Should mangakas reveal the true reason behind their hiatuses?

17d ago ... If there is one thing that fans of manga or light novels hate, it is when their favorite author chooses to take an extended hiatus without giving any reason for their stoppage in work. For example, Hunter x Hunter's writer Yoshiro Tagashi is notorious for taking long breaks from writing his manga, and the author of Highschool of the Dead has also been MIA for over a year at this point. While...

What gives with short animes based off long mangas?

48d ago ... It has been a long time since I have been here. I have felt compelled to write about something that is bothering me. I just finished watching Deadman Wonderland and it was a pretty good but gruesome anime. It only lasted 12 episodes and the manga is currently at 51 volumes. What!?!? Yep. The things I hate the most, never having any real closure like in Mass Effect 3. I don't mind reading man...

How to improve this site, and some annoying limitations

67d ago ... I have tried so hard to make this site more popular. My intentions for doing so is that if its popular, more people from N4G will discover anime (and am a huge anime fan). Ways to improve this site 1. Allow people to add "Manga" and "Gaming" tags, this is crucial. Currently we have "anime serie" which is spelt wrong by the way, but dont have "manga series" or "games" 2. Allow posting pol...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 10

149d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with a single Google searc...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 9

150d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with a single Google searc...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 8

151d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day for the next 12 days, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 7

152d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day for the next 12 days, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 6

153d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day for the next 12 days, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 5

154d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day for the next 12 days, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 4

155d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day for the next 12 days, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 3

156d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day for the next 12 days, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 2

157d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day for the next 12 days, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with...

AnimeShinbun 12 Days of Christmas Contest 2011 - Day 1

158d ago ... Hello everyone and welcome to our 12 Days of Christmas Competition. =) As we previously mentioned in the main competition blog, with this competition I'll be making a new blog every day for the next 12 days, with an anime/manga/otaku question or riddle for you to solve. The questions will be challenging, though not too challenging. They'll be things I hope that you won't be able to get with...

PROPOSAL: Ban [insert source here] for 1 month

194d ago ... I'll be the first to admit that I'm just as guilty as everyone else when it comes to posting from the usual sources. This got me thinking (which doesn't happen often): what if we banned 2-3 of usual sources for 1 month (December, or perhaps January)? Really force everyone to seek out new sources, for just one month. I feel this would actually benefit the site as we're currently seeing the sa...

Source Review: Saiyan Island

232d ago ... I don't visit a lot of anime sites, but that's because I don't have to. Everything I want is found on just three anime sites that I really like and visit a few times a week. Two of them I visit to watch or read my favorite anime and manga and the other one I go to read news. That news site is called Saiyan Island. It's my most favorite site that I visit everyday like 100 times a day because the...

Incomplete Series

248d ago ... I just thought I would blog about the many anime series that seem to be incomplete or are not receiving another season. It does bother me when I get into a good anime series and and have watched hours only to reach the end with no sign of a new season to complete the story. The last series i've watched was school rumble watched season 1 and 2 as well as the ova and it seemed that there was go...

Review Policy

289d ago ... Okay guys, something I'd like to get your feedback on. The current policy on reviews in the guidelines page is as follows "When posting reviews of a product, movie or video game make sure the product is still new and of interest to the community. The review should also be from an established website or publication. Reviews from personal blogs and web forums do not count as a legit source un...

Are shorter anime's better?

321d ago ... I've noticed a growing trend for anime's to end at 12 (or 13) episodes lately. For many years we've seen most anime's go to about 26 episodes and then perhaps end with an OVA. Outside of your long-running series like Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, etc., it's quite refreshing to see new anime's telling their story in 12 episodes. Yes, I'd love to see many of them drawn out a bit more, but it's ni...

The 3 Most Overrated Anime of All Time

324d ago ... ============================= 3. Dragon Ball GT ============================= Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were two of the most epic win anime shows of all time. They are the reason we have Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, and a whole rack of other awesome anime. Created by Akira Toriyama, the story of Dragon Ball follows a young boy named Goku until he becomes a teenager and then an adult in Dra...

AnimeShinbun June 2011 Contests

366d ago ... Hello everyone! We're so late at this point that rather than having a contest for May, I'm going to skip the month and open up June's contests early. On the plus side...this means double prizes for June! For anyone wondering why we've had this delay BTW, we seem to have had a bit of confusion with a few previous months and people reporting not receiving their prizes there. If you're one o...