Introduction
As part of our efforts to maintain full transparency within our operation, it has been decided that, every year, the chief officer of Anime Herald, LLC must compile an annual within 8 weeks of the end of the fiscal year. This document will serve to outline our finances, as well as our performance over the course of the year.
For purposes of reporting, our fiscal year runs from April 1, 2022 through Mar 31, 2023.
Current Finances
As of May 11, 2023, Ani...
2023-05-12 02:43:52 +0000 UTC
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Note: Apologies for the weird format on this. Patreon no longer allows galleries after their most recent updates.
Author: Samantha Ferreira
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
It seems that each Anime Boston finds new ways to add to the electric hum that emanates from fans’ excitement, as attendees embark upon the spacious halls of the Hynes Convention Center. This year’s event proved to be no different, as fans adorned with branded lanya...
2023-05-10 01:15:36 +0000 UTC
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Note: Due to publisher requirements, we will be publishing this on the main Anime Herald site on May 8. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Interviewer: Seth Burn
Interviewee: Kehasuk
Date: 5/1/2023
Kehasuk: Forgive me if I’m a little out of it. I haven’t eaten.
Anime Herald: You don’t get to sleep or eat much, it’s a death march for four days?
Keha...
2023-05-07 01:27:05 +0000 UTC
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Author: Samantha Ferreira
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Host: Tinfoil Pyramid Hats
Date: 4/8/2023
Over the past fourteen years, Brian T. Price’s Bad Anime, Bad! panel has become a signature event at Anime Boston. Part performance piece and part showcase of everything wrong with the anime medium, the panel has grown to become a destination for thrill-seekers, masochists, and rubberneckers alike. ...
2023-05-05 02:39:13 +0000 UTC
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Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of this article, the final piece will go live on the main Anime Herald site on 5/6/2023. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Interview date: 4/30/2023
Interviewer: Samantha Ferreira
Interview Format: Zoom
A huge thanks to Patreon backer NegiKitsu for requesting this, and helping us to get in touch with Mark A. Reyes. This wouldn’t have happ...
2023-05-02 03:21:03 +0000 UTC
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Author: Samantha Ferreira
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Host: Zack Davisson
Time: 4/8/2023 at 2:00PM
When discussing the topic of Japanese entertainment, it’s difficult to avoid mentioning yokai. From the turtle-like kappa to the multi-tailed kitsune, these supernatural beings have intertwined themselve...
2023-04-30 00:30:04 +0000 UTC
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Author: Samantha Ferreira
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Date: 4/7/2023
Host: Dapplemii
In our uncertain world, it’s tempting to wonder how we would approach milestones in our life if we had the chance to do things over again. The prospect of having another chance to ask a crush out, retry a job interview, or avo...
2023-04-26 02:24:09 +0000 UTC
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Author: Samantha Ferreira
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Hosts: Zack Davisson, Helen McCarthy, Neil Nadelman, Darius Washington
On February 13, 2023, the skies grew dark, as the 999 set off on its final voyage. Influential manga author Leiji Matsumoto embarked on his final journey to the sea of stars, after 2023-04-23 00:19:27 +0000 UTC
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- Author: Samantha Ferreira
- Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Date: 4/7/2023
Host: Helen McCarthy
In the earliest days of anime fandom, before Robotech, and even Star Blazers, anime fandom was defined by a wild, punk energy that was equal parts youthful brashness and calculated hustle. W...
2023-04-20 01:06:43 +0000 UTC
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Author: Samantha Ferreira
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
On April 18, 2003, anime fans from across New England flocked to Boston's Park Plaza Hotel to partake in a celebration of all things anime. Anime Boston 2003, the first major anime convention to hit the area since 2001's Mikkakan, proudly invited its attendees to "Be a part of history."
The tagline proved to be more than just bluster, Anime Boston saw literal thousands of eager attendees cr...
2023-04-14 01:54:20 +0000 UTC
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Author: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
WhittyMoon: Are you of Japanese descent? If not, how did you get into rakugo?
Katsura Sunshine: To my knowledge I’m not of Japanese descent. I fell in love with Japan fairly quicky, so some people have said maybe in a former life.
I went to Japan because I was writing musicals. My main area of study was ancient Gre...
2023-04-05 01:55:48 +0000 UTC
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Author: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Sofia Warren, the author of Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator, was kind enough to sit down with us at New York Comic Con
Anime Herald: Let’s start with your origin story.
Sofia Warren: I was born in Rhode Island. My parents are bot...
2023-03-30 01:21:07 +0000 UTC
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Author: Adam Wescott (Wendeego)
Editor: Madeline Blondeau
The premise of Birdy the Mighty is simple. Tsutomu Senkawa is a studious high school student from Earth. Birdy is a brash, super-strong alien cop. Forced by circumstance to share the same body, they fight crime. Pretty straightforward, right? Exposition fripperies be damned, it’s an acceptable framing device for exciting action sequences, high school drama, and some l...
2023-03-25 23:03:09 +0000 UTC
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Anime Herald: Mr Ishihira, you’ve gone on the record stating that when you decide what titles to direct, you consider the content, and not the genre. What was it about “Reincarnated as a Sword” that attracted you to the project?
Shinji Ishihira: Usually when I get an offer, I get an offer with the idea. They’ll say “We’re thinking about making an anime of this manga. What do you think?”
I’ll get the proposal and look at the origina...
2023-03-23 02:25:24 +0000 UTC
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Author: Red Bard
Editor: Alex Henderson
“Oh no! We’ve…we’ve just received word that this is the last issue of Newtype USA magazine. Good heavens!”, reads a small line of text tucked quietly to the bottom of the final page of Newtype USA’s February 2008 issue. “There was so much anime left to watch, so much manga to read…but no worries, for we hear that the same folks are launching a new, even better magazine real soon! Wah...
2023-03-18 23:52:26 +0000 UTC
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Note: Due to requirements from an outside party, this will go live on the main Anime Herald site this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience.'
Author: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Moderator: Having just finished performing in front of a large crowd at Anime NYC, many of whom are Gundam fans, how did it compare to performing in front of a crowd outside of the anime setting?
Kawakami...
2023-03-11 23:00:31 +0000 UTC
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Author: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Anime Herald: You started as a graffiti artist. Did you ever imagine you’d become a professional artist with art books and more?
Acky Bright: I couldn’t imagine. My artworks going all over the world was unimaginable to me back then.
Anime Herald: How did you move from doing graffiti to more traditional art?
Acky Bright:
2023-03-10 03:54:07 +0000 UTC
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Author: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Unknown Outlet: It’s the 20th anniversary of your directorial debut with Witch Hunter Robin. What were some of your favorite experiences working on that project and how do you feel you have grown as a director in the twenty years since then?
Shūkō Murase: Actually, it’s interesting that you’d ask that because I’m so busy, and I’ve been so busy lately, t...
2023-03-05 01:16:24 +0000 UTC
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Interviewer: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
MyAnimeList: How are you feeling about the preview screening of “[Kaguya-sama: ] Love is War: First Kiss” later today?
Aoi Koga: I’m happy! (Laughs)
I’m very excited to watch it myself. Being able to ...
2023-02-25 22:20:30 +0000 UTC
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Happy Thursday, everybody!
The past few weeks have been busy, for sure. Most important, though, is that the Anime Herald team got a bit bigger this week! On Monday, we welcomed Cy as a new member of our editing team. We're all super excited to have them aboard as we continue our journey to explore the anime landscape. We have a number of fantastic pieces in the pipeline, which we can't wait to share with you, and we're currently running through a number of pitches that have us genuinely...
2023-02-17 03:22:58 +0000 UTC
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Author: Anthony Gramuglia
Editor: Madeline Blondeau
Content Warning: Contains imagery that includes graphic violence, gore, and body horror.
Old-school anime fans know just how weird the medium can get. There are a massive number of older titles you’d find at Suncoast or Blockbuster that were noteworthy only for how shocking they were. Still, no matter how schlocky they got, there was immeasurable creativity devoted into e...
2023-02-05 00:29:08 +0000 UTC
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Author: Madeline Blondeau
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Thank you to Mark McDonald for the Patron article request!
In 1983, Lupin The Third made his North American TV debut on WTBS.
Well, not quite – the rascally thief wouldn’t get his crack at home video success in the US for a few more years. But viewers of the short-lived game show, 2023-01-28 22:46:44 +0000 UTC
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Author: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Saara Chaudry & Anders Holm
Unknown Outlet: Can you break your characters and what they want from the band?
Anders Holm: Yes.
Saara Chaudry: I play Hannah. Hannah is Nora's younger sister. She's framed as her successful younger sister who Nora has had to take care of her whole life, because the parents are no longer in the picture...
2023-01-21 22:59:14 +0000 UTC
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Happy New Year's Eve, everybody! I hope your holiday season has been wonderful, and that you've been weathering these chilly winter months with great anime.
Personally, I've been particularly enthralled by Akiba Maid War and 2022-12-31 22:14:21 +0000 UTC
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Happy holidays, everyone!
It's been a minute since I've done one of these. I'm genuinely sorry about the radio silence, as I was hoping to have these pieces go out every one or two weeks. That... kind of didn't happen, and I apologize.
On a more positive note, I'm pleased to announce that this year has been a fantastic year for Anime Herald, bringing in more than 50 articles, which have covered everything from niche anime history, to explorations of fan-favorite classics, to a ful...
2022-12-10 22:38:30 +0000 UTC
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Author: Borealis Capps
Editor: Lydia Rivers
Content Warning: Some of the sources linked to in this article may lead to art that is considered Not Safe For Work by common North American standards, and some of the videos you may find of Tanaami’s work include strobes, flashes, audio played backwards, and other neurologically demanding stimuli. Much of that content has eroticism as well. If you wish to view a Safe For Work example ...
2022-12-04 01:45:37 +0000 UTC
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Interviewer: Seth Burn
Anime Herald: What is your origin story as an artist? Were you always interested in art when you were a child, or was this something that developed later?
Yoichi Nishikawa: My maternal grandfather is an oil painter, and my uncle is an art dealer.
So from a young age, I grew up in an artistic environment learning how to paint.
Anime Herald: Who were the artists who inspired you?
2022-11-15 01:01:46 +0000 UTC
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Author: Aniket Singh Chauhan
India isn’t known for great animation – and rightly so. The last major animation blockbuster was released way back in 2014[1], with the box office in India itself dominated by live-action films. But way back in the 1990s – amidst the country’s great economic reforms – a film on Indian mythology graced India, and forever etched itself i...
2022-11-05 23:55:35 +0000 UTC
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Author: Kat Schmidt
When scrolling through TikTok recently, I noticed that among the fashion videos there was a subsection of NANA Y2K fashion and alt-fashion posts. They laud Nana Osaki as an icon of late nineties and Y2K fashion, and they are absolutely correct. After all, fashion tends to operate within twenty-year cyc...
2022-10-29 22:00:37 +0000 UTC
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Interviewer: Samantha Ferreira
Anime Herald: What was your experience in building out the character for Michiru [Kaioh] in Sailor Moon? How did you get into her head, and did you feel any pressure in voicing a character that's widely beloved as an LGBTQIA+ icon?
Lauren Landa: So actually, I can answer all those questions because, when I first started watching Sailor Moon, which was when I was about 13 or 14, Uran...
2022-10-16 00:20:11 +0000 UTC
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