Amazon Once Again Faces a Prime Challenge
Amazon has always been coy on how many people are subscribed to Amazon Prime, Amazon's subscription membership that offers free shipping on most orders...
Of Unions and Recasts
By now, there's likely you've heard about the hubbub over the new season of Mob Psycho 100 on Crunchyroll. You can read about it...
AT&T Wants Warner to Discover a New Home
I have talked about AT&T several times in this column, even moreso if you add its media offerings Crunchyroll and WarnerMedia to the lists....
Go West, Young Anime: Upcoming Remakes on the Small & Silver Screens
As Japanese media franchises have risen in popularity over the past couple of decades (and have had accelerated growth in the past few years),...
Peacock Adds More Anime to Its Streaming Train
Recently, WarnerMedia (including HBO Max) and Discovery (with its Discovery+ streaming service) announced their intentions to merge. The two would create a large streaming...
Movie Night Moneysavers
With Pokémon: Detective Pikachu ready to hit theaters this weekend, I'm sure a lot of anime and game fans will be going to the...
Game Night With Your BFFs
Sometimes I have an idea for this column, and I get quite a ways into it, and then, BAM -- big news comes in...
Kodansha Simulpubs Go MIA…For Now
I've covered quite a few manga reading platforms here, and the vast majority of the non-Japanese publisher affiliated ones included some sort of line...
Penguin Random House is Forced to Wave the White Flag
It wasn't that long ago I provided an update on the Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster situation, but now there's been a...
New Year’s Reflections
As 2017 draws to a close, two phrases stand out to me when thinking about anime news:
Live action
Acquisition
For the first, studios in...