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Spiral. The Chris Rock-led Saw revival film opened at #1 with $8.7 million, a touch below the $10 million to $15 million estimates that most analysts had it pegged at (and Lionsgate was hoping for). It’s not an awful start for the horror film considering the current state of movie theaters — we’re still at only about 37% capacity around the nation — but it’s also not quite the encouraging sign for the series that the studio was hoping for. Spiral had a lot of factors working agains...

Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple Season 1 Part 2 Anime DVD Review Kenichi’s life continues to be full of challenges as he moves in with his masters – and Miu. What They Say When we last saw Kenichi, he was making the transition from wimp to warrior… Okay, maybe not warrior, but he was definitely taking steps to man up. Well, the world is starting to notice, which is good and bad. On the plus side, he’s making friends and getting more respect. In the minus column, his rep is growing faste...

© SQEX / TWEWYP Originally developed as a Nintendo DS game back in 2007 in Japan and seeing mobile adaptations later on, the  Final Remix version of  The World Ends With You RPG arrived for the Nintendo Switch in 2018. As part of the spring 2021 season, Funimation is handling the simulcast and they’ve now been able to add the opening theme song for it for streaming. It’s a great piece that you definitely want to share with people as it features “Twister -Animation OP ver.-” by Takeha...

Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon anime adapts the Fate/Grand Order smartphone games "The Grand Temple of Time Solomon" story, which is the Final Singularity in the games first part. The staff from Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia anime will return to produce the new anime. The Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majū Sensen Babylonia), the television anime of the Fate/Grand Order smartphone games "Dai Nana Tokuiten Zettai Majū Sensen Babylonia" (O...

What’s On The Crunchyroll, Funimation, & HIDIVE Anime Streaming Calendar For May 15th, 2021 The spring season is underway and the first two weeks of it are always a little chaotic. Streaming services tend to not list shows until the first episode goes live rather than put it on the schedule, so we’re not updating Crunchyroll until we get into things a bit more. It’s a busy season with a lot of shows out – though not every day on every service – and here’s what’s tentatively schedu...

© Dojyomaru / Overlap / Current Country Production Committee We learned in April 2020 that another light novel series has gotten the nod for an anime adaptation with the announcement of How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom. With a July 2021 debut ahead of it, the folks at Funimation have announced their pickup of the series as part of their summer offerings. While there are no Japanese premiere dates set, distribution for this is familiar as Funimation will handle it in the United States, C...

The Single-Brain Indie Advantage. feature - The Godkiller - Chapter 1 The curse is also the gift. Some things that indies can do better than the big studios. Posted by ErikH2000 on May 13th, 2021 Years back, I was hired to work on games by Webfoot Technologies, a scrappy double-A studio that pushed out an impressive number of titles. I scripted a bunch of the levels on a Gameboy Advance title called Dragonball Z: Buu’s Fury. I’m going to pick on one part of the development process tha...

When Funimation brought out their home video version of  Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid back in April 2018, we figured that would be the end of the anime experience for the show since it had been a bit since its original broadcast run. Then, back in February 2019, it was revealed that a second season was coming, which got a lot of people excited and happy over it. With the season rolling along nicely, the usual roll out plan is underway where the theme song CDs come after the show wraps up, o...

Ⓒ Kago Tanuki, Ayabako / Maggarden, “Dragon, buy a house.” Production Committee It was a delight back in 2017 when Seven Seas Entertainment announced their pickup of the  Dragon Goes House-Hunting manga as it was just such a great title for a book. The series saw an April 4th, 2021 and Funimation having picked it up for streaming. Now, the official Japanese social side has now rolled out the first preview for the seventh episode that arrives on May 16th, 2021, and definitely has fun with...