Yumi's Anime Blog

 Steve Chris, I'm sure many of our readers are scrambling for last-minute gift ideas with the holidays fast approaching. Lucky for them, I've got just the thing to help: an anime chock full of cute, eye-catching crafts you can make at home, with plenty of precise and technical animation. Plus, a pig with sunglasses. Doesn't get more festive than that. Chris Careful, poor Meat there worries about enough in general without the concerns that he's specifically going to wind up a Christmas ham. DIY is a big umbrella, so surely, if you think about it, that includes cooking food you've grown yourself. The crafty characters of this show haven't graduated to those kinds of Silver Spoon levels yet, so instead, we'll have to settle for them constructing an adorable miniature Oinky-Doink Cafe for the little pork chop to live in. And if you find yourself interested in projects like that, which make great holiday gifts, this show will be happy to teach you how to...Do It ...

 Makoto Shinkai's Suzume (Suzume no Tojimari) film has now sold a cumulative total of 6.36 million tickets for 8,592,509,010 yen (about US$62.36 million) as of Sunday. This makes it the 68th highest-earning film, and the 16th highest-earning anime film, of all time in Japan. Suzume already earned more than the #1 Pokémon film (Pokémon: The First Movie), and has now surpassed Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet, the #1 Yōkai Watch film (Yo-kai Watch: The Movie), Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea, and Stand By Me Doraemon. It also earned more than Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla film. Only Demon Slayer, six Ghibli films, Shinkai's own last two films, One Piece Film Red, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the final Evangelion film, and three Detective Conan films have earned more in Japan. The film opened in Japan at #1 on November 11 and sold 1.33 million tickets and earned 1.88 billion yen (about US$13.49 million) in its first three days. The film sold 38.7% more tickets and earned 47.4% more th...

 The Chainsaw Man manga teases that there could be a second Chainsaw Devil lurking around, one that is completely separated from Denji. In chapter #111 of Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga, a mysterious creature looking exactly like the Chainsaw Devil appears and kills Yuko, a human-devil hybrid, while Denji is soundly sleeping, meaning that someone, or something, else can transform into Chainsaw Man. Part 2 of anime Chainsaw Man has not put a lot of attention on the supposed protagonist Part 2 of Chainsaw Man has not put a lot of attention on the supposed protagonist, Denji, until now, deciding instead to focus on a new character, Asa Mitaka, a high school girl who was killed and then became the host of the War Devil, turning into a Fiend. The story has revolved around Asa and her friend, Yuko, who makes a contract with the Justice Devil to kill the bullies in her school but ends up being defeated by Chainsaw Man. Yuko's fate, however, sets up a new, interesting development that seems...

 The best storyline of the divisive anime Sword Art Online is surprisingly a parody of the series rather than from the official show. Sword Art Online is a series based on light novels by Reki Kawahara that has been running strong for a decade now. The series drew attention with its first season which explored VR gamers trapped inside an MMORPG called Sword Art Online. They're unable to log out, and if they die in the game, their physical body dies as well. It was a unique arc that ran its course and ended after twelve episodes...but the anime itself never stopped. Sword Art Online continued to follow the characters outside the Anime In numerous storylines over the years in new seasons, video games, and even movies with a new Sword Art Online film recently announced to be in the works. Because of the series' lengthy storylines that continue long after the base premise had ended, fans have argued that the show's writing has taken a massive hit as far back as the first seaso...