Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
Meeting Date: 6/13/2021
Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony and L.B.
L.B. Bryant: Hello.
Anthony Simpson: Evening.
Samant...
2021-06-16 03:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Meeting Date: 4/17/2021
Samantha Ferreira: Good evening, and welcome back to the anime club. As always, I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony.
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're heading back to the University Satellite for the second episode of Battle Athletes ReSTART!: I want to kick (almost) every single dude in this show in the face. Because holy shit, that scene with th...
2021-04-30 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Keisha Mitchell
When anime first hit American airwaves in the 1960s, the Japanese art form introduced audiences to worlds and characters yet to be imagined in the works of creative fiction conceived in the west. Though it would take over thirty years of consistent imports, anime (as we know and enjoy it today) would eventually grab hold of a wide swath of the American population. By the 1990s, a new, dedicated subculture would find permanent residence in the hea...
2021-04-29 03:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostGood evening, everybody. Next week, Anime Herald begins the year anew with a renewed commitment you all.
This year, there is much to celebrate, as we have brought on two new editors. Over the past two years, our content has evolved immensely, as we've brought in more voices from across the anime community. And, frankly, it's become a bit more than one editor can handle.
I'm pleased to say that we've been able to bring on two part-time editors to help with the workload. Starting to...
2021-02-23 03:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Priya Sridhar
The world of the 1990s may as well have been completely different from the one we inhabit today. It was a time when Walkman tape players gave way to portable CD players, and the phrase “Be Kind, Rewind” was well-known...
2020-12-24 05:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Meeting Date: 12/5/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony this week.
Anthony Simpson:...
2020-12-17 04:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostMeeting Date: 11/28/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi there, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and this week I'm here with Anthony.
Anthony Simpson: E...
2020-12-13 05:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostMeeting Date: 11/21/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony
Anthony Simpson: Evening 2020-12-11 04:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Anime Commentary
In my previous article on mecha history, I examined various genre standards and figures that were introduced in the 1970s. The decade proved significant, thanks to shows such as Mazinger Z and Mobile Suit Gundam pioneering and popularizing the Super R...
2020-12-09 02:56:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Hannah Collins
At the start of Tatsuya Endo’s Spy x Family, a family - man, woman, and a small child - sit around a table. They exchange loving smiles, surrounded by the fluffy pink glow of loving domesticity. “Everyone has a secret self they don’t show to other people,” the text around them reads. “Not to friends, not to lovers, not even to family. They hide who they are and what they want behind painted smiles. And thus the world maintains i...
2020-12-03 04:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostMy fellow anime fans, good evening.
Tonight, I come to you not as an editor or as a creator. I'm just here as, well, myself, without the whole "president" bit. I'd like to take a moment to discuss Anime Herald, as an organization.
Earlier this year, we celebrated our tenth anniversary. It's a milestone I can still scarcely believe. A hundred twenty months. 3,650 days. 87,600 hours. Thousands of articles, and even more memories than can ever be counted.
But, after ten years, ...
2020-12-01 03:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Meeting Date: 11/14/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony.
Anthony Simpson: Eve...
2020-11-29 04:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe 1970s were a fruitful period for popular media in Japan. Weekly Shōnen Jump debuted in 1969, Rumiko Takahashi launched her manga career with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, and numerous popular works such as Rose of Versailles and KochiKame made their way to the pages of popular manga magazines over the course of the decade. Amidst this time of social movements (when feminist movements rose to prominence), Japan popular culture continued to grow, and mecha eme...
2020-11-25 04:13:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Meeting Date: 11/7/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony this week.
Anthony Simpson: 2020-11-22 04:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Marina Garrow
For the uninitiated, Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense is a 2020 anime series, based on Yuumikan’s light novel series of the same name. The series revolves around Kaede Honjō, a young woman who, on the urging of her friend, ...
2020-11-18 04:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Meeting Date: 10/31/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony to talk up Ikebukuro West Gate Park Ep...
2020-11-13 05:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Joshua Pantalleresco
Over the course of its history, Japan’s entertainment industry, particularly within the fields of manga and anime, has risen and fallen like waves upon the ocean. World War II, for example, altered the very way of life for the nation. Crises like the great burst of the Japanese Asset Bubble in 1992, meanwhile, saw countless lives destroyed not through artillery and destruction, but through economic ruin.
With each of these downturns,...
2020-11-12 04:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Saddest Little Unicorn:
Hope and Happiness in The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
If you are under the age of thirty, you will probably be surprised to learn that the Disney Channel you grew up on is vastly different from its original incarnation. Indeed, the bubbly universe of original, branded content and unambiguous moral stances is a somewhat recent iteration. ...
2020-11-05 04:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostMeeting Date: 10/17/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony tonight
Anthony Simpson: Evening.
<... 2020-11-01 04:06:18 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Coop Bicknell
With each passing day, it seems that more and more people are turning to digital platforms to enjoy their anime or media of choice. These formats are easy, convenient, instant, and most important, readily accessible during this little thing called a “pandemic...
2020-10-22 02:47:19 +0000 UTC View PostMeeting Date: 10/10/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club - I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony this week
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: We'...
2020-10-18 03:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Anime Commentary
In this day and age, countless examples of mecha and robots can be found within Japanese popular fiction. From the Mobile Suits in the Gundam franchise to the titular humanoid units of Mazinger Z and Getter Robo, mecha have a great history within Japanese media. Most fans of pilotable robots recognize the most popular and influential names in mecha, but when, exactly, did the genre originate? How far back in history ca...
2020-10-16 04:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostMeeting Date: 10/3/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony this week
Anthony Simpson: Evening.
Samantha Ferreira...
2020-10-11 04:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: MJ Warren
Edited By: Samantha Ferreira
There's something unmistakably bittersweet about a well-executed finale. While a well-executed send-off can certainly lift an audience's spirits, it will always be colored by the melancholic knowledge that it is very much the end. It’s a farewell, as much as a beginning, as the viewer’s view in...
2020-10-04 04:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostMeeting Date: 9/26/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm here with Anthony this week to discuss more Zombie Land Saga. This week it's Episode 10: Revenge of the Isekai Truck
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak hundreds of millions of people have been ordered to stay home; cities have ground to a standstill as commuters and communities hunker down to prevent further spread of a virulent and vicious disease.Every time I scroll through social media or turn on the television, I’m reminded of what it means to live under quarantine during a global health crisis. Even during a pandemic, though, it’s impossible to escape the odious reach of corporate pl...
2020-09-24 02:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostNote: As this is a special piece, this will go live at 1:00PM EDT on the main Anime Herald site.
My fellow anime fans, good evening.
Exactly ten years ago today, Anime Herald first opened its doors with a single paragraph and a jaunty image of Tsuruya from Nyoron Churuya-san,
Wow… ten whole years! Ten! I’m still having trouble even beginning to process this! I mean, when I opened Anime Herald, the world was in such a different place. At the time, the wo...
2020-09-19 05:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Anthony Gramuglia
To say the early 2000s was a wild frontier for anime fandom is an understatement. Television blocks like Toonami introduced young audiences to a multitude of series that they’d otherwise never experience in their lives. The internet was, for the first time in human history, 2020-09-16 04:05:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Meeting Date: 9/12/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and it's a packed house tonight with L.B. and Anthony
L.B. Bryant: Hello
Anthon...
2020-09-13 03:34:44 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Sergio Giovanni
Oftentimes, when facing hardship, we find comfort in the past. With the arrival of COVID-19 also came an awful and unprecedented privation of life. I longed to escape this surreal and tragic landscape, as I’m sure you did. So, why not trade it for one of promise and hope? A world where cats talk, and every town has at least one witch that they can call their own.
Thirty-one years ago, Studio Ghibli released the enchanting and ...
2020-09-09 02:51:41 +0000 UTC View Post
