Diamond Comic Distributors announced on Tuesday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company seeks to restructure its business following the loss of exclusive publisher relat…
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Alliance Entertainment Acquires Diamond Comic Distributors
Media distributor and wholesaler Alliance Entertainment announced today that it has acquired “substantially all of the assets” of Diamond Comic Distributors. Alliance, a publicly traded…
Lycoris Recoil (Episode 11) – Diamond cut diamond
Chisato heads into Majima’s trap at the old Tokyo Tower while the Lycoris storm the Enkuboku, however, Takina has a bad feeling about this. So much so that…
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(Original Story Data Files) Arc Incidents Chapter 3: Data Files: Noah 3 Stats
So a funny story about this. When I was thinking about the statistics of my Noah 3 Ship I originally thought of the SDF Macross because that is…
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Anime studio Gainax enters bankruptcy
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Chapter 11
Due to technical difficulties, my editing speed went down again. So Chapter 11 was somewhat delayed, and Chapter 12 might be too. Some more Maniwanis.
(Arc Incidents Data Files) Chapter 5: FTL Travel
Well, here is more data files for those who are interested in the universe that I have created so far. This is pretty much nonsense, but it works…
(ARC Incidents Data Files) Chapter 7: Micro Machines
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Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story – 11 – Polishing the Diamond
We check in on Aoi, who is finishing off a lauded competitor who couldn’t bring it in a practice match, and she’s looking forward to reuniting with her…
The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Episode 11 — Gallery
The plot thickens by the end of episode 8 in The Case Files of Jeweler Richard. Relationships come to a head in what is arguably the most dramatic…
Video Games for Mental Health - AI: The Somnium Files
~Resist, allow your heart to take you! Never let this merciless world erase you! Passing down the light of the torch to guide you, And you shall be bathed in light!~ When…
Read My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files for Free!
You heard that right. In addition to this week’s new Premium chapter of My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files — the #1 manga series on Azuki — for…
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Ace of Diamond
It’s time for May and we are back with a podcast. In the cohost seat as always is Corey (@cyborgsoda) and nearly regular member Chris (@gokuffy). But we…
Ace of Diamond
It’s time for May and we are back with a podcast. In the cohost seat as always...
Diamond no Kouzai
An athlete and tragic hero earns accolades from his coaches, yet struggles to fit in with his peers due to his sports genius in this psychological and award…
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond remakes Pokemon Diamond on the Nintendo DS. I hadn’t played Diamond, so I went into Brilliant Diamond blind. This is my preferred way of playing…
MHA 11 - Vigilantes Chapter One
This week we have a special bonus episode where we discuss the spin off series 'My Hero Academia Vigilantes' Chapter One! Be sure to check us out on…
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Seasonal First Impressions: PLATINUM END Makes Moral Bankruptcy Fun!
Platinum End is a dark, over-the-top festival of camp and edginess. Should you watch it anyway? Find out here.
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The 2023 Writers’ Strike vs. AI: Fighting Creative Bankruptcy
Even the most uncreative, awful stories are better than a world where AI scripts are the default. The Writers Guild of America officially declared a strike recently—their first…
Diamond Drama: Princess Nine
1998’s Princess Nine is the kind of sports anime with an instant hook: What if a Japanese all-girl baseball team competed against the boys in pursuit of the…
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!! English, International Distributors Wanted
Konami is producing an English dub of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!! anime series and is looking for distributors to pick up the show. Media industry publication WorldScreen reported…
Why More Distributors Should Give Anime Films Theater Runs
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Ribbons for the Win: Battling internalized misogyny with Pokemon Diamond & Pearl
I watched Pokemon: Diamond & Pearl during elementary and middle school, and Dawn became one of my all-time favorite characters. This might seem a little strange given that…
Digimon Appmon Chapter 11 English Scanlation
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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 11
One Piece Every Day is a column where I read a chapter of One Piece every single day—more or less—and discuss my thoughts on it. Each entry will have spoilers up…
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Gunbuster Files: Shattered Jewels
By Jonathan Clements. The title of the fifth episode of Gunbuster derives directly from Robert Heinlein’s 1973 novel Time Enough for Love, which ironically had very little to…
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Gunbuster Files: Black & White
By Jonathan Clements. In a bold move that you could only get away with in the days of video, the final episode of Gunbuster is shot in stark…
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Diamond City Lighting It Up: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for February 2022
Happy New Year (again!) to all who celebrate the lunar calendar and the Year of the T-T-T-T-Tiger. As the Omicron variant (hopefully) peaks at varying times, I’m naturally…
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Ace of Diamond Second Season
Ace of Diamond is over!! We’re all very, very sad. ;_; To wrap up the show, I brought on guests from the last episode Chris (@gokuffy) and Jared…
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Ace of Diamond Second Season
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Jojune: Diamond is Unbreakable: Episodes 11 & 12–Red Hot Chili Pepper Parts 1 & 2
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Gunbuster Files: The Easter Eggs
By Jonathan Clements. The writer and producer Toshio Okada wrote in his memoirs about the experience of announcing Gunbuster: Aim for the Top at a press conference, in…
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AD Police Files [OVA Review]
A D Police Files; or, Stop! An officer will shoot At least she died as a woman. The weather outside is as beautiful as ever this…
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Gunbuster Files: Strike a Pose
By Jonathan Clements. There’s a moment in Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle (2021), early in the film, where his heroine is standing on a giant floating whale loaded with huge…
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“Comic” Relief
Rakugo is a performance art that I really don’t fully understand. The closest we would have would be a stand-up comic who tells a long and involved story,…
In My View: Where fewer distributors, marketing and anime definitions meet
“It makes sense to basically everybody to imagine ‘non-Japanese anime’: this doesn’t provide any of the difficulties presented by imagining, for instance, a ‘square circle’; similarly, we can…
My Taste is Better Than Yours Episode 10 – Diamond no Kouzai (Days of Diamond)
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CLAMP were in charge of drawing the cover illustration for volume 2 of the Uma Musume Anthology Comic, its full title being Uma Musume Pretty Derby Anthology Comic…
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
As a fan, it pains me to see an entry to one of my favorite franchises fall to such low lows. But what exactly are the decisions that…
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It’s A Trap!! Dead Rock Chapter 11 BREAKDOWN
I’m still kind of in “Star Wars” mode. Sorry about the conclusion to the recent Mass Review; I was just kind of tired after writing that one. And I’m still no…
Chapter 15 - Tom and Luffy (4/11/2022)
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Sailor Moon Store: Original Comic Logo Comic Logo
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AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative
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Catholic X-Files Anime is WILD
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