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Early Access: Battle Athletes Victory ReStart! Episode 10
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!Meeting Date: 6/13/2021Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony and L.B.L.B. ...
Early Access: Battle Athletes ReSTART! Episode 2
Meeting Date: 4/17/2021Samantha Ferreira: Good evening, and welcome back to the anime club. As always, I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony.Anthony Simpson: EveningSamantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're heading back to the University Satellite for the second episode of Battle Athletes ReSTART!: I want to kick...
A Celebration of Black and POC Characters in Anime
Author: Keisha MitchellWhen anime first hit American airwaves in the 1960s, the Japanese art form introduced audiences to worlds and characters yet to be imagined in the works of creative fiction conceived in the west. Though it would take over thirty years of consistent imports, anime (as we know and enjoy it today) w...
The Anime Herald Family Gets Two New Members
Good evening, everybody. Next week, Anime Herald begins the year anew with a renewed commitment you all.This year, there is much to celebrate, as we have brought on two new editors. Over the past two years, our content has evolved immensely, as we've brought in more voices from across the anime community. And, fran...
Early Access: The Fine Print: Lessons Learned from Tokyopop's Original English Manga Empire
Author: Priya SridharThe world of the 1990s may as well have been completely different from the one we inhabit today. It was a time when Walkman tape players gave way to portable CD players, and the phrase “Be Kind, Rewind” was well-known to anybody familiar with their local video store. Disney still produced hand-...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 9
Meeting Date: 12/5/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!----------------------------------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samant...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 8
Meeting Date: 11/28/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!----------------------------------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi there, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 7
Meeting Date: 11/21/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!----------------------------------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Saman...
The Origins of Mecha: The 1980s, Part 1: From Gundam to Robotech And Beyond
Author: Anime CommentaryIn my previous article on mecha history, I examined various genre standards and figures that were introduced in the 1970s. The decade proved significant, thanks to shows such as Mazinger Z and Mobile Suit Gundam pioneering and popularizing the Super Robot and Real Robot subgenres, respectively. ...
Early Access: Spy x Family: Disarming the Nuclear Family Myth
Author: Hannah CollinsAt the start of Tatsuya Endo’s Spy x Family, a family - man, woman, and a small child - sit around a table. They exchange loving smiles, surrounded by the fluffy pink glow of loving domesticity. “Everyone has a secret self they don’t show to other people,” the text around them reads. “No...
Announcement: Anime Herald Going on (Short!) Hiatus in January 2021
My fellow anime fans, good evening.Tonight, I come to you not as an editor or as a creator. I'm just here as, well, myself, without the whole "president" bit. I'd like to take a moment to discuss Anime Herald, as an organization.Earlier this year, we celebrated our tenth anniversary. It's a mileston...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 6
Meeting Date: 11/14/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!----------------------------------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club. I'm ...
Early Access: The Origins of Mecha: The Super Robots of the 1970s
The 1970s were a fruitful period for popular media in Japan. Weekly Shōnen Jump debuted in 1969, Rumiko Takahashi launched her manga career with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, and numerous popular works such as Rose of Versailles and KochiKame made their way to the pages of popular manga magazines over the course of the deca...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 5
Meeting Date: 11/7/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!----------------------------------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samant...
Early Access: Bofuri (Surprisingly) Shows Gamers As They Actually Are
Author: Marina GarrowFor the uninitiated, Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense is a 2020 anime series, based on Yuumikan’s light novel series of the same name. The series revolves around Kaede Honjō, a young woman who, on the urging of her friend, joins the VRMMORPG NewWorld Online. T...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 4
Meeting Date: 10/31/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!----------------------------------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club. I'm ...
Early Access: Reinventing the Medium: What American Pop Culture Can Learn From Manga
Author: Joshua PantallerescoOver the course of its history, Japan’s entertainment industry, particularly within the fields of manga and anime, has risen and fallen like waves upon the ocean. World War II, for example, altered the very way of life for the nation. Crises like the great burst of the Japanese Asset Bubbl...
Early Access: Unico: The Saddest Little Unicorn in the World
Author: Elizabeth Gonzalez JamesThe Saddest Little Unicorn:Hope and Happiness in The Fantastic Adventures of UnicoIf you are under the age of thirty, you will probably be surprised to learn that the Disney Channel you grew up on is vastly different from its original incarnation. Indeed, the bubbly universe of original,...
Early Access: Ikebukuro West Gate Park, Episode 2
Meeting Date: 10/17/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!----------------------------------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Saman...
Early Access: For The Love of Analog: An Intro to VHS and LaserDisc Collecting
Author: Coop BicknellWith each passing day, it seems that more and more people are turning to digital platforms to enjoy their anime or media of choice. These formats are easy, convenient, instant, and most important, readily accessible during this little thing called a “pandemic” that’s going on right now. Rathe...
The Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 1
Meeting Date: 10/10/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!--------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club - I'm Samantha, and I'm here wit...
The Origins of Mecha: Introduction
Author: Anime CommentaryIn this day and age, countless examples of mecha and robots can be found within Japanese popular fiction. From the Mobile Suits in the Gundam franchise to the titular humanoid units of Mazinger Z and Getter Robo, mecha have a great history within Japanese media. Most fans of pilotable robots rec...
The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 11
Meeting Date: 10/3/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with An...
Early Access: Review: Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over The Rainbow
Author: MJ WarrenEdited By: Samantha FerreiraThere's something unmistakably bittersweet about a well-executed finale. While a well-executed send-off can certainly lift an audience's spirits, it will always be colored by the melancholic knowledge that it is very much the end. It’s a farewell, as much as a begi...
Early Access: The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 10
Meeting Date: 9/26/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm here with Anthony this week to dis...
Early Access: “A Growing Inertia” - Patlabor 2’s Critique of Telecommunications
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak hundreds of millions of people have been ordered to stay home; cities have ground to a standstill as commuters and communities hunker down to prevent further spread of a virulent and vicious disease.Every time I scroll through social media or turn on the television, I’m reminded o...
Early Access: A Decade Like No Other
Note: As this is a special piece, this will go live at 1:00PM EDT on the main Anime Herald site.My fellow anime fans, good evening.Exactly ten years ago today, Anime Herald first opened its doors with a single paragraph and a jaunty image of Tsuruya from Nyoron Churuya-san,Wow… ten whole years! Ten! I’m still havin...
Early Access: Exploring Aoi House, Fifteen Years Later
Author: Anthony Gramuglia To say the early 2000s was a wild frontier for anime fandom is an understatement. Television blocks like Toonami introduced young audiences to a multitude of series that they’d otherwise never experience in their lives. The internet was, for the first time in human history, commonly accessib...
Early Access: The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 9
Meeting Date: 9/12/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and it's a packed ho...
Early Access: Kiki's Delivery Service: Delivering Hope, Saving Lives
Author: Sergio GiovanniOftentimes, when facing hardship, we find comfort in the past. With the arrival of COVID-19 also came an awful and unprecedented privation of life. I longed to escape this surreal and tragic landscape, as I’m sure you did. So, why not trade it for one of promise and hope? A world where cats tal...
