Aniplex has been holding the Aniplex Online Fest since 2020. It was originally used as a replacement for their usual convention schedule and now serves as a supplemental event putting a spotlight on a number of their franchises. They'll be coming back once again for another star-studded and anime-filled event next month.
Day 3 of Anime Expo 2023 started out with a bang for attendees interested in the U.S. premiere of Rurouni Kenshin. Not only were fans treated to the first adaptive episode of a beloved anime series but also graced by the presence of the producer Masami Niwa, Kenshin Himura’s voice actor Soma Saito, and Kaoru Kamiya’s voice actress Rie Takahashi. All in all, the experience was memorable in more ways than one.
Studio Trigger's latest series is Delicious in Dungeon (known as Dungeon Meshi in Japanese). We briefly touched about it in our Trigger panel review and this particular article will be focused solely on the anime, whose first episode had its world premiere at this year's Anime Expo.
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Another of HIDIVE's series premieres at Anime Expo was the anime Dark Gathering. I have been reading Dark Gathering since its inception and when I saw it on the schedule, I quickly slotted it into my list of things to see.
Throughout the weekend of July 4, HIDIVE premiered a number of new anime series. One of those is The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainness to Savior (I'm going to shorten it to Last Boss Queen due to the full title being quite a mouthful).
Last Boss Queen is part of what you can call the "villainess" genre, which has been growing in popularity. The story focuses on Pride Royal Ivy (voiced by Fairouz Ai), or more accurately, a girl who has reincarnated as Pride from the fictitious game Our Ray of Light. That's a fairly common theme in the villain genre, where a person from the modern era dies or is transported to another world and becomes another character. I'm going to give an introduction and a run down of the first two episodes, and my thoughts overall.
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