikame, to its conclusion on September 17. The 200th and final volume of the series will hit shelves in Japan on the same day. 

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