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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the most beloved anime series of all time, but what songs have served as its theme over the years? Read on to find out.The saga is based on the manga series by Koyoharu Gotoge, published under Shueisha’s Jump Comics imprint, and so far consists of four seasons, all of which are available to stream on Crunchyroll in the UK.After the conclusion of season four – the Hashira Training Arc – in June 2024, it was announced that the next instalment of Demon Slayer will arrive in 2025, in the form of a film trilogy adaptation of the Infinity Castle arc.In addition to the existing seasons, Demon Slayer also scored a huge hit at the cinematic box office in 2020 with Mugen Train, which made over $450million (£360million) and became the highest grossing Japanese film of all time.The resident composers on Demon Slayer are Yuki Kajiura (Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online) and Go Shiina (Tekken, Ace Combat). In addition to their contributions, the show has made memorable use of opening and closing theme songs in each of its seasons.Season one of the show, also known as Tanjiro Kamado, Unwavering Resolve Arc, ran from April to September 2019.

Solo Leveling may have only just concluded its second season, but fans of the hit anime series are already looking ahead to the show’s future. Will there be a season 3? Here’s everything we know so far.Based on the Korean web novel by Chugong, the series takes place in a realm of gifted hunters and monsters.

Crunchyroll, Solo Leveling season 2 is set to conclude with an epic finale. Check below to see when episode 13 will be released in the UK.Based on the Korean web novel by Chugong, the series takes place in a realm of gifted hunters and monsters.

Dexerto has reported that Senate Bill 20 is planned to be included as an amendment to Chapter 43 of Texas’ penal code, with the section reading:“A person commits an offense if the person knowingly possesses, accesses with intent to view, or promotes obscene visual material containing a depiction that appears to be of a child younger than 18 years of age engaging in activities described by Section 43.21(a)(1)(B), regardless of whether the depiction is an image of an actual child, a cartoon or animation, or an image created using an artificial intelligence application or other computer software”.It goes on to say the activities described by Section 43.21(a)(1)(B) are a matter of interpretation. The definition of “obscene” includes activities that are illegal, but also includes the wording: “(Material or a performance that) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value”.This could put many anime series, comics, and games at risk, with a lot of stories depicting underage characters in situations considered violent or otherwise inappropriate from a certain perspective.

Gundam has officially entered production, after years of speculation.As far back as 2018, rumours of a big screen version of the franchise have been swirling, with Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts being connected to the project and Netflix expected to be its eventual home.However, it has now been announced that the US film studio Legendary will work on the film alongside the newly established Bandai Namco Filmworks America, an offshoot of the Japanese company Bandai Namco, which was the original home of Gundam.Jim Mickle, creator of Netflix’s Sweet Tooth and director of Stake Land and Cold In July, is now set to direct the film. The project will enter its official production stage on April 1.

Solo Leveling is airing on Crunchyroll now, but how many seasons will there be? Read on for all we know so far.Based on the Korean web novel by Chugong, the hit anime series takes place in a realm of gifted hunters and monsters. In this world, weak hunter Sung Jinwoo is given extraordinary strength through a mysterious programme, which kickstarts a journey across the various dungeons to discover the true source of his power.The show is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Shunsuke Nakashige, with Noboru Kimura writing the scripts, Tomoko Sudo designing the characters and Hiroyuji Sawano composing the music.The second season will run for 13 episodes in full, with the first having arrived on the streaming service on January 5 and subsequent instalments arriving every Sunday.The official synopsis for the second season reads: “Jinwoo has become a formidable necromancer with an army of loyal shadows at his command.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights Of The Apocalypse is coming to Netflix, but what is the show’s theme song? Read on to find out.The new run of 12 episodes of the anime show is released onto the streaming service on Thursday (January 30), where the whole of the first season is also available.The show is the sequel to the original The Seven Deadly Sins, which ran for five seasons from 2014 to 2021, and is based on the manga written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki.Set years after the events of the original series, Knights Of The Apocalypse follows the journey of Percival, a kind-hearted boy with a mysterious destiny who discovers that he is one of the prophesied four warriors, destined to bring destruction to the world.Produced by TMS Entertainment and animated by Telecom Animation Film, the first season aired from October 2023 to March 2024 and ran for 24 episodes, while the second season has already aired in Japan at the end of 2024.Netflix carries not just both seasons of Knights Of The Apocalypse and the five seasons of The Seven Deadly Sins, but also the spinoff films Prisoners Of The Sky and Cursed By Light, as well as the two-part film series Grudge Of Edinburgh.The first season of the show had the song ‘Pride’ by the Japanese rock band UVERworld as its theme. The second season sticks with the group, this time using the original song ‘MMH’.

Solo Leveling is airing on Crunchyroll now, but what is the show’s theme song? Read on to find out all the details.Based on the Korean web novel by Chugong, the hit anime series takes place in a realm of gifted hunters and monsters. In this world, weak hunter Sung Jinwoo is given extraordinary strength through a mysterious programme, which kickstarts a journey across the various dungeons to discover the true source of his power.The show is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Shunsuke Nakashige, with Noboru Kimura writing the scripts, Tomoko Sudo designing the characters and Hiroyuji Sawano composing the music.The second season will run for 13 episodes in full, with the first arriving on the streaming service on January 5 and subsequent instalments arriving every Sunday.The official synopsis for the second season reads: “Jinwoo has become a formidable necromancer with an army of loyal shadows at his command.

Solo Leveling voice actor Taito Ban (Sung Jin-woo) has built excitement for season two of the anime show, by promising a “darker direction” than fans will have seen before.Speaking to Real Sound alongside co-star Reina Ueda (Cha Hae-in), the actor teased that his character will be even more impressive during the second season.“(Jin-woo) has undergone a huge change, both mentally and physically” he said, adding that the character may be heading in an unexpected direction. “All of these levelling ups have meaning.

Ghost Of Tsushima will be turned into an anime series.Action-adventure game Ghost Of Tsushima was developed by Sucker Punch and launched in 2020. A multiplayer spin-off Ghost Of Tsushima: Legends followed in 2021 alongside a Director’s Cut of the original game.In Ghost Of Tsushima, players take control of samurai warrior Jin Sakai, who’s the sole remaining member of Clan Sakai after the Japanese island of Tsushima is invaded by Mongol warriors.

Solo Leveling season 2 will soon be available to stream in the UK – check below to see when it will be released on Crunchyroll.Based on the Korean web novel by Chugong, the series takes place in a realm of gifted hunters and monsters. In this world, weak hunter Sung Jinwoo is given extraordinary strength through a mysterious programme, which kickstarts a journey across the various dungeons to discover the true source of his power.The official synopsis for the second season reads: “Jinwoo has become a formidable necromancer with an army of loyal shadows at his command.

Attack On Titan: The Last Attack is coming to UK cinemas in 2025, it’s been announced today (December 6).The final chapters of the acclaimed anime series will be shown in UK cinemas by Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment in early 2025 (date to be confirmed). The Last Attack specifically brings together the last two episodes of the final season of the highly acclaimed anime series, which previously premiered in 2014.

Solo Levelling’s second season, a new Solo Levelling: ReAwakening film will be coming to cinemas on December 6.The feature-length movie, which is available with subtitles and dubbed in English, will summarise the first season as well as offer a sneak peek at the first two episodes of the upcoming season.A synopsis of the film summarises, “Over a decade has passed since a pathway called a ‘gate’ which connects this world and another dimension suddenly appeared, and people with superhuman powers called “hunters” have been awakened.“Hunters use their superhuman powers to conquer dungeons inside the gates to make a living, and Sung Jin-woo, a hunter of the lowest rank, is considered the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind. One day, he encounters a double dungeon, a high-level dungeon hidden inside a low-level one.

Henry Cavill is set to star in a live-action Voltron film for Amazon Studios.The forthcoming movie will be an adaptation of the American animated TV franchise, which itself was originally adapted from several Japanese anime series by Toei Animation.Plot details are currently being kept under wraps, but the main concept of the franchise centres around a team of space explorers who pilot a giant super robot.Cavill will join previously announced star Daniel Quinn-Toye, a film newcomer who appeared on the TV series Badults and served as Tom Holland’s understudy in Romeo & Juliet on the West End this earlier this year.The film will be directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, who previously helmed the 2021 Netflix action film Red Notice, starring Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson, and 2018’s Skyscraper, which also starred Johnson.Cavill most recently made a cameo appearance as the Wolverine variant “Cavillrine” in Marvel‘s Deadpool and Wolverine. His other 2024 credits include Matthew Vaughan’s spy comedy Argylle and Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.The actor is next set to star in Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot and Ritchie’s action adventure film In The Grey.

Dragon Ball Z, has died at the age of 76.The news was confirmed by Broadcast Dialogue, which noted that the voice actor and radio host passed away in Vancouver General Hospital last Saturday (October 5), following minor surgery last month.Harris, who was born Gilbert Auchinleck, was beloved as the familiar voiceover narrator of the original English language dubs of over 200 episodes of Dragon Ball Z, the legendary anime series that was based on the manga created by Akira Toriyama.Fans of the show remember his inimitable reading of the closing lines of each episode of the show: “Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!”The actor’s deep and distinctive voice also appeared in a number of Dragon Ball films, while he also worked on animated series such as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Barbie And The Rockers: Out Of This World and Camp Candy, as well as the game Captain N: The Game Master.A post shared by

Rick and Morty: The Anime has started streaming, but how can fans in the UK watch the show? Read on for all the info.The project was first announced in May last year, and will be a 10-episode series directed by Takashi Sano (Tower Of God), who previously helmed two anime shorts based on the show, ‘Rick and Morty vs. Genocider’ and ‘Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil)’.In a press release at the time, Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen said that Sano is a “huge” fan of the original series, making him “the perfect person to give us all this alternate version of this amazing show.”See the trailer below:The plot description for the anime series reads: “Rick relaxes in a pseudo-world between multiverses, Summer helps Space Beth fight the evil Galactic Federation, and Morty falls in love with a mysterious girl who happens to be an atemporal being.”The anime series will be the only piece of Rick And Morty content released this year, with the upcoming eighth season not scheduled to arrive until 2025.The 10 episodes of the show are being released weekly, with the first having premiered on August 16 and the second coming on August 23.

“Pokémon” films and series as the main character Ash Ketchum, shared a statement on X early Monday, Aug. 12.

Kaiju No. 8 has been confirmed for 2025.The breakout anime show by Naoya Matsumoto produced by Production I.G.

Jujutsu Kaisen are clashing over a new design for the character Gojo Satoru – check out the reactions below.Jujutsu Kaisen began as a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Gege Akutami, and is set in a world where negative emotions can manifest as Curses – a race of demonic entities bent on harming humanity.As well as a manga, Jujutsu Kaisen has gone on to inspire movies, TV shows, video games and a stage play, with two seasons of the hit anime adaptation so far having been made by MAPPA.And now, to celebrate the results of the fourth ‘Jujutsu Kaisen Popularity Poll’, a new artistic design for Gojo Satoru, the mentor of the manga’s lead character Yuji Itadori, has been shared by Akutami.

Rick And Morty: The Anime – you can watch it above.Originally announced in May last year, the 10-episode series is directed by Takashi Sano (Tower Of God), who previously helmed two anime shorts based on the show, ‘Rick and Morty vs. Genocider’ and ‘Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil)’.In a press release, Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen said that Sano is a “huge” fan of the original series, making him “the perfect person to give us all this alternate version of this amazing show.”The plot description for the anime series reads: “Rick relaxes in a pseudo-world between multiverses, Summer helps Space Beth fight the evil Galactic Federation, and Morty falls in love with a mysterious girl who happens to be an atemporal being.”The anime series will be the only piece of Rick And Morty content released this year, with the upcoming eight season not scheduled to arrive until 2025.

indie rockers Hitsujibungaku have shared with NME insights into their recent singles, including ‘Burning’, their brand-new ending theme to the second season of hit anime, Oshi No Ko. Read on for the interview.Spearheaded by guitarist/bandleader Moeka Shiotsuka and steadily backed by drummer Hiroa Fukuda and bassist Yurika Kasai, the band first emerged in Tokyo’s indie rock underground over the late 2010s.