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  • Goro Miyazaki returns to the director's chair for a film that "looks and feels dramatically different from any previous Studio Ghibli production."

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    Earwig and the Witch

  • The March issue of Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine revealed on Thursday that Ritsuhiro Mikami will draw a special spinoff for Kazuya Minekura's...

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    Ritsuhiro Mikami Draws Spinoff 1-Shot for Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Manga

  • Failure Frame: the isekai light novel that dares to ask, “What if the goddess that summoned class 2-C to another world had the emotional maturity of a high school mean girl?”

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    Failure Frame LN 1

  • Get psyched to see the KnY movie with must-see highlights from a TOM Staff member and diehard KnY fan! | I Saw Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Train 16 Times - Here Are 9 Reasons You Have to See It!



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    I Saw Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Train 16 Times - Here Are 9 Reasons You Have to See It!

  • There could be witches involved, there could be an anime-original supernatural entity, everything is new at this point the options are endless.

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    Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU ‒ Episode 17

  • "On the other hand, what does relate to the issue of derivative works is how creators can collect money in the age of mass reproduction over the internet. There are aspects of the current legal system that are out of step with the digital age."

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    Lawmaker Yamada Explains Implications of Proposed Copyright Guidelines on Cosplay Income

  • Sega of America announced on Wednesday that the Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 game will launch for PC via Steam on March 23. The game is getting a limited-time Steam...

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    Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Game Launches for Steam on March 23

  • In a livestream last Friday, Sunborn Network announced a collaboration event between their Girls' Frontline smartphone game and the Dropkick on My Devil!!...

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    Girls' Frontline Smartphone Game Announces Collab With Dropkick on My Devil!! Dash

  • There are a lot of things that really work this week, and I'm not just saying that because I spent a week obsessed with watching videos of rescued fruit bats eating bananas on YouTube.

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    Heaven's Design Team ‒ Episode 4

  • One thing is clear from these three episodes: the Adventurers of Akiba need to get with the program and start involving the People of the Land much more than they have been in the day-to-day business of running the city.

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    Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table ‒ Episode 3

  • It manages to attain a certain Animal Crossing-like simplistic charm at times, but even those small pleasures are marred by some serious quality of life issues.

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    Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy

  • As chilling as this episode can be as things get deadly, “classic” is also the best word to describe how things went down this episode.

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    Black Clover ‒ Episode 161

  • "[Its] Precure series sends a message filled with hope when it comes to gender expression. Its influence is felt not just in Japan, but across the world. I am deeply disappointed that it is this company that has performed such an injustice."

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    Toei Animation Refuses Labor Negotiations With LGBT Union Member

  • In a world designed to exploit and consume humans like cattle, The Promised Neverland is full of victims. Are Isabella and Krone complicit, victims of deadly system, or something in between?

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    The Heartbreaking Sacrifices Made in The Promised Neverland

  • The online dTV service revealed on Wednesday that Gintama The Semi-Final, the new net anime special in the Gintama franchise, will have a commentary audio...

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    Gintama The Semi-Final Net Anime Also Gets Cast Commentary Track

  • The series here proves it can sit at an effective crossroads of emotional and conceptual storytelling, exploring ideas rooted in manipulating our very human feelings.

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    Otherside Picnic ‒ Episode 4

  • After two decidedly lackluster volumes focusing on Katarina's post-school life as an employee of the Magical Ministry, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! is finally back on its feet.

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    My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Novel 8

  • Apart from the various awkward distractions though, LasDan puts on a pretty strong fourth episode here, even if, less than a month in, it feels oddly like a season finale episode.

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    Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town ‒ Episode 4

  • One Piece in the Wano arc continues the tradition of Yet Another Exposition Episode that has so many moving parts it is hard to do much more than skim the surface.

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    One Piece ‒ Episode 959

  • If you couldn't tell, this was yet another episode of Yashahime that made me absolutely furious with how poorly written and executed it was.

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    Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon ‒ Episode 16

  • Platinum Games began teasing a fifth announcement for 2021 on its Platinum4 teaser website on Saturday. Game designer Hideki Kamiya spoke about an unnamed...

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    Platinum Games Teases 5th Announcement on Platinum4 Website

  • If there's one thing that this episode amply demonstrates, though, it's that there aren't many, if any, adults that Kabane can really trust.

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    Kemono Jihen ‒ Episode 3

  • The popular Instagram account Polygon Forge has recreated the iconic low-polygon pants depicted in the original Virtua Fighter arcade game. The video shows...

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    Virtua Fighter's Polygon Pants Get Loving Fan Recreation

  • With the game's major story arcs still being very unfinished, you might be wondering just what Genshin Impact's player base is spending so much time on. But once you set foot in Teyvat's big, open environment, you'll definitely start to understand: this world was built for lots of replayability.

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    Just What the Heck is Genshin Impact?

  • Because when Akira and Alma fight her, it's not merely another brilliantly, perfectly awkward fight sequence in an abandoned, empty CG building, but a poetic ode to the battle between human ingenuity and the greed of automation.

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    EX-ARM ‒ Episode 3

  • The Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion film produced a veritable wealth of iconic scenes and imagery that fans and writers alike have continued...

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    End of Evangelion Scene Lovingly Recreated As a "House" in Terraria

  • Even if you aren't into the already-comically ramping up melodrama motivating these boys' downhill jams, seeing all those sick tricks successfully depicted, especially in the lengths this third episode goes to, can suck you in.

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    Sk8 the Infinity ‒ Episode 3

  • The fight itself is definitely the action highlight of the episode, with some well-implemented 2D/CG blending and solid choreography that shows off Aoi's immense strength, which Yuuji can barely keep up with.

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    Jujutsu Kaisen ‒ Episode 15

  • Kitora and Kuroe's fight against the remote-controlled Trion soldier starts us off, and while it doesn't necessarily resolve, it reaches an effective stalemate pretty quickly.

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    World Trigger Season 2 ‒ Episode 3

  • Beautiful as it is, the 2020 anime adaptation of Jougi Shiraishi's original light novels Wandering Witch - The Journey of Elaina is but a pale imitation of the source material.

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    Wandering Witch - The Journey of Elaina Novels 1-3

  • With his earrings and tattoos, Miyamura has created a self unknown to everyone at school, one he alone is comfortable and familiar with.

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    Horimiya ‒ Episode 3

  • The episode ends with Kumoko in possibly her greatest peril yet. And the monkeys, which I felt was the best early fight scene in the novels, are coming next.

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    So I'm a Spider, So What? ‒ Episode 3

  • Laid-Back Camp is first and foremost a tactile experience. It's a synthesis of sensory information, both real and implied, crafted by a team of talented animators infusing the beauty of the natural world into your screen.

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    Laid-Back Camp Season 2 ‒ Episodes 1-3

  • If you love roguelikes as a genre and want to experience one of the most satisfying, well-crafted examples of the genre, you owe it to yourself to pick Shiren the Wanderer up.

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    Shiren the Wanderer: the Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate

  • The official Twitter account and website for the "Dai Berserk Ten" exhibition for Kentarou Miura's Berserk manga revealed on January 13 that the exhibition...

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    Berserk Exhibition in Tokyo Delayed

  • The official Twitter account and website for the "Dai Berserk Ten" exhibition for Kentarou Miura's Berserk manga revealed on January 13 that the exhibition...

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    Berserk Exhibition in Tokyo Delayed

  • I have a big problem with this episode and this time it's not because it upends the Higurashi status quo. I just find the moral of it pretty reprehensible.

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    Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU ‒ Episode 16

  • Outside of showcasing the merits of the series' story structure, these first two episodes also hint to us about Tsukasa's glaring weakness.

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    Dr. Stone: Stone Wars ‒ Episode 1-2

  • If the establishing episodes of 2.43 seemed a bit too heavy and melodramatic to be your bag, I think the third episode, more representative of the show's true face a la Shin, may warrant another look.

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    2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team ‒ Episodes 1-3

  • The official website for Warner Bros. Japan and Sunborn Networks' animation based on Sunborn Networks' Girls' Frontline opened on Friday and confirmed...

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    Girls' Frontline Show Confirmed as TV Anime by Asahi Production

  • Ruby and Steph both attend an elite boarding school for girls somewhere in Europe. Ruby, younger by a year, has no real reason to interact with Steph until the two of them are the only girls to stay at the school over Christmas break...

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    A White Rose in Bloom GN 1

  • In its final season, Attack on Titan has flipped the script on its heroes and villains. Our once righteously vengeful protagonist stopped toeing the line in pursuit of his ideals, leaving the audience to ponder exactly who is the villain here?

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    This Week in Anime - Who Are the Villains of Attack on Titan?

  • For now, I'd wager that Ai's salvation lies less in the almost-certainly-hollow promise of Koito's resurrection, and more in the bonds she's forging with both the egg girls and her coworkers.

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    Wonder Egg Priority ‒ Episodes 1-2

  • The romance, therefore, has a lot of work to do to conquer the women's assumptions about each other and to steer them in the right direction.

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    Days of Love at Seagull Villa GN 1

  • Sasahara looks back on his role as an episode director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist on episode 6 plus details about that Anime Awards-nominated fight scene!

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    Interview: Akudama Drive Assistant Director Yoshifumi Sasahara

  • The first blows of the Clover Kingdom/Spade Kingdom conflict were struck, but those were just warm-ups. Now the conflict is starting to get serious.

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    Black Clover ‒ Episode 160

  • Kadokawa's description for the March issue of its Monthly Comic Alive magazine lists an April premiere date for the television anime adaptation of Shūichi...

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    Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Come Anime Listed With April Premiere

  • In March last year, K-ON! voice actress Minako Kotobuki traveled to the United Kingdom for her previously announced study trip. Around that time, she started...

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    Tsumugi Voice Actress Minako Kotobuki Visits K-ON! Movie Locales in London

  • Overpowered fantasy light-novel protagonists are of course a dime-a-dozen these days, but LasDan's implementation of its particular powerhouse, the adorable and awesomely-named Lloyd Belladonna, does an interesting job from the start of uncoupling his role from the actual focus of the story.

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    Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town ‒ Episodes 1-3

  • The Winter 2021 season brought us almost 40 new anime series to choose from and among those were the requisite isekai series, of course. Steve and Jean-Karlo go world-hopping to find which series will give you the most bang for your buck.

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    This Week in Anime - Isekai Until I Die

  • However, I think the brilliance of the way Oda uses bounties is that they are as much a direct measure of power as they are a measure of political importance in the setting.

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    One Piece ‒ Episode 958

  • Asa is the kind of spitfire heroine that's easy to get behind – she's vulnerable in what she doesn't say and afraid of pretty much nothing, possibly because if she stops to be afraid she'll never get moving again.

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    Asadora! GN 1

  • Both the slime and human forms of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime's Rimuru Tempest have inspired numerous merchandise ranging from figures to cushions...

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    Channel Great Sage With This Soft and Squishy Rimuru Replica

  • Finally, after fourteen goddamned episodes, the show has finally seen fit to stop jerking us around and explain what happened with Inuyasha, Kagome, Sesshomaru, and Rin.

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    Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon ‒ Episode 15

  • If the worst thing I can say about the game is that I'm annoyed I can't play more of it, that should give you a hint as to how much I have enjoyed it so far.

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    PREVIEW: Twenty Hours with the Princess Connect! Re:Dive Mobile Game

  • A digital collection of artworks from the Hellsing Ultimate OVA is on sale until January 25 through digital artwork vendor Anique. 12 pieces of high-definition...

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    Hellsing Ultimate Holds Digital Art Collection Sale

  • What's not entirely clear is whether Inugami was being completely altruistic when he took Kabane with him back to Tokyo. The conversation he has with a mysterious woman whose smile is distressingly predatory might suggest otherwise

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    Kemono Jihen ‒ Episodes 1-2

  • Even from just the second episode alone, it's easy to see why Mimimi is a fan favorite. Not only did the animators seem to give her movements the most attention, she's got chill unlike anybody else in this story has so far.

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    Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki ‒ Episode 1-2

  • Maybe this is why this episode has me reflecting so much about the ramifications of political manipulation, conspiratorial thought run amok, and all the other factors that have contributed to the sense of political unrest

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    Attack on Titan The Final Season ‒ Episode 6

  • It's not like the wonderful readers of ANN would purposefully vote for a show they thought was universally horrendous just to make somebody suffer through it for comedy, right?

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    EX-ARM ‒ Episodes 1-2

  • The new date is still uncertain in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. | Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time Announces Further Delay



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    Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time Announces Further Delay

  • Something that we definitely don't want to take for granted as Jujutsu Kaisen enters into its second cour is how goddamned funny it is almost all of the time.

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    Jujutsu Kaisen ‒ Episode 14

  • They're both floundering a little as they try to figure things out and come together, and hopefully the pacing will slow down a bit so that we can relish each moment of this sweet, relatively drama-free story.

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    Horimiya ‒ Episode 1-2

  • Despite being in a saturated genre and saddled with the dual difficulties of being based on a game and featuring a ton of seemingly tropetastic characters, IDOLiSH7 Second Beat! is the kind of totally engrossing show that it's easy to get hooked on.

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    IDOLiSH7 Second Beat!

  • World Trigger chose a very weird place to go on a 5-year hiatus, and I can imagine a lot of folks might feel overwhelmed taking in a multi-front battle involving 90% of the established cast except our main trio. But thankfully the anime has been up the task by bringing every one of these fights to life with fantastic animation and direction.

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    World Trigger Season 2 ‒ Episodes 1-2

  • The source novels are among the best light novels that I have read at painting truly exciting action scenes in words, and I am pleased to say that director Shin Itagaki and studio Millepensee have done a fantastic job of translating that to the screen.

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    So I'm a Spider, So What? ‒ Episodes 1-2

  • What made The Promised Neverland's first season so remarkable is how deftly it captured the heart of the story, and the visceral emotions that came from watching the kids try to defy their fates and find freedom in a terrifyingly strange world. So far, Season 2 is doing a great job of continuing that trend.

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    The Promised Neverland Season 2 ‒ Episodes 1-2

  • Studio David Production takes over the animation job for this series, and the result is maybe the best-looking TV series yet in the franchise.

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    Strike Witches: Road to Berlin

  • Entertainment news source Deadline reported on Friday that Warner Bros. will release it and Legendary Entertainment's Godzilla vs. Kong film on March 26...

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    Godzilla vs. Kong Film's Release Date Moved Up to March 26

  • Cells at Work! is doing its job: I'm learning things in a fun way! But it could do one better by not immediately sidelining its main cast. That we're already having animation issues this early is also not a great sign.

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    Cells at Work!! Season 2 ‒ Episodes 1-2

  • Written by Perfect Blue's Sadayuki Murai, Boogiepop Phantom is a supernatural take on obsession, memories, death, and how we're all connected.

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    This Week in Anime - Just Who is Boogiepop?

  • Are you ready for the premiere of Dr. Stone: Stone Wars today? Nicholas Dupree has all the major developments from season one to get you caught up!

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    A Blast From the Past: Get Caught Up on Dr. Stone Season 1

  • Hentai Kamen creator Keishuu Andou has jumped onboard the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba trend by posting his fanart on Twitter. His fanart, however, is...

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    Hentai Kamen Creator Draws His Unique Take on Demon Slayer

  • While most of the episode is time-killing fluff, the first and last couple of minutes deal with Ralph, who was found by Sister Lily last episode.

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    Black Clover ‒ Episode 159

  • Only a few days to go until the battle against Kyoto Prefectural Jujutsu High | Jujutsu Kaisen Teases Second Cour Arc With New PV!



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    Jujutsu Kaisen Teases Second Cour Arc With New PV!

  • This year's seventh issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine announced on Wednesday that the television anime of Hiro Mashima's Edens Zero manga will...

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    Edens Zero Anime Premieres on April 10

  • Hold on to your Pocky sticks and crack open the intoxicating beverage of your choice, friends and neighbors, because this is going to be the spiciest of Yashahime hot takes.

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    Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon ‒ Episode 14

  • It's a testament to how much I want to be interested in the story portions of this battle-obsessed anime that probably my favorite part of this episode comes in the wind-down at the very end.

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    Digimon Adventure: ‒ Episode 31

  • There are so many things that I can (and eventually will have to) say about Attack on Titan's always complicated and uneasy relationship with allegory, and cultures and conflicts it has been clearly alluding to in order to make those allegorical parallels.

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    Attack on Titan The Final Season ‒ Episode 5

  • The humor's blend of character interactions, snappy dialogue, and physical comedy makes sure that no one joke ever gets old, even the recurring gags.

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    Heaven's Design Team GN 1-2

  • The humor's blend of character interactions, snappy dialogue, and physical comedy makes sure that no one joke ever gets old, even the recurring gags.

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    Heaven's Design Team GN 1-2

  • As the second season of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime approaches, series protagonist Rimuru Tempest gets a new figure to celebrate the occasion....

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    Rimuru Coolly Unsheathes His Sword in New Figure

  • This prequel is the story of the party that defeated the Demon Lord more than a decade before the main story begins, and Female Bishop is almost certainly the younger version of Sword Maiden.

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    Goblin Slayer Side Story 2: Dai Katana

  • A small airport in Sapporo City called "Okadama Airport" could be renamed to "Hatsune Miku Airport" in the future, according to a report by Traffic News....

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    'Hatsune Miku Airport' Raised as Possible New Name for Small Sapporo Airport

  • One of the craziest premises to come out of anime, Hypnosis Mic imagines a world where government sanctioned rap battles can solve problems from turf disputes to bank robberies. Is this show wildly entertaining or full of dead beats?

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    This Week in Anime - Is Hypnosis Mic Worth Watching?

  • The official Twitter account for television anime of two-person creator team So-ma-to's Shadows House manga announced on Thursday that the anime will premiere...

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    Shadows House TV Anime Premieres in April

  • Theron Martin jumps back into the Haruhi franchise with the first novel in almost a decade, only to find the return is a little "anticlimactic."

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    The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya

  • Can you believe it's already been 11 years since we first met Eren and the crew? | Attack on Titan Manga to Conclude in April!



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    Attack on Titan Manga to Conclude in April!

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