There is a market for explicit romance aimed at an older female audience (although gender is no bar to enjoying this), because little girls grow up to be women with disposable income who'd like to read books written with them in mind, too.― TL manga fans, your [steam]ship has docked. Not that there hasn't been TL manga available in English before, but with the exception of Seven Seas' release of Fir...
Film opens in U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland on August 19― Crunchyroll revealed a new trailer on Friday for Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero — the second anime film in the Dragon Ball Super franchise. Crunchyroll screened the first 20 minutes of the film for attendees at San Diego Comic-Con International. Toshio Furukawa (Japanese voice of Piccolo), Christopher R. Sabat (English voice of Piccolo), and pro...
Inaki Godoy stars as older Luffy― The official Twitter account for Netflix's Hollywood live-action series of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga revealed on Saturday that Colton Osorio will play young Monkey D. Luffy in the series. The previously announced cast includes: Inaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro Emily Rudd as Nami Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp Taz Skylar as Sanji Morgan Davi...
Based on BOOM! Studios comic with creator Keanu Reeves voicing role― The "Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR: The Immortal Saga Continues" panel at San Diego Comic-Con International announced on Friday that Production I.G is producing the previously teased BRZRKR animated series. The panel also announced that the staff is planning for two seasons. Netflix had announced in March 2021 that it acquired the rights to...
Nippon Budokan screened film's world premiere on Friday― "One Piece Day," a 2-day event that commemorates the anniversary of the debut of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga, unveiled the second trailer for the One Piece Film Red anime film with English subtitles on Friday. As part of One Piece Day, the movie had its world premiere screening at Nippon Budokan on Friday. Voice actors and the director Goro...
Shōjo pioneer was nominated for Hall of Fame for 3 consecutive years― The 2022 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards inducted manga creator Moto Hagio into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame during the Comic-Con International event on Friday. Gary Groth read a statement from Hagio, who stated she thought about the inspiration of Osamu Tezuka and how inspiration is passed from generation to genera...
Part of a bigger sci-fi anthology feature called TAISU, Watanabe's short brings together an international team to create a new post-apocalyptic world.― Well, this is a nice surprise: arriving with basically no advance hype whatsoever, we got a new Shinichiro Watanabe short film! A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot, which screened at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival, is apparently the first part of a bigge...
Despite producer Ogata's words, the prologue has the hard job of introducing the audience to new characters who may or may not appear in the main series.― Gundam is set to return with its latest TV anime series—Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury—after a seven-year gap since Iron-Blooded Orphans. The new anime will feature the franchise's first female main protagonist, Suletta Mercury, in its...
It lacks the character depth needed to sell its main couple, but there's still some shine here for those parched for shojo anime.― There have been many shows over the years that I have felt deserved a bigger audience than they had, shows with interesting storytelling, challenging themes, and daring visual styles. Taisho Otome Fairy Tale… is not one of them. It's not so much an underappreciated gem a...
Take a stroll down memory lane with Hideo Kojima's solar-focused western Boktai, meanwhile Revy gets ninja-fied, plus a buffet of Nintendo news in This Week in Games!― Welcome back, everyone! I've been excited to get back into this column. I was blown over by the positive reception last week, thank you all kindly for the warm welcome. As a minor note, folks trying to type my name got it a little mix...
Kazuya Maruyama and Ryota Hogaki promised that the Gundam Evolution game will go in a new direction not previously seen in Gundam video games before.― At Anime Expo 2022, we were invited to meet the creators of the upcoming game Gundam Evolution, which will be released on PC and various consoles for free this year. There have been many video games related to the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise, from em...
It took nearly a decade for a sequel, but what was it that made the first season of The Devil is a Part-Timer so unforgettable? Nicky and Steve have your reverse-isekai meets workplace comedy combo ready!― It took nearly a decade for a sequel, but what was it that made the first season of The Devil is a Part-Timer so unforgettable? Nicky and Steve have your reverse-isekai meets workplace comedy com...
Our camping girls are now adults, but that doesn't interfere with their love for the great outdoors. Read Kim Morrissy's review of the film!― I wouldn't be exaggerating if I called Laid-Back Camp the best atmospheric slice-of-life TV anime, period. There's just something entrancing about the show and the way it portrays the quiet beauty of the outdoors. The film serves up an extra generous helping o...