Between 2008 and 2012, Weekly Shonen Jump serialized manga series Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Nurarihyon no Mago). The title, which was authored by Hiroshi Shiibashi, follows the story of the young Rikuo Nura, the descendant of a long line of yōkai. He currently serves as the head of the grand Nura Clan: a prominent yōkai family composed of numerous demons, ghosts, and other legendary beings that would be recognizable to people familiar with Ja...
2020-05-19 02:58:05 +0000 UTC
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Author: Anthony Gramuglia
Fidelity is not a problem with modern anime dubbing. Anime is often translated and localized with a great deal of faithfulness by studios. Anime fans, meanwhile, have more access than ever to the original, unedited versions of shows. When it comes to dubbing, though, fans need to remember that anime script writers can’t simply recreate the original scripts word-for-word. Literal translations often sound artificial and unnatural, so dub ...
2020-05-17 03:13:47 +0000 UTC
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Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're headed back to the Taisho Era with Sakura Wars (2019) The Animation, Episode 6: "So, uh... are they playing along or do they NOT get that Hakushu and White Mantle are the same person?"
2020-05-15 01:16:08 +0000 UTC
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Author: Gabriel Leão
Manga artist Chie Kutsuwada is able to blend the best elements from different worlds With a command of classic and contemporary stories and styles, she bridges Western and Japanese languages in an artform that is always innovating itself with regards to how it reaches international audiences, along with the passage of time.
Kutsuwada, born and raised in Jap...
2020-05-10 03:54:52 +0000 UTC
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Author: Jonathan Kaharl
Shonen Jump's identity has always been built around stories about growth, trying to foster manga about overcoming challenges and youthful heroes who come into their own. While a lot of their published works take place in school settings, only a scant few make good use of the location to have a running education theme. Of the titles that do use the theme, it’s hard to argue that the best-known of these series in today’s market is ...
2020-05-07 01:48:49 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 4/25/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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2020-05-03 02:43:05 +0000 UTC
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Note: In compliance with our posted Statement of Ethics, we would like to disclose that this article was written with the aid of an advance copy, provided by Sega of America.
On a sweltering July morning in 2002, countless reporters from all walks of life gathered in a conference room at the Tokyo and Akasaka Prince Hotel Goshiki to hear...
2020-04-27 20:28:34 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 4/18/2020
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2020-04-26 02:28:16 +0000 UTC
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Author: Victor Santiago
Everyone who consumes media has been a fan of one thing or another at some point in their life. From an early age, we attach value to the things that give us joy, with some things earning more value than others. Whether it’s preschool edutainment, Saturday morning cartoons, or even premium cable shows, fanbases are just a natural part of the overall experience.
Within fandoms, though, the age-old question of “what is a fan” i...
2020-04-23 03:22:27 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 4/11/2020
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2020-04-19 02:26:54 +0000 UTC
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Author: Samantha Ferreira
Note: In compliance with our posted Statement of Ethics, we would like to disclose that this article was written with the aid of an advance copy, provided by Sega of America.
Preview was written using version 1.0 of the game, which does not include features included in the 2020-04-15 04:13:54 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 4/4/2020
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2020-04-09 01:48:48 +0000 UTC
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In 2017, Studio TRIGGER attended Kumoricon in Portland, Oregon. During their panel, Hiromi Wakabayashi and Shigeto Koyama showed off a sneak peek image for the studio’s first feature length film, PROMARE (2019). They would not reveal any details about the feature, and likely didn’t expect that anyone in the room full of Western nerds would have the experience to decode the shadowy key art.
2020-04-08 02:37:23 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 3/28/2020
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2020-04-03 03:07:02 +0000 UTC
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Author: Anime Commentary
Anime fans who watched shows during the 1980s and 1990s may be familiar with the name Rumiko Takahashi. Takahashi is one of the most popular manga authors in the industry, and has produced several of the most iconic works in anime history, such as One-Pound Gospel and Ranma ½. Her first major work, Urusei Yatsura, was published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1978 through 1987. The initial premise of the manga ...
2020-03-31 19:45:30 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 3/21/2020
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club! Tonight, it's a three-person panel with myself, L.B., and Anthony
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2020-03-29 03:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 3/14/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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2020-03-24 02:26:57 +0000 UTC
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Author: William Moo
I have to admit that I expected a lot from you, Arifureta. It took some time for me to reflect on your first season, because I haven’t felt this disappointed in a long time. I mean, I rooted for you throughout the entire summer season, and you just flamed out in the end.
Yet, despite your failures, you somehow managed to pull off what many anime titles can only aspire to do: you landed a second season. I can only begin to speculate a...
2020-03-22 03:58:03 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 3/7/2020
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Samantha Ferreira: Likewise! Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony Simpson
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2020-03-15 03:12:14 +0000 UTC
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Author: Patricia C. Baxter
Among anime fans, it’s not uncommon to see discussions arise regarding the correlation between the quality of an anime series and how accurate the adaptation is to its source materials. Fans want to see their favourite stories and characters portrayed with respect to their roots, and many believe that more accurate adaptations are the best, and only, way of presenting these works. I would argue that there is value in looser...
2020-03-10 03:07:41 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 2/15/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferr...
2020-03-08 04:26:00 +0000 UTC
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Author: Anime Commentary
Natsume’s Book of Friends (also known by its Japanese name Natsume Yūjin-Chō) began life as a manga written and illustrated by Yuki Midorikawa. It initially appeared in the shōjō magazine LaLa DX before transitioning to LaLa. The series follows orphaned teen Natsume Takashi. Takashi is the grandson of Natsume Reiko, who compiled a comprehensive journal of the various names of yōkai she met duri...
2020-03-06 03:58:16 +0000 UTC
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with L.B. and Anthony
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Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're going back in the hole for ID:INVADED Episode 8: "One Detetive, Two Detective, Three Detective... er... Desert."
And finally, we have an episode that's basically providing easy slash fodder.
Ant...
2020-03-03 04:09:58 +0000 UTC
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University of Leeds’ PhD candidate Yao Zhao from China researches the Chinese and Anglophone manga and anime fandoms, with a particular focus on the boys’ love genre, under Professor Anna Madill,. Manga and anime are two of Japan’s best known art expressions across the globe, and remain influential within Western mainstream culture.
In an interview with Anime Herald, Zhao discusses her ob...
2020-02-25 04:41:36 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 2/15/2020
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2020-02-20 04:31:41 +0000 UTC
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Author: Jonathan Kaharl
Kenji Nakamura's Gatchaman Crowds and Seiji Kishi's Hamatora are two of my favorite anime series. The two shows, which aired around the same time-frame of 2013 to 2015, have always paired themselves together in my mind. Both are heavily inspired by superhero media and go in wildly different directions for the genre, each in their own specific way. They even share some similar elements within their political and socia...
2020-02-19 04:40:41 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 2/8/2020
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony Simpson and L.B. Bryant
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferrei...
2020-02-16 03:51:44 +0000 UTC
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Author: Stephen Hero
Nowadays, it’s in vogue to reference Frankenstein. In the era of fake news, self-driving cars, and toxic social media platforms, many critics find themselves flocking to Mary Shelley’s novel in order to grapple with potential dangers of technology. Even so, a lot of articles (and novels, and films, and philosophical treatises...) get it wrong. They either gawk at the literal horror or figurative metaphor of the Creature, or go all-in an...
2020-02-12 01:47:45 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 2/1/2020
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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 Simpson
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Samantha Ferreira: Tonight,...
2020-02-09 03:56:21 +0000 UTC
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By all respects, December 12 was just another Thursday. For some, it meant braving the cold to head to work. For others, it was a grim summons to retailers everywhere, as ads blared about the remaining shopping days left until Christmas. For gamers, it was a time to hunker down with good food and better friends, as they enjoyed the three-hour ad blitz known only as 2020-02-07 03:11:09 +0000 UTC
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