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All Might faces off against one of the mysterious Nomu in the first season of My Hero Academia’s manga adaptation. The current arc of Kohei Horikoshi’s smash-hit manga has seen its heroes t…
Crop of the cover art for One Piece, Vol. 92 Image : VIZ Media LLCNetflix and Tomorrow Studios already have a Cowboy Bebop series on the way, and now they’ve got another project based on a much…
Image : Warner Bros./LegendaryWhen Ryan Reynolds was first offered the role of Detective Pikachu, Legendary Pictures didn’t just send him the script. “It was pretty mind-blowing,” Reynolds …
Studio Ghibli movies are about to get a whole lot easier to watch. Distributor GKIDS just announced that starting this month, it will release the entire Studio Ghibli feature film library for di…
Studio Ghibli’s films are legendary for multiple reasons, one of course being the gorgeous animation, much of it hand drawn. Even in the 21st century, when most studios were using CGI to create …
We’re not talking about some of the more iconic entries in Hayao Miyazaki’s oeuvre here—but of course, a return to his roots on Lupin itself. After wowing us with some fantastic trailers and a t…
Animation isn’t supposed to be this rad. As we’ve established more than once, Lupin III: The First, the upcoming CG animated film entry in the Lupin III series of high-flying anime thievery…
AdvertisementWhile Ash has always been the heroic star of the Pokémon anime, Pikachu has always been the star of the Pokémon brand as a whole, even as Nintendo’s gradually elevated the profiles of ot…
But Naoko doesn’t turn to heavy metal to channel her feelings. io9's got an exclusive look at the first trailer for Dino Girl Gauko, a brand new short-form anime from Hitoshi Mogi.…
If you’re familiar with Japanese horror, you’ve probably heard about the work of Junji Ito—the author behind viral horror stories like The Enigma of Amigara Fault and Uzumaki. Now, some of his m…
