We’re now halfway through round one of AniMarch Madness! But not to fear: That still leaves 16 matches this week, including eight more today featuring 16 wonderful anime! Here are the third set of first round matches, two from each of our four regions: 2021 Anime, Critical Darlings, Popular / Action, and Romance / Comedy.… Read More AniMarch Madness 2022: Round 1, Day 3
There’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good love story. Anime is full of them, with romance playing a key role in so many series, from shoujo to shounen, and all types in between. But do you know what’s even more doki-doki than an anime romance? A real life love, the kind that two people… Read More Faith and Love: Interview with Voice Acting Couple, Jordan Dash Cruz and Kelsey Maher
Manga is my happy place. I think I’ve known this for a while honestly, but it wasn’t something I fully admitted to myself until recently. Or maybe it was more that I accepted that this is my new “reality” for my bookish world. This world no longer consisted of novels for clients that I worked… Read More That Time When Depression Tried to Swallow Up My Favorite Fictional Heroes…And Me, Too
Pirates celebrate Christmas too, you know. Here’s Nami and Luffy, getting a little cuddly this Christmas Eve, as they celebrate the holiday. We hope you have a nice Christmas Eve as well, and a wonderful Christmas! ★ 【もみじ】「 ワンピ ついろぐ６ 」 ☆
One of the most prolific anime voice actresses and ADR scriptwriters of the past decade, Katelyn Barr has voiced Ryukyu (My Hero Academia), Ren Soma (Fruits Basket), Baby 5 (One Piece), and Nikki Hanada (Dr. Stone), among many other characters, and written scripts for series like Akame ga Kill, Haikyuu, and The Quintessential Quintuplets. I… Read More Voice Actress and Anime Scriptwriter Katelyn Barr Talks Ren Sohma, Ryukyu, and How Voiceover is Changing
Summary One Piece Film: Strong World is the tenth One Piece animated film. Originally debuting in 2009, the movie is set at some indeterminable time pre-Time Skip after Brook has joined the crew, and film opens up with a powerful pirate named Shiki escaping from Impel Down. It then leaps in medias res to showthe… Read More Review – One Piece Film: Strong World
What does it mean to be in the world but not of it as a creator (John 15:18-19) who focuses on spotlighting manga? This is a question I have been deeply pondering as of late. Recently on my personal social media profiles, I’ve gradually (or not so gradually) made a transition where I am almost… Read More Loving Manga Isn’t Purposeless: Our Passion Has Eternal Value
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