The anime, manga, and game announcements, premieres, and news from Anime Expo, all in one place!― Saturday, July 1 Panels and Premieres Trigger's Delicious in Dungeon World Premiere
Meet Kafka Asagiri: Creator of Bungo Stray Dogs
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Sneak Peek
The Eminence in Shadow Season 2 World Premiere
HELCK North American Premiere News Crunchyroll to Also Stream Zom 100: Bucket Li...
Miyo's living the Cinderella life in My Happy Marriage, and it's anything but a fairy tale. Also check out our reviewers' takes on Reborn as a Vending Machine, Now I Wander the Dungeon, Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero, Masamune-kun's Revenge R, Sweet Reincarnation, The Dreaming Boy is a Realist, and more!― Welcome to Anime News Network's Summer 2023 Anime Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our...
Daisuke Ono, Maaya Sakamoto reprise roles as Sebastian, Ciel in new anime by Kenjirō Okada, CloverWorks― Crunchyroll announced during its panel at Anime Expo on Monday that Aniplex is producing a new television anime adaptation of Yana Tobos's Black Butler manga. Crunchyroll emphasized that the anime is not a remake, but a new season of the anime. The anime will premiere in 2024, and Crunchyroll ha...
anime expo chibi also returns on November 11-12, 2023― The staff of Anime Expo revealed on a banner and during the closing ceremony for Anime Expo 2023 on Tuesday that the event will return to Los Angeles on July 4-7, 2024. Anime Expo was held on July 1-4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The smaller anime expo chibi convention will also return to Ontario, California on November 11-12. Source: ...
Sumire Morohoshi, Yū Miyazaki star in anime from Ajia-do.― A website opened on Wednesday to announce the television anime adaptation of Suu Morishita's A Sign of Affection (Yubisaki to Renren) manga. The website also revealed the anime's teaser visual and promotional video, main cast and staff, and January 2024 premiere. Morishita also drew an illustration to commemorate the announcement. The anime'...
Anime features Harley Quinn, Joker, Suicide Squad DC characters― Warner Bros. Japan and WIT Studio announced at their panel at Anime Expo on Monday their original anime series titled Suicide Squad ISEKAI, based on famous DC characters. Warner Bros. describes the original anime's story:
DC's Harley Quinn, the Joker, and The Suicide Squad rampage onto the stage of ISEKAI* in the new original anime se...
Taito Ban, Reina Ueda, Hiroki Touchi, Genta Nakamura, Daisuke Hirakawa, Banjou Ginga, Makoto Furukawa star in winter anime― The official website for the anime of writer Chugong and the late artist DUBU's (REDICE Studio) Solo Leveling manhwa revealed the anime's main cast in a character promotional video on Tuesday. (The same video debuted at Crunchyroll's Anime Expo panel on Monday,) The anime's mai...
Yoshioka passed away on January 13 at 62 years old― The Kaoru Asakura Theater Company revealed in February that Hitoshi Yoshioka, original creator of The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, passed away on January 13. He was 62. There was a funeral service for his close relatives. Yoshioka was born on July 16, 1960. Yoshioka's Uchū Ichi no Musekinin Otoko (The Most Irresponsible Man in Space) novels inspire...
Kicking off in October, the multi-city tour includes stops at famed concert venues around the world: the Garden Theater in Tokyo, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and finally Carnegie Hall in New York.― Rock legend Yoshiki graced music fans with his ethereal presence on Sunday, timed to coincide with the promotion of his upcoming fall tour, "Yoshiki Classical 10th ...
If Shield Hero season two left you cold, season three could win anime fans over again.― The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3 Premiere The Rising of the Shield Hero is still going on, apparently. I was given the pleasure of reviewing season two for this website, and I say "pleasure" with all the sarcasm I can muster. I don't know how we went from a relatively OK series with controversial elements ...
There are no supernatural elements here, but the intensity of the characters' dangerous careers is more than enough to carry Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange.― Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange is a show that does its best to highlight that you don't need to kill fire demons to make a firefighter's job seem interesting. When I initially sat down for the premiere, I thought I was in for a new...
Did you catch the U.S. premiere of Gridman Universe at AX? Check out our review at Anime News Network!― 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 character, it would be Yuuta. Of course, this Yuuta isn't the ...
Right at the finish line, Oshi no Ko overtakes Witch from Mercury for the 3rd place. Come and see the final results for the Spring 2023 season!― Let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season,
based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews
and on the Your Score page with the latest simulcasts. Keep in mind that these rankings are based on how peopl...
A live performance of "Baka Mitai" was a major highlight, only dampened when fans rushed the stage for autographs.― Legendary action, beat 'em up game franchise Like a Dragon drew in crowds of eager fans who waited in the hot sun for a chance to be the lucky few in the panel. Joining the stage were Hiroyuki Sakamoto (chief producer of Like a Dragon series), Takaya Kuroda (Japanese voice of Kazuma K...
The upcoming fifth season of Kafka Asagiri's novel continues from the cliffhanger where the previous season ended.― The upcoming fifth season of Kafka Asagiri's novel continues from the cliffhanger where the previous season ended. It jumps straight into the tense ending of the Sky Casino arc, where the Armed Detective Agency has been cornered by various arms of the government. Longtime fans are ver...
The One Piece Episode 1000 Dub World Premiere had perhaps more logistical issues than any other event in or around Anime Expo this year.― The One Piece Episode 1000 Dub World Premiere had perhaps more logistical issues than any other event in or around Anime Expo this year. It was held a block and a half away from the Los Angeles Convention Center at the GRAMMY Museum, and the line to enter the Roo...
It filled the entire hall with loud cheers. The hype levels for this panel were so high that there were cheers literally every couple of minutes.― Taking place in one of the main halls at the convention center and packed to capacity, the special Demon Slayer panel kickstarted with a creditless screening of season three. It filled the entire hall with loud cheers. The hype levels for this panel were...
Dark historical fantasy doesn't get much better than this.― There are many ways I considered starting this review, but I think we'll go with one of the obvious: despite the notorious difficulties of drawing horses, Ryo Sumiyoshi excels. This isn't surprising when you consider his credentials; before creating Centaurs, Sumiyoshi was a creature designer for the Monster Hunter franchise. But it's still...
MAPPA covered upcoming original projects from the studio and provided rare insights into the production of some of their most high-profile anime of this season.― Anime production studio MAPPA hosted two panels at Anime Expo this year, both sponsored by Crunchyroll. The first panel featured studio CEO Manabu Ohtsuka and executive director and rights management director Makoto Kimura, who answered qu...
Beyond this surprising sneak peek, which hadn't even aired in Japan, the panel also offered a rare perspective on the process of adapting a popular manga into an anime.― Cheers rang out across the Anime Expo main stage as MAPPA CEO Manabu Ohtsuka, Shueisha editor Ryota Ikeda, and Toho Producer Masaya Saito revealed the first 90 seconds of the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen. Beyond this surprising ...
The 48-minute installment provides an action-packed animation spectacle for fans both new and old and leaves them with plenty of questions to ask ahead of the upcoming TV series continuation.― This past Saturday, Aniplex of America brought the English dub of Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- to a rowdy, evening Anime Expo crowd. This animated adaptation of the opening act of Ryohgo Narita's ongo...