This Week in Games – So Long, Kotick! Thanks for Nothing
Controversial CEO Bobby Kotick is out at Activision Blizzard, Hideo Kojima has a movie in the works, Twitch tries to find a middle ground on sexual content, and a data breach sparks ethical conversations among gaming journalists.
― Good day, morning, afternoon, and whatever in-between time you happen to be while reading yet another edition of this Week in Games. Surely, the week before Christmas spel…
Full Metal Panic! Audiobooks 1-2 Review
There’s a bit of Cold War political adventure-thriller, technobabble, stompy robots, comedic riffing, over-the-top characters, high school drama, and will-they-won’t-they framing – it checks a lot of boxes.
― These first two Full Metal Panic! audiobooks are based on the first two original light novels. It may seem odd to review these as a new production, given the age of the series. Full Metal Panic!…
The Best and Worst Anime of Fall 2023
Anime viewers had an array of options this season, from the critical favorite Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End to the bombastic The Eminence in Shadow 2nd Season. Here is the list of the editorial team’s favorite anime series from this season, as well as our biggest disappointments.
― Anime viewers had an array of options this season, from the critical favorite Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End to the bomb…
Your Anime Rankings – Best of Fall 2023, Dec 10-16
As we enter the last stretch of the season, Spy×Family takes a bit of a stumble. See how all your favorites fared in our weekly user rankings.
― Let’s have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season,
based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews
and on the Your Score page with the latest simulcasts. Keep in mind that these rankings are based on how people…
Overtake! Episodes 1-12 Anime Review
While seeing Haruka succeed as a driver is a large part of the story, the emotional underpinnings and its connection to the 2011 Tōhoku natural disaster make this series work.
― Grief and anxiety can eat you whole. That’s something that both protagonists of Overtake!, a surprise delight from the fall 2023 season, are trying to cope with – Kouya Madoka was a successful photographer when he was trapped…
This Week in Anime – On the Last Day of Anime Christmas…
Discover the stranger side of anime with Tatami Time Machine Blues, Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo, and whatever the heck Flying Phantom Ship is.
― For the second half of TWIA’s Secret Santa, Nicky and Chris get retro with their anime surprises. Discover the stranger side of anime with Tatami Time Machine Blues, Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo, and whatever the heck Flying Phantom Ship is. Ma…
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet DLC: The Indigo Disk Game DLC Review
The Indigo Disk features more narrative strength equivalent to what we saw in the main game with the right amount of foreshadowing in payoff towards the game’s worldbuilding.
― The Indigo Disk DLC is some of the better post-game content in the franchise for a while. If the Teal Mask was a side story that you could check out at your leisure, then The Indigo Disk is the proper follow-up to the events o…
The Moment That Undead Unluck’s Yoshifumi Tozuka Decided to Create Manga
Yoshifumi Tozuka met someone early in his life who believed in his artistic ability. The rest is manga history.
― Undead Unluck fans at Anime NYC were treated to a panel featuring the creator Yoshifumi Tozuka, his editor Takumi Hashimoto, and Fuuko’s Japanese voice actor, Moe Kahara. During the panel, Moe Kahara spoke about how she chose to pursue a career as a voice actor because she wanted to impr…
VShojo’s Ironmouse is Crowned VTuber of the Year
Hololive wins Best VTuber Organization, Gawr Gura wins Most Dedicated Fanbase, Mori Calliope wins Best Music Vtuber
― Less than two weeks after making history as the first animated character to win Content Creator of the Year at the Gaming Awards, Ironmouse came in and won every award she was nominated for in the first-ever Vtuber Awards. Earning the title of Miss Vtuber, Vtuber of the Year, and havi…
The Most Popular Anime Series According to Netflix’s Data Drop
We crunched the numbers from the streaming service’s unprecedented data drop to find what anime are most popular, from Vinland Saga to Cyberpunk Edgerunners!
― Last week, Netflix dropped that treasure trove of the streaming services’ viewing data, calculating views from January to June 2023. There were lots of data nerds who started drooling… especially me. But first and foremost, before we dive head…
The Imaginary Anime Film Review
Between reality, storybook worlds, and children’s minds, this is a film overflowing with imagination—and it has the animation to match.
― As a critic, I most enjoy analyzing films—breaking down what they’re about not just on a superficial plot level but on a deeper thematic one. At first, The Imaginary seems to be about Amanda, a girl dealing with the grief of losing her father—as well as all the cha…
