Author: John

Question: What do you think of Ken Akamatsu’s recent comment saying that moé and harem anime are dead/nearly dead?

Japanese publisher Enterbrain has released a streaming teaser trailer for this fall’s Baka to Test to Shokanjyu OVA. Source: Moon Phase

Reportedly the current Yumeiro Patissiere shoujo anime television series will evolve into its second series on October 3rd. The new series will be titled “Yumeiro Patissiere Professional.” Crunchyroll

Acclaimed Japanese puppeteer and animator Kihachiro Kawamoto passed away due to pneumonia on Monday, August 23. He was 85. Kawamoto may be best known to international animation fans

Kurohyou: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinshou, the latest installment in Sega’s Ryu ga Gotoku (known in America as “Yakuza”) video game franchise, will be getting a live action television

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of last year’s Zoku Natsume Yuujin Chou TV series. The theme

Question: What are the longest and shortest openings and closings ever produced for an anime TV series? And for an OVA series? I know it’s a really weird

Last night the Japanese homepage for the Kara no Kyokai anime franchise announced that the complete series Blu-ray boxed set will contain a previously unreleased 30 minute final

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the very amusing Kiko-chan Smile TV series from 1998. The

Acclaimed animator and anime film director Satoshi Kon passed away on August 24 at 6:20 a.m. due to pancreatic cancer. He was 46 and leaves behind his wife

Writer/director Akitaro Daichi has confirmed that veteran animator Shojuro Yamauchi passed away yesterday. Yamauchi served as a key animator for prominent anime including Graveyard of Fireflies, Cagliostro’s Castle,

The Tantei Opera Milky Holmes television series will premiere on October 7. Haters gonna hate.

The homepage for the upcoming Otome Yokai Zakuro television series has added a second streaming trailer. The adaptation of Lily Hoshino’s historical fantasy manga about a government agency

The homepage for the upcoming Togainu no Chi post-apocalyptic yaoi action anime TV series has added a second streaming trailer and a short TV spot. The show will

The homepage for the Cheburashka & Kuma no Gakko (Bears School) movies double feature has added a streaming trailer. Click the navigation button second from the top on