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Starting today, kids can celebrate summer vacation with their favorite Pokémon! The official Pokémon YouTube channel will be premiering two animated "summer vacation" shorts, the first of which — "First Outing with Morpeko" — is now available to watch. The 11-minute short follows a boy named Shota and his partner 'mon Morpeko as they prepare to attend the Pokémon Beach Festival together. The #1 draw is a special guest appearance from their idol, the hero Bisharp. But everything seems to go wrong on the way, from Shota's beloved Bisharp shirt being out of commission to a scary run-in with a Sandygast. Will the two make it to the Beach Festival in time to see their fave onstage? Kei Shindo stars as Shota in the short. First Outing with Morpeko Video Related: Pokémon Horizons Anime Celebrates 100 Episodes with New Artwork and Video A second short, titled "Chimchar and the Rookie Pokémon Researcher," will premiere...

The time is finally almost upon us to watch My Hero Academia Season 7 , coming to you as part of the Crunchyroll Spring 2024 lineup . It all begins when My Hero Academia returns to Crunchyroll with four recap episodes titled My Hero Academia: Memories starting on April 6, 2024 at 2:30 a.m. Pacific Time . The first episode is live now! My Hero Academia Season 7 will follow starting on May 4, 2024 at 2:30 a.m. Pacific Time . Here's everything you need to know, including exactly when My Hero Academia Season 7 comes out, where to watch, trailers, characters, cast, plot, key visuals and more. Get ready to go Plus Ultra again on Crunchyroll! In this article: Release Date and Exact Time Where to Watch Official Trailers Characters & Cast Anime Staff Anime Key Visuals Plot When is My Hero Academia Season 7 Coming Out? English Sub Release Date: - My Hero Academia: Memories premieres on April 6, 2024 at 2:...

Ash has had many female companions over the years, and their feelings towards him have varied quite a bit. While all are close friends of his, some, like Misty, showed a more romantic type of interest in Ash. Regardless of these girls' feelings towards Ash, Ash always remained oblivious to their interests, as he is not a character built for romance.

Over the years of the Pokémon anime, Ash has traveled with a lot of girls, and quite a few of them developed some feelings for him along the way. While many fans are likely to think back to the companion they saw with Ash first, it is an interesting question: which companion is the best match for Ash?

Looking at the major female characters from across the Pokémon anime, it's easy to decide which girls Ash had the best relationships with. While there's relatively little interest from Ash's end,...

The official website of AnimeJapan 2024 revealed the line-ups for its main stages, Red, Blue and Green, on Jan 19, 2024.

AnimeJapan 2024 will take place at Tokyo Big Sight on March 23-24, 2024.

An overview of the stages can be viewed below:

Red & Green Stage: Closed stage with assigned seating. Entry requires both an entrance ticket and a stage viewing ticket. Blue Stage: Open stage with assigned seating for seated viewing near the stage front. Entry requires both an entrance ticket and a stage viewing ticket. Limited free viewing at the rear due to space constraints.

Check out the complete timetable of AnimeJapan 2024 stages below:

Red Stage AnimeJapan 2024 Line-up: Date: March 23, 2024 Timings (Jst)Event NameMembers attending09:15 – 09:50Suicide Squad ISEKAIAnna Nagase, Yuuichirou Umehara, Reigo Yamaguchi, Jun Fukuyama and more10:25 – 11:00Mushoku Tensei: Jobless ReincarnationYumi Uchiyama, Tomokazu Sugita, Ai Kayano, Yuuki Takada, Yuiko Ohara11:35 – 12:10i☆Ris the Movie – Full Energy!

A treat awaits My Hero Academia enthusiasts as the series prepares to return to its cinematic debut in North America with the upcoming re-release of its first feature film.

In an announcement from Crunchyroll, the anime film, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, originally gracing screens in 2018, will soon be available to stream. It will officially start streaming on Aug. 17 at 5 p.m. Pt. This feature marks the return of director Kenji Nagasaki, accompanied by Yosuke Kuroda as the scriptwriter, and Yoshihiko Umakoshi who designs the character in this Bones production.

Related: My Hero Academia Doesn’t Have a Lois Lane Equivalent – It Has Two

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, a 2018 Japanese animated superhero film, spins an original tale that spotlights the beloved characters from the My Hero Academia manga series penned by Kōhei Horikoshi. A collaborative effort by Bones in production and Toho in distribution, the film features an ensemble...

Netflix is going all in on anime as they add the eagerly anticipated Godzilla movie and 12 other projects to their slate of upcoming programming. Deadline says in addition to the series the network is also overseeing the development of Cannon Busters, Devilman Crybaby, B: The Beginning, and Knights Of The Zodiac: Saint Seiya just to name a few.

The Godzilla and Saint Seiya grabs really show that Netflix is working to grab their Western audience who loves anime, but with competitors like Crunchyroll and Funimation (who was recently bought by Sony) in the mix, who knows if they'll be able to compete on that front. Time will tell, but the addition of so many projects seems promising for the future of anime on the platform.

Below you'll find details photos and some trailer for the anime projects that Netflix has picked up!

Cannon Busters

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Eclipse's Oshima's Outlaw Sixties DVD box set is the first serious attempt to represent Nagisa Oshima's 1960s filmography on North American home video. The marketing of this box tends to make Oshima seem like a Eastern Jean Luc-Godard, but like other members of the so-called Japanese New Wave, Oshima worked in a completely different aesthetic, cultural and political space. 

Nagisa Oshima's feature film career can be roughly divided into three periods: Shochiko (1959-1960), Sozosha (1965-1972), and Euro-Japanese co-productions (1976-1986). The Eclipse box set presents five films from the beginning of the Sozosha period, including Pleasures of the Flesh (1965/B&W), Violence at Noon (1966/B&W), Sing a Song of Sex (1967/Color), Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967/B&W), and Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968/Color). These films make use key themes that Oshima would return to throughout his career like criminality, sexual deviance, the Japanese left, militarism, and Japanese-Korean relations. However,...