Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on May 14. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Author: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Anime Corner: The BEASTARS finale is around the corner. Looking back over the past five years, how has the series changed the studio? 2025-05-11 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on May 6. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Author: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Unknown Outlet: So, what can fans and new viewers, people new to the franchise expect from Terminator Zero?
Mattson Tomlin: For people w...
2025-05-06 18:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
There was a wide range of ages at Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live show at the Palladium Times Square. There were plenty of younger Sailor Moon fans, and there were certainly a number of fans who were there back in the early ‘90s, when Naoko Takeuchi’s masterpiece premiered on television.
For me, it was pure...
2025-05-05 01:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Julian Jefko
Editor: Cy Catwell
The comic strip was once a stronghold of American culture. Starting in the late 1800s, newspapers published dozens of oversized, colored comic strips in order to gain readership and many newspapers, including The New York Times, The New York Herald, and The Boston Post published dozens of pages of comics i...
2025-04-28 20:05:04 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Adam Wescott
Editor: Cy Catwell
Tsubasa is a quiet, sensitive ten year old who moved from Tokyo to Hokkaido so that her father could become a baker. Hikaru is a suit of biomechanical armor, or a Ribers, who transformed into Tsubasa’s double after an unexpected accident. They combine into the titular Figure 17, an adult-sized woman able to punch monsters so hard ...
2025-04-22 02:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Robert Iveniuk
Editor: Cy Catwell
CONTENT WARNING: Since this article talks about animal care, themes of illness and death, smuggling and mistreatment, poaching and violence against animals – as well as animal violence against humans – will all be discussed and/or referenced. Reader discretion is advised.
It’s not often that a...
2025-04-14 16:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Kai Redfield
Editor: Masha Zhdanova
Among the various niches that the anime subculture is comprised of, doujin music stands out as a unique oddity in discussions of its wider history. While it’s not a rare occurrence to see figures who started out in the doujin space eventually finding breakout success, like Type-Moon’s Kinoko Nasu and ZUN of Touhou Project fa...
2025-04-06 03:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostInterview Date: 3/20/2025
Interview Format: Zoom
Author: Angie Mills
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Ahead of the Legends of Anime & Gaming Music San Francisco concert starring Persona’s Lotus Juice and Cowboy Bebop’s Raj Ramaaya, we sat down with Strawberry Hill Studios’...
2025-03-30 02:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: AJ Mack
Editor: Trent Cannon
Magical Girl staple Sailor Moon hasn’t had the best luck here in the UK. Whilst many Millennial weebs around the world have memories of watching the DiC dub on TV, in the UK, only the first ser...
2025-03-24 00:42:17 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on March 22. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Interview Date: 10/19/2024
Interview Location: Anime NYC 2024
Interviewer: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Author: Mark Sullivan
Editor: Cy Catwell
Within the realm of literary theory and criticism, we have various perspectives that help bridge the gap between an author’s work and their reader's interpretation. Most of these famous scholars focus on text under the belief that text alone is the sole proprietor of literature’s linguistic understanding and communication. Yet ...
2025-03-10 01:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Caden Rogers
Editor: Nicole Mejias
Impressing no one and surprising even fewer, allow me to be the latest to say with complete and utter confidence that there’s no harder project to greenlight than a cosmic horror.
In Hollywood, there’s exactly one reason why this is: money.
Of the many sub-answers money provides its in...
2025-03-02 04:26:32 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Borealis Capps
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, “In the world nothing can be said to be certain, except for death and taxes.”[1] Unfortunately, Franklin failed to consider the certainty that anime would be made about taxes as it would take over a century from when he wrote that letter before the me...
2025-03-01 02:13:10 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Paul Cecchini
Editor: Nicole Mejias
Even decades after its release, Digimon: The Movie remains one of the boldest adaptations in the h...
2025-02-23 04:51:31 +0000 UTC View PostAs part of our efforts to maintain full transparency within our operation, it has been decided that every year, the chief officer of Anime Herald, LLC must compile an annual within eight weeks of the end of the fiscal year. This document will serve to outline our finances, as well as our performance over the course of the year.
For purposes of reporting, our fiscal year runs from January 1, 2024, through December 31,...
2025-02-19 01:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Robert Iveniuk
Editor: Cy Catwell
CONTENT WARNING: The following article addresses ableist bullying and violence, both in fiction and in the real world, as well as real systemic oppression and erasure of disabled persons in Japan especially. Reader discretion is advised.
Anime and manga can cover a wide variety of subjects, sometimes clums...
2025-02-16 04:49:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: AJ Mack
Editor: Nicole Mejias
Metaphor can be tricky when it comes to discussion of representation. Often it can come across as heavy handed or dismissive, especially for disability metaphors. Writers (mostly able-bodied ones) will crash headfirst into ableist pitfalls and completely fail to pull themselves out again. For example, many read Deku in M...
2025-02-09 20:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Borealis Capps
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Not all innovative ideas burst forth into the world with the timing necessary to achieve mainstream success. In the gaming world, for example, DataSoft’s Le Stick for the Atari 2600 was a commercial failure due to a lack of interest in its gimmick alongs...
2025-02-06 02:14:17 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Adam Wescott
Editor: Masha Zhdanova
When The Boy and the Heron came to theaters in 2023, English language critics were quick to claim it as a film worthy of an older viewership. Dana Stevens at Slate called it “st...
2025-02-02 04:36:17 +0000 UTC View PostInterview Date: 3/30/2024
Location: Anime Boston 2024
Format: In-Person, One-On-One
Anime Herald: What inspired you to move from Saskatchewan to Japan? What attracted you to Japanese culture in the first place?
Raj Ramayya: I was doing my undergrad in university, and I started studying karate. And I g...
2025-01-27 04:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Gabriel Leão
Editor: Lydia Rivers
In February 2024, Academy Award-winning actress and producer Viola Davis, along with husband and business partner Julius Tennon, announced that through their banner, 2025-01-19 02:18:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening, and happy Monday.
The end of the year is upon us once more, as 2024 comes to a close, and we set our sights toward 2025. As the year's final moments tick away, it's hard to avoid the melancholy that blankets the season like a fresh snowfall.
Even so, it's hard to deny that the past year has been a positive one for us at Anime Herald, as we re-launched with our new design in February. The team at 2024-12-31 01:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Jack Andow
Editor: Lydia Rivers
Music anime always seems to be less popular in North America compared to Asia. Why is that? The genre has some of the most beloved anime of all time for us in K-ON! and 2024-12-22 05:15:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Lauren Orsini
Editor: Cy Catwell
I discovered anime when I was eleven years old, in 1998. That was during the first Toonami wave on Cartoon Network, when Sailor Moon shouted “Moon Prism Power!” for the first time on American TV. However, my first anime was The Slayers, which I acquired via my best friend’s older sister’s traded V...
2024-12-15 23:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostInterview With: Motoaki Tanigo
Interview Date: 12/3/2024
Interview Location: Zoom
Interviewer: Samantha Ferreira
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
In the world of Virtual YouTubers, colloquially known as “VTubers,” few organizations are as well-known as 2024-12-11 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Author: Adam Wescott
Editor: Masha Zhdanova
Ranma is a great martial artist and the heir to the Anything-Goes School. Even so, he suffers from a mysterious curse he picked up from China’s Jusenkyo’s hot springs. Splash him with cold water and he becomes a woman. Splash her again with hot water, and she becomes a man. This complicates his engagement to Akane Tendou, his tomboyish fiance who want...
2024-12-08 02:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on December 4. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Interview Date: 8/24/2024
Interview Location: Anime NYC 2024
Interviewer: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira
Author: Gabrielle Pascal
Editor: Nicole Mejias
Spoiler Warning: Contains spoilers for Solanin.
I had everything a person could need. A roof over my head. Food on the table. A supportive family and friends. I was in graduate school for writing and learning from professors who published books and had successful careers of their ...
2024-12-01 04:50:52 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor: Megan D.
Editor: Alex Henderson
Once upon a time, a young woman was born from the dreams of a fading rock star, a rising manga artist, and a middle-aged businessman. She was an amnesiac princess with the voice of an angel, lost on the streets of Tokyo and caught in a conflict between two worlds. Her story was met with modest success, but her creators demanded ever...
2024-11-24 05:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on November 25. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Interview Date: 8/24/2024
Interview Location: Anime NYC 2024
Interviewer: Seth Burn
Editor: Samantha Ferreira