The second season of Blood Blockade Battlefront, which is called Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond, premieres October 7. In anticipation, a new trailer for the series was posted by the series’ official Twitter account. The song featured in the video is “fake town baby” by …Read more »
Funimation updated plans for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans‘ return to Toonami. The second season officially kicks off on Adult Swim’s block on October 7 at 12:30am.
The furballs are back! When we last left them (four years ago!), the tanuki of the Shimogamo family found out exactly how their patriarch came to be the main ingredient in the Friday Club’s hot pot, the heartbroken-gone-mad Soun was banished from tanuki society, and the …Read more »
It’s nigh impossible to capture lightning in a bottle, but the 2014-2015 TV anime The Seven Deadly Sins succeeds. An excellent adaptation of a popular fantasy adventure manga, The Seven Deadly Sins is the perfect balance of overpowered action, slapstick comedy, and honest human drama. …Read more »
It’s no secret that not all TV anime is created equal, and many blunders make their way on air before being fixed for later home video releases. Former Gainax president Toshio “Otaking” Okada has had some fun criticizing anime in the past, and he recently …Read more »
Every time you think the live-action Hollywood adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira is down for the count, it pops another capsule and jumps back on the bike. According to Deadline Hollywood, Akira is “revving back up,” and Taika Waititi, who directed Thor: Ragnarok, is in …Read more »
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a human, a demon, and a Buddha walk into a temple … in an alternate dimension through a drawing as led by a magical priest and his anthropomorphic rabbit-wife. Wait, you’ve not yet seen the humorous, touching, …Read more »
Last week’s Nikufes (Meat Festival) Tokyo 2017 was host to some anime-related programming, including a panel featuring a roundtable discussion with producers Hiroshi Kanemaru, Tomoki Misawa, and 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime director Seiji Mizushima. When the topic came around to the trend of live-action films …Read more »
It’s a serious clash of killers as the elite group known as the Danger Services Agency does whatever it takes to bring down a ruthless mob boss. That’s right, it’s Mezzo Forte, and you’ll be able to pick up SoftCel Pictures’ DVD release on November …Read more »
Discotek Media had a small handful of licenses to announce this week, starting with another Yowamushi Pedal anime film. Yowamushi Pedal the Movie will arrive in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack this December. Synopsis: After the Inter High finishes, Sakamichi and the other Sohoku team members …Read more »
The Genocidal Organ anime film, based on the late Project Itoh’s novel, originally opened in Japan back in February, with a North American screening following in July. Now it’s on its way to Blu-ray and DVD in Japan on October 25, so Fuji TV’s noitaminA …Read more »
Want to get your hands on this ultra-detailed replica of Zodd from Kentaro Miura’s Berserk? Better start saving now. The piece, which allows you to display Zodd’s dead as a kind of trophy, is limited to 20 units, and will sell for ¥129,600—that’s $1,160 at …Read more »
Fans of Sailor Moon will remember the Silver Crystal, used by Queen Serenity to send the Sailor Senshi to earth. Now the Japanese market is getting a moisturizing face powder based on the Silver Crystal. Prepare to put some moon magic on your face! The …Read more »
Remember that famous anime character who was on TV in the US back in the 60s? The little robot boy who flew around and saved folks from bad guys? Yes, I’m talking about Mighty Atom. Er, Astro Boy. Right. Astro Boy’s American renaming has made …Read more »
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