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Early Access: The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 8
Meeting Date: 9/5/2020Disclaimer: 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 Samatha, and I'm here with Anth...
Early Access: The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 7
Meeting Date: 8/29/2020Disclaimer: 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: Eyes on Yokai: Spirited Away
Author: Anime CommentaryStudio Ghibli was established in 1985, following the success of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which opened the previous year In the years that followed, the studio would go on to release twenty films, , with an upcoming feature based on Yoshino Genzaburo’s 1937 novel How Do You Live? cu...
The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 6
Meeting Date: 8/22/2020Disclaimer: 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 Samantha,...
Anime Herald’s 2020 Accountability Statement
IntroductionMy fellow anime fans, good evening.Another year has passed at Anime Herald, during which we have seen changes great and small alike affect our operations, our content, and even our very way of life, itself.In October, we made the difficult decision to turn the lights off in our news desk for the very last t...
Early Access: The Legacy of Shinji Mikami
Author: Jonathan KaharlIn the world of video games, it’s not uncommon for the topic to shift to individual creators and the impacts their works have made upon the world. Though many of today’s most influential titles are collaborative works between many different hands and perspectives, people tend to place an over...
The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 5
Meeting Date: 8/15/2020Disclaimer: 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...
Early Access: An interview With Streets of Rage 4 Director Ben Fiquet
By Gabriel LeãoSega’s Streets of Rage franchise is often considered to be the pinnacle of the beat’ em-up gaming genre. The series, which made its debut in 1991, saw vigilante heroes Axel, Blaze, and Adam punching and kicking their way through the grungy locales of an unnamed city. Since its inception, the franchi...
The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 4
Meeting Date 8/9/2020----------------------------------Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony and L.B.L.B. Bryant: HelloAnthony Simpson: EveningSamantha Ferreira: And this week, we're back to the spooky, scary world of... *checks notes* ...
Early Access: Finding Anime's Roots In World War II
Author: CDT CeatesIn the modern world, anime is a medium that ignites the imaginations of fans across the globe. Its unique forms of storytelling and visual flair have earned places in pop culture, with names like Pokémon and Dragon Ball becoming household icons. That’s to say little of its influence in Hollywood, w...
The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 3
Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! Anthony and I are heading back to the land of zombie idols this week with our discussion on Zombie Land Saga episode 3: "I liked the name Jeanne d'Arc. :|"Anthony Simpson: EveningSamantha Ferreira: This week's episode was a pretty big...
Early Access: Op-Ed: Will I Ever Want To Go To An Anime Con Again?
Author: Sergio GiovanniImagine, if you may, a doorway that can transport a person to a miraculous realm. It’s a place where everything one could love and admire comes together, for a single weekend of unbridled joy. Judgment and bullying have no place, as thousands of like-minded individuals gather to share in revelr...
The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 2
Meeting Date 7/25/2020 Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club (Retro Edition!). I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony and L.B.L.B. Bryant: HelloAnthony Simpson: EveningSamantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're heading back to Kyushu to meet some undead moe idols in Zombie Land Saga 2...
Early Access: Review: Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? Light Novel Volume 4
Author: M.J. WarrenWith the Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? Anime wrapping up after the events of the third novel, this fourth volume offers the first real chance for fans who hopped on with the TV series to explore events that haven’t yet been adapted. To date, I have enjoyed the light nov...
Early Access: The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 1
Meeting Date: 7/19/2020Disclaimer: 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 ...
Early Access: Magia Record: Finding Connection at a Time When We're All Torn Apart
Author: M.A. HinkleNote: Contains spoilers for the finale of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime.I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in feeling like my thoughts from March onward have been one long, unending scream. Here in the United States, state and federal governments paid the barest of lip service toward suppres...
Early Access: The Many Love Polygons of CLAMP's Cardcaptor Sakura
Author: Anthony GramugliaFew manga are as thirsty as CLAMP’s manga. The four-woman team of manga artists — whose work includes Chobits, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, and Magic Knight Rayearth — have functioned under the driving philosophy that all love is valid, regardless of society’s taboos. But more than tha...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club - Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, Episode 12
Meeting Date: 6/20/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. 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...
Early Access: Why Rick and Morty Fans Should Watch Space Dandy
Author: Reuben BaronIn the Winter of 2013-2014, Adult Swim premiered what was perhaps its finest animated series ever. A collaborative effort spearheaded by an out-there animator and the creator of a beloved cult classic, this sci-fi comedy broke the rules of traditional TV storytelling. Using an anarchic multiverse to...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club - Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, Episode 11
Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony SimpsonAnthony Simpson: EveningSamantha Ferreira: Tonight, we'll be returning to the Taisho era for another dose of steampunk action with Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, episode 11: "Requiem f...
Early Access: Finding Kafka in Kaneki: Tokyo Ghoul and the Perils of Boyhood
Author: Tim Brinkhof“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous bug.” Technically, this is the first sentence of The Metamorphosis, which is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1915. Scratch that funny-sounding German name and replace it with “Ken K...
Early Access: Moe Anthropomorphism & Objectification, As Told by KanColle and Azur Lane
Author: Jordan MulderEdited By: Lydia RiversPop culture is often cruel to the women who occupy it, painting them with the broad brushes of blatant sexualization and overtly lewd depictions. This objectification runs especially rampant within the anime and manga spheres, where fanservice has become a genre in and of its...
Early Access: The Boxes We Keep: A Study of Love Me For Who I Am's Approach to Gender
Author: Kat CallahanNewly released and translated into English, manga Love Me For Who I am (Japanese: Fukakai na Boku no Subete o or FukuBoku for short) from Seven Seas Entertainment is artist Konayama Kata’s attempt to explore the complexity of gender and gender identity through the eyes of a group of high school st...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club - Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, Episode 10
Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with AnthonyAnthony Simpson: EveningSamantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're here to discuss Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, episode 10: "With Regards to Independence Day"And this... was a big week. For long-...
Early Access: Rated Covid-19: The Movie Miracle of “Fame-ish”
Author: Jeff NimoyOriginal source: Medium (Reprinted Under License)I survived a brain tumor, made a movie, and planned a world anime and comic con tour to promote it! But someone forgot to tell the Covid-19 pandemic.When my distributor Random Media decided May 12, 2020 was the day to release my new film “Fame-ish” ...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club - Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, Episode 9
Meeting Date: 5/30/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!---------------------------------------------------------- Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club!L.B. Bryant: HelloAnth...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club - Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, Episode 8
Meeting Date: 5/23/2020Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. 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 ...
Early Access: Eyes on Yokai: Mushi-shi
Author: Anime CommentaryThe titles I have covered thus far contain explicit references to Japanese folklore and their depictions of yōkai. From the oni-like Invader family in Urusei Yatsura to the hanyō in GeGeGe no Kitaro, such anime characters reflect a long history of oral and written stories regarding monsters an...
Early Access: Book Review: I’m A Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf-Girl’s Pet
Author: Seth BurnBefore we begin, full disclosure: I missed the parental advisory warning for explicit content when I signed up to review I’m A Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf-Girl’s Pet (“Behemoth”, henceforth). I just saw the adorable kitty on the cover and was hooked. ...
Early Access: Herald Anime Club - Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, Episode 7
Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with L.B. and AnthonyL.B. Bryant: HelloAnthony Simpson: EveningSamantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're heading back to the world of psychic song girls and super robots with Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, Episo...
