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12:00 PM on 05.13.2013

One Piece sails back on to Toonami this week

One Piece fans don't have to wait much longer until Luffy and company make their new home at Toonami once more. A pair of silly commercials have been launched, advertising the motley crew's return to cable TV. If f...

Hiroko Yamamura

10:00 AM on 05.13.2013

A Daily Dose of Final Blows: Diebuster

It's all lead up to this. Our hero has been bruised and battered, and on the bring of defeat. What can saved the day? Is there any hope left for humanity? In anime, you can alway count on the final blow! This week your favor...

Hiroko Yamamura

1:00 PM on 05.12.2013

Watch 5 minutes of Makoto Shinkai's The Garden of Words

Get the tissues ready. Makoto Shinkai's latest work, The Garden of Words, is hitting wide release in Japan at the end of the month, and last night we saw the first five minutes of it air on TV Tokyo. In this snippet, we get ...

Brad Rice



Annotated Anime: Spring 2013 Week 5 photo
Annotated Anime: Spring 2013 Week 5
by Josh Tolentino


10:34 PM on 05.11.2013

Trigger's KILL la KILL gets its first CM

The level of hype I have for Hiroyuki Imaishi's KILL la KILL is borderline ridiculous at this point. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is probably my favorite TV anime of the past decade, and with Imaishi, Nakashima, and Sushio on ...

Elliot Gay

1:00 PM on 05.11.2013

Short Peace looks nothing short of amazing

There's finally some real footage floating around of the upcoming anime short film team up, Short Peace, which is presented by none other than Akira's Katsuhiro Otomo. I had only seen a few seconds of the Otomo bit Combustab...

Hiroko Yamamura

4:00 AM on 05.11.2013

Tokyo ESP manga to get an anime adaptation

I have no idea if anybody out there is reading it, but Hajime Segawa's  Tokyo ESP is a lot of fun. The first arc stars a high school girl named Rinka, a poor girl who ends up developing super powers that allow her t...

Elliot Gay

2:00 AM on 05.11.2013

Ghost in the Shell: ARISE gets a dramatic trailer

Despite some odd design choices, I'm actually really looking forward to the upcoming Ghost in the Shell: ARISE OVAs. I've been a huge fan of the franchise since I was a kid, and I was thrilled to here we'd be getting mo...

Elliot Gay

12:43 AM on 05.09.2013

Have a look at some Kill-La-Kill character designs

Thanks to the power of people on the internet getting things early, we now have a really fantastic look at some of the character designs for Trigger's Kill-La-Kill. Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima...

Elliot Gay

6:00 PM on 05.08.2013

Moonspeak: Maou-sama and Gargantia's languages cracked

Ah, fantasy. You know it's a fantasy world (including the fantasy of science-fiction) when the world in question has its very own made-up gibberish language. This spring in particular is rife with them, and the two most notab...

Josh Tolentino



Captain Harlock sets a date for his return photo
Captain Harlock sets a date for his return
by Hiroko Yamamura




The Madoka movies are almost ready to come home with you photo
The Madoka movies are almost ready to come home with you
by Hiroko Yamamura