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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak Game Review

Trails Through Daybreak is a phenomenal RPG that provides a strong opener for the next era in the series while also serving as an excellent starting point for newcomers. ― The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak is a phenomenal RPG that provides a strong opener for the next era in the series while also serving as an excellent starting point for newcomers. The Legend of Heroes series—often simpl...

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Advance Merch Sale at the KADOKAWA Booth Available at Online Stores amiami and animate international

Did you miss your chance to buy Kadokawa's special merchandise at Anime Expo? It's still available online for a limited time. ― Anime Expo 2024 has come and gone. Many attendees were able to visit the KADOKAWA Booth and partake in high quality products based off of popular anime titles. For those attendees who were unable to purchase the products they wanted in time and those who were not able to att...

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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Game Review

Elden Ring's DLC dares to ask the question: Can a solid story, an impressively designed, vertical world, and tons of cool new weapons offset the punishing combo of hyper-aggressive enemies and a flawed leveling system? ― I love Elden Ring. Even after years of avoiding the “Soulsborne” games due to constantly hearing about their punishing difficulty, the lure of a world created by George R. R. Martin ...

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Minami-ke Manga Gets New Sequel TV Anime Series

5th TV anime will be 1st in at least 11 years ― The "Mixa Animation Diary 'Minami-ke' 20th Anniversary Tanabata Festival" event on Sunday revealed that Coharu Sakuraba's Minami-ke manga is getting a new sequel television anime series. The new anime will be the fifth television anime in the franchise. This will be the first new television anime in the franchise in at least 11 years, as the last anime ...

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Twilight Out of Focus Volumes 1-4 Manga Review

Twilight Out of Focus treats difficult subjects with respect and doesn’t lean into melodrama unless its in service of the plot, while the characters read like believable high schoolers, disproportionately confident and squirming with anxiety at the same time. ― Twilight Out of Focus, a mature-rated BL series published by Kodansha, may have first come to the attention of English-language readers when ...

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Viz Media Acquires RWBY Series, Will Explore Production of New Chapters

Viz owns rights for future distribution, production, licensing, products following Rooster Teeth's closing ― Viz Media announced during its panel at Anime Expo on Friday that it has acquired the RWBY series following Rooster Teeth shutting down. Viz Media owns the rights for future distribution, production, licensing, and consumer products. The company is exploring the production of new chapters in ...

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A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics Anime Series Review

Despite refocusing away from overt fantasy trimmings, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics remains persistently and delightfully bonkers. ― Reverse isekai as a genre hasn't been done to death as definitively as its unreversed sibling. In A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, the parallel world conceit is primarily employed to provide us with two very different fish-out-of-water characters and mine their odd situations f...

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This Week in Games - Diving Into The Crunchyroll Vault

This week, we take a look at the Crunchyroll Games Vault, the implications of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi working with Square Enix again, and sad demise of Mega Man X DiVE. ― Welcome back, folks! I've reached a rather embarrassing situation with my Nintendo Switch: I'm running out of space on the console. I've installed so many games over the years that my 256-gig SD card only has about ...

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Shoji Kawamori Directs New Animated Film for 2025

Macross 'vision creator' also collaborates with AVIOT electronics maker, teases World Expo attraction ― Self-described "vision creator" Shoji Kawamori confirmed at his Q&A panel at Anime Expo on Thursday that he is directing a new animation film that is slated for a 2025 opening. He added that this film has not yet been announced in Japan. The planned 2025 opening is for Japan, but he hopes that peo...

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The Idol@ster's Atsushi Nishogori Helms 'Grotesque' Film at CloverWorks for 2025

DARLING in the FRANXX director's film comes from JOEN company jointly established by Aniplex, CloverWorks, Wit Studio, Shueisha ― The CloverWorks Industry Panel at Anime Expo teased Grotesque, a new animation film from director Atsushi Nishigori (The IDOLM@STER, DARLING in the FRANXX) and the anime studio CloverWorks, on Thursday. The panel premiered a short teaser video and promised that more video...

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Witch Hat Atelier Anime Reveals Trailer, Main Staff, 2025 Premiere (Updated)

Ayumu Watanabe to direct, Hiroaki Kojima to produce anime at Bug Films ― The staff for the anime of Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier manga showed a promotional video during its panel at Anime Expo on Thursday, and it reveals the main staff and 2025 premiere. The staff also unveiled a visual. Ayumu Watanabe (Ace Attorney, Doraemon films) is directing the anime at Bug Films. Hiroaki Kojima (animat...

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Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League Film Sequel Reveals Trailer, Visuals

Character visuals unveiled ― Warner Bros. Japan unveiled during its panel at Anime Expo on Thursday the first teaser trailer, main visual, and character visuals for Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League, its new Batman Ninja CG anime film. IMG batman-ninja-yakuza-1.jpgImage courtesy of Warner Bros. JapanIMG batman-ninja-yakuza-2.jpgImage courtesy of Warner Bros. JapanIMG batman-ninja-yakuza-3.jpgImage...

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The Summer 2024 Anime Preview Guide

Livestreaming vampires come in a few varieties in Mayonaka Punch! Plus, Nare Nare Cheer for You, A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring, Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest, VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream, Tower of God Season 2, and more! ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Summer 2024 Anime Preview Guide! Here's how it goes: our team of critics ...