Category: Anime

Netflix, MAX Obtain Rights to The Boy and the Heron

Deadline reports that Netflix will hold streaming rights to The Boy and the Heron worldwide, excluding Japan and the United States. MAX will host the film in the US. This arrangement is part of an agreement between Netflix, Goodfellas, and GKIDS to bolster GKIDS’ streaming repertoire. Twenty-two...

The Boy and the Heron Coming Back to Cinemas

In light of winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, The Boy and the Heron is returning to US theaters on March 22nd. The film will feature special added content like a foreword with composer Joe Hisaishi (who has composed most of Studio Ghibli’s oeuvre) and a drawing lesson with supervising...

DC Releases New Suicide Squad Isekai Anime Trailer

Now that we’ve gotten past the Suicide Squad movies and the Suicide Squad video game, get set for the Suicide Squad anime! Last July, DC announced Suicide Squad Isekai, an anime T.V. show based on the DC Comics characters from Wit Studio and Warner Bros. Japan. Now, they’ve released a trailer fo...

REVIEW: Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Training (2024)

I’ve been watching Demon Slayer on and off for about a year. I would watch the show continuously, but my sister got me into it, and we like to watch it together. I wanted to see the last Demon Slayer movie that came out, but I was entire seasons behind, and I don’t want to …

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Destin Daniel Cretton Directing Live-Action Naruto Film

A Hollywood Reporter exclusive reveals that Lionsgate and Destin Daniel Cretton are bringing Naruto to theaters in live-action. Naruto is a wildly popular anime and manga, and Cretton is best known as the director of the MCU installment Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Cretton will write...

REVIEW: The Boy and the Heron (2023)

I wish I could say I’ve followed Studio Ghibli for decades. But unlike Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks, I was unfamiliar with the Japanese studio until I was a young adult. Over the last decade or so, I’ve watched all of their movies at least once and some several times. But The Boy and t...