Author: Shelby Mcweeb

Happy 4/20! Have you ever thought, “wow I wish there was a list of anime titles where people from all over the world could decide which ones are the best to get high to”? Well, you’re in luck. Ranker thought of that too. You can see the list Here. This list has taken a lot of time, effort and team power. It currently sits with over 23,000 votes, made by over 4,300 voters and over 594,300 views. Thousands upon thousands of anime and marijuana fans have anonymously put in their opinion of the most fun anime to watch while engaging…

If you’re an avid manga reader, chances are you’ve seen a specific story telling style where each installment of the series conveys it’s situations from start to finish using only four panels of the same size. This manga style is called Yonkoma. It’s primarily used for gag manga, where the story is told through short jokes. Rakuten Kitazawa (who used the pen name Yasuji Kitazawa) was the first person to create one in 1902. Many western comics, such a Peanuts adapted this style in the mid-20th century. Azumanga Daioh Azumanga Daioh is the story of a group of high…

Good News, cable television fans! Your years of saying “kids these days will never know what it’s like to learn to love anime on Toonami”, Cartoon Network viewers have one more series to love!      Toonami, if you don’t know, is a block of Anime programming that runs on cartoon network.  It was made by Sean Akins and Jason DeMarco and Toonami started off as an afternoon and evening block from 1997 to 2008. On May 26, 2012, due to popular demand, Toonami was relaunched as part of Adult Swim. My Hero Academia will premiere  on May 5 at 11:30…

Welcome to 2018, where we have smart phones, rocketships and now, most importantly, pineapple flavored-doughnuts topped with toasted meringue at Disneyland. https://www.instagram.com/p/BhW8-QdgQQW/?hl=en&tagged=dolewhip Disneyland’s Tiki Bar opened in 1968, but didn’t start serving Dole Company products until around 1976. At the beginning, they only sold the juice and pineapples themselves. Then, in 1986, a miracle happened. The Dole Whip was born. This popular treat has become a staple to the Walt Disney Parks and Resort brand. After thirty-two beautiful years of enjoying the pineapple flavored soft-serve, with the option of having it lovely placed atop a plastic chalice (read: cup) of pineapple juice,…

Are you old enough to remember the New Year’s Eve Ball dropping on January 1st 2000? What did you picture the new millennium to be like? Probably super high-tech and sleek right? Well, now you can read and store digital comics that are “immersed in a 360-degree environment, rather than being confined to the resolution of a mobile device.” That’s right! EigoMANGA has just released a virtual reality digital comic book platform for iPhone and Android devices, called ComX VR. How cool is that?! https://vimeo.com/257630164 “VR is the next frontier for comics and ComX VR is honoured to be that…

Today is April 5th. Four days after April Fool’s Day and two days before My Hero Academia Season 3 Premiere. Fans were already excited about the Simulcast Dub this weekend on FunimationNow,  but they were given an additional treat. A newly released trailer of the series’ first film My Hero Academia The Movie: Two Heroes. (僕のヒーローアカデミア THE MOVIE ～2人の英雄～ Boku no Hero Akademia Za Mūbī ～Ni-ri no Hīrō～) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpMAVTzsRCY If you’ve never seen My Hero Academia, Crunchyroll’s bio describes it as;  “Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid…

Get ready to have your heart stolen, Phantom Thief fans! Not only will the new Persona 5 premire on April 7th, the same day as Boku No Hero Academia’s third season, but you’ll be able to watch it on your favorite streaming platforms! Aniplex introduces the series as “an anime adaptation of best-selling JRPG, Persona 5, by game developer, ATLUS, first released in Japan in 2016 and subsequently worldwide in 2017.” The series with stay true to the video game, with Aniplex describing it as “set in modern Tokyo, PERSONA5 the Animation chronicles the adventures of an eclectic group of teenagers who call…

Are you settling into the quietness of late winter-early spring and don’t know what to watch? We’ve all been there. In fact, I am currently there. Right now. Despite being the award winning, critically acclaimed, super hot, (just kidding on two out of three) co-host of Anime Weekly I have not yet even begin any series released in 2018 yet, mostly because I was trying to keep up with everything that was released in 2017. Fate/Extra Last Encore UMU! This is a tale about a man who wakes up with no recollection of his past, but is soon joined…

Fate Stay Night is a major franchise developed by Type-Moon with dozens of spin offs. It is most recognizable as an anime series, or more specifically, the birthplace of the characters Saber and Rin Tohsaka, two faces that have overwhelmed anime conventions worldwide since its 2005 game release. After twelve years, Fate Stay Night’s third heroine, Sakura Matou, has finally had her moment in the sun with the new Fate Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel which has premiered successfully in Japan this past October. However, people who have yet to watch any of the Fate Stay Night anime might be met…

We absolutely saw this coming (hahahaha)… there’s going to be a new PERSONA animated series! Not only that, but Aniplex of America has already launched a website for it in the USA! Aniplex of America just launched the official U.S. website and formally announced that they have acquired PERSONA5 the Animation as part of their Animplex USA line up. Their Youtube page has already posted this trailer to lead everyone onto the hype train. (Or, subway.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePcZjOOVxdU&authuser=0 PERSONA5 the Animation is about a rag tag group of teenagers who call themselves “The Phantom Thieves of Hearts.” They go…