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Long time Anime News Network journalist Zac Bertschy passed away yesterday, May 21st, 2020. Zac was well known among anime fans for his acerbic perspective on anime, yet

I’ve typically never been highly enthused by any anime created by either of the Fujiko Fujio team. Typically their manga and subsequent anime adaptations have either felt redundant,

Quickly following on the best selling digital release of the first volume of Yoshiyuki Miwa’s manga adaptation of The New Gate, One Peace Books is preparing a rapid

Aneko Yusagi’s 2012 light novel series Rising of the Shield Hero, while not as macabre and gothic as something like Kentaru Miura’s Berserk, is nonetheless a morose story

Question: Maybe I’m overthinking a small word choice, but when you wrote “conventional baseball anime,” I had a thought. Does unconventional baseball anime exist? I suppose we could

I’ve related my prominent recollections of AN Entertainment’s dabbling in licensing anime. But I forgot to include the anecdote about our aborted work on character merchandising. I don’t

For little reason in particular I thought to myself that perhaps some people may find interesting or curious my select and limited memories of AN Entertainment’s experiences with

While the modern day anime concept of a character being unwillingly transported to an alternate dimension or world, a story concept known as “isekai,” originated in the early

Since more than 15 years have passed since we released Miami Guns, I’m not going to pointlessly debate or critique someone else’s opinion. I’ll just say that I

Question: I was just curious what your personal favorite Anime of 2010-2019 were. Answer: I watch a lot of anime because I deeply adore the medium. I’m fascinated

Question: we were exposed to a number of good and bad anime for almost a decade that I called them hit and miss some eventually became American live

Motivated by my personal fascination with anime, every year I make a deliberate effort to sample as much of the year’s new offerings as I’m able to. Given

I just stumbled across a somewhat pervasive ongoing online search for a “lost” anime colloquially referred to by the names “Saki Sanobashi” and “Go For A Punch.” The

On the strength of its scenarios and characterizations, saying little about the quality of its writing, author Aneko Yusagi’s Rising of the Shield Hero fantasy novel series earned

I decided to try out buying merchandise from a different Japanese company, Suruga-ya. Like buying from Mandarake, the experience wasn’t quite as effortless as I would have preferred,