Meeting Date: 9/5/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samatha, and I'm here with Anthony Simpson
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're heading back to Saga to talk ...
2020-09-06 03:49:57 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 8/29/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony this week
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're heading back to Kyushu fo...
2020-08-30 04:32:00 +0000 UTC
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Author: Anime Commentary
Studio Ghibli was established in 1985, following the success of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which opened the previous year In the years that followed, the studio would go on to release twenty films, , with an upcoming feature based on Yoshino Genzaburo’s 1937 novel How Do You Live? currently in production. One of the studio’s most famous films, thou...
2020-08-26 04:02:47 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 8/22/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony and L.B.
L.B. Bryant: Hello
Anthony Simpson: Evening
2020-08-23 04:34:16 +0000 UTC
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Introduction
My fellow anime fans, good evening.
Another year has passed at Anime Herald, during which we have seen changes great and small alike affect our operations, our content, and even our very way of life, itself.
In October, we made the difficult decision to turn the lights off in our news desk for the very last time. After five years of daily updates, we foun...
2020-08-21 02:53:04 +0000 UTC
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Author: Jonathan Kaharl
In the world of video games, it’s not uncommon for the topic to shift to individual creators and the impacts their works have made upon the world. Though many of today’s most influential titles are collaborative works between many different hands and perspectives, people tend to place an oversized emphasis on the singular creator figure. As such, Hideo Kojima is accepted as the creator of the Me...
2020-08-19 04:14:33 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 8/15/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with L.B. and Anthony
Anthony Simpson: Evening
L.B. Bryant: Hello
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2020-08-16 04:00:25 +0000 UTC
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By Gabriel Leão
Sega’s Streets of Rage franchise is often considered to be the pinnacle of the beat’ em-up gaming genre. The series, which made its debut in 1991, saw vigilante heroes Axel, Blaze, and Adam punching and kicking their way through the grungy locales of an unnamed city. Since its inception, the franchise has gained a reputation for having what is considered one of the best, if not the best, 2020-08-11 03:08:58 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date 8/9/2020
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony and L.B.
L.B. Bryant: Hello
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: And this week, we're back to the spooky, scary world of... *checks notes* popular music with Zombie Land Saga episode 4: The One Where Sunglasses Gets Punched In The Dick
2020-08-09 04:25:22 +0000 UTC
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Author: CDT Ceates
In the modern world, anime is a medium that ignites the imaginations of fans across the globe. Its unique forms of storytelling and visual flair have earned places in pop culture, with names like Pokémon and Dragon Ball becoming household icons. That’s to say little of its influence in Hollywood, where works like Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell and Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue inspire countless homages and references in American cinema. Looking back, t...
2020-08-04 03:46:54 +0000 UTC
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! Anthony and I are heading back to the land of zombie idols this week with our discussion on Zombie Land Saga episode 3: "I liked the name Jeanne d'Arc. :|"
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: This week's episode was a pretty big change of pace from last time - it felt much smaller in scope, given the rap battles and the metal shows we've seen to date
Anthony Simpson:
2020-08-02 03:19:02 +0000 UTC
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Author: Sergio Giovanni
Imagine, if you may, a doorway that can transport a person to a miraculous realm. It’s a place where everything one could love and admire comes together, for a single weekend of unbridled joy. Judgment and bullying have no place, as thousands of like-minded individuals gather to share in revelry and comfort. It’s here that Naruto can run past Monkey D. Luffy, who tips his straw hat to a grumpy Natsu from Fairy Tail. Samurai and warlocks trade war stories with one another, as s...
2020-07-29 04:12:50 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date 7/25/2020
Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club (Retro Edition!). I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony and L.B.
L.B. Bryant: Hello
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're heading back to Kyushu to meet some undead moe idols in Zombie Land Saga 2: "EPIC! RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!"
Or "the one where Tatsumi shows the zombie idols the equivalent of a snuff film"...
2020-07-26 04:40:30 +0000 UTC
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Author: M.J. Warren
With the Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? Anime wrapping up after the events of the third novel, this fourth volume offers the first real chance for fans who hopped on with the TV series to explore events that haven’t yet been adapted. To date, I have enjoyed the light novels, despite a few of the series’ more problematic issues with regards to fanservice, as wel...
2020-07-22 03:25:23 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 7/19/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with L.B. and Anthony
L.B. Bryant: Hello
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Thi...
2020-07-19 05:48:03 +0000 UTC
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Author: M.A. Hinkle
Note: Contains spoilers for the finale of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime.
I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in feeling like my thoughts from March onward have been one long, unending scream. Here in the United States, state and federal governments paid the barest of lip service toward suppressing the COVID-19 coronavirus and dealing with the economic fallout. Now, the respon...
2020-07-09 03:14:31 +0000 UTC
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Author: Anthony Gramuglia
Few manga are as thirsty as CLAMP’s manga. The four-woman team of manga artists — whose work includes Chobits, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, and Magic Knight Rayearth — have...
2020-07-03 04:01:36 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 6/20/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we...
2020-06-28 05:28:54 +0000 UTC
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Author: Reuben Baron
In the Winter of 2013-2014, Adult Swim premiered what was perhaps its finest animated series ever. A collaborative effort spearheaded by an out-there animator and the creator of a beloved cult classic, this sci-fi comedy broke the rules of traditional TV storytelling. Using an anarchic multiverse to its advantage, no episode was the slightest bit predictable, yet somehow this comedic chaos came around to moments of striking philosophical profundity without sacrificing the joy of its silly hum...
2020-06-26 03:42:09 +0000 UTC
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony Simpson
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we'll be returning to the Taisho era for another dose of steampunk action with Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, episode 11: "Requiem for a half-demon."
Anthony Simpson: Where ...
2020-06-21 03:00:31 +0000 UTC
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Author: Tim Brinkhof
“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous bug.” Technically, this is the first sentence of The Metamorphosis, which is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1915. Scratch that funny-sounding German name and replace it with “Ken Kaneki,” howev...
2020-06-19 03:07:37 +0000 UTC
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Author: Jordan Mulder
Edited By: Lydia Rivers
Pop culture is often cruel to the women who occupy it, painting them with the broad brushes of blatant sexualization and overtly lewd depictions. This objectification runs especially rampant within the anime and manga spheres, where fanservice has become a genre in and of itself. Enter moe anthropomorphism, in which objects are personified—and then all too often, the other way around.
2020-06-17 03:49:16 +0000 UTC
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Author: Kat Callahan
Newly released and translated into English, manga Love Me For Who I am (Japanese: Fukakai na Boku no Subete o or FukuBoku for short) from Seven Seas Entertainment is artist Konayama Kata’s attempt to explore the complexity of gender and gender identity through the eyes of a group of high school students working at a maid café. While on first inspection the café appears to hav...
2020-06-15 16:38:18 +0000 UTC
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're here to discuss Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, episode 10: "With Regards to Independence Day"
And this... was a big week. For long-time fans, it was a chance for one last hurrah for the classic Kobu, and a cameo appearance for series icon Sakura Shinguji
2020-06-14 03:53:55 +0000 UTC
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Author: Jeff Nimoy
Original source: Medium (Reprinted Under License)
I survived a brain tumor, made a movie, and planned a world anime and comic con tour to promote it! But someone forgot to tell the Covid-19 pandemic.
When my distributor Random Media decided May 12, 2020 was the day to release my new film “Fame-ish” on digital platforms across the world, no one could have foreseen the lockdown that was about to grip the planet. So there I was on the night it premiered, my dream of dire...
2020-06-10 02:23:57 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 5/30/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club!
L.B. Bryant: Hello
Anthony Simpson: Evening.
Samantha Ferreira:
2020-06-07 04:34:53 +0000 UTC
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Meeting Date: 5/23/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows as they’re airing. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. You have been warned!
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Herald Anime Club! I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony and L.B.
L.B. Bryant: Hello
Anthony Simpson: Evening
2020-06-04 02:53:00 +0000 UTC
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Author: Anime Commentary
The titles I have covered thus far contain explicit references to Japanese folklore and their depictions of yōkai. From the oni-like Invader family in Urusei Yatsura to the hanyō in GeGeGe no Kitaro, such anime characters reflect a long hist...
2020-05-31 03:48:44 +0000 UTC
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Author: Seth Burn
Before we begin, full disclosure: I missed the parental advisory warning for explicit content when I signed up to review I’m A Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf-Girl’s Pet (“Behemoth”, henceforth). I just saw the adorable kitty on the cover and was hooked. Given that, let me be clear: The warning is apt. There is explicit content to be...
2020-05-22 21:36:26 +0000 UTC
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Samantha Ferreira: Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Herald Anime Club. I'm Samantha, and I'm here with L.B. and Anthony
L.B. Bryant: Hello
Anthony Simpson: Evening
Samantha Ferreira: Tonight, we're heading back to the world of psychic song girls and super robots with Sakura Wars (2019) the Animation, Episode 7: "So... did... did they just copy a Gintama episode?"
L.B. Bryant: So this was the most fun I've had with this series in w...
2020-05-21 04:19:21 +0000 UTC
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