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Have you ever thought to yourself, ‘wow, self, wouldn’t John Wick make a great anime?’ Well, someone has because a John Wick anime is a thing that will happen soon. Since the first John Wick film came out in 2014, we’ve been enamored with the Keanu Reeves-led action franchise. The action film came with great fight choreography, stellar performances from some of our favorite actors, and elaborate world-building perfect for creating spin-offs like The Continental. When laid out like that, an anime series doesn’t seem…

Sony just raised the price of anime and left American otakus with few other options. The company’s anime streamer, Funimation, is officially shutting down on April 2, according to a press release on Wednesday. Crunchyroll, Sony’s other anime service it acquired in 2021, sent an email to subscribers that prices will soon be raised from $55 a year to $100 a year.“You don’t have to leave your Funimation Watch History and Funimation Queue behind, you can migrate them to Crunchyroll,” said Sony in an email to Funimation…

Sony's Funimation purchased Crunchyroll from WarnerMedia for $1.175 billion in 2020, and they kicked off their transformation into a unified anime subscription service under the latter's name a year after the deal was announced. By 2022, Crunchyroll has already added more than 50 shows that were either exclusive to Funimation and weren't available with dubs to its library. Now, it sounds like they're almost done unifying their services: Funimation has revealed that it's going to shut down its old app and website on April…

Every so often, a new anime season will start and I’ll find one series, in particular, to latch onto like a vice. This season, that series is Sasaki and Peeps. In only a couple of episodes, this series has shown me edge-of-your-seat action and rapidly developing plots and has dipped its toes into so many genres that it’s hard to even know what to classify this series as. The point is that Sasaki and Peeps has something to please everyone! First released in Japan in 2018 as a light novel, Sasaki and Peeps currently has…

The ROG Phone 8 Pro comes with a lot of cool features tailored for gamers, and one of those is the new AniMe Vision display that sits on the back. When looking at the back of the phone you might never notice that the display is there. That’s because it’s hidden when not in use. It’s essentially the same type of display you can find on ASUS’s ROG Zephyrus laptops, only those are called the AniMe Matrix displays. They’re the same thing though, and they use a ton of programmable Mini LEDs to make up little pictures and…

Japan’s box office climbed 4 percent to a post-pandemic high of $1.5 billion (221.5 billion yen) in 2023, driven again by a strong slate of anime and a steady return to theaters. Hollywood films maintained the same market share of around 31 percent as the previous year, though a very weak yen reduced earnings in dollar terms.   The Japanese currency falling toward the 150-mark against the greenback means that when converted, the annual box office fell from last year’s $1.64 billion even though takings…

Last year, Witch From Mercury radically improved the already pretty great world of Gundam by adding an amount of lesbianism that not even its parent company could deny. Alas, sapphics have yet to see a successor to the gay mecha throne yet, but lovers of men and giant robots may have found their own show to claim this season in Bang Brave Bang Bravern.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie Produced by Granblue Fantasy architects Cygames and directed by the legendary mecha designer Masami Ōbari, Bang Brave…

Developer Hotta Studio revealed a Neon Genesis Evangelion collab for its free-to-play MMORPG, Tower of Fantasy. Evangelion characters Asuka Langley Soryu and Rei Ayanami will join as limited-time playable characters alongside Shinji Ikari as an ally in the first half of 2024. Players will also encounter iconic mecha from the series including EVA-00, EVA-01, and EVA-02 in the story.📢#TowerofFantasy ⚔ #Evangelion Collab Project In ProcessThe est. landing time is in the first half of 2024. Wanderers will…

Are you tired of long-running live service games with no end in sight? Well, Bushiroad’s Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 MIRACLE LIVE! isn’t just getting a global launch date; it’s also getting a global closure date, at the same time. In a tweet from the SIF account, the company says it is “excited to break the news to you that the global version of Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 MIRACLE LIVE! is launching soon in February 2024.” Then, in the next paragraph: “However, we also want to inform you that, the Global…

Oh jeez. While season seven was one of Rick and Morty’s best—putting to rest any idea that the behind-the-scenes reshuffling would compromise its quality—it seems we’ll be waiting longer than expected for more: season eight is slated for a 2025 return.Hulu’s Hellraiser Reboot Has So-So Sights to Show YouThis update comes from a round-up of Rick and Morty news from the Hollywood Reporter, which points to last year’s extended Writers Guild strike as the reason for the production delay. (Waiting and waiting for more episodes…