Anime and Manga

FUNimation is releasing the complete series of Wolf's Rain in a Blu-ray and DVD set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zl8bod5fjU This set includes 4 Blu-ray discs and 5 DVDs that have all 26 episodes of the series, plus the...

Wolf Children: Hosoda Collection is being released by FUNimation, who recently released the English audio trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIelHSXRjuY This special collection includes the English and Japanese audio, as well as English subtitles. Both Blu-ray & DVD...

After a sweet Ace Attorney episode filled with the childhood memories of Phoenix, Larry and Miles, viewers alongside the cast of colorful characters enter a new mystery: Reunion and Turnabout. Last time Phoenix reminisced about...

Anime Network Online is now streaming Urara Meirocho this month. Urara Meirocho from Sentai Filmworks is based on Harikamo's four panel manga. Four girls are on a journey to become uranaishi (fortune tellers) or THE...

2017 will be home to several new anime seasons and specials and one enchanting movie: Fairy Tail Dragon Cry! Fairy Tail's manga marked its 10th anniversary in 2016 since its first publication in Japan. The...

Ace Attorney's anime adaption is falling flat. The plot line understandably follows the game's storyline yet precious little is added to the animation. Turnabout Promise is the episode the Ace Attorney anime adaption needed. Episode...

Gravity Rush 2 PlayStation Demo is now available on the PlayStation Store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FiE8BZYMRY Two separate paths will be playable in this downloadable demo to cover all levels of Gravity Rush fandom. The first path is intended...

Turnabout Goodbyes Last Trial has wrapped up in a neat package despite its rocky and doubtful journey. A few questions are left over yet keeps the audience engaged and waiting for the next chapter of...

It is becoming a real challenge to see the good reasoning behind decisions in the anime adaptation of Ace Attorney. Episode 11: Turnabout Goodbyes 4th Trial has inconsistent animation that seems to be all over...

The latest announcement from the Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) franchise is proof the series is far from closing its last case with the latest news being released. Information has been released which...

FUNimation announced this week that the anime film, Your Name, will arrive at American theaters in 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtN9HOOqhk Two high school students, Mitsuha and Taki, are strangers to each other. But one night stars fell from...

Turnabout Goodbyes 3rd Trial is the tenth episode of the Ace Attorney anime adaption series and sadly there is not much improvement from the first nine. Last episode left us with Phoenix and Maya trying...

FUNimation is re-releasing an anime film in a special edition, Summer Wars - Hosoda Collection, which will be officially released on November 22. Director Mamoru Hosoda produced a wonderful film that exemplifies the value of family...

Steam allows for a variety of games to be released, no matter the size of the project, and I'm glad Anime Studio Simulator was given the green light for Visualnoveler's first publication on the platform....

In Ace Attorney's anime Episode 9 - Turnabout Goodbyes: 2nd Trial,  Miles Edgeworth, a promising prosecutor, has been arrested for murdering Robert Hammond who was involved in Miles's father's murder trial, also known as the...

Deep within a plotline that at first confounds the mind, BBK/BRNK (...and a name that confounds the mind too) brings an interesting set of characters that people can grow to like while the fascinating story...

This review contains spoilers for  Ace Attorney: Turnabout Goodbyes 1st Trial Capcom's Ace Attorney franchise was given an anime series to coincide with the plot of the handheld games. The storyline follows the games exactly and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0 Porter Robinson worked alongside Madeon to create an emotional song that is enhanced by the anime video called "Shelter". Porter Robinson & Madeon / Porter Robinson Productions The story involves a 17 year old...

BBK/BRNK (Bubuki/Buranki) has an interesting concept that has so far been mishandled with rushed writing and little character interaction, but the CG anime animation itself looks stunning and there is the potential for the characters...

The stage recital Escha Chron that was first performed over the summer at the D-world vol. 0 event, is getting an anime adaptation! Lerche, a Japanese studio who produced Assassination Classroom among several other works,...

This review contains some spoilers from Episode 7: Turnabout Samurai Last Trial English names will be used in this review to coincide with the familiarity of the English game text. The Ace Attorney anime series...

Writing about Criminal Girls 2 for, what our founder calls, a “family friendly” website is tricky. There is that over-hanging awkwardness in Western media where they favor live action footage of police gunning down someone...

English names will be used in this review to coincide with the familiarity of the English game text. Capcom's detective DS and 3DS game franchise Ace Attorney has been adapted into an anime. So far...

The Force of Will collectable card game is gaining an animated film collection and the first one features Cthulhu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwbdLB1u5y0 Lovecraft's Cthulhu is a ridiculously fun (and terrifying) way to start off the short films....

A Monster Hunter live-action film has been announced at the Tokyo Game Show. According to Anime News Network, the series producer, Ryozo Tsujimoto, said the film is already in the works. So far, what the...