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If you're a fan of anime and also a fan of chainsaws, today is an important day for you. Crunchyroll has announced it has acquired the streaming rights to Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man, and in celebration with that announcement, there's a trailer for the show.There's no official launch date for the upcoming Chainsaw Man series, but it will arrive later this year and be simulcast from Japan on Crunchyroll, subtitled and dubbed. Check out the first localized trailer below.If the title alone sounds out there to you, it gets weirder. The manga follows a teenager named Denji who lives with...

Crunchyroll and Toei Animation have announced that Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero will hit theaters globally this summer. The newest film in the popular anime franchise was originally set for release earlier this year.The synopsis provided in the release is as follows: "The Red Ribbon Army was once destroyed by Son Goku. Individuals, who carry on its spirit, have created the ultimate Androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2. These two Androids call themselves 'Super Heroes.' They start attacking Piccolo and Gohan… What is the New Red Ribbon Army's objective? In the face of approaching danger, it is time to awaken,...

Last month, Crunchyroll acquired Funimation, and in the upcoming months, Crunchyroll will rollout Funimation's content under its umbrella to subscribers. That's a tough act to follow, but May coming up on the service is no slouch--there's lots of great new dubs, seasons, and films hitting the streaming service.Seasons 1 and 2 of Space Dandy hit Crunchyroll on May 10. For fair-weather fans who may have checked out the series not long ago on Hulu, they are in for a treat, because Crunchyroll is getting Season 2--Hulu only had the first one. Directed by Shingo Natsume (One-Punch Man, Night Is Short,...

During a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Sailor Moon anime, a trailer for Sailor Moon Cosmos premiered. The upcoming two-part movie will adapt the Shadow Galactica arc of the manga, created by the legendary Naoko Takeuchi, which fans know as the final arc of the series.Cosmos takes place after the Sailor Moon Eternal movie and will focus on the introduction of the Sailor Stars. Cosmos will also have a returning team of director Tomoya Takahashi, who oversaw the Eternal movies. Writer Kazuyuki Fudeyasu is also returning for the script. The big news is that Kazuko Tadano, the character...

The AnimeJapan 2022 event--the largest anime convention in Japan--revealed a significant surge in anime viewing around the world in 2021. As reported by Variety, Netflix shared that over half of the streaming service's users watched anime last year."Anime is one of the cornerstones of our investment in Japan, watched by nearly 90% of our members here last year," Kohei Obara, Netflix anime creative director, told the publication. "At the same time, interest in anime has grown worldwide, and more than half of our members globally tuned into it last year… From diversifying our slate to bringing back fan favorites, we...

Netflix has released the first trailer for Vampire in the Garden, which will hit the streaming service on May 16. The anime is a new, original series from Wit Studio, the Japanese animation company that produced the first three seasons of Attack on Titan.Like Attack on Titan, Vampire in the Garden is another gorgeous-looking series about a struggling group of survivors waging war against fierce mythological creatures--this time, as the title suggests, it's vampires laying waste to humanity. According to an official synopsis, the series is less focused on the ravages of war and is instead "the story of a...

Crunchyroll is getting very exciting this year, with a whole bunch of new content available as we enter April-all of Funimation's content will be under its umbrella under one subscription. Finally, Crunchyroll has announced its full set of movies, shows, and other original content for next season--here's what you can expect to watch on the streaming service in the coming months. A whole bunch of the content will be available this month. Most deserving of special mention are the new series coming to the platform, such as Spy x Family on April 9. A synopsis is as follows: "World peace...

For the first time, the iconic anime series Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT are now available to watch on Sony's Crunchyroll streaming service in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. According to a release, that's more than 500 episodes of these series that until now were only available on Funimation.Dragon Ball's arrival on the service is part of Funimation's migration to Crunchyroll, which was announced in early March. In a previous release, the upcoming content this spring rolling out April 1 is promised to be "the biggest on record" for Crunchyroll. About the earlier announcement,...

Bad news for superstitious people--or good news for anime fans depending on how you look at it--because an evil nine-tailed fox spirit named Tamamo-no-Mae is on the loose. That's according to the legend of the Killing Stone of the Japanese village of Nasu, which was discovered to have split apart last month according to Snopes.九尾の狐の伝説が残る、殺生石にひとりでやってきました。縄でぐるっと巻かれた真ん中の大きな岩がそれ…のはずなのですが、なんと岩は真っ二つに割れて、縄も外れていました。漫画だったらまさに封印が解かれて九尾の狐に取り憑かれるパターンで、見てはいけないものを見てしまった気がします。 pic.twitter.com/wwkb0lGOM9 — Lillian (@Lily0727K) March 5, 2022Demon Slayer protagonist Tanjiro has yet to comment on this act of geological vandalism.With the phantom prison broken, it's believed that Tamamo-no-Mae has escaped and can enact her revenge on the world. According to the myth, Tamamo-no-Mae was a...