Anime Expo 2025 is a perfect opportunity to get some exclusive Anime Expo merch, and Funko has noticed that pretty well. After all, they make a bunch of that merch themselves. Mostly in the form of their adorable Pop! line of figurines. It's hard not to smile at those little bobbleheads. In fact,
Gachiakuta is already shaping up to be the next hit anime of 2025. With a combination of dark fantasy storyline, impressive animation from Bones Film (Wolf's Rain, Fullmetal Alchemist, My Hero Academia), and a rather unique magic system involving the repurposing of junked items; it looks like a
You would think "Godzilla" and "sumo" are two words that would never go together, right? After all, one is a kaiju created by Toho Co. which has become a global icon. The other is a famous Japanese martial art form featuring sumo wrestlers wrestling with each other with the goal of pushing each
RoboForce: The Animated Series is an odd little show. It's basically a 6-episode animated series from The Nacelle Company, and based entirely around a line of toys of the same name dating back to the '80s. To be honest, there's probably very few who even remember the toy line, but enough seem to do
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Witch Watch Ep. 8 "Kanshi’s Part-Time Job Diaries ~The Superhero Show~ / Kanshi’s Part-Time Job Diaries ~The Side Job~" is another vignette episode, but this time starring Kanshi Kazamatsuri. In fact, it stars him in a pair of wildly contrasting scenarios. First he gets a heartfelt episode, and
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Black Butler -Emerald Witch Arc- Ep. 8 "His Butler, Furious" is when things start to unravel for our Emerald Witch. The masquerade is falling, and none of the ones in on the masquerade seems to care that it has fallen. No one save for the Phantomhive Manor folks, who now have an extremely vested
While Crunchyroll is going to take up much of the attention at Anime Expo 2025, they're not quite the only game in town. HIDIVE has been seeking to get its own share of the anime streaming market lately. This time, they plan to have their own panel at this year's Anime Expo. Unlike with Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll always shows off their latest upcoming anime series at Anime Expo. It's only natural considering it's one of the largest anime conventions in the world. This upcoming 2025 edition of Anime Expo is no exception, with Crunchyroll showing off numerous anime series incoming to the streaming
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm slows down the plot just a bit to plan things out in Ep. 21 "Zashiki-Warashi and Higashi Village". First to let Danji and Kiri the Zashiki-Warashi daemons give Yuru and Asa some important backstory to explain the past of Higashi Village. Then to let the twin siblings to
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
