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The love between Kiyoka and Miyo continues to grow in the second season of the anime adaptation of Akumi Agitogi’s My Happy Marriage novel series, which brings the pair face to face with more challenges they must overcome together. Anime producer Kadokawa announced today that My Happy Marriage season 2 will premiere in January 2025, alongside unveiling the first trailer, the first visual and three new cast members who will be important to the plot. My Happy Marriage Season 2 Teaser Trailer and Visual Joining the cast of the second season of the My Happy Marriage anime are: Tadakiyo Kudo voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu, Kiyoka’s father and previous head of the family Fuyu Kudo voiced by Kikuko Inoue, Kiyoka’s mother Naoshi Usui voiced by Yuya Uchida, The founder of the “Gifted Communion” sect, which has plans to overthrow society using Miyo Tadakiyo Kudo Fuyu Kudo Naoshi Usui Related: My Happy...

After years of waiting for their franchise to get back on-track, "Terminator" fans finally have a decent on-screen installment in the long-suffering saga. After several studios tried and failed to right the "Terminator" ship, a savior arrived in the unlikely form of Netflix. The streamer's new "Terminator Zero" anime show is a gorgeous and gruesome eight-episode series that represents showrunner/EP/writer Mattson Tomlin's attempt to inject a bit of horror back into the franchise.

It's an element of the original two movies that has been conspicuously absent from subsequent entries. As the "Terminator" films went on, they increasingly leaned into action blockbuster territory, jettisoning the slasher vibe creator James Cameron established with his 1984 original film, as well as the ambient sense of doom from Cameron's 1991 sequel "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." Thankfully, much of that is back in "Zero," which as /Film's Bj Colangelo writes in her review, features...

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It has — shockingly — been five years since James Cameron's career-defining Terminator franchise went hasta la vista, baby, following a string of uneven live-action sequels, reboots and an underrated spin-off TV series. After 2019’s promising Terminator: Dark Fate unfortunately bombed at the box office_,_ it seemed that the saga had resigned itself to a molten-metal fate.

However, as Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor said: “The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.” Enter Terminator Zero, an eight-part anime series on Netflix that brings the franchise back from the scrapheap, marking a collaboration between Japanese animation studio Production I.G, writer Mattson Tomlin, and director Masashi Kudo (Bleach). Zero gives us a fresh perspective on the events of Judgment Day — but instead of America, the timey-wimey narrative takes place in Japan.

Considering how many Terminator stories have come before,...

The first two Terminator movies are considered masterpieces, and for good reason. They gave us iconic characters, memorable catchphrases, hummable music, the most jaw-dropping action sequences of all time, and a message to humanity about its overreliance on technology. And while James Cameron moved away from the director’s seat so that he could focus on other projects, the Terminator franchise continued to expand via movies, comics, novels, video games, and a TV show. All of these installments have their own dedicated fandoms, except for maybe Terminator: Dark Fate, but let’s be honest, none of them have managed to attain the kind of popularity that those first two movies did. So, it was pretty normal for fans and casual viewers to be apprehensive about a Terminator Netflix series as it didn’t feature everyone’s favorite characters and it was animated. But I’m here to tell you that...

When writer/director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd came up with "The Terminator" back in the early 1980s, they couldn't have possibly predicted that their dystopian sci-fi future, where an artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system called Skynet would one day determine humans to be a threat and attempt to wipe them out, would one day feel within the realm of possibility. The questions constantly looming over the characters in the "Terminator" universe are ones of absolutes: Can humanity be saved from the threat of Skynet, and more importantly, are we deserving of such salvation?

According to "Terminator Zero" showrunner and writer Mattson Tomlin, this is at the heart of his new anime series for Netflix. As he told Tudum, "I'm not a nihilist — I'm a humanist, and I love people, and I think that there's a reason that we're on this planet.

James Cameron's "The Terminator" is an undeniable action-horror classic, but seven years later — armed with groundbreaking digital technology and a budget that would make it the most expensive film at the time in history — he completely changed action films forever with "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." In the decades that have followed, countless creatives have desperately been trying to capture a morsel of the feast served up by Cameron, to varying degrees of success. Each "Terminator" sequel since, as well as the short-lived (and underrated) TV spin-off "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" exist in the shadow of Cameron's masterpiece, stalked by the looming threat of his genius not unlike a T-1000 tracking John Connor.

The latest addition to the beloved franchise is Netflix's "Terminator Zero," an anime series from studio Production I.G., written by Mattson Tomlin, and directed by Masashi Kudō (the "Bleach" franchise). Instead of rehashing a storyline that...

We're a little over a month out from the premiere of Terminator Zero , which starts streaming via Netflix around the world on August 29, 2024. We've already learned about the English cast, so now it's time to turn our attention to the voice actors in the Japanese version. The Terminator Zero Japanese cast includes: Terminator voiced by Yasuhiro Mamiya (Magma in Dr. Stone ) Malcolm voiced by Yuya Uchida (Aka in Wonder Egg Priority ) Eiko voiced by Toa Yukinari (Claudia Peer in Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt ) Kokoro voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki (Chise Hatori in The Ancient Magus' Bride ) Misaki voiced by Saori Hayami (Maria Campbell in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! ) Kenta voiced by Hiro Shimono (Connie Springer in Attack on Titan ) Hiro voiced by Shizuka Ishigami (Hugo in The Duke of Death and His Maid ) Reika voiced by Miyuki Sato (Emperor Antoku in The Heike Story...

This spring, mysteries are in the air in the Mysterious Disappearances TV anime. Today marks the launch of a fresh new trailer and key visual, both of which introduce a trio of new characters. First, let's check out the second trailer—which also features samples of opening theme "Hazard Symbol" by Yuyu and ending theme "Akaku Somete Shinzou" by Nonoka Oobuchi: The new key visual highlights both the previously announced cast and the new additions: Related: Occult Incidents Abound in Mysterious Disappearances TV Anime New Trailer Joining the cast are: Shizuku voiced by Rie Takahashi (Emilia in Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- ) Nodoka Ametsuchi voiced by Saya Aizawa (Amako in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic ) "John Doe" voiced by Yuya Uchida (Charlotte Perospero in One Piece ) Related: VTuber Jormun Himeuo Serves as Mysterious Disappearances Anime's Promotion Support Captain A premiere date of April 10 has been confirmed for the series.