Ave Mujica Reveals New Trailer

Bang Dream! Ave Mujica -The Die is Cast- anime revealed a new, recap trailer on Sunday featuring all the events that occurred in the first six episodes and the anime’s ending song “Georgette Me, Georgette You.” The anime is currently available to stream on Crunchyroll and Muse Asia. Ave Mujica -The Die …

Kaiju No. 8 Marks Setsubun Festival With New Visual

Kaiju No. 8 revealed a “Setsubun” visual as its entry for the February Hyakkei series. Setsubun is the bean-throwing festival and marks the day before the beginning of spring in the old calendar in Japan. This year it fell on February 2. Last month’s visual was reserved for the first …

Re:Zero Season 3 Tops Winter 2025 Weekly Ranking Immediately After Return in Week 5

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 has topped the Winter 2025 weekly ranking in Week 5 immediately after its return. Subaru and Reinhard found Emilia and fought Regulus, with fights against the other archbishops being set up as well. Re:ZERO had 8.92% of the votes this time, with a total of …

Former Crunchyroll Employee Says He Was Fired After Reporting Workplace Misconduct

Crunchyroll, one of the biggest names in anime streaming, is facing new allegations over its workplace culture, with a former employee claiming he got fired after bringing up hostility at the workplace. Shawn Hoffman, a former Senior Software Engineer at Crunchyroll, alleged that he was retaliated against and eventually terminated …

Solo Leveling Season 2 Reveals Jinwoo vs Kargalgan Pick Up Battle Video After Episode 6

Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise From the Shadow- revealed a Kiba shadow visual and a new pick up battle video featuring Jinwoo against Kargalgan. You can see the visual for his shadow, which is known as Tusk in the original webtoon, below. Previously, Igrit, Iron, and Tank got their own shadow visuals. …

Colorful Stage the Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing Reveals New Trailer, Music Video and Second Visual

COLORFUL STAGE The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing anime movie revealed a new trailer and key visual, along with a music video. The movie was announced in July, and it premiered in Japanese theaters on January 17, 2025. A global release date is ‘coming soon.’ You can watch the new trailer below. …

DanMachi Announces First Official Freya Figure

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V (DanMachi) has announced the very first official figure for Freya. The franchise already has figures for several of their characters. Hestia, Ais, Liliruca, Haruhime, they all have them. Anime figures are a widespread form of merchandise for manga …

Giyu Tomioka From Demon Slayer Gets 2025 Birthday Illustration by Ufotable

February 8 marks the birthday of Giyu Tomioka from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and the official website released a 2025 illustration by ufotable to commemorate it. It features the Water Hashira as a chibi, along with some elements related to character. Ufotable releases illustrations for other characters as well, with Genya …

Maid Sama Creator Begins New Romantic Comedy Manga

Hiro Fujiwara, the creator of the popular Maid Sama manga series, has returned with a new romantic comedy manga series titled Be Selfish to a Cat (Neko ni Wagamama). The series debuted in the March issue of the LaLaDX shojo magazine, which was released on February 5, 2025. In the …

Anime’s Perfection Makes Live-Action Adaptations Difficult To Pull Off, Says Shogun Producer

Producer of the award-winning Shogun series, John Landgraf, sat down with Business Insider to discuss the secret to its success and how the expansion of Japanese content underlies Shogun‘s success more broadly. This content includes anime adaptations, and Landgraf was asked whether live-action adaptations of Japanese novels and manga could …