Next Club Meeting:October 17, 2026,at the Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Animatrix Network is an anime & manga fan club located in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. We usually meet on the third Saturday of each month (except when holidays or conventions coincide). The meetings are free and open to the public. Join us for a day filled with anime.
This site provides news, reviews, commentaries, and previews of the world of anime and everything it inspires in today's pop culture, such as live-action films, comics, music, art, and other weird things to enjoy and contemplate.
Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig brings C. S. Lewis’ beloved story The Magician’s Nephew to the screen for the first time in a sweeping adventure that invites dreamers of all ages to experience the creation of Narnia.
In Wallachia, 1846, an old fortress keeps its secrets behind rain-swept battlements and candlelit stone.
Night after night, Lord Vasari listens to the same delicate melody, unable—or unwilling—to sleep. The guards speak in whispers of “the third one.” A silent young valet watches from the shadows. And somewhere beyond the castle walls, beneath a cold and watchful moon, something is drawing near.
Who, or what, is the fourth?
Enter Lord Vasari’s castle, where every silence conceals a warning, every gaze suggests a hunter, and the darkness may be listening.
A flying DeLorean drops into a hundred years of history. The first powered flight, a muddy battlefield, the pyramids, Woodstock, a Japanese station square, the Great Wall, a stadium packed with people. Some point, some cheer, some hit the dirt, and one old soldier just salutes.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System
Born into a prestigious family of master swordsmen, Elymas Edvaughn’s future shatters when he awakens the so-called “defective” Heavy Knight class. Disowned and cast out, he regains memories of another life—and realizes this world mirrors a VR game he once mastered. Armed with knowledge no one else possesses, he sets out to rewrite his fate and prove the strength of the “weakest” class.
A peaceful village. A mysterious enemy. One night that changes everything. When darkness descends on Tamino, two boys are pulled into a fight far bigger than themselves.
When 18-year-old art student Natsumi moves in with her carefree older cousin Hiroto Ikuta, together they find that slowing down is sometimes the best way to move forward in life.
About 15 years ago, I recreated the opening title sequence for the greatest animated show ever on television. Like many, I have waited patiently for Hollywood to finally address the obvious need for a live-action JQ movie. With nothing on the horizon, I finally decided to create something on my own. Though JQ was obviously produced in color, I purposely chose to go with a black-and-white look in keeping with my earliest and fondest memory of watching Jonny Quest in our living room on our tiny black-and-white television. Like before, I claim no ownership of Jonny Quest, and this recreation of Episode One is just for fun and to show Those In Charge what it could possibly look like. Enjoy!
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea (大雪海のカイナ, Ōyukiumi no Kaina) is an original Japanese anime television series created by Tsutomu Nihei and animated by Polygon Pictures to commemorate the studio's 40th anniversary. The series aired from January to March 2023 on Fuji TV's +Ultra programming block. A manga adaptation with art by Itoe Takemoto was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius between February 2022 and June 2024. A sequel anime film titled Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage premiered in Japanese theaters in October 2023.
Kaina lives on a world covered in an organic membrane called the Canopy, created by massive Orbital Spire Trees. Far beneath the Canopy at the foot of the Orbital Spire Trees lies the endless Snow Sea, where Princess Ririha and her country of Atland struggle to survive against the cold and the rival nation of Valghia. When Ririha travels to the Canopy in a desperate bid to save her country, Kaina rescues her, setting in motion events that will lead the pair to travel the world to uncover its secrets.
