Anime, Manga, and Light Novel Blog Posts That Caught My Eye This Week (May 17, 2024)
Last week was... a week. Last Sunday and Monday were pretty normal. My husband and I returned to the other side of the state and helped my Dad get more cleaned out of his house. But everything changed late last Tuesday morning, when my husband got a call from my brother-in-law, saying my father-in-law had an incident earlier that morning and was in the emergency room.
Netflix Announces That the Terminator Zero Anime Is Scheduled to Premiere Worldwide on August 29, 2024
Netflix has announced that Skydance Animation and Production I.G's Terminator Zero, the anime series based on the Terminator film franchise, is scheduled to premiere worldwide on the service on August 29, 2024.
VIZ Media to Release the Destroy All Humans. They Can’t Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga in Fall 2024
VIZ Media has announced that it will release author Katsura Ise and artist Takuma Yokota's Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga in Fall 2024.
I just tried accessing Sentai News' news page, and I keep getting a 404 not found error. Sentai's webpage is working fine though, but looking through the main page, I couldn't find a link to their news page. Did they get rid of it?
FanimeCon 2024 Announces Hirokatsu Kihara as Guest
The staff of FanimeCon 2024 has announced that Hirokatsu Kihara will be a guest of honor. This will mark Kihara's second appearance at the San Jose convention. Kihara is best-known for his work with Studio Ghibli, acting as a Production Coordinator on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and working on titles like Laputa: Castle in the Sky, …
The Executioner and Her Way of Life Manga to End on April 19, 2024
This year's eighth issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine has announced that Ryō Mitsuya's manga adaptation of Mato Satō and Nilitsu's The Executioner and Her Way of Life light novel series will end in the magazine's next issue on April 19, 2024. The series is described as: The Lost Ones are strangers from another world, hailing from a place no one has ever heard of called "Japan." These wanderers have been associated with catastrophes since many years ago, and the solemn duty of exterminating them without remorse falls to Menou, a young Executioner.
Kodansha Announces the Read Beyond the Anime Digital Manga Sale
Kodansha is giving fans another way to continue enjoying some of the most exciting, heartfelt and talked about anime of recent and upcoming seasons by making it easy to... Read Beyond the Anime during this special digital manga sale.
I'm starting to think that when HIDIVE made the recent changes to their website and app, that they decided to put the news behind a paywall. ANN has published three press releases from HIDIVE since then, and none of them show up when I pull up the page. I don't have an account there, so I can't log in and check to see if the news really is hidden unless you pay for a subscription.
But if they have indeed put the news behind a paywall, then that just feels counterproductive to me. Having the news page available to non-subscribers allows them to see if anything they're interested in is being picked up by the service (since a lot of the news on HIDIVE was press releases about acquisitions and when anime they've acquired will be added to the service).
A call from my sister just after midnight that she’d taken mum to the hospital.
Been holding bedside vigil while sister goes home and gets some sleep. Doctors running tests and whatnot. Morphine for the pain. Machines that go “bing”.
It’s about 4:30am and mum’s snoring with a plethora of tubes and wires.
Eyes are heavy. Chair is uncomfortable. The nurses showed me where I could make a cup of coffee for myself.
The March 2024 issue of Square Enix's Monthly Gangan Joker magazine has announced that Taku Kawamura's False Child manga will end in the magazine's next issue on March 22, 2024. The manga is described as: Imagine if a child who had passed away suddenly reappeared, looking exactly as she did before. But what if it was all the doing of a shapeshifting tanuki?
