I’ve watched anime promo campaigns for a long time. Billboards on Shibuya crossings, collab cafés with overpriced lattes, train wraps, and the occasional stunt where a character ‘takes over’ a convenience store chain. I thought I’d seen the ceiling. Then Yaiba: Samurai Legend announced it’s sending promotional material to the International Space Station. I had…
Okay, deep breath, because Abyss fans got fed a lot today. On October 23, 2026, Made in Abyss: Mezameru Shinpi (Awakening Mystery) officially premiered in Japanese theaters, and the franchise celebrated with a double whammy: a gorgeous new key visual starring Srajo and her Curse Fleet, plus confirmation that Part 2 is already in production….
I’ve been writing about anime long enough to know the feeling of dread that comes with a long-awaited adaptation. You wait years, the announcement finally lands, and your first thought isn’t ‘Finally!’ but ‘Please don’t ruin it.’ That’s exactly where I am with MURCIELAGO. Kana Yoshimura’s manga started in Square Enix’s Young Gangan back in…
Okay, let me just say it: the moment I saw ‘Studio SHAFT’ next to Just Like Mona Lisa, I put my phone down, stared at the wall for a solid minute, and then picked it up again to make sure I hadn’t hallucinated it. Tsumuji Yoshimura’s manga (Seibetsu ‘Mona Lisa’ no Kimi e. in Japan)…
If you only skim the Japanese weekend chart, you’ll see Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend sitting at No. 4 and shrug. I get it. Fourth place doesn’t make headlines. But box office rankings are a terrible way to judge a film that opened on 154 screens, and the numbers underneath that ranking…
Okay, real talk: if you’ve ever tried to track down the Steins;Gate dub across a dozen shuffling licenses, you know the pain. One month it’s here, next month it’s gone, and you’re sitting there like Okabe staring at a dead phone microwave. Good news: the mad scientist’s English voice now lives under one roof, and…
I’ve been writing about anime openings for a long time, and I keep a private rule about them: a good OP tells you what a show is, and a great one tells you what the main character feels when no one’s looking. Yorushika’s new opening for The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 is the second kind….
Fridays just got a lot more poisonous, and I mean that in the best way. The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 English dub dropped on October 16, 2026, and if you’ve been waiting to hear Maomao deadpan her way through another imperial disaster in English, your wait is over. Crunchyroll kept the simuldub gap tight, the…
I’ll admit something that will cost me some credibility: I’ve rewatched a 90-second ending video more times this week than I’ve rewatched any opening in the last two years. No mecha. No betrayals. No protagonist screaming at the sky. Just cats, roof tiles, and a lot of sunlight. Crunchyroll dropped the creditless ending for Paw…
Okay, let me catch my breath, because Shochiku just dropped the official announcement for Yumene Connect (Yumeneko Nekuto in Japan), and my timeline has been chaos ever since. Kou Sawada’s Weekly Shonen Magazine rom-com is getting an anime. The website and social accounts are live, and we’ve got a teaser PV and a key visual…