As you may already know, B: The Beginning, the gripping and edgy crime procedural series, is Shout Factory’s top priority home entertainment release this fall. The series is recognized for its distinctive genre-bending storytelling, B: The Beginning, packed with bonus content, arrives on national home entertainment shelves at Walmart and digital download to own on […]

The hit broadcast series Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (2015) blends elements of two popular anime genres, the fantasy adventure and the harem comedy, into an appealing mix. Long ago, the gods who dwelled above the city of Orario descended, looking for entertainment: They limited their powers and began interacting […]

Rumiko Takahashi’s “feudal fairy tale” InuYasha (2000) was one of the big hits of the early 21st century in Japan and the US. Kagome Higurashi (Moneca Stori), a normal 15-year-old high school girl, falls down the dry “Bone Eater’s Well” in her family’s Shinto shrine–and emerges during the “Warring States“ period (1467-1615). At the shrine, […]

High school is a miserable time, when kids battle raging hormones, crushing insecurities and never-ending drama. In Kaito’s new manga Blue Flag (Ao no Flag), the students at Aohama High experience all the usual problems–plus some unusual ones. Alienated senior Taichi Ichinose has never forgiven himself for failing to prevent a cat from getting run […]

The 2019 broadcast series How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? (Danberu Nan-Kiro Moteru?, literally “How Many Kilograms of Dumbbell Can You Lift?”) could have been animated with ultra body-conscious Southern California in mind. Koyo Women’s Academy student Hibiki Sakura (Madeleine Morris) loves to eat. As she walks home with her friend Ayaka, she consumes […]

High school seniors Kaito Yashio (Clifford Chapin) and Akiho Senomiya (Lindsay Seidel), the heroes of the offbeat sci-fi adventure Robotics;Notes, are the last remaining members of the Robot Research Club. But Kaito’s only interest is the video game Kill-Ballad: He’s ranked as the number five player in the world. He reluctantly helps his childhood friend, […]