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Aniplex announced on August 16 that Aniplex Online Fest, the large-scale annual online festival, will return for its fifth iteration on September 15 (Pt), September 16 (Jst). Free streams on Aniplex’s YouTube channel will be available in English and Japanese. Last year’s Aniplex Online Fest was held on September 9, 2023, and you can read about all the news announced from the 2023 event right here . The event has been run since 2020 to offer new information on Aniplex’s latest anime productions, as well as featuring other special guests and performances. Aniplex Online Fest 2024 Event Information Date and Time : Monday, September 16 at Noon Jst | Sunday, September 15 at 8:00 p.m. Pt Live stream link : https://youtube.com/live/g7ytgD5_LA4 Official Website (English) : https://aniplex-online-fest.com/en/ Official Website (Japanese) : https://aniplex-online-fest.com/ Aniplex Event Official Twitter : https://twitter.com/aniplex_event *Please note: schedule and contents are subject to change.

The official YouTube channel for the five-member Japanese rock band Penguin Research has started streaming a music video for their seventh CD single song "Fire and Fear." The powerful rock tune is now featured as the opening theme for the summer 2024 TV anime Wistoria: Wand and Sword . Penguin Research "Fire and Fear" Music Video Penguin Reserach was formed in 2015 and made their major debut from Sme Records in the following year, releasing six CD singles, four digital singles, one mini-album and three full albums to date. The band previously provided theme songs for Durarara!! (2016), Magi (2016), ReLIFE (2016), Shadowverse (2020), and Giant Beasts of Ars (2023). As their first CD single in 18 months, "Fire and Fear" is scheduled to release on July 24, 2024. Prior to the CD release, the title tune is now available on digital services . Regular edition CD jacket Time-limited production edition CD jacket Penguin Reserach artist photo The TV anime adaptation of...

Sakamoto Days anime confirmed for January 2025 release, exciting addition to winter lineup. Animated by Tms Entertainment, led by experienced team ensuring promising adaptation. Fans of action-packed manga eagerly anticipate faithful anime version.

Sakamoto Days' highly anticipated anime has finally been officially confirmed, and it is coming out very soon. As one of Shonen Jump's best and most exciting current series, it was only a matter of time until it received an anime adaptation.

Following the reveal of the volume 17 cover, the official account of the series teased an important announcement that fans don't want to miss. This confirmation comes after the unofficial reveal of the Sakamoto Days anime a few days prior.

First poster for Sakamoto Days Anime Its Official pic.twitter.com/gZjjV5aEKq Sakamoto days (@Sakamotodays_) May 27, 2024

Written and illustrated by Yuto Suzuki, the Sakamoto Days anime has been confirmed to be released in January 2025, an incredible addition...

Timeskips in manga often redefine the series, taking the story to greater heights and showcasing character growth and maturity. Manga like Magi, Animal Land, and Vinland Saga have successfully utilized timeskips to elevate their stories and explore new themes. Even the most famous stories such as Naruto and One Piece made successful use of this instrument. Timeskips can bring about genre changes, political discussions, and character development, making them impactful and memorable in manga storytelling.

Something that almost always ends up being a big deal in manga is a timeskip. While that's often the case in all media, manga, especially, tends to completely change the trajectory and tone of its stories when the author uses a timeskip, and the results almost always succeed at taking a story to even greater heights.

Timeskips always have a way of redefining a series, and some manga did a particularly great job of encapsulating that idea.

Viz Media, one of the leading publishers of manga in North America, has recently disclosed the most-read series by its subscribers and the platform’s most popular manga in the year 2023. The list encompasses titles of diverse genre.

Manga series that captured the attention of Viz Manga subscribers in 2023 include:

1. Call of the Night by Kotoyama

2. Inuyasha by Rumiko Takahashi

3. Magi by Shinobu Ohtaka

4. Komi Can’t Communicate by Tomohito Oda

5. Case Closed (Detective Conan) by Gosho Ayoma

6. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead by Haro Aso & Kotaro Takata

7. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End by Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe

8. Fly Me To The Moon by Kenjiro Hata

Viz Media’s most popular manga include:

Hayate the Combat Butler by Kenjiro Hata Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi Mar by Nobuyuki Anzai Kekkaishi by Yello Tanabe Flame of Recca by Nobuyuki Anzai Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to...

When a series overtakes the manga it’s adapting, it becomes necessary to completely change the source material to keep the anime going, and in the best case scenario it leads to some of the best anime endings. When done wrong this involves inserting copious amounts of filler episodes that have nothing to do with the plot to buy time for the manga to catch up. Other anime will end with wholly original storylines that bring everything to an entirely different finish.

While filler and other non-manga content are often maligned, anime fans shouldn’t underestimate the creativity of show-original stories. Often, they make considerable use of the freedom granted to them to explore characters, create exciting spectacle, or even provide a better ending than the manga ever could. Both the worst and the best changes incite discussion among fans even years after they air.

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New Delhi, April 17 (Ians) As Microsoft takes the lead with AI-powered Bing Search and ChatGPT, Google is set to release new AI-powered Search next month, with more features coming this fall.

The new features will be available exclusively in the US, and will be released initially to a maximum of one million users, according to The New York Times.

The company plans are part of efforts to meet the threat posed by Microsoft’s Bing chatbot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

“AI competitors like the new Bing are quickly becoming the most serious threat to Google’s search business in 25 years, and in response, Google is racing to build an all-new search engine powered by the technology,” according to the report.

It is also upgrading the existing Search engine with AI features, said the report, citing internal documents.

The new features, under the project name “Magi”, are being created by designers,...

Excited for the Halloween season yet? Syfy's 31 Days of Halloween kicks off this Friday and will feature The Crooked Man, starring Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight, Spawn). Also in today's Horror Highlights: trailers for both Night of the Living Dead: Genesis and StalkHer, festival screening details for films from Blanc/Biehn Productions, and details on a distribution agreement between XLrator Media and Blue Fox Entertainment.

The Crooked Man Airing on Syfy's 31 Days of Horror: "The Crooked Man, starring Michael Jai White (Spawn), Amber Benson (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers) kicks off Syfy's 31 Days of Halloween [on Saturday, October 1st at 9:00 p.m. Et.]

Synopsis: While at a slumber party, twelve year old ‘Olivia’ is blamed for the horrific and mysterious death of her friend after singing a song, created by a reclusive mastermind, ‘Milo’ (Michael Jai White), which summons a demonic figure known as "The Crooked Man". Returning to her hometown six years later,...

A second trailer for Hasan Karacadag's Magi has been released. From J-Plan Films, the clip blends a whole host of Catholic and World War II images. The film stars Michael Madsen, Stephen Baldwin and Brianne Davis. And, the film's first trailer was released late in 2014. The latest shows more horrifying imagery as journalist Olivia (Lucie Pohl) visits her pregnant sister Marla (Davis), in Istanbul. This will be no regular pregnancy, though. The latest on Magi is hosted here. The film was released in a few Turkish theatres, late in 2015. However, there are no plans to distribute the film in North America, despite the recognizable cast. For now, fans of international horror features will have to wait for future news as the film searches for more buyers. All of the details on Magi are available below. Director/writer: Hasan Karacadag. Cast: Michael Madsen, Stephen Baldwin and Brianne Davis. The latest...

Dabbe director Hasan Karacadag dips his toes into international waters with the upcoming Magi - or, rather, he brings the international to him in Turkey - and the results are all sorts of messed up according to the new teaser for the latest from the Turkish horror helmer. Michael Madsen and Stephen Baldwin are the most familiar faces amongst the international cast in this story that revolves around Turkish ties to Hitler's occult projects leading up to World War II and beyond that? Well, it all gets pretty ghastly in truly horrific fashion. This new teaser is a quick one but there's loads of shocking imagery in there. Check it out below!...

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We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a new poster from Psychophonia, casting and production details from Tales of Halloween, a trailer for The Sugar Skull Girls, and more:

Psychophonia First Details and Poster: “Lony Ruhmann, Blanc/Biehn Productions and Give & Take Productions have announced the new thriller Psychophonia. With a story from Lony Ruhmann and screenplay by Nicholl Fellowship winner Barbara Stepansky, the new film will be helmed by Brianne Davis, who earlier this year directed The Night Visitor 2: Heather’s Story.

Psychophonia stars Vedette Lim (Chicago Fire, True Blood) in the lead role of Lilly Tarver. Rounding out the cast; Andrew W. Walker (The Torturer, 2 Bedroom One Bath), Kellee Stewart (Hot Tub Time Machine 1 & 2, The Soul Man) Adam Rose (Up In The Air, The Bounty Hunter), Daniel Quinn (Fetish Factory, Wrong Cops...

Lony Ruhmann, Blanc/Biehn Productions and Give & Take Productions have announced the new thriller Psychophonia. With a story from Lony Ruhmann and screenplay by Nicholl Fellowship winner Barbara Stepansky, the new film will be helmed by Brianne Davis, who earlier this year directed The Night Visitor 2: Heather’s Story.

After her husband Jeremy is brutally murdered, artist Lilly Tarver struggles with his secret sex life and coming to terms with who he really was. While diving into his dark and potentially dangerous world, a mysterious caller might hold the answers to his death.

Psychophonia stars Vedette Lim (Chicago Fire, True Blood) in the lead role of Lilly Tarver. Rounding out the cast are Andrew W. Walker (The Torturer, 2 Bedroom One Bath), Kellee Stewart (Hot Tub Time Machine 1 & 2, The Soul Man) Adam Rose (Up In The Air, The Bounty Hunter), Daniel Quinn (Fetish Factory, Wrong Cops), Mark Gantt (Hidden In The Woods,...

Prolific Turkish horror director Hasan Karacadag has been a familiar face in these parts since bursting on the scene with D@bbe in 2006. And with a handful of titles under his belt since then, Karacadag is making the step into English language with his upcoming Magi. Now deep in post production the first teaser for this one has arrived online and while the language being spoken may have changed the Karacadag playbook appears to have stayed the same, which means a lot of full throttle shock. The story revolves an American woman relocated to Istanbul, where she works as an English teacher, and her journalist sister slowly coming to realize that all may not be as it seems with her new baby. Take a look...

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J-Plan films have debuted the first trailer for Magi, on Shock Till You Drop. The jittery and horrifying clip shows characters trapped in Istanbul, by a malicious evil. Magi stars Michael Madsen, Stephen Baldwin and Brianne Davis. And, the full trailer is hosted here. From the synopsis, an American English teacher takes a job in Istanbul, Turkey. In the city, her sister has just had a baby. But, this child is born from below! The film's concept poster has also been released. The graphic shows a demon, ensnared by barb wire. Darkness and blood reds haunt the image. Fans of foreign film can view all of the available details on Magi below. Release Date: Tba. Director/writer: Hasan Karacadag. Cast: Michael Madsen, Stephen Baldwin and Brianne Davis. The full trailer is here: *filmed in Istanbul, Turkey. Source: Shock Till You Drop. Article. 14 Nov. 2014. Subscribe to 28 Days Later: An Analysis Email...

The producer of a new film called Magi dropped Shock a line overnight to inform us that a teaser trailer and one-sheet made their debut.

The film - written and directed by Hasan Karacadag - stars Brianne Davis, Stephen Baldwin and Michael Madsen and is a Turkish production that will make its debut at the Berlin film market.

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