For all the missteps in Disney’s approach to Star Wars since purchasing the IP from George Lucas, there’s one aspect to the business they’ve gotten right: the manga adaptations. Heavily influenced by Japanese culture and film, Star Wars is a property that fits like a (black, L-hand 980 prosthetic covering) glove in the anime and manga world, and Disney has been selective in how it’s adapted and by whom, resulting in releases that run the short spectrum from “good” to “awesome.” This most recent one, an adaptation of four of the shorts from the first season of Star Wars: Visions, continues to s ..read more

Izuku Midoriya is recovering from the last months, hanging his clothes to dry and reflecting as his country becomes a failed state. The comforting presence of his classmates balances the feeling of impending dread. He still wants to save his nemesis, Tomura Shigaraki, and the kid he sees suffering inside of him. Nevertheless, he remembers the advice of his mentor: sometimes, to save is to kill. Outside the fortified UA, legions of supervillain escapees from prison overwhelm the police and the heroes. News reporters are attacked on camera as they inform the public of the situation. All for One ..read more

I…I can’t even… There are so many hilarious things going on here: the Jack (Loid) and Rose (Yor) allusion, of course; Yor’s face; and that hilarious drawing that Loid is sketching, which is a reference, I believe, to drawings of the cast by Loid’s own seiyuu, Takuya Eguchi. ★ 【1102】 「 spy x family x titanic 」 ☆ reprinted w/permission Fanart Friday: Making a Spy x Family ..read more

Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of April 29th! Check out the latest episode in our player below! Are you excited for more Quintessential Quintuplets? Are you planning on playing XDefiant? Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to us on Apple, Spotify, or SoundCloud, where you can also find breaking news episodes! Attributions: The Quintessential Quintuplets [CBR] Kaiju No. 8 [ANN] XDefiant [GameRant] Other news items this week: Speed Racer coming to digital platforms in June [ANN] Crunchyroll increases prices o ..read more

It’s amazing that Touhou Project is still going strong after all these many years! Are any of you all Touhou fans? ★ 【fjsmu】 「 aya shameimaru 」 ☆ reprinted w/permission Fanart Friday: Youmu Konpaku ..read more

OP isekai’d heroes, young men who can’t help but be attracted to the heroine (er, villainess), and…a cat? This week’s reviews are for a diverse group of light novels and manga. Enjoy! I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top (Vol. 6) • My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me -AΩ- (Vol. 4) • Nights with a Cat (Vol. 3) • Steel of the Celestial Shadows (Vol. 2) • Touge Oni (Vol. 3) • The Villainess’s Guide to (Not) Falling in Love (Vol. 1) • You and I Are Polar Opposites (Vol. 1) I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year ..read more

Firefly returns! I don’t play Honkai: Star Rail, but I did do some peeping around at why Firefly art is popping up. It seems like all the fans of this super cute character will be happy with version 2.3! ★ 【Rafa】 「 流萤小裙子～ 」 ☆ reprinted w/permission Fanart Friday, Too: Fu Xuan is a Star ..read more

Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of April 22nd! Today we welcome our newest staff member, Hayley! Check out her first episode in the player below! Are you a Tensura fan? Are you interested in the Sanrio/Runway Channel collab? Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to us on Apple, Spotify, or SoundCloud, where you can also find breaking news episodes! Attributions: Tensura [ANN] Takaaki Seki [ANN] Hello Kitty [CBR] Featured illustration by NEWEY (reprinted w/permission ..read more

Hi, Fam! About 40 hours remain in our spring 2024 drive, and we are a long way from reaching our goals. Would you please consider helping us reach them? We are hoping to increase our sustained giving by $50 a month and reach $200 in one-time gifts. To meet the former goal, we need supporters to donate through Patreon where our levels start at $1 and $2 a month up to $25. Please consider becoming a patron for us through Patreon! For our one-time goal, you can also give through Patreon or, as many do, through Ko-Fi. Paypal is an option, too! Any of these work for us, and we are appreciative of a ..read more

Statedogg is back! We’re happy to post the very first episode of a new podcast featuring Mike of Mike’s Geek World and formerly of the Tangle x Cast. When the team ended their run last year, they moved onto other projects—Kyuubikaze is taking a break from BtT as he endeavors onto new challenges in his life, Dennis continues to be our engineer for new podcasts, Paris and Eryn plan to launch a podcast this winter, and Mike is starting the “Power of God and Anime” podcast. In today’s introductory episode, he chats about Akira Toriyama’s passing, Evangelion and a holy fatherhood, and more. He also ..read more