Another World is a 2025 Hong Kong-made animated film that most people here in the U.S. has probably never heard of. It's the animated film adaptation of the 2012 novel Thousand Year Ghost by Naka Saijō, and was actually initially released as a 14-minute long short film back in 2019. After winning
If there’s anyone that could qualify as a superfan of all things Middle-Earth, it’s talk show host/elder statesnerd Stephen Colbert. As the CBS late night host is wrapping his final months at The Late Show, his post-cancellation fate has been a subject of intense fascination. Well now it appears
Witch Hat Atelier is all set for a magical debut on Crunchyroll on April 6, 2026 at 7:00 a.m. PT. And from all the evidence, it looks like Crunchyroll has some very high hopes for this anime series by Bug Films and based off of the manga of the same name by Kamome Shirahama. There's just so much
It really has been 10 whole years since My Hero Academia first starting airing on April 3, 2016; didn't it? It has even gotten a magnificent run to boot. This anime adaptation of the manga of the same name by Kōhei Horikoshi had a run of 170 episodes (plus 10 OVAs) spanning 8 seasons. I don't know
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Journal with Witch may be ending the anime series at Ep. 13 "Morning is Here", but it's going out in style. Specifically: life will go on for all of the main characters in this story long after the anime itself has ended. But at the very least, this anime is ending on a high note and plenty of good
Though I Am an Inept Villainess is an upcoming tale of courtly intrigue in anime form. All adapted from the light novel of the same name by Satsuki Nakamura, and featuring Doga Kobo (My Senpai Is Annoying, Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, Oshi no Ko) as the animation studio behind it. It's a story of
The Beginning After the End looks like your stereotypical Japanese isekai anime about an overpowered male protagonist gaining far too many female love interests in a generic fantasy world. In fact, this particular isekai anime is exactly that, but the kicker is that it's not Japanese. The anime is
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea is all set for its impending theatrical debut here in the U.S.. As you might guess, this means that we're getting a whole bunch of promotion for it, since its debut is just over a week away as of this writing. Specifically:
Now that the trailer for Narnia: The Magician's Nephew has been making waves online, fans are remembering the franchise that made them fall in love with C.S. Lewis' books (if they hadn't read it before). Just in time for Christmas, fans can purchase The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch,
Any fan of Witch Hat Atelier will know after watching the first season's finale that it's one of the worst cliffhangers in anime history. Apparently, director Ayumu Watanabe (Summer Time Rendering; Komi Can’t Communicate), assistant director Jun Shinohara (Heavenly Delusion; Zom 100: Bucket
Witch Hat Atelier gives us what is possibly one of the worst cliffhangers in anime history with the end of Ep. 13 "Forbidden Magic". The rest of the episode is an amazing dark fantasy adventure featuring some honestly very disturbing magical body horror. However, the ending will have you gnashing
The Magic Faraway Tree is a title that most Americans will likely not have heard of. Mostly because it's a modern adaptation of a series of children's books of the same name by British author Enid Blyton. Despite that lack of knowledge of her works here in the U.S., she's quite famous in her native
Another World is a 2025 Hong Kong-made animated film that most people here in the U.S. has probably never heard of. It's the animated film adaptation of the 2012 novel Thousand Year Ghost by Naka Saijō, and was actually initially released as a 14-minute long short film back in 2019. After winning
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea is all set for its impending theatrical debut here in the U.S.. As you might guess, this means that we're getting a whole bunch of promotion for it, since its debut is just over a week away as of this writing. Specifically:
DC Studios is branching out. Instead of following the normal comic-book movie playbook, we're getting a movie based on the Batman villain, Clayface. Clayface is an interesting look at what we can do when a comic-book villain gets humanized a bit. The film stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, an
"The Debut" turns a comedy that pokes fun at the sincerity of the local stage and elevates it to a fascinating character study of a woman on the edge. While still being hilarious.
The 2026 reboot of Magic Knight Rayearth shows us that friendship is quite powerful in the magic department in Ep. 4 "Our Battle". It's a lesson from My Little Pony, but it's quite applicable to this anime too. Our trio of heroines will need that power, since this is their bloodiest battle to date.
