Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jōgakuin School Idol Club Project Gets TV Anime in 2027
Bloom Garden Party 3D anime film opens in Japan on May 8
― The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club project announced on Tuesday that the project will receive a television anime series that will premiere in January 2027. The staff also teased that the project’s second chapter, featuring the 106th class, will also start next January: 🪷蓮ノ空女学院スク…
Demon King’s Daughter Is Too Kind!! Anime Series Review
The Demon King’s Daughter is Too Kind!! is, in a word, harmless.
― Whether you find The Demon King’s Daughter is Too Kind adorable or irritating is going to come down to your feelings about artificially cute kids. Doux, who appears to be somewhere between three and five years old, is a squeaky-voiced moppet with a tendency to shriek “waiii” at every opportunity. She lisps, she giggles, and she makes …
This Week in Anime – ChainsawED Man
Sylvia and Lucas process their feelings on Chainsaw Man’s ending. Was the real Chainsaw Man the friends we made along the way?
― Sylvia and Lucas process their feelings on Chainsaw Man’s ending. Was the real Chainsaw Man the friends we made along the way? Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discu…
Be Forever Yamato: Star Blazers: Rebel 3199 Episodes 15-18 Anime Review
Perhaps I’m at my happiest with “spaceship go shooty blam bang oooh pretty colors.”
― Forget my concerns about REBEL 3199‘s relative lack of action in my review of the preceding four episodes. The first three episodes of this next release quartet (also titled The Incandescent Galactic War) comprise essentially wall-to-wall intense space battleship combat from beginning to end, and for those viewers w…
Golden Kamuy Anime’s Final Arc Continues in Winter With ‘Runaway Train’ Climax
Final arc started on January 5
― The official website for the anime of Satoru Noda’s Golden Kamuy manga revealed on Monday that the television anime’s final arc will continue with the climactic “Runaway Train” arc this winter. The staff unveiled a visual: The anime’s final season premiered on the Tokyo MX and BS11 channels on January 5, and it began streaming on Amazon Prime Video on the same day. Cr…
In Defense of Jujutsu Kaisen‘s Women (Yes, All of Them)
Every woman who appears in JJK has coherent motivations, a distinct personality, a narrative function beyond supporting male characters, and agency within her available screentime. They are not love interests. They are not damsels. They are not rewards. They are people the series takes seriously, which remains rare enough in shonen to be worth defending.
― Before I watched Jujutsu Kaisen, I had my r…
Gizmo Riser Volume 1 Manga Review
When the system is designed to keep you at the bottom, there is no other way to go but up.
― This series checks all the boxes for “shōnen bildungsroman/Hero’s Journey tale built on a foundation of social inequity that is actually about the cool gear.” Kuro is a slave among slaves. He’s beaten and mocked by a man who claims Kuro as property, with no hope in sight, except for the very brief glimpses he…
AnimeJapan 2026
― We’ve made our way back to Tokyo Big Sight for another year of big surprises, huge announcements, and basketball-court-sized booths. Read on for all the news served up hot and fresh from this year’s AnimeJapan! Prelude to AnimeJapan AnimeJapan 2026 Announces Emerging Creator Award Finalists I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World Anime Gets 2nd Season From Overshadowed to Overpowered TV Anime Streams…
Baki-Dou Net Anime Confirms 2nd Cours in Teaser
Anime to continue streaming exclusively on Netflix
― The special stage panel for BAKI-DOU: The Invincible Samurai, the anime of Keisuke Itagaki’s first Baki-Dou manga, presented a new teaser promotional video and teaser visual at AnimeJapan 2026 on Sunday. The teaser video confirms that the anime will have a second cours (quarter of a year) that will stream exclusively on Netflix. Netflixにて世界独占配信決定ッッ…
the pillows Drummer Shinichiro Sato Dies Due to Esophageal Cancer
Founding member of band died on March 23
― The official X/Twitter account for the alternative rock band the pillows announced on Saturday that the band’s drummer Shinichiro Sato died on March 23 due to esophageal cancer. His family held a private funeral.いつも応援してくださっている皆様へ pic.twitter.com/7pHihGJfuS— the pillows monument (@thepillowsJPN) March 28, 2026 Sato was a founding member of the band alongside …
Kowloon Generic Romance Volumes 9-10 Manga Review
While everyone else around her remains prisoners of their own regret, pulled into Kowloon like insects by a pitcher plant, Kujirai deserves to fly free, away from this place.
― Being a Kowloon Generic Romance fan is suffering. Since I last reviewed volumes 7 and 8 back in November 2024, only two further volumes have been published in English, with the eleventh due at the end of May 2026. The only bri…
I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World Anime Gets 2nd Season
Anime’s TV special streams on March 29, airs on March 30
― Kadokawa announced on Thursday that the anime based on Miku and illustrator Rein Kuwashima’s I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World (Isekai de Cheat Skill o Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai o mo Musōsuru) light novel series will get a second season. The franchise’s television special will stream on March 29 and then air on March 30. The speci…
Sentenced to Be a Hero Anime Gets 2nd Season, Game Project
Trailers, visuals unveiled for 2nd season, game titled Sentenced to Be a Hero -Game of the GODDESS-
― The staff of the television anime of Rocket Shokai’s Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004 (Yūsha-kei ni Shosu: Chōbatsu Yūsha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku) light novel series announced during AnimeJapan on Saturday that the series is getting a second season. Update: Crunchyroll…
