I’ll admit it: I didn’t plan to write about opening sequences this week. Then the creditless versions of the Sasaki and Peeps Season 2 OP and ED dropped, and I lost an entire evening to them. One more loop, then one more, then I was pausing frames to check who was hiding in the background….
I’ve watched a lot of ‘girl meets dangerous man’ setups, and most of them go the same way. The heroine is soft, the man is menacing, and the plot spends twelve episodes teaching her to trust him. Firefly Wedding (Hotaru no Yomeiri) skips all of that in the first ten minutes, and the new Satoko…
Okay, deep breath, because I’ve been waiting for this since 2021. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Season 3 is real, it’s in production, and it’s called ULT. In October 2026 the production committee dropped fresh teaser art along with the main staff lineup. Five years of ‘will it ever come back?’ are finally…
Some announcements hit you like a freight train. Others sneak up and you realize ten minutes later that you’re already planning your 2027 watchlist around them. How I Became King by Eating Monsters (Monster no Niku wo Kutteitara Oi ni Tsuita Ken) is firmly in the second camp for me. The official word is out:…
Some anime announcements make me shrug. This one made me sit up. Now That We Draw, or Kakunaru Ue wa in Japan, just confirmed that shallm will perform its opening theme, ‘Kimiiro Hirari’. The title translates roughly to Fluttering in Your Colors, or The Light of Your Color, depending on how poetic your translator is…
Okay. Deep breath. Because I need to talk about what happened at the Crunchyroll Showcase at NYCC 2026. The Remarried Empress is getting an anime. A real TV series, slated for 2027, with a teaser, character art, a full voice cast and a staff list that made me double-check I wasn’t reading some fan-made fantasy…
Fall 2026 is stacked, and I’ll admit that when I scrolled the season chart, The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom didn’t make my must-watch pile. Josei fantasy, seven brothers, a lot of diplomacy talk. My brain filed it under ‘maybe later.’ Then the cast announcement dropped, and now I’m refreshing the episode page like…
I’ll admit it: when I first saw the words ‘Apothecary Diaries movie,’ my stomach dropped a little. Anime veterans know the feeling. A beloved TV series gets a theatrical release, and you brace for one of two outcomes. Either it’s a lazy recap with fresh paint, or it’s a standalone story written by people who…
Okay, I need to talk about this, because the Horror Collector (Kyoufu Collector) cast news just dropped and my brain has been buzzing ever since. The anime premieres October 10, 2026, which is literally tomorrow, and Studio Palette and the production committee chose now to reveal three new regular cast members plus guest stars for…
The Fall 2026 season kicks off today, October 9, and I haven’t been this nervous about a premiere in a while. The reason is Firefly Wedding (Hotaru no Yomeiri). Right before the first episode airs, the team released a character trailer for its male lead, Shinpei Goto, and I’ve now watched it more times than…