Category: Anime || Manga

“#FEATURE: Hope Survives Within the Heart of SCHOOL-LIVE!”   Fall is here, a new season is ramping up, but there's still plenty of opportunity for fans to catch up on the anime of yesteryear that they may have missed the first time around, and “Cruising the Crunchy-Catalog” is here to help. Our goal is to…

“#Touch and Ranma 1/2 Star Noriko Hidaka Releases 40th Anniversary Album”   Noriko Hidaka has voiced some of anime's most memorable roles, from Akane Tendo in Ranma 1/2 to Minami Asakura in Touch. To celebrate her upcoming 40th anniversary in the fields of anime and music, she's releasing a "Best Of" collection that gathers together 40 songs familiar to…

“#One Piece Manga Takes Time Off Due to Eiichiro Oda's 'Sudden Illness'”   One Piece author Eiichiro Oda needs a break, and he certainly deserves one. The official editorial department Twitter account for Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced that One Piece won't be showing up on Monday, which is when this year's 44th issue of…

“#Watch I'm Standing on a Million Lives Recreated Entirely with Clipart”   Starting today, Crunchyroll Premium members can watch the isekai adventure I'm Standing on a Million Lives as it airs, and everyone else can watch it one a one-week delay. Alternately, you can watch a surprise recreation of the first episode — made entirely from clipart.   The special video…

“#The Matsunos Are Pleased to NEET You in Osomatsu-san Season 3 PV”   Itching for the next phase of Mr. Osomatsu? The premiere is just around the corner, but in the meantime a new trailer has just been released featuring a glimpse at what's to come for the popular sextuplets.   The trailer is set to…

“#Love Doesn't Bloom in Koi to Yobuniha Kimochi Warui TV Anime Visual”   Previously announced back in January of 2020, a new key visual and the main staff have been revealed for Koi to Yobuniha Kimochi Warui ("It's Gross to Call This Love"), an upcoming TV anime based on the age gap romantic comedy manga by…

“#Heaven's Design Team TV Anime Descends for Broadcast in January 2021”   Ever wonder how animals get created? Well, the Heaven's Design Team TV anime follows those creators in their daily jobs. Based on the manga by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, and Tarako, the official Twitter account for the TV anime announced that the series will premiere…

“#The Quintessential Quintuplets Season 2 TV Anime Will Be Fully Completed Before Broadcast Says Anime Studio Founder”   With The Quintessential Quintuplets season 2 coming up in January and COVID-19 still a looming presence over everyday life, Tensho, the founder of Bibury Animation Studio who is animating the second season of the harem TV anime, tweeted that fans need not…

“#Crowdfunding Campaign for Dropkick on My Devil! Season 3 Reaches Its Goal Only in 33 Hours”     As reported, a crowdfunding campaign for the third season of the Dropkick on My Devil! TV anime kicked off at 12:00 p.m. on September 30, 2020 (JST). And its goal of 20 million yen (about 189,000 US…

“#Max Factory Gets New Hatsune Miku Figure Designed by "To Love Ru" Manga Illustrator”     Max Factory plans to release a new Hatsune Miku scale figure designed/supervised by Kentaro Yabuki, best known as the illustrator of the To Love Ru / To Love Ru Darkness manga series, from its "Character Vocal Series 01: Hatsune…