Here I was, all ready to write about the new shows of the anime season currently premiering on streaming, when something came along that knocked all my plans right off the board: Little Witch Academia. There's only one episode of it, and it's only 26 minutes long, but it's a gem of a production that deserves the broadest possible audience.

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Flowers of Evil, the controversial anime adaptation of Shuzo Oshimi's manga (shown here, compare prices), now has an American licensor: Sentai Filmworks, the same folks who brought us The World God Only Knows and Persona 4: The Animation. Read More...

Japan doesn't just have monsters -- it has yokai, a veritable menagerie of different monsters sporting a panoply of supernatural powers. They have what amounts to a fandom of their own, both in Japan and abroad, and they've been featured as major elements of any number of anime. Among them is one of VIZ's season-set reissues, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (compare prices).

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Is there something in Hollywood's water this year? Remakes of anime or anime-connected properties are busting out all over. The latest addition to the roster: Yukikaze (compare prices), with none other than Tom Cruise doing what amounts to a sci-fi reprise of his Top Gun role.

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