The Fall 2013 Anime Preview Guide The Fall 2013 Preview Guide has begun! Check back every day for previews of the latest shows.
Available Now - Strike the Blood - I Couldn't Become A Hero - Nagi no Asukara - Infinite Stratos 2 - Golden Time - Kill la Kill - Beyond the Boundary - Coppelion - Miss Monochrome - Kyousogiga
2013-10-03
Anime Spotlight - Golden Time The new romantic comedy from the author of Toradora is next on Anime Spotlight!
2013-10-01
Hey, Answerman! - Red Meat A quick 'n' dirty Answerman while the new season gets underway... This week, questions about all-anime cable channels, the disappearing joys of Engrish in anime, and dub credits.
2013-10-04
The X Button - Treading Trails Imports abound with Trails in the Flash, Battle Princess, and whatever the hell an Elminage is. Plus new Kirby, kinda-new Zelda, and Mighty No. 9!
2013-10-02
AKB0048: Season 1 Blu-Ray This 2012 series about a far-future incarnation of Japanese idol group sensation AKB48 is basically a fanciful advertising vehicle for the current group, but the series has good enough storytelling and production values to hold the interest of newcomers.
Sunday Without God Don't let the über–moe heroine fool you; this is actually a high-concept series which takes a surprisingly thoughtful, emotional, and even occasionally beautiful approach to exploring one of the most intriguing worlds in recent memory.
Hyperdimension Neptunia Episodes 1-6 Streaming Neptunia may be about the least promising series to ever be barfed out by the gaming/anime complex, but once it gets its legs under it, it's a surprisingly engaging little adventure.
Voice Over! Seiyu Academy GN 1 Voice Over is off to a good start with a story that gets increasingly interesting as the book goes on and a heroine who is easy to get behind.
Michiko & Hatchin BD+DVD Because it's so different, because it does so many things that you wish anime would do more often, you want to love it. But the best you can do is like it.
The Wonderful 101 The Wonderful 101 is the best we've seen out of the action genre since Bayonetta, and a hell of an argument for the WiiU all by itself.
Fairy Tail BD+DVD 6 Most folks enjoy flashy battles and feel-good endings, and the unexpected wrinkles in the story—secret bad-guy motives, magical traps, personal flashbacks—keep the action from getting too stale.
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 Eventually killing fifteen hundred or two thousand enemies per level stops being novel and starts feeling mundane, and it's hard to imagine anyone using that word to describe One Piece.
Chaos;Head Blu-Ray + DVD Boxset Despite some well-executed twists, and an intriguing concept grounded in neuroscience and philosophy, twelve episodes simply isn't enough to say what it wanted to say—and the animation staff didn't have the best tools with which to say it.