MVM to release Nekomonogatari in August

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

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

With Nisemonogatari’s January premiere date drawing closer the official website has started to stream trailers for the Bakemonogatari spin-off. The story follows on from Bakemonogatari as the main characters, the “Fire Sisters” Tsukihi and Karen Araragi, try to capture the black swindler Kaiku Deishu when he returns to town to spread another curse. This anime … 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