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Hollywood keeps making the same mistakes when it adapts Japanese anime for American audiences. First, big studios cast recognizable stars in roles built around a specific ethnic identity, hoping spectacle distracts from the gap. Then, they try to dumb down a complex mythology and expansive world, sometimes daring to fit full seasons into a feature-lenght…

21-08-2026 Starring Alice Hirose and directed by Takahiro Miki, the highly anticipated series from Asia’s top creative team is set to stream exclusively worldwide in Autumn 2027.

Sunrise and Shaft’s collaboration on the anime adaptation of Kasumi Yasuda’s manga, Fool Night, is shaping up to be one of the most intriguing anime titles of the year. We now have official confirmation that Fool Night will be launched worldwide on Netflix on November 26, 2026. Also unveiled today is a brand-new English-dub trailer,…

One Piece, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Yu Yu Hakusho are just three examples of live-action anime adaptations that have been a success. While the stories of Yusuke Urameshi and Aang might be less critically well-received than Luffy’s outing, all three live-action series have new seasons in the works. The small screen, however, isn’t the…

What does it mean to be strong? What does it mean to hold power? Is it the means to defeat a thousand foes and to draw fear from opposition *or* is it to be able to protect all who matter to you spiritually and physically? Questions like these get batted around a lot in shōnen…

The new Ghost in the Shell series on Prime Video looks, at first glance, like a police procedural set in the future. That’s the trap. Watch past the first episode and it turns into something bigger: a show asking what makes a person a person, in a world that has started leaving humanity behind in…

The 1979 cycling movie, “Breaking Away,” may have won an Oscar, but when it came time to make a TV spin-off, repeating success was not as easy as riding a bike. ABC aired a prequel series of the same name in 1980, but it never caught on despite decent reviews, and was quickly cancelled. The movie was…

Destiny Unchain Online is officially receiving a television anime adaptation. The VRMMO battle fantasy manga is currently serialized on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket manga app.

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Paramount Pictures has released the trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of author Tomi Adeyemi’s 2018 novel of the same name.