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“My Hero Academia: Vigilantes” Season 2 Streams January 5

December 16th, 2025

The highly anticipated My Hero Academia prequel, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes charges back into the action with Season 2 on January 5, 2025, exclusively on Crunchyroll. With this announcement, Crunchyroll released a new trailer and key art, showcasing characters that have yet to make their debut. Not only this, but the artists for the opening […]

Crunchyroll Announces New Acquisitions At CCXP

Haylie Baker|

December 15th, 2025

At the recent CCXP, hosted in São Paulo, Brazil, Crunchyroll made many unforgettable memories with fans, presented exclusive trailers, messages from cast members, historic performances, and hosted new arrivals, all live on the Thunder Stage. Among the exciting events and personalities onstage, Crunchyroll’s specialty was on full display as the latest in anime was announced. […]

Sony Classics Schedules Qualifying Runs for Hosoda’s “Scarlet”

Jerry Beck|

December 6th, 2025

Mamoru Hosoda's Scarlet will get an Oscar qualifying theatrical run, in iMax theaters, starting December 12th. Here's the trailer - and a list of theaters and cities.

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ANIME REVIEW: Studio Ghibli’s “Ocean Waves”

Ocean Waves (Umi ga Kikoeru), sometimes translated as “I Can Hear the Sea” (1993), is Studio Ghibli‘s only TV special. A modest work that’s closer in scope and tone to Whisper of the Heart or From Up on Poppy Hill than to the fragile poetry of The Tale of Princess Kaguya or the grand adventures […]

Charles Solomon|January 10, 2017

ANIME TRAILER: “Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side Of Dimensions”

It’s official! The first animated feature to be released theatrically in 2017, in the US, will be Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side Of Dimensions. Screen Vision Media will give this a two-week release on January 27th. Supposedly a decade in the making, the film features new designs and an all-new story from the original creator of […]

Jerry Beck|January 4, 2017

Gkids To Release Studio Ghibli’s 1993 TV Feature “Ocean Waves”

Distributor GKIDS has announced that it will release Studio Ghibli’s Ocean Waves, which has been unreleased in the U.S. until now. The film will play starting on December 28th at IFC Center in New York, and one night only in Los Angeles at the Egyptian Theatre, in a new 4K restoration. The film will then […]

Jerry Beck|December 19, 2016

ANIME FIRST LOOK: Yonebayashi’s “Mary and The Witch’s Flower”

Dropping today is the teaser trailer for Mary and The Witch’s Flower, the first animated feature from Studio Ponoc, the latest directorial effort from former top Ghibli animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi (director, When Marnie Was There, The Secret World of Arriety). Based on “The Little Broomstick” by Mary Stewart, the screenplay was adapted by Riko Sakaguchi […]

Jerry Beck|December 15, 2016

ANIME REVIEW: “Your Name.”

Writer-director Makoto Shinkai’s runaway hit Your Name. (Kimi No Na Wa) is the year’s number one box office hit in Japan and the sixth-highest grossing film of all time there. Since it opened in August, it’s earned more than ¥19.4 billion (about US $174 million), more than any animated film not directed by Hayao Miyazaki. […]

Charles Solomon|December 2, 2016

ANIME TRAILER: “Napping Princess: The Story Of The Unknown Me”

Warner Bros. just posted a trailer for a new anime film by director Kenji Kamiyama – (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East) – Napping Princess: The Story of the Unknown Me. I.G Port’s anime subsidiary Signal.MD is animating the film as its first anime film project. The film opens March […]

Jerry Beck|November 25, 2016

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