Tag: Crunchyroll

April 22, 2024 · 2 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Many readers of this blog will know what a dating sim is. It’s a computer game where your character develops a romantic relationship with someone else, often one of multiple “possible” characters. Actually, the definition’s more contentious than that. That above description could apply to many Visual Novels where relationships are important […]

March 2, 2024 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Somali and the Forest Spirit is mostly soft and enchanting, the story of a little girl’s journey through a wondrous world, under the protection of her indefatigable non-human dad. And yet bits of the series are really tough. Anime often plays merry hell with Western expectations of animation and children’s media. The […]

October 18, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Akane (Riho Yoshioka) is a small-town lady in rural Chichibu, surrogate parent to her teenage sister Aoi (Shion Wakayama), and an enthusiastic part of the local community. And somehow she’s been drafted into a local publicity initiative to bring in a big lounge-singer star to jump-start the local tourist business. But this […]

November 19, 2020 · 1 comment

This weekend (21st-22nd November) the second Cloud Matsuri online event streams completely for free at CloudMatsuri.com, via the power of YouTube! The event is completely free to tune into and is available to watch worldwide (excluding Asia). There is a lot going on over the weekend, but it’s not just about the panels being streamed. […]

October 14, 2020 · 1 comment

The autumn (fall) anime season is officially underway and with that we’re excited to bring you the news we have licensed the latest series in the Love Love franchise, Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club in the UK & Ireland! We’re also happy to confirm that the series is now streaming weekly through our […]