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  Tatsuki Fujimoto ' s Chainsaw Man manga series is something special, connecting with fans all over the world in a way only Chainsaw Man can. One of the most special aspects of the series is its lovable band of misfit characters. In March, Weekly Shonen Jump ran the series' second character poll, letting fans pick between all the characters seems in the series (and we mean ALL the characters and more) to find their favorite.   620,045 fans voted and yesterday the Weekly Shonen Jump website announced the results of the poll, informing Chainsaw Man fans all around the world who is "official" the best character in the series.   Before we get into the top 10 of the over 130 characters, here are some standouts from the rest of the poll: manga creator  Tatsuki Fujimoto came in at 16th with 6,309 votes, Power's chest padding came in at 25th with 2,303 votes,  Hell Frog came in at 45th with 575 votes, and the Chainsaw Man fans themselves came in at 102nd...

    The official website for the forthcoming TV anime adaptation of Yohei Yasumura's isekai fantasy manga Meikyu Black Company / The Dungeon of Black Company has posted a two-minute second PV to introduce its OP theme song "Shimi" ( Stain ) performed by the four-member Japanese rock band HOWL BE QUIET .   The band made their major debut in 2016 and provided the two OP theme songs for the TV anime DAYS in 2016.　No release schedule for that song has been announced yet.　        2nd PV:     Also, three additional voice cast members are announced -  Megumi Toda (Hajime Shinoda in NEW GAME! ) as Shia, M・A・O (Shion in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ) as Ranga, and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Kirito in Sword Art Online ) as Labyrinth Ant A.     ⚠⛏TVアニメ メインキャスト公開????⚠ TVアニメ「 #迷宮ブラックカンパニー 」の 追加メインキャストを公開しました‼✨ シア役： #戸田めぐみ ランガ役： #M・A・O 迷宮アリA： #松岡禎丞 ⛏公式サイト https://t.co/rrMZLx6PQG #迷宮ブラックカンパニー ...

    The official website for the stage play adaptation of the 2018 film Bungo Stray Dog DEAD APPLE has posted a three-minute digest clip introducing its main cast members' stage performance.   Bungo Stray Dogs is an action mystery seinen manga series written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. Its TV anime adaption animated by Bones was aired for three seasons with a total of 36 episodes from April 2016 to June 2019. After the second season was aired, an all-new feature film Bungo Stray Dogs DEAD APPLE was released on March 3, 2018, making 550 million yen from its domestic run.   As the fifth show from the stage play series, Bungo Stray Dos on Stage DEAD APPLE was first performed at COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA WW hall in Osaka from April 16 to 18, 2021. For the first time, the manga's original story writer Kafka Asagiri provided a script for the play, which unfolds with plenty of new aspects and episodes that were not revealed at the time of the...

    The official website for Bushiroad's multimedia franchise BanG Dream! has announced that the concert event "BanG Dream! Special☆LIVE Girls Band Party! 2020→2021," which was scheduled to be held at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture on June 5 and 6, 2021, has been decided to be postponed to a future date due to the impact of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Tokyo metropolitan area and the government's declaration of a state of emergency.   This is the second postponement for the franchise's all-star concert. Under the title "BanG Dream! Special☆LIVE Girls Band Party! 2020," it was originally scheduled to be held at the same venue on May 3, 2020, but had been postponed for one year.   The official website writes, "We announced the postponement of the concert last year, and after that, we were finally able to inform you that it would be rescheduled. However, due to the situation of the new coronavirus, we were forced to postpone ...

     Anime voice actress Miyu Tomita announced on April 30 that her first full album "Prologue" is set to be released in Japan on June 30, 2021. The title of the album, which included the meaning of "the beginning of the story," was named by her herself.   She made her voice acting debut by playing Taihei Doma in his childhood in Himouto! Umaru-chan in 2015. Since then she has voiced Yume Nijino in Aikatsu Stars! (2016-2018), Otako in Please Tell Me! Galko-chan (2016), Gabriel White Tenma in Gabriel DropOut (2017), Sophie Twilight in Ms. Vampire who lives in my neighborhood (2018), Rizu Ogata in We Never Learn: BOKUBEN (2019), Miko Iinao in KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR (2020), and Emma in The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter (2021).   Meanwhile, she released her solo singer debut single "Present Moment"  from Nippon Columbia in November 2019, and has released three singles so far. In addition to the three single songs, the album "...

    As part of the tenth-anniversary project for the Pretty Series, Pretty All Friends Selection , a special program to look back at the ten-year history of the series, will start airing on TV Tokyo and its affiliate stations in Japan from June 2021.    The idol-themed multimedia series was launched with its first arcade game Pretty Rhythm: Mini Skirt in July 2010, and its latest TV anime Kiratto Pri☆chan has been broadcast in Japan since April 2018.   The content of Pretty All Friends Selection will be a look back at the history of the Pretty Series in preparation for its new installment. Mirai Momoyama (CV: Coco Hayashi), the protagonist of Pri☆can , and her idol unit Miracle☆Kiratts' mascot KiracCHU (Nanami yamashita) will serve as navigators for this program to introduce the activities of the idols and stars of the past Pretty Series. The theme of its first episode is "If you can't understand it, let's just do it!," which is one of Mirai's cat...

    It was officially announced at the "ARGONAVIS Project Presentation - 2021 Spring" streamed last night that an all-new anime feature film from the BanG Dream! franchise's spin-off project "ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream!" is set to be released in the summer of 2022.   The boys band-themed project previously had a 13-episode TV anime series, which was aired in Japan from April to July 2020. Ahead of the all-new film, the TV series' compilation film ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream! Prelude  (tentative title) is also set to be released in the fall of 2021. It will be reconstructed from the TV episodes' screenplays to trace the story of Argonavis and GYROAXIA. All of the character voices will be re-recorded, and the real band Argonavis will perform its theme song.     #アルゴナビス 劇場版2作品の公開が決定???? ????再構築版「アルゴナビス from BanG Dream! Prelude(仮題)」 2021年秋公開予定 ????新作映画「アルゴナビス from BanG Dream!(仮題)」 2022年夏公開予定 https://t.co/xDFtE1PBaF #アルゴナビスPJ発表会 — ARGONAVIS ...

A Dungeons & Dragons podcast with Jeff Goldblum as an elf? We're calling it now, we're rating it 10 out of 10 Goldblums. In this new D&D podcast, Goldblum takes on the role of a sorcerer that goes by the name of Balmur as part of the  Dark Dice  podcast. This makes a new season for the ongoing D&D campaign, which is slated to kick off next month.  The  Jurassic Park  star is getting in touch with his magical side for his latest role alongside five other characters. Just like with any other Dungeons & Dragons campaign, we have no idea how his character will fare until the dice are rolled. The plot thickens, and so does our excitement because Goldblum is a national treasure.  As reported by Deadline , t he newest season of the  Dark Dice  podcast is called The Long March and is set to air on May 12. This is an audio-only podcast, so we can't see his exaggerated expressions as an elf in person, but his voice can be recog...

May is Military Appreciation Month, and Activision is lending a helping hand to veterans in need by launching the Call of Duty Endowment Medical Heroes campaign. The initiative aims to raise money to place combat veterans, such as medics and hospital corpsmen, into high-quality jobs. Beginning today, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Warzone will feature a special battle pack with proceeds from its sale helping fund the initiative.  This pack, dubbed the Call of Duty Endowment Battle Pack (posted above), includes a new Operator skin created in partnership with Timothy Hobbs Jr., an Army Veteran Combat Medic and Call of Duty fan. Endowment helped find Hobbs a job once he returned home, and all net proceeds from the pack will fund the campaign with $2 million being the goal. You can get a look at the battle pack and hear all about Hobbs’ story in the short video below. Click here to watch embedded media Also beginning today is the Revival Challenge. Until M...

  They say that music soothes the soul, and that's certainly the case in Healer Girl , an upcoming original TV anime about a quartet of girls who heal the world with the power of song. The main staff have been revealed for the project, including:   Director: Yasuhiro Irie Series composition, screenplay: Noboru Kimura Character design: Yukie Akiya Animation production: Studio3Hz     Additionally, the voice cast for the main cast members will be provided by Healer Girls, an anisong voice unit that debuted in January of 2021 after participating in the Anison Days program. The main cast includes:   Karin Isobe as Kana Fujii . Marina Horiuchi as Reimi Itsushiro . Akane Kumada as Hibiki Morishima . And Chihaya Yoshitake as Sonia Yanagi .   The release date for Healer Girl has not yet been revealed.   Source: Anime! Anime!   Copyright notice: © Healer Girl Project     --- Paul Chapman is the host of  The Gr...

  Great news for all you fans of giant monster movies and samurai period pictures: the Daimajin trilogy, a set of three films published in 1966 by Daie Films that feature a giant, cursed statue going toe-to-toe with wicked rulers and their vassal armies, is returning to home video in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada thanks to a special edition release from Arrow Films.   NEW UK/US/CA TITLE: The Daimajin Trilogy (Limited Edition Blu-ray) https://t.co/ooybST8kah pic.twitter.com/4W4TwRKcQV — ArrowFilmsVideo (@ArrowFilmsVideo) April 30, 2021   Arrow Films describes the films as follows:   In Daimajin , directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda ( Yokai Monsters , Zatoichi on the Road ), the young son and daughter of the benevolent feudal lord Hanabusa flee to the mountains when their parents are slain by the treacherous usurper Odate. Ten years later, when the elderly priestess who has harboured them is also murdered, the rage of the slumbering ancient ...

Destiny 2 Season 14 is just around the corner, which means a ton of new features and gear to look forward to. With the return of the epic Vault of Glass raid from the first Destiny game, some have questioned how Bungie is going to handle the World's First event that puts prizes on the line for the fireteam that can run it blind first. Since Vault of Glass isn't new, will there still be a World's First? Or are there enough changes to justify this tradition? Luckily, Bungie has given Guardians some answers.  It's time to take the fight back to Antheon once more and the ability to do just that is least an a month away! While the overall story of Vault of Glass isn't being touched at all, that doesn't mean that the raid mechanics are staying the same. "Our goal is to keep the feeling similar to how you remember, but we have made some updates to bring this content to Destiny 2 standards," said Bungie in its latest update blog post .  Tweaks are expecte...

  This article written by Matt Fagaly was originally published on December 23, 2020 Demon Slayer is such a monumental hit and absolutely deserves the outpouring of praise from fans and critics alike. With unforgettable characters, jaw-dropping animation and fight sequences, and one of the best anime opening songs of all time, Demon Slayer just gets so much right. The dark fantasy series took the anime cosmos by storm in 2019, and with the Mugen Train  film breaking huge box office records in Japan, there’s no sign of it slowing down any time soon. That being said, why not celebrate this beloved show with a quiz?? Take the one below to find which character matches you best from the adventurous world of Demon Slayer !   Who is your favorite Demon Slayer character? Let me know in the comments!     Do you love anime? Do you love writing? If you have an idea for a features story, pitch it to Crunchyroll Features! Source: Latest in An...

IO Interactive is still celebrating the successful launch of its  most recent Hitman game , but that doesn't mean that the studio is resting on that alone. In a new report, it is revealed that the studio could very well be working on a brand new fantasy IP for Xbox (in addition to the James Bond game that is also in the works).  The latest report comes via  Windows Central  in the video below. In the video, it is revealed that Microsoft has a few exciting projects in the works concurrently, among them being a fantasy game from IO. This is interesting because several weeks ago I had an anonymous message tell me through the social app Tumblr that a game with "dragons" (likely saying this knowing my love for fantasy games) was coming from the Hitman studio, though my trail ended there. Now,  Eurogamer  is stating that their own sources have seemingly corroborated that message, and the report from  Windows Central,  stating that it is a AAA game and...

The Cyberpunk 2077 launch was one of the most anticipated launches in recent years, making its post-release hardships all of the more shocking. From mismarketing to veiled review restrictions to even game-breaking bugs where  many felt last-gen version  of the title was something else entirely, it's been a tumultuous post-launch period for the Polish company. With sales-tied bonuses acting as a light at the end of the tunnel, how that bonus was allocated has been made public and sees top-level executives winning big with other employees receiving less than what was expected.  The report broke over at  Bloomberg   about post-launch Cyberpunk 2077 bonuses. While the entire staff is expected to get the promised incentives, the numbers don't add up to what was expected. Keep in mind that the gap between executives and the rest of a company is nothing new, but that doesn't mean it's right. More than that, however, the gap between what the execs are getting and...

  Since the implementation of electronic money and smart cards, it was only a matter of time before a company in Japan combined the tech with anime to somehow let people pay for anime goods with actual anime goods. First to this is Sony, who are embedding their FeliCa contactless RFID smart card system (which is most known for being the backbone to JR East's Suica system) into  Puella Magi Madoka Magica keychains!         While you use them to tap onto trains in Tokyo, the FeliCa tech in the Madoka Magica acrylic keychains is connected to Rakuten's Edy prepaid rechargeable electronic money system. You load up the Madoka or Homura keychains at any compatible ATM (Seven-Eleven convenience store ATMs commonly have Edy charging functions) and that's it, just tap your favorite girl at a contactless terminal with an Edy logo and be on your way to have a magical day.       Sony is using...

  Square Enix first revealed mobile battle royale game Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier along with the Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade announcement back in February, and more info is on the way soon. The company announced plans for an Official Live Stream #0 broadcast, with the stream set for May 7 at 8:00pm Japan Time .   In addition to MC Taiga Kishi and other hosts, guests in attendance will include staff from the development team like producer Shouichi Ishikawa and a voice-only appearance of creative director Tetsuya Nomura.    While the YouTube stream will be in Japanese, you'll also be able to catch it on Twitch in Japanese with English commentary.   Coming soon: FINAL FANTASY VII THE FIRST SOLDIER official livestream! New info will be shared about the game???? When: May 7 4:00 a.m. PDT Where: https://t.co/9B1WcEI34I *The stream will be Japanese with English commentary #FF7FS #FinalFantasy #FF7R pic.twitter.com/Q2L9vDHkZm ...

  The official Twitter for the  YUKI YUNA IS A HERO TV anime confirmed tonight that the previously announced third season,  YUKI YUNA IS A HERO: Dai-Mankai no Sho , will be premiering on Japanese TV in October 2021. A new visual was released to celebrate the announcement.     「結城友奈は勇者である-大満開の章-」最新KVが公開???? さらに放送時期は2021年10月に決定いたしました❗ 更なる続報を楽しみにしていてください♪ ▶ https://t.co/BBIzUWiubU #yuyuyu #ゆゆゆ #大満開の章 pic.twitter.com/FTxtvgPgL0 — 結城友奈は勇者である (@anime_yukiyuna) April 30, 2021       You can catch the first season of  YUKI YUNA IS A HERO   right here on Crunchyroll. The staff and cast from the original series return for the 3rd season. A spin-off short series,  Yuki Yuna is a Hero Churutto!  is currently broadcasting in Japan.   Sources: Yuki Yuna is a Hero on Twitter   ---- Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff cal...