Kousuke Toriumi, Aki Toyosaki, Tomomichi Nishimura, Hidenari Ugaki, Tarusuke Shingaki join cast― The official Twitter account for The Aristocrat's Otherworldly Adventure: Serving Gods Who Go Too Far, the television anime of Yashu's Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Bōken Roku) light novels, posted the second promotional video for the anime on Thursday. The ...
Spinoff manga centered on Roxy launched in December 2017― The 11th compiled book volume of Shoko Iwami's Mushoku Tensei: Roxy Gets Serious (Mushoku Tensei ~Roxy Datte Honki Desu~) spinoff manga revealed on Monday that the manga will end with its next volume this summer. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga, and it describes the story: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, the sprawling iseka...
Uchida plays as pop star Rubber Suit with secret side― The official website for The Marginal Service, Cygames' new original television anime, revealed on Thursday that Yūma Uchida will join the cast as Rubber Suit. Rubber Suit is the world's #1 pop star who sings about love, but beneath his pop star facade is his true self that he keeps secret. Brian Nightraider is a big fan of his. The anime will p...
Anime to restart airing from 1st episode in April― The official website for the television anime of Nene Yukimori's Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible (Kubo-san wa Mob o Yurusanai) manga announced on Tuesday that the show's staff is delaying all episodes past episode 6 due to the effects of COVID-19 on the production schedule. The anime will re-air from episode 1 starting in April. The anime premiered o...
Yoko Hikasa, Rie Tanaka, Jun Fukuyama join cast of March 31 film― The official website for Rakudai Majo: Fūka to Yami no Majo (The Klutzy Witch: Fūka and the Dark Witch), the anime film of Satoko Narita's The Klutzy Witch (Rakudai Majo) children's book series, revealed three new cast members for the film on Thursday. The new cast members include (Note: Character name romanizations are not official):...
A name like Junji Ito deserves a worthwhile anime adaptation. Yet here we are with another installment from Studio DEEN. Did you watch Junji Ito "Collection"? It's more of that, which is to say, a muddy-looking series of stories that fail to scare.― A name like Junji Ito deserves a worthwhile anime adaptation. Yet here we are with another installment from Studio DEEN. Did you watch Junji Ito "Colle...
Fire Emblem Engage has had a rough time coming. The art style left a lot of people unconvinced, and it's coming on the heels of the widely-beloved Fire Emblem: Three Houses. How does Intelligent Systems' newest strategy RPG hold up?― Fire Emblem Engage has had a rough time coming. The title was weird, the art style left a lot of people unconvinced, and it's coming on the heels of the widely-beloved ...
There's difficulty in terms of enemy mobs, surprise enemies with bumped-up Morale, and bosses that require mastery in deflection, but Wo Long is surprisingly welcoming to even the most inexperienced of Souls-like players.― While Koei Tecmo already has one foot in the “Souls”-like genre courtesy of their Nioh series, it seems they want to take a second bite at the apple with their upcoming “masocore”...
This is where Pokémon: Journeys shines the most, taking familiar past elements and putting a twist on them in the present day to progress the story forward.― After dealing with a major threat to the Galar region, Ash and Goh continue their journey as if nothing had ever changed. Still, it feels like we're finally getting into the significant challenges that both of our protagonists were bound to fac...
Polygon Pictures president recounts his earnest beginnings, trying to win over overseas fans, and competition with Studio Orange in our newest interview.― In December 2022, I had the privilege of visiting the Polygon Pictures Digital animation studio in Tokyo when it was about to enter its 40th year of production. One purpose of the visit was to learn more about the studio's latest TV series, Kaina...
With his terrifying smile and heart of gold, Natsume-kun is basically a CGCT protagonist in a high school boy's body.― Natsume Shiranui has a problem, and it's different from the one you might expect. From a glance at the cover, you would expect that the biggest issue he faced came from people being terrified of his apparently horrible case of resting evil face. But instead, his problem is that he d...
Yuasa excitedly introduced his multi-award nominated movie and its characters with the same energy and fervor as if he were pitching the film from scratch.― Coming fresh off the Golden Globes, director Masaaki Yuasa greeted a full house of eager fans during a screening of Inu-Oh. GKIDS only announced the special event at The Landmark Westwood theater in Los Angeles a week earlier, but every seat was...
The presentation is top-notch the entire way through. There are plenty of gorgeous action sequences during combat, voice acting for a large majority of the game's dialogue, and a rich and beautiful world that is easy on the eyes.― Disclaimer: I received a review copy of this game for the purposes of the review with the pre-order bonus DLC. Additionally, though I am a good ways into the main story, I...