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  • Kadokawa revealed on Friday that the 15th volume of Kiyohiko Azuma's Yotsuba&! manga will ship on February 27. The volume will be the first new volume...

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    Yotsuba&! Manga's 1st New Volume in Nearly 3 Years Ships on February 27

  • New Year's is the most important holiday in Japan, with families gathering to share big feasts and visit their local temple. New Year's cards (nengajō)...

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    Happy New Year From the Anime World — Part II

  • This volume, despite some awkward structuring, does a great job of building on the strengths of the previous chapters and expanding the unique fantasy setting we only barely learned about before.

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    Soul Eater - The Perfect Edition GN 2

  • The adventures in the world of Inuyasha continues, starring the offspring of everyone's favorite half-demon and his stoic, beautiful brother. Does Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha's exploits recapture the magic that made the original a huge hit?

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    This Week in Anime - Does Yashahime Recapture Inuyasha's Magic?

  • Lupin III THE FIRST is a good Lupin movie and a plain old good film. Fluidly animated, well-written, and full of references and nods to earlier works, it has a bit of something for most viewers to enjoy.

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    Lupin III THE FIRST

  • The Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a monumental achievement in 1980s fiction. Yet, it is probably more relevant now than ever before. Matthew Roe, takes another look at the seminal sci-fi classic, examining its historical influences and use of propaganda.

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    The Newspeak and Twisted History of Legend of the Galactic Heroes

  • Considering the way Talentless Nana began, it's very ironic that the weakest and least important component of this arc is the murder mystery itself.

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    Talentless Nana ‒ Episode 13

  • What initially seemed like nothing more than a stylish brawlfest, and Akudama Drive certainly is some of that, turned out to be waaaay more punk than anyone expected.

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    This Week in Anime - Akudama Drive is High-Octane Insanity

  • Animation studio Khara posted guidelines for Evangelion fan artists on Monday. Khara encourages fans to create derivative works as long as they adhere...

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    Khara Creates Guidelines For Evangelion Fanart: Keep It Clean, Folks

  • While these episodes do raise some somewhat interesting plot threads, they seem too enamored with playing to anime norms to develop anything fresh or compelling, either on their own or as a very loose Romeo and Juliet-type scenario.

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    Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World

  • Check back each day for new top 5 picks! Today: Nicholas Dupree, Rebecca Silverman, and Steve Jones countdown their favorites & don't miss the best characters of the year!

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    The Best Anime of 2020

  • Zoro testing out Enma to save Wano (by rather unceremoniously cutting off a huge chunk of it) is bombastic and marvelous. Zoro has consistently gotten amazing moments at nearly every turn and this is no exception.

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    One Piece ‒ Episode 956

  • Okay, so the writing for this show overall is, well, not great. The appeal of Hypnosis Mic is squarely on how affable you find the cast whether it's pitch-perfect Doppo or that little shit Ramuda.

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    Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima ‒ Episodes 12-13

  • While Miroku and Sango do show up to provide some much-needed connective tissue to the original InuYasha, Yashahime's story is as stagnant and shapeless as it has ever been.

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    Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon ‒ Episode 13

  • Well, there were no surprises in this episode, which played out like a generic anime finale – the final boss gets beaten with the power of friendship and they all live happily ever after.

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    Warlords of Sigrdrifa ‒ Episode 12

  • He started writing the script around the time Japanese government announced a state of emergency. He said that "the mood of the times is indelibly etched into the script."

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    Makoto Shinkai Talks Demon Slayer, Hints at His Next Work

  • The primary focus of this episode is on the latest addition to Attack on Titan's expansive roster of characters: Willy Tybur, the heir of the family that ostensibly controls the fate of all Marley.

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    Attack on Titan The Final Season ‒ Episode 4

  • The second volume of Maison Ikkoku's Collector's Edition has some serious ups and downs. While it contains the unquestionably worst chapter of the entire series, it has some of my favorite moments as well.

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    Maison Ikkoku Collector's Edition GN 2

  • Akudama Drive brings its wild journey to a halt in about the most satisfying way I could have hoped, wrapping up the story and its component themes in a bold and thought-provoking place.

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    Akudama Drive ‒ Episode 12

  • The video depicts the Votoms iconic opening theme "Destiny of the Flame," but with the OBSOLETE characters and mechs portrayed in the visuals instead.

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    Gen Urobuchi's OBSOLETE Anime Takes on Votoms OP

  • I don't think there's going to be much at all for me to nitpick in “Tomorrow”, which is a holy hand grenade of pure badassery that MAPPA is all too happy to throw right into its audience's faces.

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    Jujutsu Kaisen ‒ Episode 13

  • Initially maligned for its many issues, Callum May details the history of Square-Enix's MMORPG and how it bloomed into the best Final Fantasy entry.

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    Final Fantasy XIV is the Best Final Fantasy Game

  • Magic Knight Rayearth's next three volumes look at the aftermath of what the three girls from Earth did not in the context of broken fairy tales, but in terms of a society built on rules that almost forces them to break in the first place.

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    Magic Knight Rayearth II 25th Anniversary Box Set

  • Listen to the new season's opening and ending theme songs in the new trailer! | Laid-Back Camp Teases New Adventures in Season 2 Trailer!



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    Laid-Back Camp Teases New Adventures in Season 2 Trailer!

  • Listen to Utada's "One Last Kiss" in this mesmerizing trailer. | Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Reveals Full Trailer Featuring Utada Hikaru Theme Song!



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    Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Reveals Full Trailer Featuring Utada Hikaru Theme Song!

  • Titles include DEATH BALL, Kouichi desu ga Isekai de Joushu Hajimemashita, Hagure Yuusha no Estetika, 'Jouhai Shogun, Mata Yabureru,' Ayakashi Convenience

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    Manga Planet Licenses 5 Manga from Hobby Japan

  • It's the worst kind of ending that trips face first into asphalt, and then confidently declares that the blood in its mouth is victory wine, yet is so predictable it can't even work as trainwreck viewing.

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    The Day I Became a God ‒ Episode 12

  • I can't really say that Assault Lily Bouquet is one of the worst anime I've watched, but it's definitely been one of the most consistently baffling.

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    Assault Lily Bouquet ‒ Episode 12

  • “School Idol Festival (The Place Where Everyone's Dreams Come True)” may sound like a Fall Out Boy song title with all the sarcasm scrubbed off, but it's mostly a victory lap for Nijigasaki and one last chance to let the cast just be their goofy selves.

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    Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club ‒ Episode 13

  • From the very start, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear has been a show about an overpowered protagonist smashing through every problem she faces with relative ease—until these last two episodes, anyway.

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    Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear ‒ Episode 12

  • Unnamed Memory has a lot of potential. As the storytelling evens out and Furumiya grows more confident in the story they want to tell, things become increasingly interesting. It's a shame it takes so long to reach that point.

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    Unnamed Memory Novel 1: The Witch of the Azure Moon and the Cursed Prince

  • At the end of the day, Sword Art Online: Alicization doesn't quite use its premise or story as well as it could. It has its high points, but largely dodges the bigger issues and doesn't always treat its characters well.

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    Sword Art Online: Alicization BR Limited Edition

  • With a new trailer under its belt, it's time to get hype about the upcoming reboot. Toby Adeyemi discusses how he fell in love with the original and why the story is just as exciting almost 20 years later.

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    Why Shaman King? The Reboot You Can't Miss

  • Get yourself in the holiday spirit by checking out these holiday greetings from artists and companies within the anime and manga industry!

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    Happy Holidays from the Anime World

  • Re:Zero's Rem and Ram are known for wearing French maid outfits to work, but even the most hard-working of maids need some downtime. The Village Vanguard...

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    Re:Zero's Rem & Ram Inspire Casual Maid Nightwear

  • If you love Princess Tutu and miss CMX's release of Swan, you owe it to yourself to pick up MediaDo's digital-only release of Cuvie's The Magnificent Grand Scene.

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    The Magnificent Grand Scene GN 1 & 2

  • Reviewing Digimon Adventure: can be such a roller coaster these days. Watching the show constantly upending itself and confusedly changing directions in bids to figure out its identity.

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    Digimon Adventure: ‒ Episode 29

  • What will Game Master make of Yusuke's declaration at the end – that he's going to pursue what he sees as justice, even though he knows that doing so is the height of arrogance? Sadly, we will have to wait until the second season to find out the answer to that question.

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    I'm Standing on 1,000,000 Lives. ‒ Episode 12

  • Akudama Drive understands that you simply cannot have a sci-fi anime climax without a little sprinkle of human instrumentality seasoning.

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    Akudama Drive ‒ Episode 11

  • The twenty-first Detective Conan (Case Closed) film, Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter, brings viewers someplace they're more likely to be familiar with from an entirely different series: a karuta tournament.

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    Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter

  • I said in the last review that I didn't have high expectations for the climax, but there was one thing I was expecting: Cool plane fights. And in that regard, this episode delivered.

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    Warlords of Sigrdrifa ‒ Episode 11

  • Despite the inclusion of a terrorist plot, the purpose of this episode is to develop Ayako and Fumiya by showcasing the relationship between the two.

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    The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc ‒ Episode 12

  • The single biggest issue facing “Night of the New Moon and the Black-Haired Towa” is that the titular main event of the episode barely matters at all.

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    Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon ‒ Episode 12

  • That scene of Ayumu going “Oh, yeah, sure, that all sounds great” through a meeting about her own concert is maybe the most real-to-life depiction of a high schooler in all of Love Live! history.

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    Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club ‒ Episode 12

  • This take on Chinese-influenced fantasy works in part because of how intelligently it handles things, and that starts with Maomao. She is every bit as clever as Saiunkoku's Shurei or Ascendance of a Bookworm's Myne and probably both more streetwise and conscious of the intricacies of her setting than either.

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    The Apothecary Diaries

  • The Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, Hokkaido's top Japan Agricultural Cooperatives group, has released the second episode of its PR anime....

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    Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives Produces 2nd PR Anime

  • A stage presentation at the Jump Festa '21 event on Saturday revealed that the second part of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man manga will feature the manga's...

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    Chainsaw Man Manga's '2nd Part' to Feature 'School Arc'

  • Elaina flies into a foreboding place called “The Country Where Wishes Come True” and is immediately greeted with 15 different Elainas. That's right, it's a whole Danganronpa of Elainas.

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    Wandering Witch - The Journey of Elaina ‒ Episode 12

  • This arc is still playing it straight but there was a hint in the opener that it could take a turn. There were a few times where it seemed like instead of fighting this battle the clean way, maybe the Sonozaki's will just murder Teppei at the festival.

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    Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU ‒ Episode 12

  • Haikyu!! – now with bonus butts! Well, they've got to do something to make the final cool-down episode stand out, so why not have an otherwise inexplicable close-up of Hinata's ass as he swims in the bath?

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    Haikyu!! To The Top ‒ Episode 25

  • Anime News Network executive editor Lynzee Loveridge, video producer Jacki Jing, and Discotek producer Mike Toole sat down to watch everything from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime to The Promised Neverland to Sk8 the Infinity!

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    Anime News Network's Winter 2021 Anime Trailer Watchalong

  • Film news website IndieWire revealed on Tuesday that GKIDS' theatrical release of Studio Ghibli's first CG feature Earwig and the Witch will be an Oscar-qualifying...

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    GKIDS' Earwig and the Witch Screenings Will Be Oscar-Qualifying Run

  • The last few minutes is by far the most significant part, however, and rescues the episode: the first actual look inside the Spade Kingdom.

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    Black Clover ‒ Episode 156

  • Once again, the tension is through the roof and it seems like every couple of seconds we are jumping from one place to another hearing dramatic revelations, seeing someone in a potentially fatal scenario, or both.

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    Golden Kamuy Season 3 ‒ Episode 11

  • Nana didn't put years of hard work into getting her murder degree from murder college for someone else to just swoop in and start killing her quarry behind her back.

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    Talentless Nana ‒ Episode 11

  • I think your enjoyment of this one will hinge on how engaging you find Kawamatsu as a character. Personally, I like Kawamatsu but don't necessarily love him as a character so this was a bit of a mixed bag.

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    One Piece ‒ Episode 954

  • On Remembrance Day in the Hidden Leaf, the entire village gathers at the cemetery to mourn the brave shinobi who died in the Fourth Great Ninja War.

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    Boruto: Naruto Next Generations ‒ Episode 178

  • Cloud's long-time foe descends on Smash, Vin Diesel claims the throne in Ark Survival Evolved 2, and Dragon Age 4 is here to remind you it still exists.

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    This Week in Games - The Game Awards 2020 Roundup

  • The number one rule of Yashahime has always been, and will always continue to be, that an episode's quality is directly proportional to how much screen-time Moroha gets, and the more, the better.

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    Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon ‒ Episode 11

  • I swear, The Day I Became a God is the most whiplash inducing series I've ever reviewed. And I'm covering Wandering Witch this season!

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    The Day I Became a God ‒ Episode 10

  • That this is largely a set up episode doesn't detract from its appeal, which is impressive. It's a glimpse into Holmes' mind, but it also serves as the real prelude to the game that Moriarty is beginning to play.

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    Moriarty the Patriot ‒ Episode 10

  • More slice-of-life content abounds as Chitose discovers that Nasa and Tsukasa's apartment has burned down and that they are living in the outbuilding at a local bathhouse.

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    TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You ‒ Episode 11

  • The staff of the television anime of Shinya Komi and HiRock's EX-ARM manga revealed on Monday that the anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX and Sun TV channels...

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    EX-ARM Anime Premieres on January 10

  • . I do appreciate conceptual consistency in a show like this, but there's a chance of it becoming too repetitive if all it does is continue to reiterate the same points in more and more detailed examples.

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    The Gymnastics Samurai ‒ Episode 10

  • Right now the Nijigasakids are busy trying to figure out how in the hell they're actually going to organize an enormous music festival on the budget of a high school theater club.

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    Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club ‒ Episode 11

  • As the Executioners finally turn their lightsaber blades on the general public, Akudama Drive nails the alternately terrifying and farcical quality of quotidian fascism.

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    Akudama Drive ‒ Episode 10

  • Raise your hand if you had to stop and check at least once to make sure you were watching the right series while viewing this episode's prologue and opener.

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    I'm Standing on 1,000,000 Lives. ‒ Episode 11

  • Whatever we've seen of Zeref before, whatever dangerous foes Fairy Tail has gone up against, and whatever tragedies lurk in their pasts – none of them are going to hold a candle to what the Alvarez Empire has in store for them

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    Fairy Tail Part 24 BD/DVD

  • I don't have any issue with a show shooting for pathos so long as they make some effort, somewhere, to earn it. Unfortunately the potential for a hearty helping of feels doesn't really get delivered on in this week's installment of Sad Girls With Swords.

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    Assault Lily Bouquet ‒ Episode 10

  • There are obviously still harem comedies, and by all accounts they'll persist until the heat death of the universe, but there's just something about Naoshi Komi's sense for both comedy and romance that you can't find too often anymore.

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    Nisekoi - False Love Complete Box-set

  • Of all of the anime titles that I have seen in recent years, few have cried out as loudly to be marathoned as this Winter 2020 series does.

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    ID: INVADED BR

  • I am not, as a rule, a particularly competitive person, but I actually stopped breathing at a couple of points in this episode out of an all-consuming need for Karasuno to win.

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    Haikyu!! To The Top ‒ Episode 24

  • We're in the last sprint before the season finale and even after an episode that is mostly dedicated to Ramuda's point of view, we still don't exactly what he did in the past to orchestrate the fall of the Dirty Dawgs.

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    Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima ‒ Episodes 10-11

  • This week's episode is the first hint that GOU may break tradition and opens up the possibility that Keiichi will get it right this time around.

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    Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU ‒ Episode 11

  • While this certainly doesn't sound like a fun piece of what is essentially a Cold War caper series, we as readers can see that, despite everything, both Yor and Twilight really are starting to care about their daughter.

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    SPY×FAMILY GN 3

  • The first week's bonus gift will be Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba card illustrated by Sorachi Hideaki! | Gintama: The Final Unveils New Trailer and Promises Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Audience Present!



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    Gintama: The Final Unveils New Trailer and Promises Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Audience Present!

  • The series has strung this along for half a year (more, with COVID downtime figured in) just to set up a training arc. Think about that.

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    Black Clover ‒ Episode 155

  • Director Seiji Mizushima is no stranger to the DJ scene, he used to DJ himself! Learn more about how his experience as a DJ informed his direction of the show.

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    Interview: D4DJ First Mix Director Seiji Mizushima

  • The beautiful new poster stars the Lion King, or the Goddess Rhongomyniad. | Fate/Grand Order Paladin; Agateram Movie to Open Spring 2021!



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    Fate/Grand Order Paladin; Agateram Movie to Open Spring 2021!

  • This week's Boruto: Naruto Next Generations casts its focus on Inojin Yamanaka, who's been long overdue for another turn in the spotlight.

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    Boruto: Naruto Next Generations ‒ Episode 177

  • Supposedly-important new cast additions are glossed over in hilarious ways, and the actual events that occur hardly feel like we've moved past the stifling status quo of about Episode Eight.

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    Digimon Adventure: ‒ Episode 27

  • SSSS.DYNAZENON is set to premiere in April 2021, so get ready with new info! | A Special Event Report on SSSS.DYNAZENON at Tokyo Comic Con 2020, Chock-Full of New Information!



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    A Special Event Report on SSSS.DYNAZENON at Tokyo Comic Con 2020, Chock-Full of New Information!

  • After the release of Sailor Moon themed marriage registration forms, engagement rings, and wedding dresses, fans wishing for a complete Sailor Moon wedding...

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    Enchant Your Wedding with a Sailor Moon Inspired Wedding Reception

  • The episode itself continues what part one started not just in the sense that it finishes the story, but also in how it is a pastiche of the actual 1887 tale and the “real” continuity of the show.

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    Moriarty the Patriot ‒ Episode 9

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