What Would Be Your Ideal Online Anime Store?
There are a lot of great places that sell anime, manga, and other related merchandise. And I'm sure some of you are shouting through...
Hey-la, Hey-la, My Shoujo’s Back
I was wondering recently: where have all the shoujo gone? For a good six months, not a single shoujo or josei title made it...
The Hunt for Anime Black Friday Deals: 2017 Edition
For those of you in the U.S., Happy Thanksgiving! And happy Black Friday weekend!
By the time some of you read this, some of these...
SONimation: The Sony × FUNimation Deal
When Crunchyroll and FUNimation announced their partnership, there were a lot of jokes about how they got married. One brought its extensive catalog of...
Dark Horse Embraces Its New Home
Neon colors. Big hair. New wave music. Arcades. Indiana Jones. Full House. Transformers. Care Bears. Blockbuster stores. The 1980s introduced a lot of trends...
Lessons I Hope Companies Will Learn from Final Fantasy XV
November had the launch of two major games: Pokemon Sun and Moon and Final Faantasy XV. The latter has taken 10 years to land...
A Farewell to Hastings
Well, it's official: all Hastings stores will be closed.
I wrote about the situation and its effects in an earlier article. While the company hoped...
ShuCream BL Whips Up More BL for Manga Fans
More manga are hitting digital shelves thanks to another Japanese company entering the US market.
The Dish on Shucream
According to its website:
"Shucream Inc. is a...
Anime Crowdfunding: The Vision of Escaflowne, Skip Beat!, and You
What are you spending on your money on this month? Some of you will be heading somewhere for spring break. Others will be attending...
Crunchyroll Premium Gets a Makeover
I expected to write about Crunchyroll again soon, but this news wasn't what I was expecting.
Crunchyroll has become a dominant force for anime streaming...