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The Studio Orange Staff Talks With Anime Herald
Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on May 14. We apologize for the inconvenience.Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraAnime Corner: The BEASTARS finale is around the corner. Looking back over the past five years, how has...
The Terminator Zero Staff Talks With Anime Herald
Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on May 6. We apologize for the inconvenience.Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraUnknown Outlet: So, what can fans and new viewers, people new to the franchise expect from Terminator Z...
Moon, Prism Power On Stage at Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live
Author: Seth BurnEditor: Samantha FerreiraThere was a wide range of ages at Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live show at the Palladium Times Square. There were plenty of younger Sailor Moon fans, and there were certainly a number of fans who were there back in the early ‘90s, when Naoko Tak...
American Comic Strips: The First Manga
Author: Julian JefkoEditor: Cy CatwellThe comic strip was once a stronghold of American culture. Starting in the late 1800s, newspapers published dozens of oversized, colored comic strips in order to gain readership and many newspapers, including The New York Times, The New York Herald, and The Bost...
Divided We Stand: The Two Halves of Figure17
Author: Adam WescottEditor: Cy CatwellTsubasa is a quiet, sensitive ten year old who moved from Tokyo to Hokkaido so that her father could become a baker. Hikaru is a suit of biomechanical armor, or a Ribers, who transformed into Tsubasa’s double after an unexpected accident. They combine into the...
Loving Animals with Dinosaur Sanctuary
Author: Robert IveniukEditor: Cy CatwellCONTENT WARNING: Since this article talks about animal care, themes of illness and death, smuggling and mistreatment, poaching and violence against animals – as well as animal violence against humans – will all be discussed and/or referenced. Reader discre...
From Grassroots to Global - How Doujin Illustrators Influenced The Aesthetics of Japan's Underground Music Culture
Author: Kai RedfieldEditor: Masha ZhdanovaAmong the various niches that the anime subculture is comprised of, doujin music stands out as a unique oddity in discussions of its wider history. While it’s not a rare occurrence to see figures who started out in the doujin space eventually finding break...
Strawberry Hill Studio’s Austin David Coffee Talks With Anime Herald
Interview Date:3/20/2025Interview Format:ZoomAuthor:Angie MillsEditor:Samantha FerreiraAhead of the Legends of Anime & Gaming MusicSan Francisco concert starring Persona’s Lotus Juice and Cowboy Bebop’s Raj Ramaaya, we sat down with Strawberry Hill Studios’ Austin David Coffee to discuss what ...
Sailor Moon Super Live London: A Magical (Girl) Show Held Back by an Inaccessible Venue
Author: AJ MackEditor: Trent CannonMagical Girl staple Sailor Moonhasn’t had the best luck here in the UK. Whilst many Millennial weebs around the world have memories of watching the DiC dubon TV, in the UK, only the first series of the dub aired on terrestrial television. The rest was only availa...
Anime Herald Talks With Jordan Mechner
Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on March 22. We apologize for the inconvenience.Interview Date:10/19/2024Interview Location:Anime NYC 2024Interviewer:Seth BurnEditor:Samantha FerreiraAnime Herald: I’ve watched a lot of y...
Reading in between the Panels, a Critical Approach to White Space
Author: Mark SullivanEditor: Cy CatwellWithin the realm of literary theory and criticism, we have various perspectives that help bridge the gap between an author’s work and their reader's interpretation. Most of these famous scholars focus on text under the belief that text alone is the sole p...
The Spiral Curse: Junji Ito, Cosmic Horror and Anime
Author: Caden RogersEditor: Nicole MejiasImpressing no one and surprising even fewer, allow me to be the latest to say with complete and utter confidence that there’s no harder project to greenlight than a cosmic horror.In Hollywood, there’s exactly one reason why this is: money.Of the many sub-...
An Audit of Tax-Themed Anime
Author: Borealis CappsEditor: Samantha FerreiraIn 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, “In the world nothing can be said to be certain, except for death and taxes.”[1] Unfortunately, Franklin failed to consider the certainty that anime would be made about taxes as i...
How Digimon Fans Got the Uncut Digimon Movies 24 Years Later
Author:Paul CecchiniEditor:Nicole MejiasEven decades after its release, Digimon: The Movieremains one of the boldest adaptations in the history of anime. Taking three completely different films from the long running monster battling franchise and splicing them together into one cohesive movie, compl...
Anime Herald Fiscal Report for the Year Ending 12/31/2024
IntroductionAs part of our efforts to maintain full transparency within our operation, it has been decided that every year, the chief officer of Anime Herald, LLC must compile an annual within eight weeks of the end of the fiscal year. This document will serve to outline our finances, as well as our...
Addressing Ableism Through Anime
Author:Robert IveniukEditor:Cy CatwellCONTENT WARNING: The following article addresses ableist bullying and violence, both in fiction and in the real world, as well as real systemic oppression and erasure of disabled persons in Japan especially. Reader discretion is advised.Anime and manga can cover...
In the Name of the Disabled Princess: Disability Metaphor in “In The Name of the Mermaid Princess”
Author:AJ MackEditor:Nicole MejiasMetaphor can be tricky when it comes to discussion of representation. Often it can come across as heavy handed or dismissive, especially for disability metaphors. Writers (mostly able-bodied ones) will crash headfirst into ableist pitfalls and completely fail to pul...
Exploring the Wreckage of Golden Kids
Author: Borealis CappsEditor: Samantha FerreiraNot all innovative ideas burst forth into the world with the timing necessary to achieve mainstream success. In the gaming world, for example, DataSoft’s Le Stick for the Atari 2600was a commercial failure due to a lack of interest in its gimmick alon...
Reading "The Boy and the Heron" as Children's Fantasy Literature
Author: Adam WescottEditor: Masha ZhdanovaWhen The Boy and the Heroncame to theaters in 2023, English language critics were quick to claim it as a film worthy of an older viewership. Dana Stevens at Slatecalled it “startlingly adult.” Brendan Hodges wrote for Inversethat the film “rejects the ...
Raj Ramayya Talks With Anime Herald
Interview Date: 3/30/2024Location: Anime Boston 2024Format: In-Person, One-On-OneAnime Herald: What inspired you to move from Saskatchewan to Japan? What attracted you to Japanese culture in the first place?Raj Ramayya: I was doing my undergrad in university, and I started studying karate. And I got...
Viola Davis Invests In Anime Production
Author: Gabriel LeãoEditor: Lydia RiversIn February 2024, Academy Award-winning actress and producer Viola Davis, along with husband and business partner Julius Tennon, announced that through their banner, JuVee Productions, they’re partnering up with N LITE, a Black and Japanese-led media compan...
State of the Herald 2024: Looking Forward To Year 15
Good evening, and happy Monday.The end of the year is upon us once more, as 2024 comes to a close, and we set our sights toward 2025. As the year's final moments tick away, it's hard to avoid the melancholy that blankets the season like a fresh snowfall.Even so, it's hard to deny that th...
The Everlasting Appeal of Music Anime: A Lovesong and Pitch
Author: Jack AndowEditor: Lydia RiversMusic anime always seems to be less popular in North America compared to Asia. Why is that? The genre has some of the most beloved anime of all time for us in K-ON!and Your Lie In April, yet for some reason outside of these titles, many in our fandom don’t giv...
Meet The Next Generation of Anime Fans
Author: Lauren OrsiniEditor: Cy CatwellI discovered anime when I was eleven years old, in 1998. That was during the first Toonami wave on Cartoon Network, when Sailor Moon shouted “Moon Prism Power!” for the first time on American TV. However, my first anime was The Slayers, which I acquired via...
COVER Corporation's Motoaki Tanigo Talks With Anime Herald
Interview With:Motoaki TanigoInterview Date:12/3/2024Interview Location:ZoomInterviewer:Samantha FerreiraEditor:Samantha FerreiraIn the world of Virtual YouTubers, colloquially known as “VTubers,” few organizations are as well-known as hololive. The agency, which operates as an office, part of t...
Seasons of Ranma: Ranma Fanfiction of the 1990s
Author: Adam WescottEditor: Masha ZhdanovaRanma is a great martial artist and the heir to the Anything-Goes School. Even so, he suffers from a mysterious curse he picked up from China’s Jusenkyo’s hot springs. Splash him with cold water and he becomes a woman. Splash her again with hot water, an...
Anime NYC 2024: The Shangri-La Staff Talks With Anime Herald
Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on December 4. We apologize for the inconvenience.Interview Date:8/24/2024Interview Location:Anime NYC 2024Interviewer:Seth BurnEditor:Samantha FerreiraAnime Herald: Are there any particular...
Solanin: A Comforting Coming of Age for The Lost 23-Year-Old
Author: Gabrielle PascalEditor: Nicole MejiasSpoiler Warning:Contains spoilers for Solanin.I had everything a person could need. A roof over my head. Food on the table. A supportive family and friends. I was in graduate school for writing and learning from professors who published books and had succ...
Heart-shaped Box of Memories: A Princess Ai Retrospective
Author: Megan D.Editor: Alex HendersonOnce upon a time, a young woman was born from the dreams of a fading rock star, a rising manga artist, and a middle-aged businessman. She was an amnesiac princess with the voice of an angel, lost on the streets of Tokyo and caught in a conflict between two world...
Anime NYC 2024: Toshio Furukawa Talks With Anime Herald
Note: Due to the time-sensitive nature of our coverage, this article will debut on the main Anime Herald site on November 25. We apologize for the inconvenience.Interview Date:8/24/2024Interview Location:Anime NYC 2024Interviewer:Seth BurnEditor:Samantha FerreiraUnknown Outlet: What made you decide ...
