Where our facts come from
Most English-language anime news is a rewrite of another English-language
report. We start further back. An article here is written from the Japanese
announcement itself — the studio’s site, the publisher’s release, the
broadcaster’s schedule page — and every article links to it.
English outlets and Japanese news sites still matter to us: they tell us a
story broke, and we check facts against them. But they are never the basis for
what we publish. If we cannot reach an official announcement, we do not run the
story.
What we check before publishing
Every draft passes an automated check against the source before a person
sees it:
- Every figure is checked against the source. Dates,
times, prices, episode and season numbers are extracted from the official
announcement and compared against the finished article. A figure that appears
nowhere in our material stops the draft outright. A figure that appears in the
media report we found the story through, but not in the official announcement,
is flagged for the editor to confirm before it is published. - What was announced has to be in the announcement. If an
article says a trailer, a key visual, a cast addition or a theme song was
revealed, the source has to mention one. A draft that describes something the
announcement does not contain is held back — this is the check that catches a
plausible sentence with nothing behind it. - The English article and its Japanese translation must agree.
We write both and compare their figures; a mismatch stops the draft. - Missing information stays missing. We do not infer a
platform, a region, a timezone or a release time. When an announcement does
not give a premiere date, we say it has not been announced rather than
estimate one.
How these articles are written
Drafts are produced by a language model working from the official
announcement, then checked mechanically as described above, then read and
published by a person. Nothing reaches this site automatically. A draft that
fails the checks is not corrected and pushed through — it is held back.
Some things cannot be settled by a machine, and we would rather say so than
imply otherwise. Work titles are one: where a title has a licensed English
form we use it, and where it does not we keep the romanised Japanese rather
than translating one ourselves — but that is a rule the writing follows and an
editor confirms, not something a check can decide. The same applies to whether
a sentence fairly represents what the announcement meant, as opposed to
whether its facts appear there at all.
We are explicit about this because the checks above are the point. The
constraint we accept is that our articles are short when the announcement is
short. We would rather publish eighty words that are all verifiable than six
hundred words of padding.
Schedules and where to watch
Our “Where to Watch” pages carry two different kinds of information, and we
keep them apart:
- Announced schedules come from official announcements.
Each entry links to the announcement that stated it. When a date changes, we
keep the previous one and record which later announcement changed it — so
you can see that a premiere moved, and who said so. - Platform listings are reference data from AniList. They
reflect what is listed, not what has been officially announced, and we label
them that way on every page. Regional availability varies; check the
platform for your country.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Corrections to a
published article are made in the article, and we note what changed and when.
If an official announcement itself changes, that is not a correction — it is
news, and it appears in the schedule history for that work.
Images
We do not publish key visuals, promotional art or screenshots that we have no
right to use. The card at the top of each article is generated from the
headline. When a licensed image is used, its source and licence are credited on
the image.
Independence
We are not paid by studios, publishers or platforms to cover anything. No
story here has been offered, reviewed or approved by the companies it is about.
Where a link earns us a commission, it is marked as such.
Contact
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us.