General Anime News & Discussion

Japanese Fans Rank What Summer 2021 Anime They’re Most Looking Forward To

July 06, 2021 3:21am EDT
Resident Evil, Villainess, and Slime season 2 rank high!

Satomi Nakamura’s Black Alice Manga Gets Net Anime Shorts

posted on 2021-07-06 05:15 EDT by Crystalyn Hodgkins
1st episode available now on Ciao magazine’s YouTube channel.

MAPPA’s New Studio Annex Will “Improve the Workplace Environment”

posted on 2021-07-06 13:45 EDT by Kim Morrissy
Company plans to create “animators village” in future with shop & café for fans

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Anime Studio MAPPA Opens Branch Office to Produce Chainsaw Man and Help Improve Animator’s Working Conditions

July 07, 2021 2:45am CDT
The new office is close to shops, a train station, and has a lounge to relax

RECS: The 6 Best Time Travel Anime You Should Watch Right Now

July 06, 2021 10:00am CDT
Travel through time with these awesome anime recs

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Anime Producer Explains the Business of Greenlighting Sequels

posted on 2021-07-06 15:45 EDT by Kim Morrissy
“What are the requirements for greenlighting an anime sequel? How can fans (politely) get their voices heard?”

Anime Studio MAPPA Responds to Claims of Low Pay From Animators

July 07, 2021 10:56am CDT
The anime studio released a full statement on its website

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MAPPA Comments on Animator Pay Rates in Statement

posted on 2021-07-07 23:07 EDT by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Studio claims to have never offered “unreasonable compensation,” never forced creators to work

Translation: “It was more than that, but we pocketed the excess and still paid our animators a pittance”

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Hmm…

A few seem to be missing from that list…

Wouldn’t you agree, @Slowhand?

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In case anyone here even remotely thought about backing the Anime Tube Kickstarter:

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I really don’t think even if they knew what the heck they were doing it would work. The Streaming Market as a whole is so flooded right now and with the three big bad anime wolves eating up all the anime piggies . It’s hard for even the other established services to get any anime .

The company behind it sounds awfully familiar . I’m honestly wondering if they were once one of the old fansub groups that never really got why you can’t just license whatever you want and kept blaming the industry for ruining things .

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Stylish Psychological Thriller ‘Perfect Blue’ Makes SteelBook™ Debut September 14, 2021

Jul 7th 2021
GKIDS AND SHOUT! FACTORY PRESENT Perfect Blue; Stylish Psychological Thriller Makes SteelBook™ Debut September 14, 2021

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Kyoto Animation Graces Us With 2 New Beautifully Animated Commericals

July 08, 2021 4:35am CDT
One was an original, with another based on 20th Century Electric Catalog

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The Anime Tube Kickstarter Is Not the Sound Investment it Claims to Be

8 July 2021 6:00 am

by Alicia Haddic

With a promise to host an anime library deeper than the likes of Crunchyroll and Funimation combined while introducing an AI virtual assistant, Anime Tube sounds like it has the potential to be an amazing new player in the anime streaming space. In theory, that is.

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GKIDS Acquires Rights to Miyazaki Debut Series Future Boy Conan

July 08, 2021 1:15pm EDT
Series will be available for the first time in North America later this year

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I was kind of hoping that would be a Discotek title .

Oh well still amazing news for sure !

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Anime Industry Professionals Criticize Anime Tube Kickstarter as “Total Scam”

posted on 2021-07-08 14:59 EDT by Kim Morrissy & Lynzee Loveridge
Professionals call out streaming app’s unrealistic promises as Kickstarter raises over US$110,000 since Tuesday

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It seems those who are running that Kickstarter have no clue how any of this works. If it was that easy to grab a license a lot of these past companies wouldn’t have gone under.

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GONZO Launches “SAMURAI cryptos” Project featuring Original Samurai Characters

July 09, 2021 12:32am EDT
Makoto Kobayashi, Michinori Chiba, and Hiroya Iijima will join the project

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