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Japan Anime offered up a look at the first teaser trailer, new key visuals created by character designer Takashi Okazaki, and more for the upcoming anime film Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League – with Koichi Yamadera tapped to voice the Dark Knight With over 2000 fans checking in for the 2024 Anime Expo presentation, we[...]

TOKYOPOP is returning to North America's most celebrated anime convention this summer with plans and show exclusives for Anime Expo 2024: panels, special guests and special booth activities and premiums that will be available during the convention TOKYOPOP will be in the main exhibit area in Booth #920. Cover art: TOKYOPOP The TOKYOPOP booth will be a[...]

The anime adaptation of KIZUMONOGATARI is getting a new theatrical feature film version that tells the complete story KIZUMONOGATARI -Koyomi Vamp- is a three-film anime adaptation comprised of edited footage from the original trilogy of films of the same name previously released in 2016 and 2017 featuring animation produced by SHAFT Now Crunchyroll has acquired[...]

The collection is available for pre-order today on the Crunchyroll Store and for purchase later this week at Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Photo: Crunchyroll Crunchyroll x Logic x Cowboy Bebop Exclusives Photo: Crunchyroll See You Space Cowboy T-shirt Sympathy for the Devil T-shirt Logic and Radical Ed Smiley T-shirt The Crew T-shirt Logic and the Crew-neck Sweatshirt Logic and the Crew Sweatshirt 1998 Hoodie Varsity Jacket Beanie Corduroy[...]

Crunchyroll's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hashira Training Arc, "The Hashira Unite," satisfied our expectations in some very big ways.

The end of the anime adaptation of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is nigh! As the final episode of the "Hashira Training" arc aired this weekend, Crunchyroll announced that it has acquired the highly anticipated Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, which will come exclusively to theaters globally as an epic trilogy of films[...]

The season finale of the hit monster-fighting anime series Kaiju No 8 premieres on Saturday this week It's one of the most eagerly anticipated anime series premiering this year In case you don't know, the series is about fighting giant monsters—or, to be more accurate, dai kaiju, since "dai" means "big" or "giant" in Japanese[...]

I liked Gyomei when I read the manga, but once again, the anime has made the characters more impactful than they were on the pages I really like how Gyomei comes across as balanced and strong, and you know that comes from a horrific past filled with loss and betrayal In his case, betrayal from[...]

Crunchyroll's My Hero Academia Season 7 Episode 8: "Two Flashfires" offered a look into Dabi's backstory, intense action, and so much more.

Great news! We have another sneak preview for Takashi Sano's (Tower of God) upcoming Rick and Morty: The Anime – the sixth in a series of videos (not counting the opening credits) that have been released since the project was first announced What we don't have is a premiere date – though Adult Swim sent[...]

Summer is upon us, and Crunchyroll once again has a massive lineup of anime series premiering, both new and old, with nine continuing series that premiered in Spring This includes Tower of God Season 2, a new series of Monogatari, the return of One Piece, My Hero Academia, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a[...]

Anyway, this is not about the anime but the source itself, as I have always felt this Arc is a little out of place It would have made more sense to do these trainings before sending people off to their deaths, and I would have preferred to get to know the Hashiras more early on[...]

Crunchyroll rolled out its September Blu-Ray release lineup, including Trigun Stampede, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, and more.

HAIKYU!! is a slice-of-life sports anime revolving around Shoyo Hinata's love of volleyball The anime series, produced by TOHO animation and animated by Production I.G, is based on the best-selling manga of the same title written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate, with more than 60 million copies in circulation Now the hit theatrical movie  HAIKYU!! The[...]

Bam's odyssey continues with new challenges at every turn where every floor brings new threats and mysteries, testing alliances and forging legends. Tower of God is one of the first hit Korean webcomic series to be adapted into an anime for a global audience following its success on the WEBTOON platform The genre takes from the[...]

8 is one of the major anime series of this season The high concept is a hero who fights invading kaiju (Japanese for 'monsters') with a team of elite fighters The big difference in the Shonen series is that the characters are adults, not high schoolers, for a change We interviewed Nazeeh Tarsha, Adam McArthur,[...]

REVIEW: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hashira Training Arc S04E04:  "To Bring a Smile to One's Face" wasn't nearly serious enough.

Crunchyroll's My Hero Academia Season 7 Ep. 5: "Let You Down" started slow but then hit us with a swerve that was definitely a game-changer.

Japan and WIT Studio's Suicide Squad ISEKAI will showcase what it has to offer during Anime Expo 2024 – with the anime series being spotlighted during a special panel presentation (alongside Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League) But you don't have to wait that long for another look at the anime – but that's not all[...]

HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle is a theatrical feature film spinoff of the hit sports anime from Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga series HAIKYU!!, and never mind that it's anime, it's pure Cinema, as much an action film as Furiosa is And it's all about one volleyball match between two evenly matched teams And through that, we run[...]

Today's the day, anime fans! After the success of the 5 pm to 7 pm block known as "Checkered Past" – spotlighting some of the more memorable and twisted animated series from the past (like Dexter's Laboratory and Courage the Cowardly Dog) – Adult Swim is throwing some love at the old-school Toonami fans beginning[...]

Fans of the original 2018 anime film Batman Ninja are going to like what Warner Bros Japan had to announce earlier today Production is currently underway on the sequel Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League, produced by Warner Bros Japan and Kamikaze Douga, directed by Jumpei Mizusaki and Shinji Takagi and written by Kazuki Nakashima – with character[...]

Macross Plus has been a white whale for anime fans for decades, the other great giant mecha series after Mobile Suit Gundam It's the Rolling Stone to Gundam's Beatles of the mecha genre It has its own lore and continuity that's in many ways more character-driven with Cyberpunk ideas and J-pop music with a love[...]

In Japan, there are stage productions based on manga, anime, and video games, which fans started to call 2.5-dimensional musicals around 2000 Manga and animation are in 2D, and live theatre is in 3D Therefore, they call performances based on manga and animations 2.5D. "When I saw the production in Tokyo, I was floored by how powerful it was," said[...]

BLUE LOCK The Movie -Episode Nagi-, the anime feature film spin0ff of the popular soccer manga and anime series is getting a theatrical release on July 28th with both an English subtitled and English dubbed version Crunchyroll just released the English dubbed trailer Look, the rest of the world calls it football because it makes[...]

An anime adaptation is slightly unexpected but also eagerly anticipated because its combination of the epic and the intimate requires a delicate balance that, if done right, can be quite special. Alas, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction is not special It is the opposite of everything that made the original manga special It introduces a completely new[...]

Ghost in the Shell is a legendary anime franchise that explored themes of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and the nature of consciousness This series is set in a futuristic world where technology is so advanced that it can be used to integrate human minds with cybernetic bodies The lead of Ghost in the Shell is Major[...]

Crunchyroll's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Season 4 (Hashira Training Arc) Episodes 2 & 3 offer more insights into what makes slayers tick.

"In 'Rick and Morty: The Anime,' a new series from the world of 'Rick and Morty,' Rick relaxes in a pseudo-world between multiverses, Summer helps Space Beth fight the evil Galactic Federation, and Morty falls in love with a mysterious girl who happens to be an atemporal being." That was the official overview that was[...]

After a big rollout during Anime Japan 2024 that saw Warner Bros Discovery Asia-Pacific President James Gibbons announce that the anime will be released in Japan this July (with international release dates expected later this year), Warner Bros Japan & WIT Studio is giving us a unique way to learn more about what Suicide Squad[...]