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There are a bunch of new additions coming this summer to Crunchyroll's already massive collections of anime and manga! Let's take a look at what's coming our way as the summer months roll in: Are You Lost? Because of a plane crash…starting today, we're spending the springtime of our lives on a desert island!! There's nothing here,[...]

Crunchyroll is joining forces with the folks at Twitch Prime to add the first-ever non game related loot perk for Twitch members! If you've been looking at checking out Crunchyroll Premium and you're already an Amazon Prime member, you can get a free month of awesome anime, just because you're amazing. Why do I bring up Amazon[...]

Nintendo and GameFreak's Pokémon franchise have become an unstoppable gaming juggernaut over the years, but for children who grew up with the games and anime, the pixelated sprites may have had some lasting effects on their brain. A recent scientific study into the neuroscience of Pokémon indicates that children who grew up with the characters have[...]

The 2019 spring Salt Lake City FanX Comic Convention has wrapped on April 20th. Salt Lake City Utah hosts one of the most active and vibrant cosplay

But now, as adults, with their epic battles and confrontations behind them, what's left for them? Writer Aubrey Sitterson (The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling) and artist Fico Ossio (Marvel Action Spider-Man, Skylanders) are teaming up to answer that question in No One Left To Fight. From the publisher that brought you Hellboy and Black[...]

If it weren't for the popularity of Gundam toys and models, the anime landscape would look completely different right now! We'll have more information on that Gundam documentary as we get it I've seen a rough cut of it, and it's really entertaining!   Mobile Suit Gundam is one of the longest lived franchises in existence, and[...]

'Attack on Titan' returns to Crunchyroll on April 28th, with the second part of the action anime series' third season of giant monster mayhem!

More fresh anime is primed and ready to go at Crunchyroll! The streaming giant announced a big batch of spring debuts, most of which are already underway Here's three more you can add to your viewing schedule! YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World Tuesdays at 8AM PT //Credit: Crunchyroll During the summer, Takuya[...]

Chances are, if you're looking for fresh anime content, you've been finding a lot of it on Crunchyroll The animation streaming giant is pulling out all the stops this month with new spring series debuts, with everything from baseball centered dramas to kappas fighting the living dead! Here's a look at a couple of the upcoming[...]

The Bebop is a ship that carries a band of bounty hunters who are perpetually broke as they chase jobs hunting fugitives, hanging out, barely able to stand each other and each running away from a past that threatens to catch up with them, especially for ex-gangster Spike Spiegel, whose former friend-turned-nemesis Vicious has risen[...]

Crunchyroll has announced the Spring debut of several new seasons of long-running anime favorite Fruits Basket, as well as a new simulcast series, Bakumatsu Crisis! This is all part of Crunchyroll's new Spring Anime Lineup, which you can check out here! Fruits Basket //Credit: Crunchyroll Debuts on Friday, April 5th in North America! Tohru Honda thought her life was[...]

Anime streaming giant Crunchyroll has announced several new series that will be debuting on April 2nd! THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS Theater CLIMAX SEASON  Synopsis: Our IDOL friends are back again today! Get a rare look at how IDOLS spend their days off, as well as their comical interactions with each other in this hyper-fun-filled short anime //Credit: Crunchyroll Ace of Diamond[...]

Thankfully for Netflix, anime fans tend to be very patient folk. Now it may not always seem like it – social media does have a tendency to give the impression that some loud voices represent an entire fanbase – but when you consider that many anime in the past left fans waiting years between seasons/parts, their[...]

I would usually start off an article like this with, "Can you believe it's been four years already…," but fans of insanely popular anime One-Punch Man have felt every single day of their wait Oh, trust us… they know But good news is on the horizon, with the second-season adventures of detatched do-gooder Saitama set[...]

The time has come to browse through the upcoming offerings for Netflix come April 1st 2019, and there are some pretty good options for the endless scroll. Starting at the beginning: April 1st: ULTRAMAN — NETFLIX ANIMEAcross The LineAll the President's MenBonnie and Clyde (1967)DeliveranceDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya SisterhoodEvolutionFreddy vs JasonFriday the 13th (2009)I Am LegendLakeview TerraceMonster HouseObsessedPenelopePineapple[...]

In our review of 'My Hero Academia' season 2, Deku and the other heroes-in-training face Final Exams, the U.A.'s Sport Festival - and hero-killer Stain.

Heroes and Vigilantes! We are gathered here today to do a bit of a rewind and discuss the very first season of the My Hero Academia anime If you are looking for a multi-layered story that will keep you watching—then go ahead and give My Hero Academia a chance, I promise you will not be disappointed[...]

Crunchyroll and Adult Swim have just agreed to an expanded partnership deal that will have both of the companies working together to bring piping hot anime programming to eager eye-holes around the world. Both companies are owned by WarnerMedia, so a partnership between the sibling platforms makes sense, considering their overlapping interests. Crunchyroll will become a major[...]

If you're a fan of Greek mythology, your world is about to (hopefully) get rocked by Netflix with their new original anime series, Gods & Heroes.   The new animated series is the creation of  Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, the creative duo behind Death Note and Immortals Both Parlapanides will be serving as writers and executive producers[...]

Netflix announced the rest of its 2020 slate of exclusive anime series – including Dragon's Dogma, SPRIGGAN, and Vampire in the Garden – with a little background on what viewers can expect when they debut next year. Dragon's Dogma is an adaptation of the popular Capcom high fantasy role-playing video game where your player character has to[...]

Netflix has announced a new Ghost in the Shell anime series that will premiere on the streaming service in 2020. Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045  will be produced by the series' regular production company Production I.G It will be directed by Kenji Kamiyama, who had directed the previous two seasons of Ghost in the Shell: Standalone[...]

Viz Media has announced that the second season of popular anime One-Punch Man will premiere on April 9th on Hulu in the United States, with new episodes of the returning series debuting on the streaming service less than 24 hours after its original broadcast on Japanese television. Viz wasn't going to disappoint fans with just an[...]

Netflix has released a new trailer for the new animated version of Ultraman, an adaptation of the manga series by Tomohiro Shimoguchi and Eiichi Shimizu.

and Canada only). All three tiers offer ad-free, HD access to FunimationNow's entire library of subbed and dubbed anime from current and catalog shows, including titles like Dragon Ball Super, Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Cowboy Bebop, Fairy Tail, One Piece, and more On April 9, current Premium subscribers will be rolled over into the[...]

I did hear chatter from anime and manga fans, however, who absolutely loved it I'm pretty tired of big CGI blockbusters. I loved it. It's gleefully pulpy and proud of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7pYhpJaJW8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Alita: Battle Angel | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7pYhpJaJW8) It's been a while since I loved a[...]

Anime/manga eyes have often been exaggerated as large on the printed page, but here it's in full play in a "live-action" situation and it works. Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox. I'm not often a fan of 3-D in movies – the effect it often only included as a token effort, but there's so much depth and[...]

For many anime fans, "The Changing of the Toonami Schedule" is starting to feel like a monthly thing–which in a way is a good thing since it should prepare them for the next change, starting Saturday, February 16th While the programming block has proven to be very popular for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, the schedule[...]

NBC Universal I'll preface this by saying that any anime featuring a cat as a major character immediately has my interest I live for Kiki's Delivery Service and I will mainline Chi's Sweet Home whenever I need to stare at some adorable cat antics, so naturally, My Roommate is a Cat had my attention just from the title. A cat[...]

Update Jan 14th: Added information about Toyotome's bail amount and his arrest sheet. What started as a smooth weekend for Anime Los Angeles (ALA) at the Ontario Convention Center turned dangerous as an individual set fire to a car in the parking lot of the adjacent Azure Hotel & Suites The fire spread and destroyed several cars,[...]

Crunchyroll has officially unleashed their nominees for the third annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, a celebration of the best and brightest in Japanese animation, presented by Capcom's Devil May Cry 5 Fans are invited to vote for their favourite series, characters, moments, etc., from across the anime landscape. The anime nominated are not just found on Crunchyroll,[...]