57-year-old Macross Plus scriptwriter was battling esophageal cancer― Anime writer Dai Sato reported on Friday that screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto (Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Tokyo Godfathers, Macross Plus) passed away on December 1 after a battle with esophageal cancer. She was 57. Her family held a private service on December 4, and director Shinichiro Watanabe confirmed her passing to Sato. Nobumoto...
10-episode series debuted on November 19― Entertainment news source The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Thursday that Netflix has canceled the live-action adaptation of Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop anime after one season. The series garnered almost 74 million viewing hours so far, but its ratings dropped by 59% about two weeks after its premiere. It also received a 46% average rating among critics, and 54%...
FFXIV wins Best Ongoing Game, NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 wins Best Score― Bandai Namco Entertainment's Tales of Arise won Best Role-Playing Game in the Game Awards 2021 on Thursday. Other Japanese games that won awards include: Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIV won Best Ongoing Game and Best Community Support Nintendo's Metroid Dread won Best Action/Adventure Arc System Works' Guilty Gear Strive...
"One thing is, everyone has all sorts of facets to who they are. In your entire life, there are different times in the day where you change." - Screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto at NYCC 2018.― In memory of the recent news that screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto has passed away, Anime News Network would like to once again share this interview with her and the rest of the staff of from Cowboy Bebop from their appe...
At this point it seems as if Skip and Loafer is a pure comedy series. That's not entirely fair or true to say, although it is definitely a very funny two volumes.― A quirky small-town country girl moves to Tokyo to start her exciting high school career. Is this Daytime Shooting Star? Or maybe Mucha Kucha Daisuki? Could it be Imadoki! Nowadays? No, this is Skip and Loafer, and while it certainly isn'...
A tribute to video game pioneer Masayuki Uemura, a welcome bunch of fighting game updates, and... sigh... The Game Awards. Heidi breaks it all down in today's beef-sized column.― That show was three and a half hours long Okay, look, we are all well aware at this point that The Game Awards are an interminable slog of a program, sandwiching the content people want (trailers) in-between endless slices ...
Just because anime is an escape doesn't mean you can't learn something! Abhi from The Cartoon Cipher looks at how anime can spark scientific curiosity in viewers.― With 2021 coming close to the home stretch it's time to start reminiscing on the year as a whole. Back in winter, fans received three helpings of anime that made science a big part of their appeal: the second season of Cells At Work, the...
I dropped Dropout Idol Fruit Tart when it didn't grab my attention by episode 3. Now, I'm revisiting it to see if this was secretly the dark horse of Fall 2020, or if it's better left behind.― When Dropout Idol Fruit Tart aired in Fall 2020, it was one of many shows I bounced off of because… Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle and TONIKAWA: Over the Moon For You and Talentless Nana AND Akudama Drive...
The French-animated adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi's manga follows two men obsessed with Mt. Everest. Together they'll face the unrelenting brutality of one of Earth's highest peaks in this beautifully animated drama.― The French-animated adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi's climbing manga follows two men obsessed with Mt. Everest: a mountaineer and a journalist seeking to discover what happened to a lost ...
I think it's safe to say that Booty Royale isn't trying to tell a dynamic story – it's just trying to have fun. It's more sex than story, more comedy than serious drama, and certainly more porn than plot.― Let me tell you upfront: if you're here for butts, butts, butts, boobs, and even more butts, then Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight! (hereafter Booty Royale), originally known as Hagure ...
The last two episodes allow My Senpai Is Annoying to jostle its position up in the middle of the pack. Find out where your favorites rank this week!― Our team of reviewers are following 28 anime series of the Fall 2021 season and readers are rating each episode as the reviews go up. So let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season. Keep in mind that these ranking...
Straight on the heels of the arthouse anime masterpiece Children of the Sea, director Ayumu Watanabe returns for a charming coming-of-age anime film about a young girl and her surrogate mother in a seaside town.― Straight on the heels of the arthouse anime masterpiece Children of the Sea, director Ayumu Watanabe and Studio 4°C return for Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, a charming coming-of-age anime fil...
Lynzee Loveridge and James Beckett are sentenced for anime crimes at Green Dolphin Prison. Find out why the latest entry in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is changing things up for the better. Also, after months of waiting, it's finally time to kick off the new arc of Demon Slayer which will see our young heroes integrating into the Red Light District to fight new demons!― The ANN Aftershow - Heading to ...
The final manga guide update is full of classics you won't want to miss! Check out the reviews for Lupin the 3rd, Kamen Rider, and more!― Welcome to Anime News Network's Winter 2021 Manga Guide! You may have seen one of our seasonal Anime Preview Guides, where a team of critics writes up each new anime television premiere as it airs at the beginning of a season. Now, doing something like that for m...
After months of people begging me to get into Kaiju No. 8 and me dragging my feet, I can definitely say: they were all right, I should have started reading ages ago.― After months of people begging me to get into Kaiju No. 8 and me dragging my feet, I can definitely say that they were right – I should have started reading ages ago. Kaiju No. 8's opening volume provides a rock-solid setup. In many wa...
The next installment in the popular franchise is set in none other than a Florida prison and stars Jolyne, the daughter of Jotaro Kujo. Does Stone Ocean build on its predecessors or should it have stayed in Netflix Jail?― The next installment in the popular franchise is set in none other than a Florida prison and stars Jolyne, the daughter of Jotaro Kujo. Framed and sentenced for a crime she didn't...