Smartphone rhythm game launched in 2019― The official Twitter account for the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS smartphone game announced on Sunday that the game will end service on June 30 at 4:00 p.m. JT (3:00 a.m. EDT). The School Idol Festival game series will then be consolidated into the Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live! game, which just launched in Japan earlier this mon...
Dancing☆Star Precure debuts this fall― Toei Animation unveiled the first stage play for its long-running Precure (Pretty Cure) anime franchise on Friday, titled Dancing☆Star Precure. The stage play, which will also feature the first all-male team in Precure franchise history, will debut in Tokyo and Osaka this fall. The stage play's story will center on high school boys and their everyday lives as d...
Cast returns for animation― The "Super #Compass" stage panel at the Niconico Chōkaigi 2023 convention revealed on Sunday the second promotional video from the animation project of NHN PlayArt and Dwango's #Compass—Combat Providence Analysis System (#Compass Sentō Setsuri Kaiseki System) online real-time strategy game. The video teases the animation project's 2025 date. The video features the followi...
Film opened in Japan on Friday, opens in the U.S. on May 12― Toei began streaming a clip from Knights of the Zodiac, the live-action film of Masami Kurumada's Saint Seiya manga, on Friday. The clip shows Nero, the Phoenix Knight (played by Diego Tinoci) fighting Seiya (played by Mackenyu). The film will begin screening in the U.S. on May 12. The film opened in Japan on Friday. The film is titled Sai...
Haruka Shiraishi, Yū Kobayashi, Wataru Hatano, Chiharu Sawashiro, Itaru Yamamoto, Kousuke Toriumi join cast― The official website for the second Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation season revealed six additional cast members for the Quagmire Arc on Friday. The newly announced cast includes: Haruka Shiraishi as Sara Yū Kobayashi as Suzanne Wataru Hatano as Timothy Chiharu Sawashiro as Mimir Itaru Y...
Concerned about the "mythologization" growing up around Ghibli British academic Rayna Denison offers several alternative perspectives on the acclaimed anime studio and spotlights its less-touted but still wildly talented staff.― It has been a decade since Studio Ghibli last released a hit film, Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises in 2013. Since then, anime films by other creators have challenged Ghibli'...
Ken Kawasaki, Yū Furusawa's story of disgraced golfer discovering prodigy on remote islands― ANN confirmed on Monday that the wraparound jacket band on Ken Kawasaki and Yū Furusawa's 44th Oi! Tonbo (Hey! Tonbo) manga volume has announced that an anime adaptation of the manga has been green-lit for 2024. The story begins with Igarashi, who was disqualified as a pro golfer after a certain "incident" a...
Its unusually inclusive official line-up makes Soaring Sky one of the most affirming magical girl series of recent years, as it speaks to the genre's promise that anyone can transform if given the chance.― From their earliest days, magical girls have always been about using the power within to transform into heroes. I can think of very few magical girl series that use that concept better than Soarin...
K-ON is back in a full-color manga from original creator kakifly. Does K-On! Shuffle live up to its predecessor. This and more new reviews are waiting for your to check out.― Banner art by catfish Welcome to Anime News Network's Spring 2023 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 ...
Ai, the legendary idol from 【OSHI NO KO】, has arrived as a 1/7 scale figure!― Lies are the greatest kind of love! Ai, the legendary idol from 【OSHI NO KO】, has arrived as a 1/7 scale figure!
We created this figure using a teaser visual from a concert scene with meticulous attention to detail in the molding and painting. Lies are the greatest kind of love! Her bright and fresh outfit, dynamic posing...
As a sequel, Gridman Universe successfully ties up the loose ends of SSSS.Gridman and SSSS.Dynazenon, while fan-favorite character Akane looms heavy over the film.― Gridman Universe is a direct sequel to both SSSS.Gridman. and SSSS.Dynazenon. It continues the plotlines and character arcs of both series, tying up loose ends for some and giving epilogues to others. However, if there is a single main c...
It's been a great week for mecha game fans! Jean-Karlo digs into the new Armored Core VI trailer, the latest Gundam Evolution season, and more!― Welcome back, everyone! We had a really busy week—me and my fellow contributors got everything ready for Manga Preview Guide this past week, so there wasn't much time for video gaming on my end—and the Xenoblade 3 DLC dropped earlier this Tuesday. Just one ...
Find your next page-turner in our light novel guide! Go back to the beginning with Sasaki and Miyano: First Years, or find out what happens when Only the Villainous Lord Wields the Power to Level Up!― There are plenty of things that I could say about this Guide's crop of light novels, but the most striking to me is the balance: there's a much more equal slate of books aimed at a male and a female a...
Two decades after its initial release, Life presents a viciously recognizable picture of the social hellscape that middle and high school can be.― First published in 2002 and partially released by Tokyopop not long after, it would be easy, and maybe even comforting, to write Keiko Suenobu's Life off as a relic of the past. The art certainly upholds this wishful thinking; Suenobu's style is very much...
The hit anime presents the audience with "Ai," a girl whose name means "love" but whose form of love is lying. The center of the series' mystery peels back the layers of an industry that seems sugary-sweet but spits girls out like chewed bubblegum.― The hit anime presents the audience with "Ai," a girl whose name means "love" but whose form of love is lying. The center of the series' mystery peels ...
Giveaway has ended! Are you one of our lucky winners?― As a treat for ANN readers, YEN PRESS is giving away one copy of Oshi No Ko Vol. 1 each to 3 lucky winners. For over 15 years, Yen Press has published some of the greatest works of manga, manhwa, light novels, and original graphic novels. Now, we're excited to showcase that talent of this manga superteam comprised of Kaguya-sama: Love is War cr...