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December 18, 2020
The Promised Neverland Season 2 Confirms English Release Date with New Promo The Promised Neverlands second season is one of the major anime returns coming in the next season of anime, and its one of the most anticipated returns of 2021 overall considering how successful the first season was when it launched a couple of years ago. Now the series has confirmed that alongside its debut in Japan on January 7th, fans in other territories will be able to check out the new season on Funimation and H...
December 18, 2020
© Piero / TooKyoGames / Akdama Drive Production Committee The fall 2020 anime adaptation of the Akudama Drive property from Too Kyo Games and Studio Pierrot is getting some new promotion that’s definitely welcome. A bit later than other shows, Funimation has now brought out their newest clip from the show where a rag-tag group of criminals, or Akudama, must work together (but not by choice)! The series is directed by Tomohiro Taguchi with Yoshifumi Sasahara as the assistant director. Norimi...
December 18, 2020
©BNEI/TOZ-X Funimation brought out the second season of Tales of Zestiria the X as a DVD/BD combo release on March 13th, 2018 and at the time it received both a regular edition and a limited edition release. As we’re now just about two years past that release, it looks like the show is getting some extra distribution through the Tales Of YouTube channel out of Japan. The Zestiria the X series now has the first couple of episodes out and streaming with English subtitles. They’re als...
December 18, 2020
Winter season is melting away for a brand new spring crop. ANNs critics look back at the best of the best and which series failed to launch. ― Best Anime: SK8 the Infinity This was a tumultuous season filled to the brim with ambitious new originals, returning favorites, and a few highly controversial messes, so there were a lot of options to pick from for both best and worst. But I knew, in my hear... All material Copyright © 1998-2021 Anime News Network. All righ...
December 18, 2020
Funimation Announces First Additions to Winter 2021 Anime Lineup ✖ Funimation has announced the first additions to their Winter 2021 anime line up! The Fall 2020 anime season is wrapping its final few episodes for many of the new releases this week, and that means its officially time to look ahead to the next wave of new anime coming with the start of 2021. The Winter 2021 anime season is looking incredibly stacked compared to many of the release seasons this year as the floodgates begin to o...
December 18, 2020
The fall 2019 / winter 2020 anime series Kabukicho Sherlock is getting its simulcast handled as Case File nº221: Kabukicho and it kicked off back on October 11th, 2019 with AnimeLab streaming it. Madman Entertainment is now set to bring the show to Australian audiences as they’ve scheduled a Blu-ray release for it. The series is set for a March 3rd, 2021 release priced at $64.95 for the set. No extras are listed for it yet but it’ll be a bilingual two-disc set that will likely replicate...
December 18, 2020
© 石田由良/ Arts and Spring / IWGP製作委員会 With thirteen novels to its name, an anime adaptation of Ira Ishida’s series Ikebukuro West Gate Park is set for an October 6th, 2020 debut. The official site is getting the promotion side of things bringing out our first look at the twelfth episode which is set for a December 22nd, 2020 debut. Check it out below as well as all our images from the series so far. Funimation is handling the same-day simulcast where it’ll be open to view...
December 18, 2020
© 2020 Ryukishi07 / Higurashi Production Committee The Satoko Defense Force is officially established What They Say: Protests at Child Services remain ineffective, so K1 and the gang decide to attack the issue at its roots. The village council’s damnation of the Hojo family is deeply rooted in Hinamizawa’s history with the dam project. The only way they’ll be able to save Satoko is to convince the village elders to put their hateful past behind them. The Review Content (please note that ...
December 18, 2020
2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: The company logo for AT&T is displayed on a screen on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sony Corp will buy AT&T Inc’s animation business Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion, the two companies said on Thursday, as the Japanese electronics conglomerate aims to beef up its entertainment content and distribution businesses. The deal will give Sony access to Crunchyroll’s 3 m...
December 18, 2020
Check out the preorder trailer for it below! Naotuki Itou will be directing it with Yukie Sugawara handling the series composition. Masanori Shino is on board for character designs while Madhouse will animate the project. The Japanese cast includes Junichi Suwabe as Juzo Inui, Manami Numakura as Mary Steinberg, Daiki Yamashita as Tetsurō Arahabaki, Yōko Hikasa as Olivier Juan de Belmer, Yōji Ueda as Hugh Cunningham, Christina Matsuzaki, Masashi Ebara as Christina Matsuzaki, Marika Kouno as S...