Monthly Archives: April, 2020

Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater Joins the Funimation Spring Lineup

A brand-new slice of life series is joining the Funimation spring 2020 anime lineup: Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater. Based on the manga of the same name by Yasuyuki Kosaka, the series follows Hina Tsurugi, a first-year student...

The Works of Dai Sato, From Cowboy Bebop to Listeners

By Tom Speelman As a visual medium, anime is often thought of on the creative side as being the product of directors and animation studios. While that’s of course true, screenwriters also have their part to play, with the same...

Get Ready, Heroes! My Hero Academia Season 5 Has Been Officially Announced

By Tom Speelman Get ready, heroes! Following the finale of the show's fourth season, it has been confirmed that My Hero Academia Season 5 is officially happening and we can't wait! The global smash hit, based on the manga from Kohei...

Arte Anime Paints a Historical Picture on Funimation This Spring

Get ready for a trip back to the Renaissance when Arte joins the Funimation Spring 2020 anime lineup, premiering April 4! RELATED: Find An Anime For Any Time of Day With the Funimation Spring 2020 Lineup  Arte follows a young girl...

Interview: Frederik L. Schodt on Osamu Tezuka and Helping to Bring Manga to America

By Tom Speelman Behind every manga you read or anime you watch is a whole slew of people bringing it to you. From translators to adapters to letterers to subtitlers to ADR engineers and beyond, there are entire production ecosystems...

A Mom’s Guide to Anime: Negative Feelings

By Yali Perez The world of parenthood is a magical, beautiful and often challenging place. It has its highs and its lows, similar to the world of anime. Of course, that’s without the magical outfit changes. Wouldn’t that make getting ready...

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen Season 2 Is Officially Happening

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen Season 2 has been officially announced by GENCO, Inc. The news was revealed in a short teaser video posted online, timed to the release of the first season's final episode. According to Anime News Network, the title...

April Fools’ Day 2020 Roundup: How the Anime Industry Celebrated

If there's one holiday the anime and manga industry really go all-out for and celebrate, it's April Fools' Day! Come 12:01 AM every April 1, official Japanese accounts for some of anime and manga's top IPs get wacky with...

Royalty and Revolutionaries: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Explained

By Kathleen Townsend Revolutionary Girl Utena is a series that draws on many things—from surrealism to post-war avant-garde to ancient Greek plays—and while some themes are pretty up-front, most people have a reaction more along the lines of: "That was...

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Your Guide to the Spring 2022 Anime Season on Crunchyroll and Funimation

Spring is in the air! You know what that means. New anime is coming to Crunchyroll! This upcoming spring...