Early Access: Battle Athletes Victory ReStart! Episode 10
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Early Access: Battle Athletes ReSTART! Episode 2
Meeting Date: 4/17/2021
Samantha Ferreira: Good evening, and welcome back to the anime club. As always, I'm Samantha, and I'm here with Anthony.
A Celebration of Black and POC Characters in Anime
Author: Keisha Mitchell
When anime first hit American airwaves in the 1960s, the Japanese art form introduced audiences to worlds and characters yet to be imagined in the wor...
2021-04-29 03:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Anime Herald Family Gets Two New Members
Good evening, everybody. Next week, Anime Herald begins the year anew with a renewed commitment you all.
This year, there is much to celebrate, as we have brought on two new editors. Over the...
2021-02-23 03:45:23 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: The Fine Print: Lessons Learned from Tokyopop's Original English Manga Empire
Author: Priya Sridhar
The world of the 1990s may as well have been completely different from the one we inhabit today. It was a time when 2020-12-24 05:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Early Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 9
Meeting Date: 12/5/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given...
2020-12-17 04:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 8
Meeting Date: 11/28/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a give...
2020-12-13 05:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 7
Meeting Date: 11/21/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a give...
2020-12-11 04:06:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe Origins of Mecha: The 1980s, Part 1: From Gundam to Robotech And Beyond
Author: Anime Commentary
In my previous article on mecha history, I examined various genre standards and figures that were introduced in the 1970s. The decade proved signific...
2020-12-09 02:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Spy x Family: Disarming the Nuclear Family Myth
Author: Hannah Collins
At the start of Tatsuya Endo’s Spy x Family, a family - man, woman, and a small child - sit around a table. They exchange loving smiles, sur...
2020-12-03 04:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncement: Anime Herald Going on (Short!) Hiatus in January 2021
My fellow anime fans, good evening.
Tonight, I come to you not as an editor or as a creator. I'm just here as, well, myself, without the whole "president" bit. I'd like to take a moment to di...
2020-12-01 03:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 6
Meeting Date: 11/14/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a give...
2020-11-29 04:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: The Origins of Mecha: The Super Robots of the 1970s
The 1970s were a fruitful period for popular media in Japan. Weekly Shōnen Jump debuted in 1969, Rumiko Takahashi launched her manga career with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, and numer...
2020-11-25 04:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 5
Meeting Date: 11/7/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given...
2020-11-22 04:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Bofuri (Surprisingly) Shows Gamers As They Actually Are
Author: Marina Garrow
Early Access: Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 4
Meeting Date: 10/31/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a give...
2020-11-13 05:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Reinventing the Medium: What American Pop Culture Can Learn From Manga
Author: Joshua Pantalleresco
Over the course of its history, Japan’s entertainment industry, particularly within the fields of manga and anime, has risen and fallen like wa...
2020-11-12 04:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Unico: The Saddest Little Unicorn in the World
Author: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Saddest Little Unicorn:
Hope and Happiness in The Fantastic Adventures of Unico 2020-11-05 04:22:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Early Access: Ikebukuro West Gate Park, Episode 2
Meeting Date: 10/17/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. Y...
2020-11-01 04:06:18 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: For The Love of Analog: An Intro to VHS and LaserDisc Collecting
Author: Coop Bicknell
The Herald Anime Club: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Episode 1
Meeting Date: 10/10/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. Y...
2020-10-18 03:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe Origins of Mecha: Introduction
Author: Anime Commentary
In this day and age, countless examples of mecha and robots can be found within Japanese popular fiction. From the Mobile Suits in the Gundam 2020-10-16 04:40:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 11
Meeting Date: 10/3/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. Yo...
2020-10-11 04:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Review: Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over The Rainbow
Author: MJ Warren
Edited By: Samantha Ferreira
Early Access: The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 10
Meeting Date: 9/26/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. Yo...
2020-09-27 03:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: “A Growing Inertia” - Patlabor 2’s Critique of Telecommunications
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak hundreds of millions of people have been ordered to stay home; cities have ground to a standstill as commuters and communities hunker down to preve...
2020-09-24 02:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: A Decade Like No Other
Note: As this is a special piece, this will go live at 1:00PM EDT on the main Anime Herald site.
My fellow anime fans, good evening.
Exactly ten years ago today, Anime Herald f...
2020-09-19 05:37:49 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Exploring Aoi House, Fifteen Years Later
Author: Anthony Gramuglia
To say the early 2000s was a wild frontier for anime fandom is an understatement. Television blocks like 2020-09-16 04:05:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Early Access: The Herald Anime Club: Zombie Land Saga Episode 9
Meeting Date: 9/12/2020
Disclaimer: The Herald Anime Club discusses shows in a generally unmoderated format. Naturally, there will be spoilers for a given episode. Yo...
2020-09-13 03:34:44 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Kiki's Delivery Service: Delivering Hope, Saving Lives
Author: Sergio Giovanni
Oftentimes, when facing hardship, we find comfort in the past. With the arrival of COVID-19 also came an awful and unprecedented privation of li...
2020-09-09 02:51:41 +0000 UTC View Post