Next Club Meeting:November 21, 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.
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Electro Andes is a young adult 2D action sci-fi series blending cyberpunk, Andean mythology, ecological conflict, and South American anime energy.
Two brothers join an eco-terrorist cell for very different reasons. One is driven by revenge. The other is searching for their missing grandfather. But when ancient legends awaken beneath the Andes, they find themselves caught in a ticking countdown: destroy everything, or save what’s left of the Andes.
Something spooky is happening only on Disney+. 👻😱 Disney Branded Television has unveiled the KYA, release date, and trailer for Xilám Animation and Disney EMEA Animation's "The Doomies". The animated series will premiere on Disney+ on June 26, with 22 half-hour episodes.
Disney has also unveiled "The Doomies" (Shorts), a new short-form series featuring four episodes: “Doug Unfiltered,” “Ghosted By A Ghost,” “Creepy Crepe” and “What Is That Thing?” set to release on the Disney Channel Animation YouTube channel and Disney+ on Friday June, 26.
Synopsis: When best friends Bobby and Romy accidentally open a portal to evil, their tranquil coastal town transforms into a hotspot for terrifying creatures of doom. As the ordinary teens navigate this extraordinary mystery, they face off against literal and inner monsters in this epic comedy that combines thrills, chills, and emotional spills.
"The Doomies" stars Max Mittelman (Viz Media "One Punch Man", Disney Japan "Twisted Wonderland: The Animation") as Bobby, Madison Calderon (Prime Video & Point Grey Pictures "Invincible: Atom Eve") as Romy, Noel Gibson (Nickelodeon Movies and Point Grey Pictures "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem") as Kim, Jon Bailey (Screen Junkies "Honest Trailers") as Doug, and Zehra Fazal ("Amphibia", Dreamworks Animation Television "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power") as Bobby's aunt Jenny.
“The Doomies” competes at the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival in the TV Films category. The episode “Night of the Fishing Dead” was selected from more than 2,400 submissions and will be screened alongside other official selections from June 21-27.
"The Doomies" (Original Series Soundtrack) featuring the score composed by Vincent Artaud ("Chip 'n Dale: Park Life") and Walt Disney Records will be released on Friday, June 26, on all digital music platforms.
The series' theme song will be released on digital platforms in a few weeks as a sneak peek for the show.
After death, before reincarnation, the souls of the deceased transit through a fantastical realm known as, Another World. Gudo is a spirit that helps to guide these transient souls to their reincarnation. While guiding a young girl named Yuri, he learns that humans have emotions that he does not understand. Tasked by Goddess Mira to help Yuri control her rage and prevent her transformation into a monster, Gudo embarks on a perilous mission.
From Rumiko Takahashi comes a supernatural tale woven across eras...
Eight years ago, Nanoka Kiba was saved from the wreckage of a fatal accident at Gogyō Town Shopping Center. Drawn to the abandoned passage of storefronts on her walk home from school in present day, she becomes inexplicably transported to Japan's Taishō period where she meets the mysterious Mao, a fellow traveler whose arrival at a ghost-inhabited village is simultaneous with hers. Together, they investigate the bizarre events that begin to occur around them, and Nanoka soon pieces together her broken memories of the accident and how she and Mao may have something more sinister in common.
DreamWorks Animation, the studio that brought you unforgettable bonds between a boy and a dragon in How to Train Your Dragon, an ogre and a donkey in Shrek, and a robot and a gosling in The Wild Robot, now welcomes a dazzling and emotional story about two lifelong best friends who must come together before they drift apart in Forgotten Island.
The new original film is written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado and is produced by Academy Award® nominee Mark Swift, the filmmaking team behind Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Grammy and Academy Award® winning supernova H.E.R. and Liza Soberano (Lisa Frankenstein, Alone/Together) star as high school graduates Jo and Raissa, who have been best friends since grade school but are now about to embark on separate life paths.
While celebrating their last night together, Jo and Raissa stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali, packed with magical and mythological creatures they grew up hearing stories about from their Filipino families.
Some of these figures will become friends, some foes. Joined by well-meaning-but- hapless weredog Raww (Dave Franco) and a small-but-mighty pack of pals, Jo and Raissa must face The Dreaded Manananggal (Tony winning icon Lea Salonga), the most feared creature on the island. When they discover that the memories of their entire friendship are the price for returning home, Jo and Raissa will race to find a way to leave the island before they forget each other forever.
The film’s all-star voice cast also includes Emmy nominee Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Dying for Sex), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place, Top Gun: Maverick), BAFTA nominee Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness, Ghostlight), global comedy superstar Jo Koy (Haunted Mansion, Jo Koy: Live from Brooklyn) and Emmy winner Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show, M3GAN).
Forgotten Island - In Theaters September 25
Every Filipino Reference in Forgotten Island Trailer
Follow the journey of Lin Qiye, a blind high school student who unexpectedly becomes a night watchman, tasked with protecting the nation from "mystical" invasions as the mist descends and gods reawaken. Leading his team, he tirelessly eliminates mythical creatures that emerge in modern society and eventually sets out on the path of god-slaying, evolving from guarding his small family to defending the nation.
From master storyteller, and Hellboy original creator: Mike Mignola and Brian Taylor, the twisted mind behind Crank, comes Hellboy: The Crooked Man based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel. Coming Soon.
This is a story about Momo, a high school girl who comes from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult fanatic. After Momo rescues Okarun from being bullied, they begin talking. However, an argument ensues between them since Momo believes in ghosts but denies aliens exist, and Okarun believes in aliens but denies ghosts exist.
To prove to each other what they believe in is real, Momo goes to an abandoned hospital where a UFO has been spotted and Okarun goes to a tunnel rumored to be haunted. To their surprise, they each encounter overwhelming paranormal activities that transcend comprehension. Amid these predicaments, Momo awakens her hidden power and Okarun gains the power of a curse to overcome these new dangers! Their fateful love begins as well!? The story of the occult battle and adolescence starts!
"Our cat might be turning into a nekomata..." A rural town where youkai, people and gods live normal, everyday lives, mixed with a bit of warmth and occasional mystery. One summer, the twenty-year old cat Buchio suddenly evolves into a nekomata. Questioning the reason for his evolution, he sets out to learn more about transformation, together with the transforming kitsune Yuri. Muu-chan spies on the crow Tengu Jirou as he performs his Tengu duties, and begins to see Jirou in a new light. At that same time, rumors of an unfortunate Nue begin to spread…
Welcome to Engamori, the cozy town where supernatural beings are your friendly neighbors. For generations and to this day, the otherworldly Yokai and humans have continued to protect their easygoing way of life. Enjoy the mountain breeze and uncover the mysterious bonds that lie within.
In the task of catching drug lords in the Yunnan border, a special forces team accidentally enters the ancient caves of the ancient Shu, and intruded on ancient rituals. The squad was almost completely annihilated. Only Shen Shuang and the anti-drug police Sun Desheng survived, as they were rescued by a mysterious white-haired man named Wu Hao. After this incident, the two men accidentally entered the "Civil Affairs Investigation and Research Bureau" and gradually became entangled in more supernatural events, revealing the veil of another world.
A girl wakes up in a secret laboratory and meets Kyung-hee, who is trying to protect her from a gang. When the gang finally finds the girl, they are overwhelmed by an unexpected power. Now streaming online.
A bloody revenge epic and breathtaking visual marvel, The Northman finds filmmaker Robert Eggers expanding his scope without sacrificing any of his signature style.
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Though mortal enemies, a human girl and a vampire queen set out in search of the paradise where humans and vampires once coexisted in peace.
The fateful meeting of a human and the vampire queen may change the world.
From WIT STUDIO and a team of talented creators comes
VAMPIRE in the GARDEN
One cold winter, humanity lost its battle with the vampires, and with it, most of where they called home. A small population of survivors created a wall of light in a small town to protect them and give them a place to live in peace. The protagonist, Momo, lives a repressed life but still wishes to coexist with the enemy, the vampires. Fine, the vampire queen, once loved humans and disappeared from the battlefield. As war rages through the humans’ town, the two have a fateful encounter. Once upon a time, humans and vampires lived in harmony in a place called Paradise. This is the story of a young girl and a vampire on a journey to find Paradise.
▶ Watch the Trailer Vampire in the Garden premieres May 16th, only on Netflix.
The upcoming fourth season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, titled Stranger Things 4, is scheduled to be released worldwide exclusively via Netflix’s streaming service in 2022. The fourth season has continued to be produced by the show's creators the Duffer Brothers, along with Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Iain Paterson. The show's main cast will continue to consist of Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, and Cara Buono, with Brett Gelman promoted to series regular. Jamie Campbell Bower, Eduardo Franco, and Joseph Quinn were newly added to the main cast for this season.
The Lord of Dreams has been summoned, and captured, by mortal men. Once free from his captivity, this eternal ruler of Dreams will realize that his troubles are only just beginning. The Sandman is a Netflix series based on the groundbreaking comic book series created for DC by Neil Gaiman. The series is Executive Produced by Neil Gaiman, Allan Heinberg, & David S. Goyer.
[Source: Variety] Thirty-two years after DC Comics published the first issue of “The Sandman,” Neil Gaiman’s
phantasmagoric dive into the world of dreams, Netflix unveiled the
first look at its highly anticipated live-action adaptation on Saturday.
Stars Tom Sturridge — who plays Morpheus, a.k.a. Dream, the titular ruler of Dreaming — and Kirby Howell-Baptiste — who plays Death, Dream’s chic and easygoing sister — revealed the first look during Tudum, Netflix’s global virtual fan event.
Executive produced by Gaiman, David S. Goyer, and showrunner Allan Heinberg (“The Catch,” “Scandal”), “The Sandman” is updating Gaiman’s graphic novel by setting it in the present day, rather than in the late 1980s (as Audible’s ongoing audiobook adaptation of “The Sandman” is doing). The story follows Morpheus after he’s escaped 105 years of imprisonment on Earth by occultist Roderick Burgess (Charles Dance) who, when attempting to capture Death in 1912, captured Dream instead. Upon his escape, Dream must reclaim the three totems of his power — his pouch of sand, his helm (which looks like an elaborate gas mask), and a ruby — before he can reconstitute and rebuild the dilapidated Dreaming world.
Given the vast, intricate
narrative and visual complexities of “The Sandman,” the title has vexed
would be filmmakers from adapting it as feature film. Most recently,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt was attached to star and direct, but left over
creative differences. Ultimately, Netflix picked up “The Sandman” as a
TV series, which Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment are
producing.
When introducing the first look at the series, Gaiman
said the “decades-long gestation” for the series was “a bit of a
blessing,” allowing him to ensure the series was “true to the comics.”
“What
astounded me through this process was how often it felt like I was
walking around inside the comics,” Gaiman said. “Everything from the
sense to the costumes to the effects felt it had been plucked from my
imagination.”
Gaiman then turned things over to Sturridge, who
introduced himself as “beyond anything else as a supreme fun of
Sandman.” The actor then debuted a first look at one of the opening
sequences from the show, when Burgess captures Dream. You can watch it
below.
Along with the first look video, Howell-Baptiste pointed fans to character posters for Dream, Death and their third sibling, Desire (Mason Alexander Park). You can see them below.
Other characters on “Sandman” will include:
Lucifer (Gwendoline
Christie), the androgynous ruler of Hell, who attempts to keep Dream
from reclaiming one of his totems. A version of the same character
headlined the popular series “Lucifer,” starring Tom Ellis, which just
premiered its final season on Netflix.
John Dee, a.k.a. Doctor Destiny (David Thewlis), an Arkham Asylum inmate who comes into possession of Dream’s ruby.
The
Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook), one of Dream’s nightmares who has two small
mouths where his eyes should be, usually covered with sunglasses.
Lucienne (Vivienne Acheampong), the librarian of the world of Dreaming (and has been gender swapped from Lucien in the comics).
Cain
(Sanjeev Bhaskar) and Abel (Asim Chaudhry), the sons of Adam and Eve
and, respectively, the first murderer and the first murder victim, who
now live in Dreaming and are locked into an unending loop recreating
Cain’s murder of Abel.
At last, "Chainsaw Man Trailer" first PV has been finally revealed! Based on the hit Action/Shounen manga "Chainsaw Man" (Published by Shueisha Jump Comics) written and drawn by Tatsuki Fujimoto that has a total of 11 million copies sold, "Chainsaw Man" anime adaptation is finally here!
SYNOPSIS
Broke young man + chainsaw dog demon = Chainsaw Man. The story follows a young boy named Denji, a poor boy who is forced by the yakuza into killing devils in order to pay off his crushing debts. However, after his last mission, he has outlived his usefulness and was murdered by a devil in contract working for the yakuza. But Denji's life of poverty has changed forever when he was revived by his pet/weapon chainsaw dog, Pochita! Catching the eye of the official devil hunters who arrived at the scene, he is offered work at the Public Safety Bureau as one of them. Now he's living in the big city and an official Devil Hunter, with the means to face even the toughest of enemies, Denji will stop at nothing to achieve his simple teenage dreams.
"Tokyo Revengers 2nd Cour Bloody Halloween Arc Trailer" is hyping the next big arc. The 13th episode coming in July will kick off the start of the "Valhalla Arc" or also known as "Bloody Halloween Arc". it will also explore the Tokyo Manji's origins and how Mikey and the others went on to form the group (as teased by this trailer).
When it comes to the supernatural, the cops have Alexanda Trese on speed dial. Set in Manila and based on the award-winning Filipino comic, TRESE brings horror folklore like you've never heard before.
"When the sun sets in the city of Manila, don’t you dare make a wrong turn and end up in that dimly-lit side of the metro, where aswang run the most-wanted kidnapping rings, where kapre are the kingpins of crime, and engkantos slip through the cracks and steal your most precious possessions. When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police call Alexandra Trese."
In the last years of Victoria’s reign, London is beset by the “Touched”: people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True (Laura Donnelly), a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.
They, themselves are not called that [The Nevers] in the show. It's a phrase that's meant to evoke a sort of reaction to their oddity, to what is considered unnatural. The idea that you should never be like this, you should never have existed. Something is not the way it should be, and you don't have the right to have whatever weird power or ability that you have. And that idea, that some people are not of the natural order, is fascinating to me. I don't agree with it. But to me, it's one of those things where you take something negative, and you wear it as a badge of honor, basically. Certain things could never happen - they're happening. And the people they're happening to are taking their place in the world.
