Backdrops are called backdrops for a reason—they’re designed to fade against the focus of a particular scene. But as a new single-serving Tumblr called Anime Backgrounds proves, sometimes the ...

New audio episodes of “The Anime Effect” air every Friday at 12:30 a.m. EST and full video episodes arrive on Crunchyroll and the official Crunchyroll YouTube channel starting at 7 p.m. EST.

Just a couple months after Crunchyroll’s new weekly podcast series “The Anime Effect Podcast” launched on the company’s YouTube page, it’s now gearing up to make its TV debut on the Crunchyroll ...