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This week's slate of announcements came through for Seven Seas Entertainment, and the batch includes a new Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation audiobook. An audio adaptation of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation - Recollections —which follows the early adventures of characters from the series—is set to launch on November 21, 2024. Check out more on that and other upcoming titles in the lineup below. Contrast by Itz July 2025 Synopsis: Kanata is a handsome young man who can’t help but be the center of attention, even when his mind is miles away. Akira is the perfect student who barely talks to anyone. They don’t know each other’s classes or even their names, but they can’t forget each other’s faces. One day, these two happen to meet on a stairwell near the rooftop. From then on, that roof becomes their secret rendezvous spot. Slowly they discover that while they might...

The official website for Atri -My Dear Moments- , an upcoming TV anime adaptation of the visual novel developed by Frontwing and Makura and published by Aniplex.Exe, has posted a new character promo video introducing the main heroine, Atri (CV: Hikaru Akao). The site describes Atri: "Her age is unknown. She is an elaborate and expressive robot girl that Natsuki salvaged from the bottom of the sea in a submersible. She wishes to fulfill the 'final order' given to her by her original master, Natsuo's grandmother, Dr. Nonoko Yachigusa, but she has lost some of her memories because she has been asleep for a long time. Her favorite saying is "I'm high performance!" Character Pv for Atri (CV: Hikaru Akao) Related: Atri -My Dear Moments- TV Anime Debuts on July 13 The TV anime Atri -My Dear Moments- , is set to premiere in Japan on July 13, 2024. Makoto Kato ( Fanfare of Adolescence ) serves as director.

by Earl Jackson

In 1969, Masahiro Shinoda released “Double Suicide”, his version of Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s bunraku (puppet) play, “The Love Suicides Amajima” [心中天網島]. The film was striking in its use of the black-hooded puppeteers, the kuroko, to move the actors and change the deliberately artificial sets. The film was a hit with the international art film crowd in that it proved that Japanese avant-garde narrative cinema was not limited to Hiroshi Teshigahara’s adaptations of Kobo Abe novels. In later years, it would serve as a viewer-friendly introduction to the New Wave because, unlike the more difficult works of Kiju Yoshida or Nagisa Oshima, “Double Suicide” -to repurpose Gertrude Stein’s judgment of James Joyce – was the experimental film that anyone could understand.

In 2021, Ryusuke Hamaguchi takes up the challenge of integrating classical theater with contemporary cinema again, in his use of Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya” in his film “Drive My Car”. At first glance,...