Browsing: Anime

Summer 2026 is coming in hot, and the anime industry is following suit with a wave of exciting new series. As the world’s leading anime streaming platform, Crunchyroll is naturally home to the majority of the new anime currently airing. This season has truly been all about anime, with both brand-new debuts and returning favorites

Netflix begins streaming a new spin-off of the Japanese anime One Piece today. One Piece is one of the world’s most sought-after anime series. It follows Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates as they search for the legendary treasure known as the One Piece while chasing their dreams

Fantasy anime is having a moment. Though the genre has always been a big part of anime, proper high fantasy as we know it in the West has been lacking for decades. Western-style fantasy isn’t exactly prevalent in Japanese culture. That’s why we’ve had few and far between high fantasy shows out of Japan. At…

Anime Film Festival: “Howl’s Moving Castle” at 2 p.m. and “Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon A Time” at 7 p.m., Rialto Theater Center, 228 E. Fourth St., Loveland. All films are $5 and are in Japanese with English subtitles. rialtotheatercenter.org/anime

If there’s one thing to know about starting Ranking of Kings, it’s that, by the end of Episode 1, you’ll be cheering and, by the end of Episode 2, you’ll be crying. This anime knows how to enthrall and enrapture. Beautiful animation, captivating characters, and a stunning storyline all come together to create a series…

As one of Japan’s top manufacturers of anime and video game figures, Kotobukiya is no stranger to attractive characters. However, sometimes Kotobukiya’s designers perceive cute or playfully sexy sides to their muses that the rest of us might not be able to perceive. There was that time, for example, when Kotobukiya turned the Transformers’ Optimus…

The indie anime short filmLOCA!, about two kids who discover an operable train in a post-apocalyptic world, has been made available on YouTube for a limited amount of time. 

A teaser trailer for Tiny Metal: Zero Line, an anime based on the Advance Wars-like turn-based strategy series Tiny Metal, was revealed earlier this week on July 9. That day also saw the series’ world premiere screening at Paris’ Japan Expo 2026

A proof of concept “pilot film” was released for artistYoshitaka Amano’sZAN anime adaptationat this year’s Anime Expo last week. The first-look of the project was initially teased as a trailer for a “limited anime series” of ZAN in June 2026. 

The best samurai anime on Crunchyroll is about to make its highly anticipated return, and fans won’t have to wait long. Season 2 of The Elusive Samurai brings back its acclaimed creative team and promises bigger battles ahead