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5 Anime Series for People Who Don’t Like Anime
From what was once an underground appreciation in the west, anime can now pull in crowds of more than 500,000 at conventions and even receives overnight translations for simulcasts of series. Anime has...
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The Rise of the Anime Broadcast English Dubs
When it comes to anime and their impending English dubs, people usually would have to wait a year or more to listen to them in English. We have to depend if it’ll air on TV, finding a legal stream or...
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BLACK BUTLER Voice Actor Reunion at ShutoCon 2015
Held in Lansing, Michigan, ShutoCon isn’t exactly the largest of conventions, but it makes up for its attendance and size with interesting, varied panels and a few big-name guests. The big get this...
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ShutoCon 2015: How to Adapt Anime into English
Although a huge majority of anime is streamed to English-speaking audiences now–with websites like Crunchyroll simulcasting some shows subtitled mere hours after their broadcast in Japan–there’s still...
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BARAKAMON Review: A Strong and Leisurely Spun Narrative
Despite its lack of any obviously exciting qualities, Barakamon is a somewhat unnoticed beauty from the summer 2014 season. Barakamon is happy to tell a tale of daily, sometimes uneventful life on...
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TL;DR Review: BLOOD LAD
Premiering Summer 2013 and localized by Viz Media soon after, Blood Lad satisfyingly blends action, dark humor, and vampires in a brilliant adaptation to Yuuki Kodama’s manga series. Although vampire...
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SHIROBAKO Review: An Entertaining Foray into the Anime Industry
The sleeper hit of the Fall 2014 season, the two cour, or two season, original anime Shirobako is a truly excellent anime that has certainly reversed P.A Works’ recent fortune in sales for Glasslip and...
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INTERVIEW: POKEMON: THE ‘BRIDGED SERIES’ 1KidsEntertainment and Nowacking
One of the most curious things that’s arrived in the anime community with the rise of YouTube are abridgers who take an anime, shorten each episode, rewrite and redub all the footage in order to make...
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GIRLS UND PANZER Review: A Well-Told Story of Schoolgirls and Tanks
Girls und Panzer takes the often poorly executed idea of ‘cute girls doing cute things’ and crafts a wonderful experience from it. The aforementioned premise is the sum of many shows throughout the...
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YONA OF THE DAWN Review: An Excellent Example of an Uncommon Genre
Yona of the Dawn successfully tackles a relatively rare genre for anime and manga of recent years. That is, Yona of the Dawn is a fantasy-adventure narrative which perhaps finds it closest comparison...
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THE ART OF SATOSHI KON Review: Remembering an Icon
It’s hard to describe the emptiness felt from losing someone you never knew. Robin William’s death in 2014 left an outpouring of support and tributes across the globe from fans of the comedian and...
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3 New Anime Worth Watching This Summer
The summer anime season has started and that means a plethora of new titles awaits many people to check out to determine if they are worth a watch for the rest of their run. Here on Another Castle,...
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YU-GI-OH! LEGACY OF THE DUELIST Review: It’s Time To R-R-R-Reminisce
Yu-Gi-Oh! was very much a cultural zeitgeist, with kids begging for fresh cards every time they happened to pass a display. It’s hard to believe that at a time, this card game was advertised on...
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SOUND! EUPHONIUM Review: A Concert Band Character Drama
The anime industry is no stranger to music anime. Shows like Beck, Nana, and K-on! delved into the idea of rock bands. Still, other shows such as Your Lie in April and Nodame Cantabile explored...
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COPPELION Review: Living in the Nuclear Wasteland
There is always something fascinating about watching or reading about dystopian worlds and the wonder of how somebody can manage to survive throughout there whether it be zombies, vampires and other...
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31 Days of Horror: TOKYO GHOUL (Season 1)
In modern-day Tokyo, society lives in fear of Ghouls: mysterious creatures who look exactly like humans, yet hunger insatiably for their flesh. None of this matters to Ken Kaneki, a bookish and...
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5 Best Anime of 2015
2015 is about to come to a close and it’s time to reminisce about the highlights of 2015. It has been an especially excellent year for anime, from the surprising announcements (Hunter X Hunter [2011]...
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Winter 2016 Anime Worth Watching
A plethora of new anime titles have debuted and, like every season, there’s bound to be some gems and some stinkers right out the first gate. With that said, this is going to be a bit different than...
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RAGE OF BAHAMUT: GENESIS Review
Anime based on card games don’t have the best of reputations, much of it warranted. Fortunately, Rage of Bahamut: Genesis bucks the odds, giving anime fans a thrilling, 12-episode-fantasy ride. Story...
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FUNimation Announces DEATH PARADE Dub Cast
FUNimation Entertainment announced the English cast for its broadcast dub of the popular new anime Death Parade on February 17, 2015. The cast, directed by ADR director Zach Bolton and working from a...
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