Anime's 1st season premiered in October 2022 ― The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the television anime of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura's BLUELOCK soccer manga revealed on Monday that the series' second season will air in October. Nomura drew a "surprise illustration" to commemorate the second season's premiere date announcement. The anime's 24-episode first season premiered in Japa...

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The Spring 2024 Manga Guide

May 6, 12:54

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The final Spring 2024 Manga Guide update includes not-yet-released series from this month, including Sword Art Online Re:Aincrad,Bungo Stray Dogs: The Official Comic Anthology, A Sign of Affection and more. ― Welcome to Anime News Network's Spring 2024 Manga Guide! You may have seen one of our seasonal Anime Preview Guides, where a team of critics writes up each new anime television premiere as it a...

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Producer Masakazu Kubo on Making an Anime for Hardcore Golf Fans

May 6, 09:00 anime

Producer Masakazu Kubo shares the animation team's dedication to realism, including bringing in a pro golfer to produce the anime's sound effects. ― 64-year-old Masakazu Kubo has been planning and producing anime for decades. He's had a major hand in everything from Pokémon and Detective Conan to Teasing Master Takagi-san and Dorohedoro. Recently, he sat down with us to talk about Tonbo!, his attemp...

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Bakemonogatari Manga Artist 'Oh! great' Launches New Manga

May 4, 12:54

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Kaijin Fugeki manga launches on May 29 ― Manga creator Oh! great announced on Tuesday that he will launch a new manga titled Kaijin Fugeki in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine on May 29. A Twitter account for the manga also debuted on the same day. Oh! great launched a manga adaptation of NisiOisin's Bakemonogatari novels (pictured at right) in Weekly Shonen Magazine in March 2018, and ended it in Ma...

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The ANN Aftershow - I Support Falin's Crimes

May 3, 16:00 anime

This week, it's hot monster mommies and less hot AI-generated light novels. ― I Support Falin's Crimes We've long joked on the podcast about the quality of light novel writing, but the news is out that the developers of the RyokoAI project have scraped Shosetsuka ni Narou...are fully machine-generated LNs in our future? Plus: Things get gorier in Kaiju No. 8, the world of yatagarasu politics unfolds...

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Nude Model: Tsubasa Yamaguchi Short Stories Manga Review

May 3, 12:00

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Each story is like a dark portal into a realm of human sexuality that society usually sweeps under the rug, but I can't look away. ― Nude Model delivers on the promise of its lurid title. This manga, consisting of three equally intense short stories, is charged with eroticism and danger, with epiphanies lurking around every corner. Created by Tsubasa Yamaguchi, Nude Model is nothing like her most wel...

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This Week in Games - EVO Japan 2024: You Ain't From Chicago If You Ain't Broken exA Before!

May 3, 10:30

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Find out about the young star who set the internet aflame and walked away with two medals. Plus: Thousand-Year Door updates, a new HunterxHunter game, and Miku! ― Welcome back, folks! As is my wont, I'd like to plug my El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster that went up earlier this week... but I've also got the disappointing news that Megaton Musashi W: Wired finally released in the US la...

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The Beauty of Stop-Motion Animation with Bottle George Director Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi

May 3, 09:00 anime

Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi shares what it was like to leave Pixar and how his studio will never shy away from honesty in their work, even when honesty isn't pretty. ― Director Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi contributed to films like Toy Story 3 and Monsters University while simultaneously crafting what became his Academy Award-nominated animated short film, The Dam Keeper. His latest short film, Bottle George,...