New “Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: The Rebellion” trailer airs

Following an announcement four years ago and a series of successful television anime adaptations, the Japanese animation studio SHAFT will be bringing Nisio Isin’s avant garde Monogatari light novel series to the big screen next year, according to an announcement made following the premiere of Owarimonogatari, the franchise’s seventh television anime series. Opening on 8th January 2016, Kizumonogatari I: Blood And … Continued

Welcome to Part Two of the 2014-2015 winter anime season. The winter 2014/15 anime season is about to launch at the end of December which means around twenty-nine new shows are set to air. A quick glance at the line-up does not indicate the emergence of any particularly new trends. Instead, we get a mixed-bag … Continued

Back in January, Aniplex and SHAFT teamed up to produce a 20 episode adaptation of Naoshi Komi’s hit Weekly Shonen Jump romantic comedy manga Nisekoi. The wrap-around jacket for the series’ fourteenth volume, which is scheduled to go on sale in Japan this Friday, has revealed that a second anime season has been green-lit. Details are still … Continued

Last year, MVM Entertainment surprised a lot of people by announcing their plans to release Aniplex and SHAFT’s Monogatari franchise in the United Kingdom, not only on DVD, but on the high definition blu-ray format as well. Bakemonogatari was released across two volumes last year, followed by Nisemonogatari. Today, the distributor went to Twitter to … Continued

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today confirmed the list of animated feature films submitted for consideration for nominations in the race for the Animated Film category of the 86th Academy Awards. Although the list predominately features western works, three anime films have been submitted: Production I.G’s A Letter To Momo (Directed by Hiroyuki Okuira) … Continued