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Blade of the Immortal - Episodes 1-4 [Review]
The first episode of LIDEN FILMS' new Blade of the Immortal adaptation was a a killer introduction to the property for folks like me who are only passingly familiar with the original manga or the first anime from 2008. The story of the orphaned Rin Asano taking on the immortal swordsman Manji as her bodyguard and mentor on a gore-soaked quest for vengeance was presented with a gripping, dreamlike sensibility, like the world's most somber splatterhouse.
Unfortunately, “Act Two - Foundling” is a huge nosedive in terms of quality, almost derailing all of the goodwill the premiere built up in the process. The biggest problem is that it marries two disparate stories that barely have any connective tissue between them. The first sees Rin and Manji visiting the eccentric painter, Sori, who uses a blade to streak his canvases with gashes of bright red paint. He was an old friend of Rin's father, and also a onetime spy for the Shogunate, and Rin thinks he could make for a capable second body-guard. He believes is traitorous blade is not the tool to be helping out a genuine friend, though, and refuses. It's hardly any surprise when another agent of Kagehisha Anotsu's Itto-ryu School comes a knockin' though, along with a gaggle of eager cronies who all want to take Manji's head.
On paper, this seems like another basic recipe for success, a straightforward blending of plot and carnage similar to what we got in the premiere. In practice, “Foundling” - the first story - is a hot mess, mostly due to its piss-poor editing and presentation of it's the action scenes. The battle between Manji, Rin, and the Itto-ryu assassin's is a mangled hodge-podge of quick cuts, overactive camera pans, and nonsensical progression – it's literally impossible to tell what is actually happening most of the time. The episode tries to play this off as comedy when it shows Sori completely ignoring the fight as he puzzles over the right shade of red for his newest piece, but the joke fails to excuse the scene for completely failing as a sequence of animated storytelling. The bit also concludes with the bizarre gag of Sori going bonkers over how the blood of his enemies makes for the perfect paint; it was a predictable payoff, but played way over the top, and then the story just moves on to the next segment with little fanfare.
“Foundling” is just as unsuccessful in its second half, cramming in another villain-of-the-week with a glossed over tragic backstory that barely gets outlined while he and Manji go toe-to-toe in the middle of the muddy woods. Since Manji apparently didn't kill the guy, I'm sure he'll be back, but I can't imagine why Blade of the Immortal felt compelled to cram what had to be several chapters' worth of manga material into a single episode if it was all going to amount to bupkis in the end. I'll be honest, as excited as I was to cover Blade of the Immortal this season, “Foundling” had me worried that I'd actually gotten stuck with a real lemon of an anime.
Thankfully, “Act Three - Dream Pangs”, is leagues better than “Foundling”, and possibly my favorite of the bunch. It pulls off the neat trick of reversing perspectives and telling the story from the antagonists' point of view. In this episode, the swordswoman is a one-time prostitute named Makie, who moonlights as a geisha when she isn't pining for her master of the Itto-ryu, Kagehisha, and killing Manji is just the kind of devotional act that would secure her place as Kagehisha's paramour. It's a haunting, emotive story that takes the plight of women in feudal Japan very seriously, painting a picture of hardship and resolve that comes from living one's life as an object to be traded, abused, and used – whether it be for sex, or swordplay.
I was a little wary at first of how Rin's jealously of Makie and Manji's “connection” would be handled, but the show did an exceptionally fine job of emphasizing the two women's personal relationship with violence as the key to their understanding of one another. Manji starts the episode at his most chauvinistic worst, and though he still ends up griping about being beaten by one woman and saved by another in a single day, Blade of the Immortal is careful to frame his place in this plot as a foil to Kagehisha's toxic hold on Makie. Rin's vengeance may be cruel and immoral, but it is her own, and Manji is as much an extension of her will as he is a protector of her person. When we see Makie take her first steps toward an unknown future away from the Itto-ryu at the episode's end, it feels like a tenuous but well-earned victory.
The action is much better in “Dream Pangs” too. The art is more consistent overall, and while there is still too much reliance on frantic camera movements and choppy editing, there are beautiful cuts of violence and drama to balance all of it out. While I don't think Blade of the Immortal has matched the technical quality of its first episode, “Dream Pangs” had me feeling the most with every slash of the blade, and I've always been inclined to favor an episode that ends up as more than the sum of its parts.
Rin's solid character-writing is what makes the otherwise standard “ Act Four - Rin at Odds” work as well as it does. The animation is back to being pretty weak and ineffective again, and the heavy reliance on dialogue and poorly paced flashbacks kills the plot's momentum a bit, but its central conceit is absolutely solid: After getting frustrated with her own lack of progress as a fighter, even under Manji's tutelage, Rin happens upon her prized target in the middle of the woods: Kagehisha Anotsu. He's slicing apart single leaves with his obscenely heavy blade, and though Rin makes an admirable attempt to take the man out, she's no match for him, and finds herself at the villain's whims.
This is where we get a massively important plot and character dump, which effectively (if a bit inelegantly) lays out our primary conflict in full for the first time. Rin's grandfather, as it turns out, effectively stole the legacy of the Muten Ichi-ryu School of swordsmanship out from under the feet of Kagehisha's own grandfather. A driven and cruel man, the elder Anotsu swore vengeance on the elder Asano, but not before his paranoid eyes turned to his grandson, who even at ten years old was skilled enough to inspire mutiny amongst the Itto-ryu practitioners. Kagehisha's grandfather was killed by one of the young boy's earliest followers, but though his relationship with the old man was never what you would call “warm”, Kagehisha still felt honor bound to strike back against the progeny of the charlatan who defamed the Anotsu name.
Which is what has led Rin here, her body and her pride both badly bruised, having an unexpectedly calm conversation with the man that ruined her life. It's classic genre storytelling that works even when the episode's visuals aren't always up to the task. Even though Kagehisha's flashbacks felt a bit lopsided in the way they were sandwiched at either end of an otherwise Rin-focused story, his full presence in Blade of the Immortal's narrative gives the whole thing a shape and purpose it was lacking up until now. Before, the man was simply an idea that motivated our heroes forward in their quest, but here he is allowed to be nuanced, even likable - or at least as likable as a murderous workaholic bastard like him can be. It's often said that a story like this one is only as good as its villain, and in Kagehisha Anotsu, Rin and Manji have found themselves one hell of a final boss. Let's just hope the series can see things through to the end without too many more bumps in the road.
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Ascendance of a Bookworm - Episodes 1-4 [Review]
Though I had not read the source material, Ascendance of a Bookworm was still on my radar going into this season because it sounded like an interesting variation on standard isekai fare. What I did not expect was that its first episode would so completely win me over that it would become my priority view on Wednesdays, which this season is one of the busiest days on the schedule. (And this is true without even factoring in my new review responsibilities for it.) After four episodes, the series still hasn't missed a beat.
The success of the series so far comes down to two main factors. One is that it's not at all a typical isekai reincarnation series, even down to its set-up. Urano did die, but her death was implied to have been a result of a natural disaster rather than the traditional truck. She was reincarnated into another world, but not to be the world's hero or champion or anything of the sort. (Or if she has, that hasn't even been hinted at yet.) By all appearances she is merely a normal, even frail little girl from a very humble background. Rather than being reborn or appearing whole in a new body, her soul seems to have replaced that of five-year-old Main (pronounced “mai-een”). The faint implication here is that the original Main may have been dying and Urano took her place as the true Main's soul exited, but the possibility that the original Main is still in there cannot be ruled out; that her memories remain to allow Urano to instantly know the language and the identities of those Main should know keeps that option alive while also allowing a slick way around the language barrier problem.
Because Main doesn't have any apparent special powers, her story isn't a grand one but rather a smaller and more intimate tale about the little details of living in a late Western medieval-level world. It's about practicalities which often get overlooked, like the use of bedpans, how children become indoctrinated into their career paths from a relatively young age, or how town life can function just fine on such a low level of literacy (most people can read numbers, but that's about it) that formal education isn't even thought about by commoners and books are something that only the rich own. In other words, the series is almost purely a world-building exercise. If I had to liken it to any other fantasy series in tone and pace, it would probably be Spice and Wolf, but without the sense of danger.
That she's in an environment without books, when books were her life, sets up the series' conflict and gives it an overall goal: Main will seek to make books herself. First she has to learn to read and write in this world, then she has to figure out the physical practicalities. One episode focuses on her attempting to weave papyrus, and when that proves impractical she shifts to clay tablets. These, too, face practical issues, and some of the humor in the series comes from Main's trial and error process. Along the way she also applies some other knowledge from her original world on unrelated but practical items, such as makeshift shampoo (made from fruit oils) or using a fruit pulp normally reserved for animal feed to make a type of pancake. This is the one place where the series' nature as an isekai title becomes readily-apparent, but this is on a much lower-key level than normal. While Main may not have powers, her advanced abilities in things like basic arithmetic make her quite precocious, almost like she has powers. Or does she? There's a curious scene in episode 4 where she seems to glow and her eyes change when she is genuinely infuriated, and it doesn't seem to be just the normal “angry anime character” aura. What that might mean is a mystery for now, but a potentially juicy one.
This isn't all about Main's discovery process and day-to-day life, either. The writing is careful to establish the characters around Main and how she relates to them as well. In fact, one underlying theme of the story so far could be the way her experiences as Main are expanding Urano's world beyond just books. Her bibliophile nature suggests social isolation, though her personality doesn't, so whether this is coincidental or an intended angle is unclear at this point.
For all of the character-building and world-building elements it has, the series has another factor in its favor which may be even more powerful: it is possibly the most visually attractive series of the season. Instead of trading in glitz and glamour, it concentrates on being cute, but in not in the carefully-calculated fashion all-too-commonly seen in anime. Main is absolutely adorable as a character design, with one of the most captivating smiles I've seen in quite some time, but almost every other named character in the cast so far is also endowed with an uncommon level of warmth, charm, and appeal. Even aside from what the story is doing, this series is just a delight to watch. Kudos also to the prolific Yuka Iguchi for hitting just the right cute note as Main.
With the utterly harmless nature of the content, the main complain I could see surfacing against this series is that it's boring. Without question it is a low-key series, and those who can't get wrapped up in the little details (and Main's inherent cuteness) may not find it interesting enough. However, I can see this series deeply endearing itself to at least as many people, and I am definitely in the latter camp.
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Vinland Saga - Episode 16 [Review]
Thus far, I've been going easy on Vinland Saga for how it has handled this approach to pacing, mostly because I like the characters and the setting enough that I'm happy to just spend some time with the show, week after week. That said, it would be disingenuous to begin criticizing Vinland Saga for spinning its wheels as if that was some kind of new problem, because in a way, wheel-spinning has been half the point of the show. It's been obvious from the get-go that Thorfinn's journey from naïve young boy to hardened warrior to whatever he will end up becoming after that would be a long and complicated one, and in the tradition of the oldest epics, his journey has involved a hell of a lot of walking. And talking. And stabbing. And then walking some more.
Point being, I think what can often feel like an un-economic use of time on Vinland Saga's part is simply a by product of the manga not necessarily being prime adaptation material. This whole journey through Wales and Mercia, for instance, is something that I would imagine plays a lot better when a bunch of the manga's chapters are collected in larger volumes, where its easier to see the connective tissue that binds everything together. The Vinland Saga anime has stumbled every now and then in that regard, but the strength of the show's atmosphere and tone has kept things afloat well enough.
You've probably picked up on the big “But” that I've been telegraphing, and yeah, as much as I hate to admit it, “History of Beasts” might officially be where my patience and goodwill starts to run out. A big part of this has to do with where we are in the show – everything up until the last couple of weeks has felt like the rising action of this arc's plot, so I could forgive a little meandering, but with Ragnar dead and Askeladd barreling head first towards a bloody reckoning, Vinland Saga can't afford to twiddle its thumbs any more. Yet that is exactly what we get here, in an episode whose entire plot could be boiled down into two basic statements: Askeladd tortures a guy for some information, and then everyone freaks out because Thorkell is coming either way.
The torture scene seriously lasts forever, too, taking up a majority of the episode's runtime up to the ten-minute mark, with the other couple of minutes being reserved for the OP and the beat of Canute learning about Ragnar's death. The latter moment is actually quite well done, but it becomes background noise as Askeladd and his men take their boots and a pair of shears to a poor Englishman's fingers and face. It's gratuitous, but also too rote and banal to be particularly shocking. In the wake of the genuine horror we've seen Askeladd commit over the past couple of episodes, this all just ends up feeling redundant. We get it Vinland Saga, Askeladd is a brutal and remorseless killer.
To give the episode credit, this scene does provide the most thematically interesting morsel we get this week, which is Askeladd's monologue on the violence that has followed the history of the land he's currently spilling blood all over. The Englishman decrys the Danes as nothing more than beasts, but Askeladd is quick to point out that the Celts settled the territory before the Romans did, and when the Romans disappeared the Anglo-Saxons came and stole it for themselves. As far as Askeladd sees it, his violent re-appropriation of the soil is simply the next step in a recurring cycle of violence. It's a good point, albeit another one I think the show has already made, and more effectively, since the endless recurrence of violence and revenge is basically the crux of Thorfinn's entire character arc.
After the torture scene, Askeladd's army gets word of Thorkell's impending arrival, and this is honestly where the episode feels the most like pure, unapologetic filler. Sure, Askeladd's apparent willingness to let his scared men defect to Thorkell is something, but it isn't a complex enough beat to carry half an episode. Just in case you haven't been paying attention, yes, there's going to be another run in with Thorkell, and yes, Askeladd's men are suitably spooked about it. Vinland Saga was telegraphing this a month ago, so I don't know how or why the show expects us to pick up that old sense of suspense and dust it off like nothing has happened in the meantime.
By his very nature, Thorkell is basically only interesting when he is actively murdering fools on the battlefield, and specifically fools that we have at least some modicum of investment in. There are only so many times he can magically turn his enemies' bodies into so many pieces of disembodied meat before his schtick gets old. “History of Beasts” might have worked as a single chapter of a comic that you could read in a matter of minutes, but it has absolutely no business taking up nearly a half-hour of our attention. Normally this is where I'd leave off with some kind of foreshadowing statement about the impending battle or whatever, but I've already done that twice before in reference to this exact scenario, so I'm not pressing my luck. Let's just get this over with already.
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Stars Align - Episode 1-2-3 [Review]
There is a real tendency to paint childhood with a rosy bloom, but the truth of the matter is, for a lot of people, the memories are more painful than perfect. Of course, when most stories try to go the other way we end up with the torture porn of kiddy lit, so striking the balance is a much more difficult proposition than you might imagine. My prime examples of works that get it right are the Sunny series by Jennifer and Matthew Holm and anything by Raina Telgemeier, but if it continues to handle itself as well as these three episodes, Stars Align may manage to get itself added to that list.
On the surface, this is a show about a pretty awful boys' soft tennis club at a suburban middle school. What makes them so bad at first just looks like plain old indifference, but about midway through the first episode, the little details begin to add up. Not only is their faculty advisor not a sports guy (I believe he's an art teacher), but the girls' team is phenomenal and has a coach who knows what she's doing. Since the guys keep getting compared to the girls no matter what they do, it just becomes easier to embrace their general suckage and just try and let everything roll off their backs. After all, if you know and accept that you're the laughingstock, the words can't hurt you, right?
The one exception to this seems to be Toma, the team captain. He's almost absurdly motivated compared to everyone else, and in episode three we finally start to see why he's so invested: his mother doesn't think he's worth much. Why she thinks that is still unclear, but hopefully it's more than just “he looks like x deadbeat relative” or something similar. It could have something to do with the temper we see him display this week – every time he and Maki win a match, he grimaces horribly, like he's furious about something. Granted, middle schoolers don't have the best control over their emotions (like when he throws down his racket or when Itsuki hits the bully with his), but there's something almost alarming about the whole thing. Yes, the club will lose school funding if the team doesn't improve, but why is he so invested in this particular thing over all others?
The answer may well lie with his older brother, who in school was a soft tennis player. That's certainly part of the appeal for Maki, as well, albeit for different reasons. While Toma may see succeeding at the sport his brother played as a way to make his mom love him, Maki remembers it as a symbol of kindness and possibly protection from an older kid. When we first see Maki with Toma's brother, his face is bruised and cut, but the initial assumption it's easy to jump to is that he's just fallen or run into a tree or something. But after the reveal at the end of episode one, when we learn exactly why Maki and his mom move so often, the scene takes on a darker tone: it's very likely that Maki was beaten by his father in the recent past.
While abusive parents are no oddity in anime, who could frequently give Hansel and Gretel's (step)mom a run for her money, it isn't often presented in such a matter-of-fact way. It's clear that Maki's dad has done this before (he knows the tricks) and that Maki is familiar with it, but like many who suffer from abuse, he can't bring himself to just walk away. But if he has a weapon, a skill, maybe he'll also have the courage to do something. Soft tennis may at least in part represent that to him, a thought that's driven home this week with Itsuki hitting the boy who's making fun of his family situation with his own tennis racket. Like Maki, Itsuki was abused by a parent, in his case a mother possible suffering from post-partum depression, but his story is mostly out in the open. That doesn't make it easier, but at least people around him understand his actions. Maki isn't yet at the point where he can tell someone what he's been through, and it will be interesting to see if he ever reaches that point.
Even besides these big plot moments, it's worth mentioning that Stars Align also does some nice things with just the everyday bits and pieces. Maki totally accepting Yuta and his crush on Toma is a great understated and almost brushed-by moment, and it has the added bonus of Maki simply having too much to worry about to care about crap like who someone is attracted to. Mitsue's entire character is so true to the proto-goth middle school girl that it's simultaneously funny and painful to watch her, and that goes for all of the way-too-familiar instances of bullying. Middle school can hurt, and this show seems to know that.
With all of that it's a shame that the ending theme, with its excellent displays of character, is caught up in a controversy that could easily have been avoided. But even if that changes, we'll still have smoothly animated tennis swings to watch, and if the show can keep up this level of honesty and keep itself balanced, I think we could be looking at a winner.
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Second - Episodes 1-3 [Review]
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These is back! Well actually, it's been back for a while, so let's go about catching up on these episodes. As you probably already know by now, the ‘premiere’ of this Second Season frankly feels much more like a proper finale to the first, which rather frustratingly just coasted off with little in the way of any resolution at the end of its cour. That episode immediately brings back everything that was working so well about the story of the Alliance's botched invasion of the Empire and the following chase and regrouping in Armistar. There's crazy come-from-behind plans, victories of measure for both sides' leads in Yang and Reinhardt, and an assessment of the fallout, including restructuring of the Alliance government at the hands of ol' President Tricky Trunicht, which all would have made a pretty solid finale for that freshman season of this ambitious remake. As-is, it makes for a bit of a jarring re-entry after nearly a year-and-a-half, if you aren't already rather familiar with the story or took in a recap episode recently.
Conversely, the next two episodes definitely feel like a more characteristic new-season catchup for LOGH. Both episodes fourteen and fifteen focus entirely on detailing events that aren't super-exciting supreme-scale space showdowns, but are here to move the new status quo into place. Episode fourteen is mostly focused on the Imperial side, following up on the big shock from the end of the premiere: The death of the Emperor himself. The narration explains the scattered family situation that will lead to an inevitable power vacuum and succeeding struggle around the throne, introducing several new characters and placing many of their motivations in relation to our main boy on that side, Reinhardt.
Reinhardt's involvement in the swirling conspiracies and decision to use them as a power-play isn't terribly surprising. His ambitions have been known pretty much since the beginning and this fits with his character, particularly with Oberstein on-hand to nudge him now. Viewers might be a bit more taken aback, however, by Reinhardt going so far as to make his intentions known to his whole squad of fleet commanders, effectively making them culpable in his long-con coup plan. But this, as well as what we see of him in the following episode, is an aspect of Reinhardt that solidifies his abilities beyond mere combat strategies: He's a natural leader, able to ride a thin but effective line between inspiring presence to follow and deft master manipulator. It's a pointed contrast to the old ways we're shown are otherwise ruling the Empire's leadership system, chock-full of classist and sexist notions of succession that bring its governing to a halt the instant its figurehead dies of natural causes. Even with the dedicated bureaucrats of the system trying to steer it as simply as possible, we're told by Reinhardt that civil war in the Empire is the only eventual result, sooner or later.
That foresight, that long-term planning-within-planning, leads Reinhardt to orchestrate the events that cross over into Yang's part of the plot in the next episode and set up how the landscape is going to shift for the Federation. Yang, being Yang, gets to demonstrate his own acumen for thinking ahead, as he recognizes Reinhardt's intent in this situation immediately, spending almost the whole episode merely ruminating and discussing with others how to recognize and handle it. There's a certain amusement factor in the prisoner exchange between Yang and Kircheis being recognized in-universe as such a 'peaceful, respectable' event, even if you aren't aware of the explosive, far reaching consequences it will have, since the powder-keg nature is immediately communicated via Yang and the episode itself. LOGH has dabbled in it before up to this point, but it's a very interesting element to see warfare between nations carried out on fronts other than simple mass combat.
It might be more interesting, however, if the show's presentation would loosen up a little more. Maybe all the time off has tainted it by comparison, but this new season, especially the fourteenth and fifteenth episodes, feels sterile even by typical LOGH standards. With all the procedural piece-moving occuring in them, these episodes in particular come off the most ‘history documentary’ the series has been. There are a few bright spots, like Reinhardt's salute of a retiring officer or some of the atmosphere in the Alliance sections feeling amusingly modern-style for a setting ostensibly in the far-flung space future. It does an effective job selling the sometimes-uncomfortable similarities in the Alliance's simmering issues with the weaknesses we're weathering in our own western democracies. But these presentational flashes leave less impact due to the extremely dry direction and oddly-stiff characters. The biggest casualty there is Kircheis, as virtually everyone in the cast comments on his amiability that established fans will recall from previous passes at the material but is barely shown here beyond a few soft smiles.
Even as they're seemingly turned up for this reintroduction though, LOGH's style and pacing are aspects that viewers are probably familiar with and accepting enough of by this point. To that end, these episodes are still eminently watchable for what mostly amount to in-universe textbook summaries, though it's still disappointing coming off of the premiere episode's blockbuster finish to a more traditionally-exciting story arc. That execution at least bodes well for when LOGH really gets going again, whenever the various fuses lit in these opening episodes finally go off. This series has taught us enough patience to wait for that, anyway.
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Second - Episodes 4-5 [Review]
If you weren't yet aware, the second season of Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These is being released as a series of movies in Japan, borderline-concurrently with these episodic showings Crunchyroll is chopping them up into. I haven't seen the film versions, but it's worth noting here as unless some major editing wizardry is taking place, the tidy run-times and clean subject breaks between episodes seem to make it clear that these were the intended format regardless. That's exceptionally clear heading into these next two episodes, which kick off two separate story arcs for each side of the war, seemingly setting us up to alternate between parts of them as we go.
Episode 16 takes us to the Empire and their incipient civil war. It's heralded by the arrival of another new character, one whom if you didn't already know was important would probably be able to guess. Hildegard von Mariendorf is an immediately endearing presence, not just by being a female character connected to Reinhardt who isn't reduced to a mere motivating plot device the way his sister Annrose is, but because of how quickly she comes off as sharp and entertaining. Hilda gets a solid amount of focus in the opening minutes of this episode, recapping the situation of unrest in the Empire and laying out once again why Reinhardt is the one we're supposed to be rooting for here. Reinhardt's natural leadership abilities have already been commented on, and will continue to be shown, but having this character established as a smart situational judge reiterate how he can feed into the current structure to be more successful sets another clear trajectory for Reinhardt's ambitions. It's not just that he'd be a good leader, as Hilda points out, the Empire is truly in need of reform if it wants to last longer than it already has, and Reinhardt's abilities are exactly what's needed to deliver that to them.
After that overview, the rest of this episode proceeds with a bit of the same ‘historical overview’ style from the previous two episodes hovering over it, but nowhere near to the same degree. There are a lot of moves involving a lot of characters to cover in the run-up to open war between the divided sides of the Empire, and these narrated-between vignettes handle them effectively enough. One of the big movers turns out to be Merkatz, an otherwise-reasonable commander who gets effectively conscripted into calling the tactical shots for the nobles' side. Of several quote-worthy soundbites this episode, he gets to drop the point that 'Privilege is the worst poison of all. It rots away a person's spirit.' That's followed up with a fairly successful show of emotion in him leaving the letter for his wife and children as he heads off to a battle he's fairly certain to lose.
There's more complex conceptual work in the rest of the episode, with Braunschweig's nobles clashing a bit over strategies in dealing with Reinhardt. There's a multi-side consideration of the practicality of taking Reinhardt out via assassination instead of trying to tactically take him head-on, but the prideful head of the nobles can't discard his perception of his own honor to take such a route. The payoff here comes from when a half-assed unauthorized version of the assassination attempt utterly fails anyway, and Reinhardt brings in Streit, it's would-be orchestrator. Reinhardt's handling of the situation and Streit's impressed reaction to the whole affair effectively wraps this episode by demonstrating what Hilda laid out at the beginning: Reinhardt's actual inspirational leadership (manipulative as it is at times) is much more effective than the entitled attempts the nobles are making. Original LOGH author Yoshiki Tanaka earlier demonstrated a lot of political leanings in the Alliance side of the story and his clear distaste for nationalism, but in this section he shows that he has just as little patience for self-absorbed ruling aristocrats.
Don't worry if you missed all those Alliance-based musings though, since we're right back to them in episode 17! The previous episode worked pretty well, but this one turns out to be the show really getting back into its cinematic gear. Unlike the pseudo-montage of interconnected developing events that drew us into the Empire's civil war, this one kicks off by showing a direct, inciting incident. Remember Falk, the commander who got temporarily blinded by the sheer level of his catastrophic failure? He's back and he's a part of the rebels we saw scheming last episode, and his seemingly-spiteful assassination attempt on an official is what sets everything off. It's a pretty interesting transition from the previous episode when you recall that this was just one more angle set in motion by Reinhardt.
This episode does stall a little bit in the middle there, pointedly having Yang and company piddle around with busiwork and a lack of knowledge of what's coming next. It's at least a decent, unnervingly-accurate depiction of dealing day-to-day in a country where you know things are in flux and about to boil over, but you have no way of knowing when or how. And fortunately for the entertainment value but less so for the Yang Gang, the payoff comes sooner rather than later, with a pretty solid surprise for first-time fans: Frederica's father is the leader of the rebels orchestrating the coup in the Alliance. Her reaction is just the start of the effective emotional plays this episode makes for everything.
Before the more characteristic and personal aspects come into play though, the founding ideas of the coup attempt in this episode are worth analyzing. As Bewcock points out, Dwight Greenhill seems like a decent man, not prone to being manipulated by Imperial scheming the way the other upstarts in his crew have been. It makes clear that Reinhardt's plan worked because we can sympathize with the need for reform that's taking place across both sides this episode: We've seen throughout the show so far that the Alliance government really is super-corrupt. But LOGH makes the key point that violent attacks to jump right over fair democracy straight into installing fascism is no answer.
It's repeated several times in episode 17 that Reinhardt had no way of knowing how the coup attempt he orchestrated would actually play out, that that lends an effective atmosphere to the events of the episode itself. There's a strong ‘thriller’ atmosphere as things progress here, as we wonder how the sides will shake out in their successes and what eventual lesson might be learned by the people of the Alliance from all this. To that end, the show effectively touches on a few of the player's in Yang's own team. Getting the story on Frederica's opinion of the situation again calls up that base emotional investment I've been so desperate to see from the show for the last few episodes. But more intensely than that is the discussion between Schönkopf and Yang on the subject of the coup and how to handle it. There's an effective segue into discussing Yang's leadership style and its implicit comparisons with Reinhardt's as covered in the preceding episode. Yang's inherent contradiction as a war expert who hates war is reiterated here, and he remarks on his personal disinterest in being a leader of the people, especially a benevolent dictator as Schönkopf suggests setting him up as. But that's contrasted later with a scene from Julian where it's shown how much faith the notion of Yang's command instills in the people of the Alliance, proceeding to a direction of actions where the fate of that side itself is in Yang's very hands. And through it all there's an actual clash of personalities, a character-based intensity to the interaction between Schönkopf and Yang.
It warms up a lot in episode 16, but the 17th especially feels like LOGH DNT's second season finally starting to fire on all cylinders. There's a ton going on just in terms of the concepts being thrown around and how the writing articulates them, and that's all contained in a section of the plot that's still in the well-known LOGH mold of 'Watching armies prepare to do something they'll get to doing a couple episodes from now”. Episode 16's coverage of the Empire is no slouch either, and if we're going to keep alternating between the sides and stories in this format for the time being, I'm quite excited to keep following both of them.
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Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Fourth Plate - Episode 1-2-3 [Review]
Food Wars has been consistently impressive in a variety of ways, perhaps the most striking being that it took the basic “competitive cooking” premise that originated in shows like Cooking Master Boy (and yes I'm using that particular example on purpose) and somehow made it even crazier. Sure, the judicious amounts of fanservice for all genders helps, but it's really in the personalities of the characters that the story succeeds. Everyone loves an underdog story, but part of what makes the Rebels so good is that they alternate between accepting that they're the underdogs and absolutely rejecting the idea. Or rather, they know that they're not the favorites to win, but that doesn't stop them from believing in themselves completely.
Not that that faith always works out. After all, in this Team Shokugeki arc, the members of Central also have unshakable confidence in their own culinary superiority, plus the smugness that comes of aligning themselves with the source of power at their ludicrously hierarchical high school. Being smug is definitely one of Azami Nakiri's defining traits, and even though he hasn't opened his mouth to do anything but smirk in these three episodes, it's clear that he's given that particular gift to all of his lackeys as well. Not that the Elite Ten were ever known for being all that humble, but for most of them, Nakiri's encouragement has lifted them to a whole new level of obnoxious.
The major exception to that rule among current Elite Ten members (which excludes Ishiki, who honestly never suffered from that particular issue) is Tsukasa, the first seat. He's got a more self-effacing manner, and when he goes up against Kuga in episode two and beats him in episode three, he's the first to admit that it was a legitimate challenge that was difficult for him to win. While I (and the Rebels) may not agree with his philosophy or choice to stand by Central, it is hard to accuse him of doing so because he's power-hunger or has an inherent belief in his own flawless superiority. He has confidence because he's actually good, and he's also willing to admit that Kuga was a tough opponent to cook against. Unlike the rest of Central (and some of the Rebels), he doesn't take victory for granted or assume that his opponent won't be difficult, and when this arc is over, that may be what ends up saving him as a character.
It worked for Erina, after all – once she learned to admit fault and to get to the bottom of her issues, she started to grow into the confident (but not snobbish) young woman she is in these episodes. She's channeled her anger into leadership, and while Soma may be the driving force of this revolution, Erina is quickly becoming its head. She does respect some of Soma's weirder ideas, like the fact that he'll have been in most of the individual battles, but that seems to be mostly because she knows he's capable – and can accept that maybe not everything is going to go precisely their way.
And they certainly didn't in episode two. It was a resounding victory for Central, which is either a terrible sign going forward or a classic case of things getting worse before they get better. Kuga losing to the First Seat did feel a bit like a foregone conclusion, if only because he's been presented as a much less versatile chef than his rival, but seeing Perfect Trace fail Mimasaka was an upset. Likewise having Rindo beat her opponent was unfortunate, although at least that alligator didn't get skinned in live combat for nothing. Her choice to use an unusual ingredient and less complicated recipe (for a given value of “complicated”) may have pushed her over the edge; it feels very likely that her opponent was trying too hard to work the theme into his signature food (ramen) while also going head-to-head with her in terms of unusual savor.
While the plot is moving at a good clip here, that does come with some sacrifices. In keeping with the Third Plate, we're seeing much less actual cooking, basically going from “these are the ingredients” to “here's my dish!” with very little in between. More disappointing is that the foodgasms feel a bit toned down, although the nonconsensual snake imagery which makes up the most memorable one I could have lived without. (It makes sense, but feels in poor taste.) The characters also don't look quite as consistent as they have in the past, so that's going to bear keeping an eye on.
As we begin the next phase of the Team Shokugeki next week, there's plenty to be nervous about. I feel confident about Soma and Takumi, but putting Megumi up against Momo, who's definitely veering out of “cutesy” into “creepy” territory, seems like a recipe for disaster, with the older girl having perfected her form of condescension and Megumi already suffering from a lack of self-confidence. Will Soma's adult rival showing up at the end of this week's episode give her the boost she'll need? How the hell do you make butter sushi? We'll have to tune in next week to find out.
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Assassins Pride - Episodes 1-3 [Review]
Let's dispel one theory about this light novel adaptation which arose during the Preview Guide: this is not an intentional genre parody. Episodes 2 and 3 reinforce both that the series takes itself much too seriously for that and that nothing about the writing shows it being capable of executing a stealth parody. If the series at all gives the impression of being a parody, it is because its attempts to be taken seriously sometimes fall painfully flat.
As I had mentioned in the Preview Guide entry for the series, the setting for the story – with the world being housed in domes within a candelabra, with train tunnels connecting each dome – is an intriguing one. However, the more one thinks about it, the more the impracticality of it stands out. Why build a civilization this way? Is the compartmentalization of the world part of some grand experiment, or perhaps a statement about the subdivision of humanity by social class? Without some more background, this just smacks of “hey, this seems like a cool thing to do” logic, as it does not at all feel like a physical set-up that could develop naturally. The structure where possessing mana distinguishes one as being of noble birth is a more common and realistic one; supernatural and fantasy tales are awash with accounts of nobility possessing powers beyond commoners and/or cases where having innate power makes one a noble. That one noble lacks innate power because she may be illegitimate, rather than just some aberration, is a different and interesting twist on the concept, as is that her life literally depends on that truth (which she isn't even aware of) not being revealed. The perpetual night concept, though not common, is also not unknown. The class system for mana types is suspiciously game-like but there are titles out there every season with far more blatant game mechanics bases.
On the surface the story so far is congenial enough: an assassin is assigned to tutor a girl and kill her off if she does not sufficiently develop mana abilities because of the implications that has about her true bloodline. He's impressed by her resolve and decides to secretly help her, putting both in the situation where their secret has to be maintained or they're both dead (for differing reasons). However, like with the setting, things start to fall apart if the characters and story structure are exposed to any scrutiny. Kufa's motives for helping Melida are thin at best without some support; does he see her resolve as similar to his own. Staking your life on just "I like her resolve" seems indefensibly weak. That he's actually a vampire may be the least surprising reveal of the season, given his last name, but why is a vampire mixed up in all of this, when it seems like he should be more aligned with the lancanthropes? The villain in episode 3 seems intent on doing experiments with mana, but what does he gain from that? Too many motives are too thin here, without applying meta logic to this scenario - in which case things work out just fine. Kufa gets a loli to fawn over, a young girl gets an imposing first love, and hey, we're on the road to romance! (At this point it's actually only clear that Melida is crushing on Kufa, especially based on things that happen in episode 3. He doesn't seem to see her that way yet, but hey, give it time.)
The story will ultimately need to be more compelling because this one isn't shining on the action front. While action scenes are active enough, the animation effort struggles to keep up with how the series stages its battles. Kufa also looks less than thrilling when he manifests his vampire form; despite the musical score's desperate efforts to give that whole scene some sense of gravitas instead more contributes to it being laughable. The uniform designs for the Melida and her classmates are also odd choices; if they're supposed to give the impression of the girls' breasts being monstrous eyes then they have succeeded, though it leaves me wondering what kind of statement is intended there.
On the whole, the first three episodes of this series are not a disaster, but I am also not terribly optimistic about the series' chances to get better.
'Ochikobore Fruit Tart' Reveals Main Voice Cast
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'Ochikobore Fruit Tart' Reveals Main Voice Cast
The wraparound band on the fourth volume of Sou Hamayumiba's Ochikobore Fruit Tart (Dropout Idol Fruit Tart) manga revealed the main cast members for its television anime adaptation on Friday.
Cast
Ino Sakura: Hiyori Nitta (Pastel Memories)
Roko Sekino: Risa Kubota (Konohana Kitan)
Hayu Nukui: Haruka Shiraishi (Anne Happy♪)
Nina Maehara: Reina Kondou (Slow Start)
Hemo Midori: Kyouka Moriya (Hidan no Aria AA)
Keiichirou Kawaguchi (Island, Hayate no Gotoku!) is directing the series at animation studio feel. Kawaguchi is also handling the series composition alongside Tatsuya Takahashi (Eromanga-sensei, Toji no Miko). Sumie Kinoshita (Gi(a)rlish Number, Imouto sae Ireba Ii.) is designing the characters.
Ochikobore Fruit Tart ran as a guest series in Manga Time Kirara Carat between January and March 2015 issues, and began regular serialization in its July 2015 issue. Houbunsha published the third compiled volume in June 2018.
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Manga 'Dokyuu Hentai HxEros' Gets TV Anime Adaptation
Publishing company Shueisha announced a television anime adaptation of Ryouma Kitada's Dokyuu Hentai HxEros manga on Friday. Aniplex also opened an official website for the television anime simultaneously, revealing an announcement visual (pictured above). The December issue of Jump SQ. will reveal details regarding the anime series on November 2.
Synopsis
In a world on the verge of a great disaster that began five years ago, heroes who, with the help of a device called HxEros, use the power of Ecchi (H) and erotic power (Ero) to save the planet from libido-devouring monsters!
Enio Retto and Hoshino Kirara are childhood friends who have drifted apart from each other. One day, they're caught in a battle against a "Censor Bug" that feeds on human's sexual energy to evolve. After successfully taking down the enemy, they join a group of heroes like them, using the erotic power of the HxEROS force to fight off monsters. (Source: MU)
Kitada began serializing the action ecchi manga in Jump SQ. magazine in May 2017. Shueisha published the seventh volume on July 4, with the eighth volume scheduled for a November 1 release. Dokyuu Hentai HxEros has a cumulative 900,000 copies of its compiled volumes in circulation.
Official site: https://hxeros.com/
Official Twitter: @hxeros_anime
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Lead Cast for Anime Film 'Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: The Clouds Gather' Unveiled
The official website for GRIZZLY's theatrical anime adaptation of Kou Yoneda's Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai (Twittering Birds Never Fly) boys' love manga unveiled a promotional video on Saturday, which announced the lead cast members. The film will open in Japan in February 2020.
Tarusuke Shingaki (Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season) and Wataru Hatano (Yuri!!! on Ice) are reprising their roles as Yashiro and Doumeki Chikara, respectively, from the drama CDs produced by Frontier Works.
Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai is the first film under Fuji TV's Blue Lynx label, which primarily produce boys' love films. Kaori Makita (Banana Fish episode director) is directing the film with the script penned by Hiroshi Seko (Owari no Seraph). H Zettrio (Juushinki Pandora insert song arrangement) will create the music.
Yoneda's manga has been serializing in Taiyou Tosho's ihr hertZ magazine since March 2008. The sixth volume was released on May 1.
PV
https://youtu.be/6NB654QzFhY
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'Koisuru Asteroid' Reveals Cast, Additional Staff
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Quro's Koisuru Asteroid manga announced the main cast and additional staff members on Monday. A new key visual (pictured), the first promotional video, and the theme song artists were also unveiled. The anime series will premiere in January 2020.
Cast
Mira Kinohata: Tomoyo Takayanagi (Island)
Ao Manaka: Megumi Yamaguchi (New Game!)
Mai Inose: Maria Sashide (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!)
Mikage Sakurai: Nao Touyama (Yuru Camp△)
Mari Morino: Sumire Uesaka (Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!)
Staff
Prop Design: Takuya Miyahara (Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun key animation)
Chief Animation Director: Jun Yamazaki (Sansha Sanyou), Mai Matsuura (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!), Marumi Sugita (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun key animation)
Art Director: Norifumi Nakamura (Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi)
Color Key Artist: Yuka Itou (GJ-bu color design)
Director of Photography: Seiichi Sugiura (Tada-kun wa Koi wo Shinai photography)
Editing: Kentarou Tsubone (Non Non Biyori)
Sound Director: Takeshi Takadera (Yuru Camp△)
Music: Takurou Iga (Tsuki ga Kirei)
Music Production: Flying DOG
Nao Touyama will also perform the opening theme song. Voice actress and anisong artist Minori Suzuki (Macross Δ, Tejina-senpai) will perform the ending theme.
Daisuke Hiramaki (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!) is directing the anime at Doga Kobo. Yuka Yamada (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon) is handling the series composition, and Jun Yamazaki (Sansha Sanyou, Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!) is designing the characters.
The 4-koma slice of life comedy manga began its serialization in Manga Time Kirara Carat in January 2017. Houbunsha shipped the second compiled volume on May 27.
PV
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Haikyu!! Manga Enters Final Arc
Haruichi Furudate's Haikyu!! manga entered its final arc in this year's 48th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on Monday.
The manga took a break in the 47th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine last Monday so the author could perform research. The chapter in the magazine's 46th issue had stated that the manga was entering a new arc, with the story moving to "the other side of the Earth."
Furudate launched the original manga in 2011, and Shueisha will publish the manga's 40th volume on November 1. Viz Media is publishing the manga digitally and in print, and is now publishing the manga simultaneously with its Japanese release digitally.
Production I.G's first television anime adaptation of Furudate's volleyball manga premiered in April 2014. The second season of the anime premiered in October 2015, and the third season premiered in October 2016. Haikyu!! To The Top, the anime's fourth season, will premiere in January 2020 in the Super Animeism timeslot on MBS.
The manga has also inspired a series of stage plays, a clay-animated short, and several video anime.
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'Bokura no Nanokakan Sensou' Announces More Cast
More cast members for Ajia-Do's anime film adaptation of Osamu Souda's 1985 Bokura no Nanokakan Sensou novel were announced on Friday.
Cast
Kaori Yamazaki's father: Mitsuru Miyamoto (Baccano!)
Immigration officer: Tomokazu Seki (Psycho-Pass)
High-ranking politician: Ryusei Nakao (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka)
Actress Rie Miyazawa will cast as Hitomi Nakayama, the same character she portrayed in the original 1988 live-action film.
The movie will open in Japan on December 13. Yuuta Murano (Dream Festival!) is directing the film, which features a script penned by Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch) and characters designed by Hiroshi Shimizu (Michiko to Hatchin).
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Cast Announced for 'Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!' TV Anime Adaptation
The first six cast members were introduced for the previously announced Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! (Hands off the Motion Pictures Club!), the television anime adaptation of Sumito Oowara's manga of the same name, on Friday. In addition to announcing the cast, the official website also released designs for the three main characters.
Cast
Midori Asakusa: Sairi Itou (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni live action)
Sayaka Kanamori: Mutsumi Tamura (Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii)
Tsubame Mizusaki: Misato Matsuoka (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Japanese dub)
Doumeki: Yumiri Hanamori (Yuru Camp△)
Sowande Sakaki: Mikako Komatsu (Poputepipikku)
Mr. Fujimoto: Kazuhiko Inoue (Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu)
Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! will be directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by his studio, Science SARU. Taichi Ooru, who teamed up with Yuasa on Yoake Tsugeru Lu no Uta, will compose the soundtrack, and Naoyuki Asano will adapt the character designs for animation. The anime is scheduled to premiere on NHK General in January 2020.
A live-action film starring Nogizaka46 members Mizuki Yamashita, Asuka Saitou, and Minami Umezawa will open in Japan in Summer 2020.
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BL Manga 'Umibe no Étranger' Gets Anime Film in Summer 2020
Fuji TV's Blue Lynx label announced an anime film adaptation of Kanna Kii's Umibe no Étranger (The Stranger by the Beach, L'étranger de la plage) boys' love manga on Friday. The film will open in Japanese theaters in Summer 2020.
Synopsis
"There's nothing wrong with liking another guy."
To be in the arms of the person I love... I thought that was an unattainable dream...
On an island off the coast of Okinawa, two young men meet on a beach. Shun Hashimoto is gay and aspires to be a novelist. He is interested in Mio Chibana, a somber high school student, and starts to flirt with him. Day by day, the two of them grow closer, but then, suddenly, Mio decides to leave the island.
Three years later, Mio returns and approaches Shun with the words, "I've thought about it for the past three years. I like you, Shun, even if you're a guy." However, when faced with the prospect of finally becoming lovers with Mio, Shun cannot take the first step towards commitment. This is a tantalizing love story about a gay novelist and a younger part-time worker. (Source: Renta!, edited)
Akiyo Oohashi (Houseki no Kuni promotional video, Sakura Capusule) is serving as the director, scriptwriter, and drawing the storyboard for the anime film at Studio Hibari. Series creator Kanna Kii is designing the characters and also in charge of supervision. Shochiku ODS Business Office will distribute the film.
The boys' love manga was originally published as a one-shot, which began regular serialization in onBLUE magazine in April 2013 and concluded the following year. Kii launched the Harukaze no Étranger sequel manga in July 2014. Shodensha shipped the third volume in July 2017.
This marks the third title to be produced under the Blue Lynx label, following the Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: The Clouds Gather and Given anime films.
Teaser PV
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Official site: https://etranger-anime.com/
Official Twitter: @etranger_anime
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3rd Prince of Tennis Best Games Volume's Promo Video Previews Ending Song
The official website for the Tennis no Ōjisama BEST GAMES!! original video anime (OVA) project began streaming the second promotional video for the third OVA volume on Monday. The video previews the OVA's ending theme song "DISPECT" by Yuki Kaida, Showtaro Morikubo, and Junko Minagawa as their respective characters. (Click on the image below to watch the promotional video.)
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The third OVA features a match between Shūsuke Fuji and Akaya Kirihara from the Kantō Tournament. It will screen in theaters in Japan for two weeks starting on November 15. The anime will then ship on home video on January 28, 2020.
The OVA project retells the story of the franchise's top matches. The first OVA, which features a match between Tezuka and Atobe from the Kantō Tournament, began its limited two-week screening in Japan last August, and shipped in Japan on home video last October.
The second OVA features two doubles matches: the first match is Shuichiro Oishi and Eiji Kikumaru's game against Hiroshi Yagyū and Masaharu Niō, while the second match is Ryō Shishido and Chōtarō Otori's game against Sahadaru Inui and Kaoru Kaidō. The OVA screened in Japanese theaters for two weeks starting on April 5, then shipped on home video on June 25.
Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Mayo Chiki!, Hayate the Combat Butler) is directing the project at M.S.C. Mitsutaka Hirota (The Prince of Tennis II, The Prince of Tennis II OVA vs. Genius 10) is returning to handle series composition and write the scripts. Akiharu Ishii is again designing the characters, and Cher Watanabe is returning to compose the music.
Takeshi Konomi's The Prince of Tennis and The New Prince of Tennis manga are also inspiring a new anime film. The film, titled Ryōma! Shinsei Gekijōban Tennis no Ōji-sama (Ryōma! Rebirth Movie The Prince of Tennis) will open in Japan in early spring 2020. The film features a completely original story that takes place in the three-month time period between the events at the end of the The Prince of Tennis manga and the start of The New Prince of Tennis manga.
Anime – New Episode [26 Oct 2019]
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Anime – New Episode [26 Oct 2019]
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[HorribleSubs] Null Peta - 04 [1080p].mkv
[KH] Bungo Stray Dogs S1+S2+S3+OVA+Movie (BD 1080p)
[AnimeRG] Fairy Tail Movie 2 - Dragon Cry (2017) [1080p BD 10bit]
[Erai-raws] Dr. Stone - 17 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Dr. Stone - 17 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Dr. Stone - 17 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Dr. Stone - 17 [480p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Dr. Stone - 17 [720p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Dr. Stone - 17 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy - 04 [1080p].mkv
[AkihitoSubs] Elfen Lied + Special [BD 1920x1080 x265 10Bit]
[Erai-raws] Gundam Build Divers Re-Rise - 04 [1080p]
[Erai-raws] SD Gundam World - Sangoku Souketsuden - 04 [1080p]
[Judas] Lord Marksman and Vanadis (S01) [BD 1080p][x265][En-Sub]
[HorribleSubs] Hanayamata Unofficial batch 480p
[Judas] Another (Season 1) [BD 1080p][ x265 10bit] [Eng-Subs]
[BakedFish] Psycho-Pass 3 - 01 [720p][AAC].mp4
Ensemble Stars! - Episodes 1-12 [English Dub] [720p] [MP4]
[Refha] Bakemonogatari [BD 1080p FLAC+AAC]
Douluo Dalu Season 2 Ep 27-72 Eng Subs
[HorribleSubs] PSYCHO-PASS 3 - 01 [720p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu - Die Neue These (2019) - 05 [1080p]
Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These - 17 [1080p].mkv
[Commie] Chihayafuru 2 [BD 720p AAC]
[Erai-raws] Psycho-Pass 3 - 01 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Psycho-Pass 3 - 01 [720p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Azur Lane - 04 [1080p].mkv
[Judas] JormunGand (S1&2) [BD 1080p][x265][Dual-Audio][En-Sub]
[Judas] Zankyou no Terror [BD 1080p][HEVC x265 10bit] [Eng-Subs]
[Erai-raws] Hoshiai no Sora - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Hoshiai no Sora - 03 [1080p].mkv
[KPMP] Black Cat Detective (黑猫警长)(1984) [DVD x265 10bit AC3]
[Erai-raws] No Guns Life - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] No Guns Life - 03 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Azur Lane - 04 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Assassins Pride - 03 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Assassins Pride - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Choyoyu - 04 [1080p].mkv
[Lumpstud] The Snack World 09 [English Hardsub]
[Lumpstud] The Snack World 09 [English Softsub]
[HorribleSubs] Gundam Build Divers Re-RISE - 04 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Gundam Build Divers Re-Rise - 04 [1080p]
[Erai-raws] Nanatsu no Taizai - Kamigami no Gekirin - 03 [1080p]
[vs] The Legend of Luo Xiaohei (罗小黑战记) - 21
[Erai-raws] Houkago Saikoro Club - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Houkago Saikoro Club - 04 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Nanatsu no Taizai - Kamigami no Gekirin - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Shinchou Yuusha - 03 [1080p].mkv
Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Honzuki no Gekokujou - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Mugen no Juunin - Immortal - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Mugen no Juunin - Immortal - 04 [720p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Mugen no Juunin - Immortal - 04 [1080p]
[Erai-raws] Hataage! Kemono Michi - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Hataage! Kemono Michi - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Urashimasakatasen no Nichijou - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Radiant S2 - 04 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Radiant 2nd Season - 04 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
The King's Avatar - For the Glory [全职高手之巅峰荣耀 ] (720p) (subs)
[HorribleSubs] Ahiru no Sora - 04 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Ahiru no Sora - 04 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Granblue Fantasy The Animation S2 - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Shokugeki no Soma S4 - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Enen no Shouboutai - 14 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Shokugeki no Soma S4 - 03 [480p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Shokugeki no Soma S4 - 03 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Kabukicho Sherlock - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Shin Chuuka Ichiban! - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Dr. Stone - 17 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Null Peta - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Enen no Shouboutai - 14 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Shin Chuuka Ichiban! - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Boku no Hero Academia - 66 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Boku no Hero Academia - 66 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Boku no Hero Academia - 66 [480p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Mairimashita! Iruma-kun - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Cardfight!! Vanguard - Zoku Koukousei-hen - 24 [1080p].mkv
Manga – New Chapter [26 Oct 2019]
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Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya Ch.001
Anata ga shite kurenakute mo Vol.01 Ch.006
Emperor, Stay Here, Your Knight's Getting Off Work Ch.003
I Brought Home a Succubus Who Failed to Find a Job Ch.001.2
Aisaretatte Nugimasen. Vol.01 Ch.006
Touhou - Liar (Doujinshi) Ch.001
Kare wa Rippa na Mahou Tsukai Datta Ch.001
Ani ga Imouto de Imouto ga Ani de. Vol.06 Ch.021
Salad Days (Tang LiuZang) Ch.003
Kubo-san wa Boku (Mobu) wo Yurusanai Ch.001
Metropolitan City's Ying Yang Miracle Doctor Ch.006
Nina-san no Mahou Seikatsu Ch.006
Taiho Shichau zo Vol.02 Ch.030
Majo Shuukai de Aimashou Ch.002
Kaleido Star Official Fanbook Ch.003
幼女戦記 第01-16巻 [Youjo Senki vol 01-16]
[Gekkan Komikku @ Banchi 2019-09]
One Piece - 960-MangaStream - Chapter 960
Dr. Stone - Byakuya_1 - Dr. Stone reboot: Byakuya 1
Black Clovers - 226 - Chapter 226
Boku on Hero Academia - 248 - Chapter 248
DICE: the cube that changes everything - 302 - Chapter 302
The God of High School - 436 - Chapter 436
Star Martial God Technique - 291 - Chapter 291
Star Martial God Technique - 290 - Chapter 290
Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari - 59 - Chapter 59
Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest - 37 - Chapter 37
The God of High School, Chapter 434
The God of High School, Chapter 433
Star Martial God Technique, Chapter 291
Rise of The Demon King, Chapter 38
I Choose the Emperor Ending, Chapter 0
Beauty and the Beasts, Chapter 58
Release That Witch, Chapter 77
Hero? I Quit A Long Time Ago, Chapter 112
Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, Chapter 60
Spirit Blade Mountain, Chapter 400
Spirit Blade Mountain, Chapter 398
Melt Away! Mizore-chan, Chapter 40
Melt Away! Mizore-chan, Chapter 39
Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari, Chapter 59
Spirit Blade Mountain, Chapter 399
Melt Away! Mizore-chan, Chapter 42
Melt Away! Mizore-chan, Chapter 41
Crawling Into Me In The Middle Of The Night, Chapter 4
Gekkan Komikku @ Banchi Chapter 2019-09
Trinity Seven: 7-Nin no Mahoutsukai Chapter Volume 21
Trinity Seven: 7-Nin no Mahoutsukai Chapter Volume 20
One Piece Chapter One-Piece-Maboroshi
Akagami no ShirayukiHime - 赤髪の白雪姫 Chapter VOLUME 21
Akagami no ShirayukiHime - 赤髪の白雪姫 Chapter VOLUME 20
Weekly Shōnen Champion - 週刊少年チャンピオン Chapter 2019-47
Kaguya-sama wo Kataritai Chapter 060 - Raw
Golden Kamui Chapter 217 - Raw
Weekly Young Jump - 週刊ヤングジャンプ Chapter 2019-47
Weekly Morning - 週刊モーニング Chapter 2019-47
Saku-wa-Edo-Nimo-Sono-Soshitsu Chapter Volume 01
Tenshi-na-Karada Chapter Volume 02
Tenshi-na-Karada Chapter Volume 01
Amano Megumi wa Suki Darake! - Chapter 192 - raw
Zettai Karen Children Chapter 556 - Raw
Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 329 - Raw
5-toubun-no-Hanayome Chapter 107 - Raw
Seitokai Yakuindomo Chapter 541 - RAW
Runway de Waratte Chapter 114 - RAW
Be Blues! - Ao ni Nare Chapter 395 - RAW
Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu. - Chapter 224 - RAW
Daiya no A Act II Chapter 188 - RAW
Kanojo, Okarishimasu Chapter 113 - RAW
Weekly Shōnen Magazine - 週刊少年マガジン Chapter 2019-47
Adolescent Love Chapter 0: Prologue
My Boyfriend Is A Superstar Chapter 35
My Boyfriend Is A Superstar Chapter 34
Usagi-moku Shachiku-ka vol.3 ch.31
School Beauty's Personal Bodyguard Chapter 35
School Beauty's Personal Bodyguard Chapter 34
Hidden Marriage (Manyu) Chapter 35
Fushigi Neko no Kyuu-chan vol.5 ch.492
Hidden Marriage (Manyu) Chapter 32
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 75
My Tsundere Ghost King Chapter 34
My Tsundere Ghost King Chapter 35
Menhera Shoujo Kurumi-chan ch.14
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 73
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 72
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 70
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 69
He And His Pulp Jokes Chapter 30
Toujuushi Bestialious vol.3 ch.15
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 67
Warlord Husband: Shenshen is Gonna be the Winner Chapter 63
An Abnormal Affection Chapter 60
An Abnormal Affection Chapter 56
DICE: The Cube that Changes Everything Chapter 302: Desires (1)
The Emperor Is A Gay Chapter 35
The Peerless Concubine Chapter 35
Takeda Shingen (YOKOYAMA Mitsuteru) vol.10 ch.87
The Peerless Concubine Chapter 32
The Apostle of Cards Chapter 29
The Apostle of Cards Chapter 30
I Work for the Matchmaker Chapter 30
I Work for the Matchmaker Chapter 29
Dokyuu Hentai HxEros vol.3 ch.10
I Work for the Matchmaker Chapter 28
Gold Medal Streamer Chapter 34
Gold Medal Streamer Chapter 33
Gold Medal Streamer Chapter 32
Gold Medal Streamer Chapter 31
Gold Medal Streamer Chapter 30
Kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu vol.6 ch.35
Cultivation Chat Group Chapter 161: A Masked Thief? An Assassin?
The Love's Oath Chapter 3: I have a secret method...for earning silver!
Requiem of the Shogun vol.1 ch.1
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 60
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 59
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 58
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 57
The Love's Oath Chapter 2: What is...silver?
Full Marks, Hidden Marriage Chapter 4: Move Into My House
Yuizaki-san ha Nageru! vol.5 ch.61
Anaerobic Love: Deep Sea Prisoner ch.20
An Exorbitant Wife Chapter 144: Hot springs invitation
Full Marks, Hidden Marriage (大行道动漫) ch.4
Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san ch.114
Psycho (Young Dream) Chapter 34
Psycho (Young Dream) Chapter 33
Psycho (Young Dream) Chapter 32
Slow Motion wo Mou Ichido vol.5 ch.39
Psycho (Young Dream) Chapter 31
Psycho (Young Dream) Chapter 30
Fragile Relationship vol.1 ch.14
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear vol.4 ch.35
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 40
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 39
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 38
The Innocent Young Master Lu Chapter 37
Metropolitan System vol.1 ch.165
Goblin Slayer - 41 - Chapter 41
Tales of Demons and Gods - 246 - Chapter 246
We Can't Study - 133 - Chapter 133
D.Gray-Man - 234 - Chapter 234
Haikyu!!, Chapter 370 (in English)
D.Gray-man, Chapter 234 (in English)
Bokura no Kiseki, Chapter 71 (in English)
Samurai 8, Chapter 24 (in English)
Haikyuu!!, Chapter 370 (in English)
One Piece, Chapter 960 (in English)
Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 248 (in English)
Aiura, Chapter 101 (in English)
Dr. Stone, Chapter 127 (in English)
Chainsawman, Chapter 44 (in English)
Black Clover, Chapter 226 (in English)
Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, Chapter 113 (in English)
Heavenly Match, Chapter 201 (in English)
Heavenly Match, Chapter 200 (in English)
I Choose the Emperor Ending, Chapter 5 (in English)
Maou-jou de Oyasumi, Chapter 127 (in English)
Musuko ga Kawaikute Shikataganai Mazoku no Hahaoya, Chapter 58 (in English)
The Ravages of Time, Chapter 526 (in English)
Shinyaku Marchen, Chapter 34 (in English)
29-sai Dokushin Chuuken Boukensha no Nichijou vol.3 ch.14
Shima Shima (YAMAZAKI Sayaka) ch.41
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Shi: Forgery of the Purple Logic vol.1 ch.3
Prince, You Are So Naughty Chapter 44
Namameku Yami to Oboreru Hikari Chapter 3
Prince, You Are So Naughty Chapter 43
Carnivorous High School Mantis Akiyama ch.8
Prince, You Are So Naughty Chapter 42
Prince, You Are So Naughty Chapter 41
Ultra Positive Energy Demon King Chapter 55
Mahoutsukai no Konyakusha vol.2 ch.9.1
Jerk, You Can't Escape Chapter 40
Prince, You Are So Naughty Chapter 40
Three Months to Live Chapter 55
Haomen Tianjia Qianqi Chapter 453
Tokyo Revengers Vol.12 Chapter 107: Tight-knit
Ping Dan's Inflatable Doll: Zoe-17 Episode 84
Tokyo Revengers Vol.12 Chapter 106: Dawning of a new era
Tokyo Revengers Vol.12 Chapter 105: No one can match
Playing Opposite You Chapter 55
اینا رو دیدم
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Fairy Tail: Final Series - Magic - EP43 ~ 51 [END]
Princess Lover! - Romance - EP04 ~ 12 [END]
Princess Lover! Picture Drama - Special - Ecchi - 6EP
The Twelve Kingdoms - Supernatural - EP07 ~ 34
Eureka Seven - Meccha - EP12 ~ 26
اینا رو خوندم
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Solo Leveling [Manhwa] - Chapter 90
A Matter of Life and Death [Manhwa-Yaoi] - Chapter 31 ~ 48
One Step From The End [Manhwa-Yaoi] - Chapter 18 ~ 26
Special Relationship Law [Manhua-Yaoi] - Chapter 26 ~ 30
چی کار کنم؟
چی کار کنم؟
چی جوری میتونم فونتهای استفاده شده (Recently Used Fonts) در برنامههای آفیس 2016 رو Clear کنم؟ به خصوص در برنامهی Word.
#Office2016 #Microsoft #Word
کسی میتونه کمک کنه؟
کسی میتونه کمک کنه؟
میگم که، کسی سیمز4 (The Sims 4) بازی میکنه؟ یه سری راهنمایی بهم بکنه؟!
یه سری مجموعه از آیکنهای مختلف باید جمع آوری بشه.
ولی نمیدونم کجا باید پیداشون کنم.
از بخش Gardening، سه تا گیاه مونده که پیدا بشه، ولی از کجا باید پیداشون کنم؟ یه جا گفته بود باید گیاهها رو با هم ترکیب کنی. خب من چند نوع ترکیب کردم. ولی گیاه جدیدی بهم نداده. نمیدونم از کجا باید پیداشون کنم.
بخش Fish هم دو مورد مونده که دیگه کدوم رودخونه و برکه رو بگردم؟
یا نه، از کدوم طعمه استفاده کنم؟
در بخشهای دیگه هم همین طور.
کسی میتونه راهنمایی بکنه؟
عکس در سایز بزرگ ==> کلیک کنید
#The_Sims_4 #The_Sims
قلاب بافی
قلاب بافی
کلی گشتم تا فهمیدم این قلاب بافی به انگلیسی چی میشه.
کلمهی Crochet برای قلاب بافی به کار میره. تونستم کتاب و طرح و اینا پیدا کنم باهاش.
سه تا کتاب دانلود کردم.
یکیش دو تا ایدهی بسیار جالب داد.
میتونم کلهی خرس عروسکی درست کنم. و همین طور توپ!
یوهاهاهاهاااا.
یکی از کتابها کلی طرحهای پیشرفته بافت گل داشت.
میخوام لیف ببافم. ولی کاموا رنگ روشن ندارم.
تعطیلات تموم بشه باید بروم بازار و کاموا رنگ روشن بگیرم. (چند رنگ مختلف).
تازه باید برای کلاه و شالگردن هم کاموا بگیرم. اینا هم نمیخوام تیره باشه.
تازه باید یه قلاب کوچیکتر هم بگیرم. انگاری قلاب فعلی (ساز 3.5) خیلی ضخیم است.
دنبال طرح کلاه ساده و پسرونه بودم.
بروبچ انجمن چند مدل پیشنهاد دادن و گفتن چی جوری ببافم.
باید خیلی فکر کنم. اولا باید یه مدت آزمایشی دوباره دومیل دست بگیرم.
یادم نیست کی دومیل دست گرفته بودم. کلا یادم رفته.
بعد داشتم فکر میکردم اون کلاهی که برای خودم بافتم (شش پر فرانسوی) یه خورده تغییر بدم و از بافت حصیری استفاده کنم.
ولی نمیدونم بشه یا نه.
برای شالگردن مشکل خاصی ندارم.
ولی کلاه به نظرم مشکل زیادی دارم.
آمپول دوم
آمپول دوم
سلام. همون طور که در پستهای قبل گفته بودم، چهار تا آمپول داشتم.
دومی رو باید پنجشنبه (24 اکتبر) میزدم.
ساعت 16:30 این طورا بود که رسیدیم دکتر! ولی بسته بود.
نوشته بود ساعت کاری در عصر از 17 تا 21 است.
خب یه خورده اون اطراف گشت زدیم تا بشه 17.
رفتیم تو!
اون خانم قبلی نبود!! یه نفر دیگه بود.
(بسوزه پدر تجربه) کفش در آوردم و دراز کشیدم.
آمپول زد، چه زدنی! اینقده درد گرفت! اینقده درد گرفت!!!
اون قبلی حتی متوجه نشده بودم که آمپول زده. ولی این یکی ...
خیلی بد بود.
تازه اودم خونه دیدم خون هم اومده.
در صورتی که دفعهی قبلی خون هم نیومده بود.
به مامان گفتم برای آمپول بعدی اگه این باشه، من نمیام تو!
خیلی بد بود.
Anime – New Episode [23 October 2019]
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Anime – New Episode [23 October 2019]
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[HorribleSubs] Special 7 - Special Crime Investigation Unit - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Ensemble Stars! - 15 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Rifle is Beautiful - 02 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Fairy Gone - 15 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Fairy Gone - 15 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Africa no Salaryman - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Actors - Songs Connection - 03 [1080p].mkv
King of Braves GaoGaiGar 41-49 [1080p HD]
King of Braves GaoGaiGar 31-40 [1080p HD]
King of Braves GaoGaiGar 21-30 [1080p HD]
King of Braves GaoGaiGar 11-20 [1080p HD]
[HorribleSubs] Vinland Saga - 15 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Vinland Saga - 15 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Vinland Saga - 15 [480p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Phantasy Star Online 2 - Episode Oracle - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Stand My Heroes - Piece of Truth - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne! - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Sora yori mo Tooi Basho (01-13) [720p]
[HorribleSubs] Bananya S2 - 04 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Ace of Diamond Act II - 30 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Black Clover - 106 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Black Clover - 106 [480p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Black Clover - 106 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] ZX - Code Reunion - 03 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Kandagawa Jet Girls - 03 [1080p].mkv
Gegege no Kitarou (2018) 53-69 (720p_HEVC2_12bit)
Gintama 001-367 subtitle crunchy rip
[HorribleSubs] Vinland Saga - 13 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Chihayafuru S3 - 01 [1080p].mkv
Chobits [BD.1080p.x265.HEVC][Jap.Eng.Ger.Dub/Eng.Sub]
Manga – New Chapter [23 October 2019]
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Nankuru Nee-san Chapter 033.5 - Final - Series End
Shinmai Shimai no Futari Gohan - Chapter 040 - RAW
Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Chapter 031 - Raw
3x3 Eyes : Genjuu no Mori no Sounansya Chapter 047 - raw
Adamas-Witches Chapter 015 - raw
Oni-no-Mataoni-no-Amo Chapter 026 - raw
Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo suru Chapter 031 - Raw
Tsumi-to-Kai Chapter 053 - Raw
Ani no Yome to Kurashite Imasu. Chapter 068 - Raw
+ Tic Nee-san Chapter 193 - Raw
Goblin-Slayer-Gaiden-Year-One Chapter 35 - raw
Knights-&-Magic Chapter 072 - Raw
Masaki no Pan Chapter 089 - RAW
Megami-no-Sprinter Chapter 021 - Raw
Tenka-Isshuu-Imagawa-Ujizane-Muyouken Chapter 015 - Raw
Yakumo-san wa Edzuke ga Shitai. Chapter 060 - Raw
Watari-kun no xx ga Houkai Sunzen Chapter 051 - Break 048
Goblin-Slayer-Gaiden-Year-One Chapter 034 - raw
Gokudou-Parasites Chapter 014 - Raw
Kirei-ni-Shite-Moraemasu-Ka Chapter 027 - Raw
Someya-Mako-no-Jansou-Meshi Chapter 005 - RAW
Tsumi-to-Kai Chapter 052 - Raw
Yakumo-san wa Edzuke ga Shitai. Chapter 059 - RAW
Knights-&-Magic Chapter 071 - Raw
Masaki no Pan Chapter 088 - RAW
Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo suru Chapter 30 - raw
Arakure-Ojousama-wa-MonMon-Shiteiru Chapter 010 - Raw
Dangerous-1969 Chapter 19 - raw
Kaiko-Sareta-Ankoku-Heishi-30-dai-no-Slow-na-Second-Life Chapter 02 - Raw
Nana-Toshi-Monogatari Chapter Final - Series End
Black Clover Gaiden: Quartet Knights Vol.01 Ch.003
Peerless Heavenly Emperor Ch.001
I Want to Be You, Just For A Day Ch.001
My Bodyguard is Four-foot-two Ch.001.2
How the Sun separated from the Moon according to Japanese Mythology Ch.001
The Bloody Merchant Empress and the Cold Husband's Forceful Doting Ch.005
Unicorn to sabishi-gari ya shoujo Ch.001
No Problem Kazoku Vol.01 Ch.005
Nanatsu on Taizai - 329 - Chapter 329
Hajime no Ippo - 1278 - Chapter 1278
Baby Steps - 358 - Chapter 358
The Seven Daedly Sins - 329 - Raw
Tsuyokute New Saga - 67 - Chapter 67
Akatsuki No Yona - 182 - Chapter 182
DICE: the cube that changes everything - 301 - Chapter 301
Tower of God - 449 - Chapter 449
Naruto Boruto - 39 - Chapter 39
Wind Breaker - 252 - Chapter 252
Tales of Demons and Gods - 245.5 - Chapter 245.5
Tomb Raider King - 28 - Chapter 28
Tomb Raider King - 27 - Chapter 27
Goblin Slayer: Side Story Year One - 31 - Chapter 31
We Can't Study - 132 - Chapter 132
GUNDAM Mobile Suit Bible 週刊 ガンダム・モビルスーツ・バイブル 01-23
[Novel] 月とライカと吸血姫 第01-05巻 [Tsuki to Raika to Nosuferatu vol 01-05]
けものみち 第01-05巻 [Kemo no Michi vol 01-05]
Trinity Seven: 7-Nin no Mahoutsukai vol 01-21
モンキーサークル 第01巻 [Monki Sakuru vol 01]
サムライうさぎ 第01-05巻 [Samurai Usagi vol 01-05]
血海のノア 第01-02巻 [Ketsukai no Noa vol 01-02]
恋は思えば思わるる 第01巻 [Koi wa Omoeba Omowaruru vol 01]
Princess’s Happily-ever-after Marriage, Chapter 123
Tsuyokute New Saga, Chapter 67
Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, Chapter 59
Tales of the Unusual, Chapter 273
Natsume Yuujinchou, Chapter 94
Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko, Chapter 18
Isekai Nonbiri Nouka, Chapter 95
The Boy in the All-Girls School ch.215
Black Clover Gaiden: Quartet Knights ch.003
I'm a NEET and My Elder Sister is Perverted ch.46
Blood Alone Chapter 48.1: Remix 3 & 4 + Another Nights 3
Black Clover Gaiden: Quartet Knights vol.1 ch.3
Hiiragi-sama wa Jibun o Sagashite Iru. vol.1 ch.7
I'm a NEET and My Elder Sister is Perverted ch.046
The Ultimate Scheming System Chapter 78: Blast the Sky
Metropolitan City's Ying Yang Miracle Doctor Chapter 4
The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation ch.93
Uchi no musuko wa tabun gay Chapter 6
Peerless Heavenly Emperor ch.001
Spirit Sword Sovereign Chapter 239
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita: Yousei, Shimasu ka? ch.037
Metropolitan Supremacy System Chapter 6
Lucky☆Star - Hagan Isshou (Doujinshi) ch.4
Dame na Watashi ni Koishite kudasai R vol.1 ch.4
Maou to ore no hangyakuki vol.1 ch.2
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei vol.10 ch.125
When Doctor Chu Wants Romance Episode 180
We Want to Talk About Kaguya ch.59
The Wonders of Aromatics Chapter 13
Courting The Courtiers Chapter 55
Hajime no Ippo Vol.TBD Chapter 1278: A Dissatisfied Homecoming
Risouteki Boyfriend Vol.6 Chapter 21: #21
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Manga Time Special Magazine Ends Publication
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Manga Time Special Magazine Ends Publication
Japanese publisher Houbunsha's Manga Time Special magazine ceased publication with its December issue (seen right) on Monday. Ruri Miyahara's Love Lab (Renai Lab) manga also ended in the same issue, alongside seven other manga by Nanae Mitsu, Sumi Machida, Abel Segawa, Yoshihiro Ando, Maichi, Gunsaburō, and Rai Kaneda.
Love Lab's 15th and final manga volume will ship this winter. Houbunsha will publish a special chapter for the manga in its Manga Time magazine in spring 2020.
Hazime Kuromugi's Futari ga Kazoku ni Naru Made ni, Mizuki Setoguchi's Local Joshi no Tōboe, and Sachi Nishioka's Rokujō Ikken no Tsukimono manga will all transfer to the Manga Time magazine. Kotori Kirihara's Otome wa Gibo ni Koishiteru, Hiko Yūki's Uchi no Kawaii Sōjiki Shirimasen ka?, Natsumi Hino's Kono Koi wa Fukami-kun no Plan ni wa Nai, and Natsuo Ishikawa's Boku no Uwamezukai manga will all transfer to Manga Home. Rurū Minase's Ōya-san wa Shishunki!, Chino Kurumi's Midnight Restaurant 7 to 7 Roku Tachibana's Kawaii Joshi o Komarasetai, and Riri Tōka's Cosplay Jimiko to Kameko Kachō manga will transfer to Manga Time Original.
Houbunsha launched the magazine in 1989 as a magazine with four-panel manga targeted at women. Notable series from the magazine include Love Lab and Ōya-san wa Shishunki!, which both inspired their own anime adaptations.
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Root Film Game Heads West for Switch, PS4
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PQube and Kadokawa Games announced on Monday that the newly announced Root Film game will get a release in Europe and North America for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
Root Film is Kadokawa Games' sequel to its Root Letter mystery adventure game, and it features a new murder story by Hifumi Kōno. Similar to the first game, Root Film takes place in Shimane prefecture. PQube describes the game:
Root Film is about a TV series, called "Shimane Mystery Drama Project”, which was cancelled for an unknown reason 10 years ago. To reboot the project, three teams consisting of a director and an actress have been cast, including 23 year old Rintaro Yagumo, the main character of the game.
His excitement about this amazing opportunity is quickly curbed, when a horrible murder interrupts their location scouting process. Follow him and a cast of unique and memorable characters by character designer Taro Minaboshi as they are drawn deeper into the thrilling mystery of Root Film.
The game will launch in Japan in spring 2020 for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. The members of the i☆Ris voice actress idol unit will voice the main characters, and Wataru Komada will voice the male protagonist.
The √Letter (pronounced "Root Letter") mystery visual novel shipped in June 2016 in Japan for the PS4 and PlayStation Vita. Rice Digital and PQube released the game in Europe in October 2016, and in North America in November 2016. Kadokawa Games released the game on PC via Steam in July 2017 and for iOS and Android in August 2017.
The game inspired a live-action remake game titled √Letter Last Answer, which replaced Tarō Minoboshi's illustrations in the original game with live-action photographs from 90 actors, and replaced the background illustrations based on actual Shimane prefecture locations with photographs of the real-life locations. The game launched for the Switch and PS4 in Europe on August 30 and in North America on September 3. The game also launched on PC via Steam on September 3.
The game is also inspiring a live-action Hollywood film adaptation.
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Sekina Aoi's Gamers! Light Novel Series Ends With 12th Volume
Illustrator Sabotenn revealed on their Twitter account on October 11 that the 12th volume of Sekina Aoi's Gamers! light novel series is the final volume. The 12th volume shipped on Saturday.
The series centers on the gaming lives of various high school students who play video games, including: Keita Amano, a lonely young man who loves video games; Karen Tendō, the beautiful president of the video game club; Chiaki Hoshinomori, who constantly fights with Keita; and Tasuku Uehara, who puts on a facade of being satisfied with his life in the real world, but he in truth loves video games.
Aoi and Sabotenn launched the novel series in 2014. Tsubasa Takahashi launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine in October 2016. Kadokawa will publish the seventh and final compiled book volume for the manga on October 26.
The series inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and Funimation streamed an English dub. Funimation released the anime on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in August 2018.
Aoi's previous Seitokai no Ichizon light novel series inspired The Student Council's Discretion television anime series in 2009, and the Student Council's Discretion Lv. 2 television anime series in 2012. Sentai Filmworks released the first anime on home video in March 2015, and released the second anime in May 2015.
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Scarlet Yuri Manga Ends
Chiri Yuino's Scarlet yuri manga ended in the December issue of Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime magazine on Friday.
Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the series in English, and it describes the story:
After ingesting an illegal drug that makes her hunger for blood, Finé Hera makes a pact with a beautiful but wolfish Red Riding Hood. Iris Redhood offers herself up to help Finé slake her bloodlust, but her…services come with a price. Now, the two are narcotics officers on the hunt for the very drug that changed Finé!
Chiri launched the series in Comic Yuri Hime in 2018. Ichijinsha released the first compiled book volume on February 18, and the second will ship on December 18.
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Witch Hat Atelier Gets Gourmet Spinoff Manga
The December issue of Kodansha's Monthly Morning two magazine revealed on Monday that Kamome Shirahama Witch Hat Atelier manga is inspiring the gourmet spinoff manga Mahōtsukai no Mayonaka Recipe (Witch's Midnight Recipe; tentative title) in the next issue on November 22. Hiromi Satō (Iso Asobi) is illustrating the manga.
The original manga's story centers on Koko, a girl who lives in a little village, and who has always dreamed of becoming a wizard. But being born without magical aptitude meant that she could never become a wizard, and could never hope to witness magic's spark. She gave up on her dream. But one day, a traveling wizard named Kiefley came to her village, and she happened to see him performing magic.
The manga launched in Monthly Morning two in July 2016. Kodansha published the manga's fifth compiled book volume on May 23, and the sixth will ship on November 21. Kodansha Comics began releasing the series in English in April.
The series was nominated for the Best Comic award at Angoulême International Comics Festival in January. The manga was also nominated for last year's 11th Manga Taisho awards. The series ranked in the top 10 on the list of the best manga for male readers in the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
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TV Special 'Lupin III: Prison of the Past' Premieres in November
Nippon Television announced on Friday that a new TV special for the Lupin III franchise will air on November 29 at 9:00 p.m. Titled Lupin III: Prison of the Past, it will be part of NTV's Friday Roadshow! weekend movie slot. During the same announcement, it was also revealed that the 2013 film Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie will air in the same slot on November 22.
The episode will focus on Lupin's gang descending upon the Kingdom of Doruente in order to rescue a famous thief who has been detained. While this takes place, the most notorious thieves from around the world gather in the kingdom.
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Director: Hatsuki Tsuji (Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Ishinshishi e no Chinkonka)
Script: Shatner Nishida
Character Design: Hirotaka Marufuji (Lupin III: Goodbye Partner)
Music: Yuji Ohno (Lupin III franchise)
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Voice actors Kanichi Kurita, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Daisuke Namikawa and Miyuki Sawashiro are reprising their roles. Nobunaga Shimazaki (Lupin III: Part 5), Houko Kuwashima (Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna), Shinichiro Miki (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood), and Hiroaki Hirata (Koi wa Ameagari no You ni) will also star in the special.
The Lupin III franchise is based on the manga by Monkey Punch. The manga has inspired six TV anime series, various specials, movies, and OVA episodes. The franchise's first 3DCG film Lupin III: The First is scheduled to premiere in Japan on December 6.
'7 Seeds' Receives Second Season on Netflix in 2020
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Daily Lives of High School Boys' Yasunobu Yamauchi Launches Fantasy Manga
The official Twitter account for Square Enix's Gangan Online web manga magazine revealed on Tuesday that Yasunobu Yamauchi launched a new manga titled Hakurai no Kishi (The Knight of White Thunder) on Tuesday. In the "quintessential fantasy of sword and sorcery, and of humans and beasts," a wise king named Carliga and a hero named Jack are enmeshed in a conflict over the Holy Sword, a relic of a great war. The sword will once again bring together the ambitions of two great nations, and a woman bandit named Zety will also become involved in the conflict.
Yamauchi previously drew the Daily Lives of High School Boys manga. Yamauchi launched the manga in Square Enix's Gangan Online website in 2009, and ended it in September 2017. Square Enix published seven volumes for the manga. Vertical licensed the manga in July earlier this year.
The manga inspired a television anime in 2012. NIS America released the anime on home video. The manga also inspired a live-action film adaptation in 2013.
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Azumi Manga Gets 4th Stage Play in 2020
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Theater production company RUP announced on Tuesday that it is producing a new stage play adaptation of Yu Koyama's AZUMI manga titled Azumi Sengoku-hen (Azumi Warring States Arc) that will run at the Bunkamura Theater Cocoon in Tokyo in March, and at the Cool Japan Park Osaka WW Hall in Osaka in April. Yui Imaizumi will play the titular role of the assassin Azumi. Shunichi Okamura, who directed the 2005, 2015, and 2016 stage play adaptations of Azumi, will return to direct the play.
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Koyama began the first Azumi manga in 1994 in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine, and it won the Excellence Prize at the first ACA Media Arts Festival, Manga Division in 1997. He ended the series in 2008. This series inspired the 2005 and 2016 stage play adaptations, the latter of which was also titled Azumi Bakumatsu-hen.
In 2009, Koyama launched a continuation of the series also titled Azumi (title written in English instead of Japanese) in the same magazine, and ended it in February 2014. Shogakukan published 18 compiled book volumes for the manga. This series inspired the 2014 stage play adaptation.
The first series has also been adapted into two live-action movies, both of which were released in North America by Urban Vision.
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'7 Seeds' Receives Second Season on Netflix in 2020
The anime adaptation of the 7 Seeds manga will receive a second season on Netflix. Included in the official website's announcement Monday was a new trailer and key visual (pictured) for the season, which is set to stream in 2020.
The staff and cast will return for the second season, led by director Yukio Takahashi and animation studio Gonzo. The only key addition is an additional production credit for Studio Kai, a new studio founded by Gonzo at the end of July.
The official website also announced a television run for the first season starting in January 2020. The 12-episode season has streamed on Netflix since June 28.
Synopsis
In the immediate future, a giant meteorite has collided with earth. All living organisms, including mankind, have been wiped off the face of the planet. The government, who had foreseen this outcome, took measures to counter the worst-case scenario. In particular was Project "7SEEDS," in which five sets of seven young men and women were carefully selected and placed into teams (Spring, Summer A, Summer B, Autumn and Winter). Each participant was then put under cryogenic sleep in hopes of preserving the continued existence of mankind.
When those men and women awoke, they found themselves suddenly thrust into a cruel world. While bereft and grieved over forever losing their loved ones, they sought to find ways to survive. (Source: MU)
The 7 Seeds manga was penned by Yumi Tamura over a span of 16 years, beginning in Betsucomi magazine and a year later switching to Monthly Flowers for the remainder of its serialization. The 35th and final volume was released in August 2017.
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High School DxD's Ishibumi's Previous Work Slashdog Gets Manga
Writer Ichiei Ishibumi announced on Sunday that his Daten no Inugami -Slashdog- (The Fallen Dog God -Slashdog-) light novel series is inspiring a manga adaptation that will launch in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Alive magazine on December 26. Kikurage, the illustrator of the novel series, is also drawing the manga.
Ishibumi actually wrote the first volume of the story in 2006, before his more popular High School DxD series, and the novel was then titled Slash/Dog. That series only received one volume, before Ishibumi revived the series with a new first volume (seen right) in November 2017, with the full title of Daten no Inugami -Slashdog- High School DxD Universe. Kadokawa published the third volume last December.
Set in the same universe as High School DxD, but years before the events of that series, the story centers on Tobio Ikuse, a high school student still reeling from an incident that caused the disappearance of his childhood friends. One day, he is attacked by beings known as "Utsusemi," but is rescued by Natsume, one of his missing friends. Together with Natsume and another girl named Vali, he races to find out the cause of his friends' disappearance.
Ishibumi and Miyama-Zero launched the High School DxD novel series in 2008, and ended it with the 25th volume in March 2018. The pair then launched the Shin High School DxD novel series in July of that same year, and Kadokawa published the third volume on August 20. Yen Press also published all 11 volumes of Hiroji Mishima's High School DxD manga adaptation.
The novel series inspired four television anime adaptations in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2018. Funimation released all four series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in North America.
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Funimation to Add Robotech TV Series, Films to Catalog
Funimation announced on Monday that it is adding Harmony Gold's Robotech television series, the Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles feature film, and the Robotech II: The Sentinels film to its catalog. Funimation's new license from Kew Media Distribution includes worldwide rights outside Japan. The rights include video on demand, electronic sell-through, home entertainment, and merchandising.
Robotech was Harmony Gold's edited and rewritten 1985 adaptation of three separate anime science-fiction series: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada. The series is streaming on Crackle, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video. The 2006 Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles film was a U.S.-produced sequel to the television series.
ADV Films and A&E Networks Home Entertainment released the 1985 series on DVD in North America. Harmony Gold launched a Kickstarter campaign for a Robotech Academy pilot in July 2014, which was eventually cancelled.
Sony is planning a live-action Robotech film.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Stage Play Reveals Visual, Cast, Run Dates
This year's 47th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed a visual, run dates, and cast on Monday for the stage play adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga.
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The play stars:
Ryōta Kobayashi as Tanjiro Kamadō
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Asari Takaishi as Nezuko Kamadō
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Keisuke Ueda as Zenitsu Agatsuma
Yūgo Satō as Inosuke Hashibira
Reo Honda as Giyū Tomioka
Tomoyuki Takagi as Sakonji Urokodaki
Shōri as Sabito
Arisa Sonohara as Makomo
Yuria Kakizawa as Hakuhatsu
Kokoro Kuge as Kurokami
Mimi Maihane as Tamayo
Hisanori Satō as Yushirō
Yoshihide Sasaki as Muzan Kibutsuji
The play will run in Tokyo at the Tennōzu Ginga Gekijō from January 18-26, and in Hyogo prefecture at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Kobe from January 31-February 2. Kenichi Suemitsu is scripting and directing the play, and Shunsuke Wada is composing the music.
Gotouge launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2016. Viz Media is publishing the manga in English digitally and in print.
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered on April 6, and aired its 26th and final episode on Saturday. Aniplex of America has licensed the series and is streaming the show on Hulu, Crunchyroll, and FunimationNow. Adult Swim's Toonami programming block premiered the television anime on October 12.
The 26th episode ended on September 28 with an announcement of a sequel anime film that will cover the manga's Demon Train Arc.
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'Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai' Reveals New Cast Pair
The official website of the JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) anime series revealed two new cast members for the new Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai (Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan) original video anime on Sunday.
Kouki Uchiyama (Devilman: Crybaby, Sarazanmai) will voice Yoma Hashimoto (pictured left in character visual) in "The Run" segment. Hiroki Takahashi (Tennis no Ouji-sama, Senjuushi) will play the character of a young man (pictured right) in the "Zange-shitsu" (At a Confessional) portion of the episode.
Production staff from the television anime will return for the new episode. Keito Watanabe (Sword Art Online: Alicization, Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai) will serve as the art director. Sound director Takayuki Yamaguchi (Eromanga-sensei, Toaru Majutsu no Index III) will join the staff as mixer.
The new original video anime will adapt the "Zange-shitsu" and "The Run" chapters from the first and second volumes of Hirohiko Araki's one-shot spin-off manga series of the same title. The episode will screen in six cities in Japan between December 8 and March 29, 2020.
Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai has been primarily serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump since 1997. Shueisha published the second volume last July, which bundled the second original video episode "Mutsukabezaka" (Mutsukabe Hill).
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'Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen' Light Novel Gets TV Anime
his year's Fujimi Fantasia Dai Kanshasai event announced a television anime adaptation of Kei Sazane's Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen (The Last Battlefield Between You and I, or Perhaps the Beginning of the World's Holy War) light novel series on Sunday.
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Synopsis
A great war has raged for years between the scientifically advanced Empire and Nebulis, the realm of the witches―until the youngest knight ever to receive the title of the Empire's strongest meets the princess of the rival nation. Though they are sworn enemies, the knight is taken by her beauty and dignity, and the princess is moved by his strength and way of life. Will the fighting between them ever be allowed to end? (Source: Yen Press)
Sazane launched the action fantasy novel series, also known by its short name KimiSen, in May 2017 with illustrations by Ao Nekonabe. Fujimi Shobo published the seventh volume on September 20 (pictured right).
A manga adaptation by okama (Himawari!) has been serialized in Young Animal magazine since last May. Hakusensha published the second compiled volume on May 29.
Yen Press licensed both the light novel and manga adaptation in English under the title Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World this February. The first novel volume went on sale on September 24, with the first manga volume planned for a November 5 release.
Novel special site: https://fantasiabunko.jp/sp/201705kimitoboku/
IDOLiSH7 Anime's 2nd Season Premieres in April 2020
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IDOLiSH7 Anime's 2nd Season Premieres in April 2020
The official website for the IDOLiSH7 franchise announced on Monday that the anime's second season will premiere in April 2020. The anime's first episode will have an advance screening at an event in Osaka on December 14. The event will also be livestreamed at various theaters in Japan.
Makoto Bessho (Shangri-La, Armitage: Dual-Matrix) is returning to direct the new season at TROYCA, and Ayumi Sekine (Makura no Danshi, Fate/Grand Order: First Order) is back as the series script supervisor. Also credited as returning are supervisor Ei Aoki (Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero), original character designer Arina Tanemura (Full Moon O Sagashite manga creator), animation character designer Kazumi Fukagawa (Inari Kon Kon, GLASSLIP animation director), and at least one of the chief animation directors, Masami Inomata.
The advance screening version of the first IDOLiSH7 television anime's first two episodes opened in 79 theaters in Japan and began streaming in Japan in November 2017. Crunchyroll began streaming the episodes worldwide outside Asia on the same day. The remaining 15 of the 17 episodes began airing in Japan in January 2018.
The IDOLiSH7 Vibrato spinoff series of net anime shorts launched in February 2018.
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Love Plus Every Smartphone Game Launches on October 31
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The official Twitter account for Konami's LovePlus franchise announced on Monday that the LovePlus EVERY smartphone game will launch on October 31. The game was previously slated for last winter but then was delayed until August, and then delayed again to an indefinite date, before being slated for a November 2019 release.
The game's cast includes Sakura Tange as Rinko Kobayakawa, Saori Hayami as Manaka Takane, and Yuko Minaguchi as Nene Anegasaki.
Part of the game will support virtual-reality devices.
The LovePlus franchise launched on the Nintendo DS in 2009. The game inspired an enhanced LovePlus+ edition that launched in Japan in 2010.
The New LovePlus game shipped for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in 2012, and the New LovePlus+ enhanced version shipped for the same console in 2014. The franchise has also spawned mobile and arcade spinoffs, and several manga series.
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Live-Action Sazae-san TV Special Casts Kazuyuki Asano as Isazaka
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The official Twitter account for the 50th anniversary special of the family television anime Sazae-san revealed on Monday that Kazuyuki Asano (seen below) will play the character Ukie Isazaka in the special's live-action segment.
In the original anime, Isazaka is the neighbor of the Isono's, and is a romance novelist who has multiple bestselling books. In the live-action segment set 20 years after the anime, Isazaka has focused away from books, and seems to be more focused on his duties as committee member for the Bon dance at the local shopping district. But in truth, he is slowly but surely writing the manuscript for a new novel, which will be his first family novel, and the one he intends to be the capstone to his career.
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The live-action segment's cast members include (from left to right in image above):
Yoshie Ichige as Fune
Masatō Ibu as Namihei
Gaku Hamada as Katsuo
Yūki Amami as Sazae
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Masuo
Mayu Matsuoka as Wakame
Ryō Narita as Tarao
Hiyori Sakurada as Hitode Fuguta
Shinya Kote will also play Anago in the live-action segment. Norito Yashima will play Sazae's cousin Norisuke Namino, and Taiki Nakabayashi will play Wakame's boyfriend Takeshi Kaizuka. Yū Inaba will play Ikura Namino.
The special will premiere on November 24, and will air for three and a half hours on Fuji TV. Masayuki Suzuki is directing the live-action segment, and Tomoko Akutsu is penning the script.
The live-action segment will depict the family 20 years into the future. This segment serves as a follow-up to the September 2018 sequel stage play that imagines the family 10 years into the future.
The anime segment of the special will bring in fantasy elements as it depicts the past of Sazae's family, as well as a family trip. Earlier this year, the staff chose 28 families from Tokyo's Asahigaoka district (the setting of the Sazae-san story) to be animated into the series, and this anniversary special's anime segment will feature three of those families. These families' names will even appear in the anime segment.
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Light Novel 'Majo no Tabitabi' Receives TV Anime Adaptation
A television anime adaptation of Jougi Shiraishi's Majo no Tabitabi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) light novel was announced at the GA Fes 2019 event on Saturday.
Synopsis
Once upon a time, there was a witch named Elaina, who set off on a journey across the world. Along the way, she would meet all kinds of people, from a country full of witches to a giant in love with his own muscles—but with each meeting, Elaina would become a small part of their story, and her own world would get a little bit bigger. (Source: Yen Press)
Staff
Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka (Harukana Receive, Berserk: Ougon Jidai-hen trilogy)
Series Composition: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken, Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou)
Character Design: Takeshi Oda (Harukana Receive, Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu chief animation director)
Concept Design: Kazumasa Uchio (Final Fantasy film)
Studio: C2C
Cast
Elaina: Kaede Hondo (Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara)
Fran: Kana Hanazawa (Sora yori mo Tooi Basho)
Saya: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Hibike! Euphonium)
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The adventure fantasy novel originally debuted as an e-book on Amazon's Kindle service in 2014, but stalled in sales in the beginning. Shiraishi promptly advertised their series on 2channel's VIP bulletin board and successfully attracted a following. SB Creative began printing the novel through its GA Novel label with illustrations by Azure in April 2016 and published the tenth volume on August 9. The 11th volume is planned for a November 15 release (pictured right).
Itsuki Nanao began drawing a manga adaptation on the Manga UP! web magazine last November. Square Enix published the first volume on April 12.
Yen Press and Square Enix licensed the light novel and manga adaptation in English this July, respectively, and plans to ship the first volume of each next year on January 21 and May 12.
Majo no Tabitabi placed ninth and sixth in the tankobon division in 2018 and 2019 editions of the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! rankings, respectively.
Teaser PV
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Official site: http://majotabi.jp/
Official Twitter: @majotabi_PR
Novel special site: https://ga.sbcr.jp/sp/tabitabi/
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Pokémon GO Gets Online Battle, Matchmaking System in Early 2020
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Niantic announced on Monday that it will add an online matchmaking and battle system to its Pokémon GO game. The new system is called the "GO Battle League," and will launch in early 2020.
The new feature will allow players to battle each other from across the globe using a matchmaking system and a ranked league system. The previous Trainer Battle system only allowed nearby players to battle each other (with the exception of those in Ultra League or who are Best Friends).
The Pokémon GO app launched in select countries including the United States in July 2016.
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Masami Kurumada Teases 'Special Series' of Saint Seiya Manga
The December issue of Akita Shoten's Champion RED magazine teased the "second coming" of a "special series" by Masami Kurumada on Saturday. The special series reveals one mystery after another in his Saint Seiya franchise. The magazine's next issue will provide more details on November 19.
Masami Kurumada serialized the original Saint Seiya manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1986 to 1990. The manga has inspired a number of television anime, original video anime projects, anime films, and spinoff manga. The manga recently inspired a CG anime remake that debuted worldwide on Netflix on July 19. A live-action Hollywood film has also been green-lit.
Viz Media published the original manga in English under the title Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac. ADV Films released Toei Animation's anime adaptation with an English dub under the title Knights of the Zodiac, and later released it unedited under the title Saint Seiya. New Video Group later also released the series on DVD, and Netflix is now streaming it.
The series has inspired numerous sequel and spinoff manga by Kurumada and other authors, as well as anime adaptations of those same manga. The most recent of these is an anime of the Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō spinoff manga that premiered in December 2018.
Kurumada published the last chapter of the current season of his Saint Seiya: Next Dimension - The Myth of Hades manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion in June 2018. The magazine did not announce when the manga will return. Kurumada has been serializing the manga since 2006 and Akita Shoten released the 12th volume in May 2018.
Netflix added the first 41 episodes of the 1986 Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac) anime series with a new English dub and English subtitles last Tuesday.
Kurumada (Saint Seiya) launched a new manga based on his Fūma no Kojirō manga series titled Fūma no Kojirō: Jo no Maki (Prelude Chapter) in Champion RED on August 19. The manga ended on Saturday.
The Sims 4 Discover University: Official Trailer Coming Tomorrow
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The Sims 4 Discover University: Official Trailer Coming Tomorrow
Maxis has prepared the official trailer for The Sims 4 Discover University expansion pack over on YouTube. The official announcement is set for October 22nd at 8am Pacific. Head to their YouTube channel to set a reminder notification!
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The Sims 4: First Teaser from the Discover University Expansion
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The Sims 4: First Teaser from the Discover University Expansion
The Sims team has released the first official teaser from The Sims 4 University Expansion, showing off a student working in what appears to be a dorm. Check out the GIF below.
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OFFICIAL LEAK: The Sims 4 Discover University (Description + Box Art)
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OFFICIAL LEAK: The Sims 4 Discover University (Description + Box Art)
UPDATE: Trusted friend and fellow community member nando_aze has confirmed that the game is listed in the Microsoft store on Xbox One. It appears that the game is only showing up for US users. If outside the United States, simply change your language settings for the game to appear. Thank you for the confirmation Nando!
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Original story below…
Instagram user asairi_art_gallery, and Twitter user CapturetheCosmo have both posted images and video of The Sims 4 Discover University Expansion Pack showing up tonight on the Miscrosoft store on Xbox One. If the listing itself was not enough, the full description of the game is also available when clicking for details on the game.
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The Sims 4 Discover University – Preorder now to hit the books and show your school spirit in The Sims 4 Discover university Expansion Pack, where Sims enroll in school, explore collegiate experiences, and enjoy extracurricular activities. Take classes that set your Sims up for success in engineering, education, or law careers. Discover robotics and ping-pong, plus make some mischief pulling pranks against the rival school. Study hard, sleep in, and high-five the school mascot – just make sure to keep those grades up!
Settle into School – Welcome to Britechester! Begin a new chapter for your Sim when they enroll in the historical University of Britechester or modern Foxbury Institute. Live in a dorm room or off-campus, explore Britechester on a bicycle, spend time in the student commons, and have a study session at the library. Cheer on the student body at a school spirit event and wear school colors to show your Sim’s pride.
Stay Classy – Sims enroll in the University that piques their interest, finding classes in biology, computer science, art history, and even villainy. Attend a lecture or work on term papers and presentations – the more your Sim learns, the better they will be in careers like teaching, law, and engineering. Going to classes or blowing them off will affect your Sim’s grades, so time management is a must.
Meet, Mingle, and Explore – How your Sim embraces college life is up to them. They can study all night to complete homework or chill out and sleep in. And, with activities like juice pong, juggling a soccer ball, and hanging out with roommates, taking a break has never been so fun! Plus your Sim can join school organizations like robotics, debate, art, or even a mesterious secret society. As the school year progresses, Sims become their best selves and discover who they are meant to be.
Empress Your Campus Style – Make your Sim’s space cozy with dorm room decor that reflects their personality with objects like posters and a mini-fridge. Then, develop their personal style in any way you choose – whether wearing late-for-class sweatpants of their best self-slacks, there’s always a way to show school spirit or impress a classmate.
The Sims 4 Discover University was first leaked on Target’s Inventory Tracker last month, and several retailers have listed the game online since then. The one difference to point out between those leaks and this one, is that the Xbox One store confirms a release date of December 17th, which I will assume is the expected release date for consoles. If rumors are true, The Sims 4 Discover University will arrive on PC/Mac November 15th.