2014 is now over, and the year has brought us plenty of unforgettable anime series which have made us laugh until are stomachs hurt or cry our hearts out. But which 2014 anime are really the best of the best? After two weeks of deliberation and arguing at which anime should be included in our...
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There is a new anime meme in town and unlike the “shock” brought about by Pregnancy Test memes and the Turtleneck Sweater memes, this one is a little bit more romantic. The new meme lets characters hold a “Yes Pillow”, which indicates that the character said yes to a certain person’s proposal. Here are some...
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ufotable’s Fate/ Stay Night: Unlimited Bladeworks has blazed through Fall 2014 as one of the season’s hottest anime, and with the first half now over and the anime continuing in April 2015, ufotable Cafe has asked its customers to vote for their favorite Fate/ Stay Night character. Diners get one vote per order, so which...
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With Comiket 87′s day 2 already wrapped up and done, we now take a look at some of the day’s cosplays, which are as usual, a great mix of excellent, awesome, funny, and just plain weird. We take a look at some of the weird ones, as well as some of the best. While Day...
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2014 has been one stellar year for Reki Kawahara‘s popular Science Fiction light novel and anime series, Sword Art Online. Not only has 2014 brought it a very successful PlayStation Vita RPG and an even more successful season 2 of its anime adaptation, but as Manga specialty store, Mangaoh, has revealed in their annual manga...
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There are Marvel-themed weddings, Star Wars-themed weddings, a Final Fantasy-themed wedding, and now, there is finally a Sailor Moon-themed wedding as a couple in the United States tied the knot “in the name of the moon” in a wedding inspired by the iconic magical girl anime. Professional event-planner and cosplayer, Michelle Nguyen, is one big...
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Comiket is not just a venue for aspiring manga creators and animators to show off their skills, in fact, several well known illustrators, manga creators, animators, and anime directors participate in the event. One of these big name illustrators is Junichiro Taniguchi, best known for being the character designer for Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun and the...
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In Japan, Christmas is treated more of a dating kind of holiday rather than a religious one, much like Valentine’s Day. For the Christmas edition of Charapedia‘s weekly anime rankings, the Japanese anime character database asked its readers which anime character would they want to date. Japanese online shopping website, Otomart, also had their own...
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Anime Consortium Japan Inc has announced that anime streaming website, Daisuki.net, will be streaming the upcoming Tsukimonogatari anime right after it makes its premiere in Japan on the evening of December 31, 2014. Tsukimonogatari will kick off the Monogatari series’ final season. Daisuki.net will be streaming the anime with English subtitles on December 31, 2014...
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Marvelous’s official website for Tokyo Ghoul has now updated the character design for the anime’s main character, Ken Kaneki, who went from being the seemingly helpless and whiny half-human, half-ghoul hybrid, into this white-haired badass. He sure feels different with the new white hair. The website also teased part of the anime’s first episode, which...
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With the upcoming second season of Durarara!! already premiering this January 2015, Japanese mobile provider, KDDI, has recreated the anime’s famous first ED, Trust Me by Yuuya Matsushita, in live action. The video featured 15 KDDI employees cosplaying as some of the anime’s most loved characters like Shizuo, Izaya, and Celty. After the ED, the...
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The murder-mystery video game series, Danganronpa, is popular, so popular that it has spawned a TV anime, a highly successful live-action stage play, and several spin-off games. One of these spin-off games have also gotten quite the popularity, enough for Dengeki Maoh Magazine announce its own spin-off, and that game is Danganronpa Another Episode. This...
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Admirals rejoice, because with the release of the PlayStation Vita port for the popular web browser game, Kantai Collection, Sony has announced that the game will also have its very own specially designed PS Vita console. This special limited-edition Kantai Collection PlayStation Vita unit will be featuring a Kantai Collection-inspired skin. Which of the many...
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Right after her Aincrad and ALO debacles, Asuna went to the same school as Kirito and the other survivors of the Sword Art Online incident. Now, this new IRL school girl Asuna finally gets her own doll version as Azone unveils their new 1/3 scale Asuna Yuuki School version. Pre-orders for this new Asuna doll...
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It’s that jolly time of year once again where everybody is filled with good cheer and good will, and to celebrate the holiday known as Christmas, several manga creators and an anime’s official twitter page have gone out of their way to get into the Christmas spirit and greet everyone a very very Merry Christmas....
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Racing Miku has been one of the most identifiable race queens of the Super GT, and her design changes each and every year. For the 2015 Super GT season, Good Smile Racing and Team UKYO have now unveiled her latest design, which seems to be inspired by a medieval knight as the new Racing Miku...
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After years of making fans wait, Angel Beats is finally back with a new episode, which will be coming bundled with the anime’s Blu-ray box set which is scheduled for release next year, on June 24, 2015. The new episode will be titled “Hell’s Kitchen”, not to be confused with that area in New York...
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An announcement came bundled with the release of the compiled Blu-ray/ DVD edition of Working!! and it announced that the popular comedy anime about the hard-working staff of the family restaurant known as Wagnaria are returning this July 2015 for the anime’s third season, which means it will be part of the Summer 2015 anime...
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Sometimes, there are just some fictional worlds people just don’t want to live in because of the constant danger people face each and every day, like George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones where anyone can die and the worlds of Resident Evil and Silent Hill where people live a nightmare of an everyday life. In...
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Things are going to get a whole lot more complicated for Raku Ichijou in the upcoming second season of the popular romantic comedy anime, Nisekoi because during the second day of Jump Festa 2014, it was confirmed that Kosaki Onodera’s little sister, Haru Onodera, will joining the gang and she will certainly stir up some...
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To Love-ru fans rejoice as Rito Yuuki is back for another season of accidentally perverted mishaps because during a live stage event which took place on the second day of Jump Festa 2014, it was announced that To Love-ru Darkness will be finally having its second season, and it will be titled To Love-Ru Darkness...
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TV stations in Japan are always rebroadcasting anime, however, there will always be some series that people want to see being shown once again. Japanese anime database Charapedia’s latest poll tackles the rebroadcast issue and asks fans what is the anime they want to see aired on TV once again. The poll gathered 10,000 votes,...
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The lovable familiar, Yotsugi Ononoki finally gets her very own lead girl role in the Monogatari series for Tsukimonogatari, and she is singing the anime’s OP to kick off the Monogatari series’ “Final Season” with a bang. Yotsugi is voiced by Saori Hayami, best known for her roles as The Irregular at Magic High School’s...
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Many South Koreans also love anime, and Korean anime distributor and broadcaster, Aniplus, has recently asked its viewers to vote for their favorite anime characters for this year’s Aniplus Character Tournament. This online poll pitted one anime character against another in a one-on-one duel where fans had to vote for their favorites. The competition is...
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The Love Live! rhythm action mobile game, School Idol Festival, has now reached over 10 million users around the world, which really speaks how popular the series is. And to celebrate this milestone, Bushiroad and Klab have collaborated with Japan Railway’s Yamanote Line in Tokyo for some Love Live! trains. The trains are decorated with...
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The anime adaptation of Assassination Classroom is one of the most hyped premieres this upcoming Winter 2015 season, and with anticipation brewing, the anime’s latest PV has finally started streaming. The PV previews Koro-sensei, a mysterious octupus-like alien who is responsible for destroying 70% of the moon. This monster of an alien decides to teach...
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OreImo’s light novels and anime adaptation may now be over, however, the series is still alive and well in the hearts of its fans. And with that, three companies, Curtain Damashii, Anime Sugar, and Itaindou, are all teaming up for a special wedding-themed collaboration for all them OreImo fans. The collaboration wedding sets let you...
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In the upcoming issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump! magazine, the official One Piece Character Poll will finally be unveiled, and a leaked scan of the results have just surfaced and it shows how over 100 One Piece characters, both alive and dead, were ranked. Over 69,472 Shounen Jump! readers answered the official character poll...
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The ever-so controversial voice actress, Aya Hirano, is finally returning to the role she became famous for, as Haruhi Suzumiya, however, it will be for the spin-off of the Haruhi Suzumiya series, which is the Disappearance of Yuki Nagato-chan which was announced last year in a very mysterious fashion. The voice actress and singer, whose...
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During a recent live streaming event via Niconico by Good Smile Company‘s Kahotan, several hot new figmas and Nendoroids were unveiled in the program, which was highlighted by the introduction of Kirito’s GGO version. This figure is certainly much anticipated as fans really want to see Kirito’s “trap” version, also known as Kiritrap, Trap Kirito,...
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On December 15 fans of three huge vocaloid producers made their way to Parco’s 2.5D event hall for a double release party staring PinocchioP and sasakure.UK., and staring, of course, Hatsune Miku. Just two weeks ago PinocchioP’s second album Shibou, which contains the next Project Mirai theme song, Hajimemashite Unchuujin-san, was released. Today, also marks...
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Just like Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend, the latest installment of the Blazblue franchise, Chrono Phantasma, will also be getting an extended version, as announced by Japanese gaming magazine, Weekly Famitsu. According to a preview by the magazine’s official website, the upcoming updated version of Arc System Works’ popular 2D Fighting Game will be an enhanced...
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For some, the battle for losing body fat is pretty similar to humanity’s battle against the titans, which is a long and grim road full of sacrifices. However, Women’s magazine, Chou Chou Aliis seems to have drawn something from the similarities and featured an Attack on Titan-inspired exercise using Doroin to help women lose some...
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Often, we get to see our favorite anime characters in their usual clothes or school uniforms. We would often see Son Goku in his usual orange gi or several school anime characters wearing their respective school uniforms. But often, they are presented wearing something else, and Japanese media website Goo has asked fans to weigh...
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The Gundam franchise has been tied with energy ever since the first series back in 1979 with the introduction of the concept of Minovsky Particles, in fact, some of the conflicts in other Gundam series like Gundam 00 and Gundam Recongiusta in G have been centered on energy. Now, in a new video, the most...
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According to several reports from the 2nd Date A Live Festival, which just wrapped up earlier today, it was announced that the upcoming Date A Live movie is now scheduled for Summer 2015. The event also unveiled the movie’s title, which is “Date A Live: Mayuri Judgement” (万由里ジャッジメント). Several of the people who attended the...
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Looks like 2015 will be a good year for idol anime as we are not only getting an iDOLM@STER anime (Cinderella Girls) and a Love Live! movie, but we are getting a Wake Up Girls movie as well. The new Wake Up Girls! movie will be a direct sequel to the anime which was first...
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A new poster for the two-part live-action Attack on Titan movie has unveiled what the massive Colossal Titan will look like in the movie, and to say that it is massive is an understatement. Scary huh? According to Japanese entertainment website, Eiga, the Colossal Titan in the live-action version will be taller than usual… a...
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The official Digimon Adventure website has now revealed that the new Digimon Adventure anime will be titled Digimon Adventure Tri, and it features the original Digidestined, or Chosen Children, a little bit older that when they first appeared in Digimon Adventure 01. The website also unveiled a new key visual the original eight children. It...
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Last week, Anime Festival Asia (AFA) 2014 rolled by the Suntec Convention Center and certainly rocked the house with plenty of awesome performances, booths, programs, and of course, cosplays. Now, there were so many great cosplays from the event, and some of them were compiled into two great videos. Let’s start with Enforcer Channel’s Youtube...
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After turning a lot of heads in New York, getting her own video, and even getting her very own Play Arts Kai figure, Final Fantasy game designer Tetsuya Nomura‘s version of Hatsune Miku is also getting her very own wall scroll from the people at Square Enix. Measuring in at approximately 1,050mm in height and...
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There have been plenty of deaths throughout anime, and many of them have been very unforgettable. Most made us cry (or in some cases, cheer), while many have also made us love the departed characters even more. In this week’s latest rankings by anime character database, Charapedia, they have ranked the 20 most impressive deaths...
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The official Bandai Namco Games youtube channel has now streamed the second PV for Sword Art Online: Lost Song, and it features some of the gameplay mechanics you will expect in the first Sword Art Online game based in ALO. The video features the various locations in ALO which will be featured in the game,...
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The collaboration between free-to-play online game, World of Warships, and science fiction anime, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, is finally getting full steam, after a few months since it was announced during the Tokyo Gameshow.Wargaming.net’s Japanese Youtube channel has now began streaming a new video for the collaboration and it features the lovable anthropomorphic warship girls...
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Gundam SEED main character Kira Yamato has been consistently in Newtype Magazine‘s Top 10 Male Anime Character Rankings for years now, even if Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny have been long over. Many people have even thought that good’ol “Jesus Yamato” would stay in the Top 10 Males forever. However, in the January 2015...
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Japanese Karaoke franchise, Joysound, has released their annual Karaoke Rankings, and for this year’s Anime/SFX/ Video Game Song category, as well as the Vocaloid song category, there were plenty of surprises in store. The rankings were based on which song was played most often in the various Joysound karaoke joints all over Japan. Last year,...
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Anime Festival Asia (AFA) 2014 has now ended, and with the guests already back home and the smoke cleared, the official AFA youtube channel has streamed some of the best highlights from the event’s third and final day, which featured plenty of cosplay, music, interviews, autograph sessions, and a bit of wackiness. Here are also...
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Dengeki PlayStation Magazine has confirmed that two more characters will be taking part in Bandai Namco’s new Sword Art Online game, Sword Art Online: Lost Song, and they are Argo and Infinity Moment heroine Strea. Argo, best known as Sword Art Online’s resident information broker back in Aincrad, will be shifting to Alfheim Online as...
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During a live announcement streamed via Niconico Douga, it was announced that Square Enix action game, Gunslinger Stratos, will be getting itself an anime adaptation, which will premiere this April 2015 as part of the spring anime season. Here is the promotional video: The anime adaptation will be titled “Gunslinger Stratos -The Animation” and the...
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Fujimi Shobo’s Fantasia Bunko has quite a good year with their various light novel series like High School DXD and Date A Live, as well as some of their titles getting anime adaptations like Amagi Brilliant Park, Trinity Seven, and Chaika The Coffin Princess. To thank the fans for their continued support, they conducted a...
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