You haven't really seen Scout's Honor until you've seen it in the original Japanese.

Charlotte, premiering in July, reunites writer/composer/lyricist Jun Maeda, character designer Na-Ga, and animation studio P. A. Works, all of whom collaborated on Angel Beats!. The fact that Charlotte is being timed around a number of AB! events — the release of a Blu-Ray box with a new bonus mini-episode, the debut…

Now that work takes me to San Francisco and Chicago on a regular basis, both of which have Kinokuniya bookstores, I've gotten into the habit of buying those 1,000-page Japanese manga anthologies. I started with Monthly Comics Alive, which only had a few series I recognize (was Maria Holic always drawn this badly?),…

TV? Anime viewing is effectively all-streaming in the US. Attack On Titan's numbers on Toonami were likely depressed by all the fans watching it on Crunchyroll and Funimation a year before it hit TV.

I'm fine with ANN being the source for ongoing episode-by-episode coverage (and The Mary Sue has bang-up coverage of Yurikuma Arashi), but an occasional article here on a whole series (in the format of a DVD review or a "TV Club 10") where there's appeal outside of the anime niche would be welcome. I think never…

Fortunately, ANN has one of their best writers (Hope Chapman) covering DRRR!!x2.

Nope. Of course, fandom has largely abandoned Crystal, although I hear that Chibiusa isn't as grating in this version as the original, so that's something.

AV Club dependably covering every "X in the style of anime" post, while covering zero actual anime: ✔️

I'll probably pick it up in the book store and look for the one paragraph about being in The Cribs for a year.

Came to this article for the Howard the Duck, but Inner City Romance actually sounds more interesting. May have to seek that out.

Back in 2013, I attended the Streaming Media conference in Long Beach, and there was a real culture clash of the Northern California technophiles and the Southern California TV industry types determined not to let their ox get gored (while simultaneously asserting that no such thing would happen, that cable-cutting…

I'll take one that actually is set in the hereafter, the afterlife high school of the anime Angel Beats! There, the secret to living forever is to screw around in class, not take your work or clubs seriously… oh yeah, and you have to join a paramilitary organization dedicated to killing God, or at least the student…

I wonder how many AV Club readers not familiar with manga were thrown off by the Master Keaton excerpts that read right-to-left. Fortunately, the dialogue of the first one makes it pretty obvious how to parse it.

Mostly from the last 10 years. I played Kira Kira, Planetarian and a few others on my iPhone, now I'm doing Muv-Luv and ef: A Fairy Tale Of the Two on a virtualized PC. I know, I know, there are so many to discover…

Has there been any news about the film adaptation (by Tom Hanks' production company, IIRC) of American Idiot? The songs in that are all character-driven — few big chorus numbers and no damn jazz hands — and might lend themselves well to this intimate approach, despite the fact that the entire score is, like Ziggy…

Muv-Luv is huge in the visual novel world (Muv-Luv Alternative is ranked #1 of all time over on vndb.org), but since there is no anime of the core story (Extra, Unlimited, Alternative), it is far behind Clannad, Steins;Gate, Fate/Stay Night, etc. in Western awareness overall, since we get most anime released here but…

In the VHS era, The Fuma Conspiracy and Mystery of Mamo were reasonably available at Blockbusters and Hollywoods, and help set expectations for the franchise.

You must be getting incredible whiplash going from the sugary-sweet Castle of Cagliostro to the dark and sexy Woman Called Fujiko Mine. It might have helped to see a few other takes on Lupin the Third before starting Fujiko… it's a remarkably flexible franchise, and different creative teams have played up the action,…

I spent Friday laughing my ass off at a local colleague who spearheaded a petition to get the local theater chain to cancel Fifty Shades of Grey. Yes, he's a fundamentalist Christian, and yes he says it's not about censorship (when of course it is), but at the end of the day, he only got 2,000 signatures in a region…

Have heard good things about Amagi Brilliant Park, but what's with the green-derby'ed bear mascot, seemingly identical to a character from last decade's Full Metal Panic?