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Crunchyroll Expo 2022 will be featuring a huge slate of guests including creative staff from the highly-anticipated horror series Chainsaw Man, English voice actors from the hilarious and heartfelt SPY x FAMILY, and Masahiko Minami, the co-founder and president of BONES, the prolific anime studio bringing fans Mob Psycho 100 and Bungo Stray Dogs, among[...]

McFarlane Toys is taking My Hero Academia fans back to Season 2 as we return to the Sports Festival with a brand new 5” playset

Kirito and Asuna from the hit anime series Sword Art Online are back with some new collectibles The gorgeous anime couple is joining the Nendoroid Swacchao! Series This line of collectibles features Good Smile's original Nendoroid sculpt, but features each character sitting in a chair This preset allows for a new way of displaying options[...]

Crunchyroll had their panel at Anime Expo this past weekend where they announced Trigun Stampede and Solo Leveling, but there were a lot of other titles coming to the streamer as well Here's a look at the rest of the line-up… Key art: Crunchyroll OVERLORD IV –Crunchyroll will stream the fourth season of the popular anime series[...]

Now with the anime set to go worldwide later this month, viewers are getting a chance to learn more with the release of a second official trailer With Shigeki Kawai directing at Atelier Pontdarc, Kenta Ihara (Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, Full Dive, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Mieruko-chan) overseeing &[...]

Solo Leveling, the beloved Korean manhwa written by Chugong and illustrated by DUBU (REDICE Studio), will be adapted into an anime series by A-1 Pictures and simulcast on Crunchyroll worldwide outside of Asia in 2023 The first key visual and English teaser trailer was revealed by the Crunchyroll Industry Panel at Anime Expo this weekend. "Solo[...]

If you're an anime fan, then you already know by now that this weekend's Anime Expo hasn't been lacking in news and previews Earlier, we shared a look at the opening credits to Netflix's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, but this time around it's all about Yasuhiro Nightow and the main team behind the upcoming Trigun Stampede anime[...]

Last month during the streaming service's virtual fan event Geeked Week, anime fans were treated to some previews of Netflix's upcoming animation line-up One anime, in particular, that's been sparking some serious attention is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, produced by CD PROJEKT RED (Cyberpunk 2077) and Studio Trigger (Promare, Little Witch Academia, Kill La Kill) Directed by[...]

Bandai Namco has revealed a brand new anime video game during Anime Expo this weekend as we're getting My Hero Ultra Rumble The game was revealed at the Bandai Namco "Summer Showcase" panel today in which they showed off the online battle royale title where you will choose from your favorite characters from MY Hero[...]

Classic anime series Yatterman is getting a live action – and possibly more adult-oriented – prequel series called Doronjo The series will star popular singer and actress Elaiza Ikeda as Lady Doronjo, recurring femme fatale villainess The series is being produced by Japan pay TV broadcaster Wowow. Elaiza Ikeda in "Doronjo", key art: Wowow The teaser trailer[...]

RWBY: Ice Queendom was a long time coming, an anime adaptation of the Rooster Teeth CGI animated series RWBY (pronounced "Ruby", an acronym for its four heroines Ruby, Weiss, Black, and Yang) created by the late Monty Oum Crunchyroll has released the first three episodes on YouTube The original story has been turned into a[...]

Crunchyroll Expo, in partnership with COVER Corporation, announced a special, never-before-seen edition of the Hololive Meet (holoMeet) experience, bringing fans closer than ever before to Hololive production's beloved VTubers during the yearly anime convention, taking place in San Jose, California from August 5-7, 2022.  Crunchyroll Expo will also feature guests from the dark fantasy anime[...]

There's no denying that the anime and manga property Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa has become a staple in both mediums So much so that it's a rare series to receive multiple interactions (Full Metal Alchemist and the more continuity-focused Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood). Even though its initial story has appropriately concluded, Full Metal Alchemist still remains[...]

The mid-season finale of Crunchyroll's Spy x Family was a perfect campy Forger episode to end part one of the anime With no more episodes to go until October, we got enough of a Forger dose to keep our interest peaked until then This was a great Forger family-centered episode that did a great job[...]

So with all of that going on in the background, Jason DeMarco, SVP of Action and Anime, Warner Bros Discovery; and co-creator of Toonami, decided to field some questions from fans on Twitter And there was a ton of ground covered, some of which we're passing along to you below- from the upcoming Rick and Morty[...]

In this episode of Castle Talk, Jason chats with Erica Friedman, author of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga The publishers call it "the untold story of lesbian love in Japanese anime and comics." Two decades in the making, By Your Side is a collection of essays, scholarly and approachable,[...]

The collection celebrates the hugely popular manga series, now an anime series, by writer and illustrator Tatsuya Endo, that has garnered a string of awards since it debuted in March 2019 in Shonen Jump magazine As of May 2022, nine volumes of this series have sold more than 18 million copies. Credit: Uniqlo Spy x Family is an[...]

More Details on the Upcoming Film Will Be Revealed at Anime Expo on July 2 in Los Angeles. Poster art: Crunchyroll, Toei Animation "Uta —the most beloved singer in the world Renowned for concealing her own identity when performing, her voice has come to be described as "otherworldly." Now, for the first time ever, Uta will reveal[...]

The Rising of the Shield Hero is one of the more popular and different Isekai light novel series in Japan that got a manga and an anime series adaptation Aneko Yusagi's ongoing light novel series, which has 22 books and still going strong, features got its first anime season back in 2019 The second season[...]

Crunchyroll is bringing over 40 new and returning titles this Summer 2022 anime season cooking up an exciting lineup of new simulcasts from Japan – subtitled and dubbed – that will include Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 2, Classroom of the Elite Season 2, YUREI DECO, Fuuto PI, Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys!, The Girl from the Other[...]

Epic Games revealed this morning that they will be bringing more characters from Naruto into Fortnite to join the rest of Team 7.

In this week's episode of Crunchyroll's Spy x Family, S01E11 "Stella", we get to follow along with Loid to see what Anya truly excels at.

Classic fan-favorite anime series Trigun will be reborn as a new anime series in 2023 entitled Trigun Stampede, produced by Orange (producers of Beastars) with an all-new staff and cast, and from Toho in Japan Crunchyroll has acquired the rights and will simulcast the series from Japan in more than 200 countries and territories around[...]

Crunchyroll Expo, the yearly convention taking place August 5-7, 2022 in San Jose, California from the global leader in anime fan experiences, is announcing today the hit Japanese rock group Burnout Syndromes who will headline the New Crunchy City Music Fest, alongside an exciting slate of guests from the action/adventure anime The Rising of the[...]

Sabat Textless Opening & Closing Songs Watching Dragon Ball Super: with Jason Douglas & Ian Sinclair Anime Expo 2017: Interview with Sean Schemmel & Jason Douglas Dragon Ball Super: An Interview with Sean Schemmel Coffee Break with Mai and Trunks Dragon Ball Super at Anime Expo 2018: Interviews with Sonny Strait, Matthew Mercer, & Kyle Hebert Dragon Ball Super: Rawly Pickens &[...]

Crunchyroll and Toei Animation released additional details for the global theatrical release of Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO, the newest film in the worldwide anime blockbuster franchise, including a new trailer and new English voice cast The film will be available in both English dub and subtitled and will arrive in more than 2300 theaters[...]

This week's episode of Crunchyroll's Spy x Family was so wonderfully extra and filled with some of the best Rocky-style training cheese.

With the sixth season of My Hero Academia set for this Fall, we have new images, overviews & character info on this summer's two OVAs.

Anime Expo, the biggest anime convention in the US, has reinstated the requirements that all attendees produce proof of vaccination or a negative test for COVID This occurred one day after announcing they were lifting those requirements The reversal comes barely 24 hours after their initial announcement of the lifting of the requirements and the[...]

The almost four-minute-long video provides some information and background to the work we are to expect from this new series. A still of Tomie, a horror manga by Junji Ito, as shown in the interview with VIZ Media. Junji Ito has discussed how he'll be bringing over 20 of his stories to be turned into an anime[...]