Samantha Ferreira

3 days ago | animeherald.com | Samantha Ferreira

Good evening everybody, and Happy Pride. This year has been a momentous one, to say lightly. In addition to being our fifteenth anniversary, it’s also the eighth year since our relaunch as a fully reader-supported publication. At the time, we had set out to turn Anime Herald into our ideal form, as an ad-free outlet that pays fair rates to our editorial team and writers.

6 days ago | animeherald.com | Samantha Ferreira

Over the last weekend of April 2005, Anime Boston rang in its first-ever convention at the Hynes Convention Center. For the first time, the event could operate beyond the constraints of the Park Plaza, with no attendance caps and nearly 100,000 square feet of space to play with. And in turn, the convention raised the bar with a star-studded guest list that included Chrono Crusade creator Daisuke Moriyama, Greg Ayres, Monica Rial, and Yoko Ishida.

1 week ago | animeherald.com | Samantha Ferreira

Good evening, and Happy Wednesday. I’m overjoyed to announce that, as of last week, Anime Herald has entered a new era. On May 19, we announced that we would be publishing our first-ever print magazine. The new publication, titled Anime Herald Magazine, will launch in October, with a suggested retail price of $17.95 USD. A digital edition is also planned, which will launch on the same day as the physical edition, with a suggested price of $12.75 USD.

2 months ago | animeherald.com | Samantha Ferreira

Hi everyone, it’s your favorite mascot, Hera. 💖Ladies, gals, and non-binary pals, behold! Anime Herald has mastered time travel!… … … I think. Maybe? I’m not really sure how this works. I just got an urgent email from Samantha about an hour ago that wasn’t super clear. She mentioned something about finding a weird timey portal thing at the bottom of her old review screener box, then went off on a long rant about “the secret history of the anime fandom” that I didn’t really pay attention to.

2 months ago | animeherald.com | Borealis Capps |Samantha Ferreira

In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, “In the world nothing can be said to be certain, except for death and taxes.” Unfortunately, Franklin failed to consider the certainty that anime would be made about taxes as it would take over a century from when he wrote that letter before the medium would even exist. Post World War II, Japan had many debts it needed to repay and needed funds to help with reconstructing the country.