Anime/Manga News

[seitora]

Season 3 of Konosuba releases April 2024 (no specific date).

I'm still weirded out that something that is reportedly massively successful like the Konosuba anime will still go 7 years between two anime seasons (5 years if counting the movie). It's not like they didn't have the source material handy to use at the time, either.

Guess I should catch up on and finish the Megumin spinoff, too...

 

[PCHeintz72]

That logic can apply to quite a number of series... GATE comes to mind, as does High School DXD (loved the backdrop and most characters, even if I'd prefer the main character drop dead) and The Marksman of Vanadas (I'm also annoyed the newer book AU lines have never been sold in English form... I'd buy them).

For lesser series or ones with less time.

Skeleton Knight Season 2
Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt Season 2
Realist Hero Season 3

 

[seitora]

World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated is getting a second season. It was announced several months ago, but I only found out about it now. Regardless, I am so up for this. Banger of an OP for the first season, too.

 

[PCHeintz72]

World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated is getting a second season. It was announced several months ago, but I only found out about it now. Regardless, I am so up for this. Banger of an OP for the first season, too.

Quite liked that one... good characters, interesting plot... never read the light novels though.

 

[seitora]

Gainax gets its own Gainax ending: studio is filing for bankrupty. A few other studios are trying to take action to acquire their IP to make sure they're not in a legal limbo (Studio Trigger I know is doing Panty & Stocking season 2).

It turns out to make money, you have to actually keep producing stuff, and it doesn't look like they've done anything in close to a decade.

 

[da_fox2279]

Spy X Family is getting a third season.

 

[seitora]

Ranma 1/2 is getting a new anime release. More news on July 17

 

[silentorphan]

"The Ghost in the Shell" coming in 2026 from animation studio Science Saru.

Also...

Following anime remakes like "Spice & Wolf," "Sorcerous Stabber Orphen," and "Sailor Moon Crystal", among others, here comes "Magic Knight Rayearth" in celebration of its 30th anniversary:

 

[PCHeintz72]

I actually liked both the original Rayearth OAV and most of the TV series. However... that TV series end where they made the Queen the true enemy ruined it for me...

 

[da_fox2279]

VIZ Media has announced the purchase of the RWBY franchise, is exploring possibilities for future chapters.

 

[MastaofBitches]

Honestly, would prefer they reboot it.

 

[seitora]

Crunchyroll removed comments. Because of course, all sites these days are trying to remove functionality, instead of adding it (where are my English dub subtitles, CR?!). The conspiracy theory at least is that they removed it because they were getting called out for shoddy subtitling work on the first episode of the new deer anime.

 

[da_fox2279]

Were the subs really that bad? Haven't seen it myself, so...

 

[MastaofBitches]

The subs were done by AI. Not sure how bad they were, but a lot of people but plenty of people were still saying they'd take them over a localiser deliberately messing with them, so... I assume they were readable?

 

[seitora]

There's this reddit thread that shows it's likely not AI, but just lots of human error with probably no proofreading whatsoever.


Ranma trailer. Releases October 5th. It will be on Netflix.

 

[iiradned]

The cast list at the end has all but one of the seiyuus coming back. The only one not returning is Obayashi Ryusuke who voiced Soun. Ogata Kenichi who originally voiced Genma is back but only as narrator with a different seiyuu taking on the character.