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The official website for the upcoming TV anime Wash It All Away released a seasonal visual for summer today. The summer visual depicts the protagonist, Wakana Kinme, walking in Atami Shinsui Park in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The anime's main story takes place in the city. New visuals will continue to be released seasonally. Related: Sankarea Creator's Wash It All Away Manga Gets TV Anime Adaptation The TV anime adaptation of Mitsuru Hattori's ( Sankarea ) slice-of-life manga Wash It All Away (known as Kirei ni Shitemoraemasuka? in Japan) is set to premiere in 2026. Sayumi Suzushiro (Himari in Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? ) is cast as the protagonist, Wakana Kinme. Kenta Onishi serves as director, alongside series composition writer Toko Machida ( Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan ) and character designer by Azuma Tozawa ( Hell's Paradise animation director). Okuruto Noboru works on anime production. Mitsuru Hattori's original manga was serialized in Square Enix...

An official website and X (formerly Twitter) account opened today announced that an anime adaptation of Mitsuru Hattori's Wash It All Away slice-of-life manga is in the works for a planned 2026 broadcast. The below teaser visual was unveiled, along with production staff details and the casting of Sayumi Suzushiro (Himari in Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? ) as Wakana Kinme. Wash It All Away Teaser Visual Related: Whoever Steals This Book Anime Film Announced for 2026 Release Mitsuru Hattori's ( Sankarea ) Wash It All Away manga was serialized in Young Gangan magazine from July 2017 to June 2023, and spans ten collected volumes. Kenta Onishi directs the Wash It All Away anime at studio Okuruto Noboru, with series composition by Toko Machida ( Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan ) and character designs by Azuma Tozawa ( Hell's Paradise animation director). Square Enix publishes an official English version of the original manga and describes the story: For two years,...

San Francisco, CA—Digital manga subscription service Azuki is adding over 300 volumes from 77 manga series published by Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC to its library, now available to purchase on Azuki's website. The Kodansha additions on Azuki's website will continue in batches that will be announced in the coming weeks. With thousands of chapters already available with an Azuki Premium subscription, the addition of individual volume purchases on the website allows many of the manga series that were previously partially available to be read to completion.

The 77 manga series in the current batch, including Fire Force; A Silent Voice; Kiss Him, Not Me!; Princess Jellyfish; Attack on Titan; and Edens Zero, are available now for purchase on the Azuki website and readable via Azuki's web, iOS and Android apps. The full list is below:

Air Gear Ajin Demi-Human Aoba-kun's Confessions Arisa Atsumori-kun's Bride-to-Be Attack on Titan Basilisk Battle Angel Alita Beauty Bunny Beware the Kamiki Brothers!

A paranormal romance normally revolves around the love affair between a human and a magical being or supernatural entity. Sometimes both lovers are supernatural beings, but one is newly initiated into that world. The creatures vary from shifters to vampires to werewolves to ghosts, and beyond. Themes of immortality, lost love, and violence tend to permeate these stories.

Gothic romance novels popularized the concept of paranormal romances. In gothic romances, the paranormal entities tended to be steeped in metaphor while the more modern romances are explicitly paranormal. The genre was widely popularized in novels and plays, but several amazing anime series take the concept and run with it.

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Momo & Fine (Vampire In The Garden)

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Some anime couples are just so farfetched that they're laughable. But somehow, the couples' incongruous natures and predicaments work together to make a compelling, or at least entertaining, love story. Sometimes the couples are such a disaster that even if the audience knows it's a dumpster-fire, they just can't look away.

Just because an anime couple may never work in real life doesn't mean it doesn't make a great story. Some off-beat anime may be incredibly unlikely, but their romance has a certain charm. They may be hokey in every other story, but sometimes the perfect elements converge to make a silly premise entirely watchable.

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Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun

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Not every shonen can pull off the complex, imaginative storyline of Attack on Titan or Chainsaw Man. Thankfully, some of the more faulty shonen series compensate for their storytelling shortcomings with the magnetism of their characters. These shonen titles are some of the worst the genre offers, but incredible characters make watching them worthwhile.

Trinity Seven

A painfully unimaginative harem plotline, unoriginal magic system, and tiresome school setting spelled disaster for Trinity Seven right off the bat. While lacking in cohesive, original storytelling, the series shocks viewers with the amount of character...