I love me some Masaaki Yuasa, and The Tatami Galaxy certainly deserves accolades for commitment to the bit, but Kaiba is Yuasa’s best series and Mind Game is his masterpiece (so far).

I gave up on this show last week. I just couldn’t bare to give a fuck about these characters any more.

PS: Is there any industry writing about what’s up with the sudden surge in smoking media recently?

btw, there’s a post-credit scene

Service journalism! 👏👏👏

PS:

Who’s hip
anyway?

What’s the anime/manga taking place in Havana?

Edit: Answering my own question after looking at the map (duh): The Millionaire Detective - Balance: Unlimited.

Whoops, I got my anime communities mixed up and meant to post this here. Thx for the assist, cm0002!

Mushi-shi is quite a few years old now, but it’s found its way onto a lot of ‘best of’ lists for the stellar tone that it maintains. Wonderful and mysterious, but never withholding. No grand narrative arc; each episode tells its own story, which is rare these days. Give it an episode or two and you’ll get the vibe.

Check out Apocalypse Hotel, Dan Da Dan, Witch Hat Atelier and Mushi-shi (of coruse).

Top 20:

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion — A Cruel Angel’s Thesis
2. Naruto Shippuden — Blue Bird
3. Dragon Ball Z — CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA
4. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Gurenge
5. Sailor Moon — Moonlight Densetsu
6. Tetsujin 28-go — Tetsujin 28-go
7. Astro Boy — Astro Boy
8. Your Name. — Zenzenzense
9. One Piece — We Are!
10. Spirited Away — Always With Me (Itsumo Nando Demo)
11. Oshi no Ko — Idol
12. Attack on Titan — Guren no Yumiya
13. Mashle: Magic and Muscles — Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
14. GeGeGe no Kitaro — GeGeGe no Kitaro
15. Obake no Q-Taro — Obake no Q-Taro
16. Chainsaw Man — KICK BACK
17. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
18. Ponyo — Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
19. Sally the Witch — Sally the Witch Song
20. My Neighbor Totoro — Sanpo (Stroll)

Definitely some recency bias in here. And I don’t see how half of these rank higher than Yoko Kanno’s ‘Tank!’.

The article from Nielsen is free and super insightful and worth a look: https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2026/why-anime-fans-should-be-on-everyones-radar-april-2026/

I adored Apocalypse Hotel and am delighted to see that it won, but CITY the Animation and others are still on my to-watch list.

I don’t know if this applies to anyone else here, but I felt genuinely unqualified to vote having not seen every one of the series nominated. In fact, I’m not sure if there was any category from which I’d watched all the nominated entries.

For more participation, I’d ask for perhaps fewer nominees or more time between the announcements and closed voting.

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There is nothing invisible about this ass.

Here’s the video example. (Note: the file upload feature seems to be choking on the file, so download it here instead…)

https://limewire.com/d/rE7IG#3wmSkCbKjJ

JFC everyone in that promotional image has a case of cereal box mascot mouth 😱

Whoopslol; creative posted their Frieren-Wants-To-Get-Vored fanart to the marketing slack…

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The deeper question here is what interests you about about having a high body count in an anime?

If it’s about pure numbers, you can’t beat Apocalypse Hotel; every human dies or flees the planet by the end of the first episode. The show itself, however, doesn’t really linger on that. It’s just the setup for how a bunch of robots cope and find usefulness after all the humans are gone. It’s life-affirming.

If you’re interested in general bleakness and existential dread, where anything can happen to anyone at any time, I’d recommend Made in Abyss and Sonny Boy. These are two VERY different series. Made in Abyss falls into the newly coined “guro-moe” genre (purposely-designed chibi characters dealing with gut-wrenchingly painful situations) where the main characters are compelled to face increasingly dire and morally complex scenarios in service of a Sisyphean quest from which they may never return. Sonny Boy starts with a well-worn “floating classroom” trope, but quickly turns into a dense meditation on existential philosophy. Taken in isolation, you’ll find yourself constantly playing catch-up to understand what the hell is going on. If you decide to try this one out, I strongly recommend following up each episode by reading Steve Jones’ episode reviews on Anime News Network, which really help unpack the action and provides context clues to a lot of the philosophical musings the show gets into.

These may not be exactly what you had in mind. Two others that I read about that might be up your alley are Death Parade and Alice in Borderland, but I haven’t watched or read either of them.

Everything with a 35mm master is getting a 4k scan with a little scratch and color cleanup and getting re-released as a “4k restoration”. Making these titles available to theaters is cheap. Theaters with over a dozen auditoriums and nobody showing up to every-hour-on-the-hour screenings of this week’s new release are happy to drop something like this in for a week here and there.

Is there not a common understanding in Japan about homage and style parodies? Like, literally the setup for that song was a perfectly realized homage to the first few minutes of Back to the Future. If Robert Zemeckis saw that, he’d be all “lol cool.”

This is their respective Weird Al + Coolio moment. I’d like to believe Science Saru and Yoshiki’s relationship winds up as agreeable as theirs in the long run.