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Anime News NetworkVFXRainy Day Serenade Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, Staff, April 2027 Debut Yume Miyamoto, Takeo Ōtsuka star in anime

Anime News NetworkVFXWound & Bandage Anime's New Video Reveals More Cast & Staff, Opening Song Kō Bonkobara, Kengo Takanashi join cast

Anime News NetworkVFXLaid-Back Camp Season 4's Trailer Unveils April 2027 Debut Trailer also previews Asaka, Eri Sasaki's theme songs

Anime News NetworkVFXHe Does a Body Good Webtoon Gets AnimeFesta Anime in January 2027 Atsushi Hizashi, Ion Momoyama, Towa Miyako, Milk Amai star in anime

Anime News NetworkVFXBooty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight! Manga Gets TV Anime in January Hisako Tōjō, Nao Shiraki, Natsumi Murakami, Hikaru Iida star in risque martial arts anime

Anime News NetworkVFXAmahara's 33 Years Old Single Girl Knight Captain Manga Gets Anime Digital Shokunin produces anime about overworked, sex-starved knight captain

Anime News NetworkVFXNinja Skooler Anime Unveils Pilot Film, Images, Song Shunsuke Takarai to direct light-hearted ninja anime based on concept by Kinema Citrus

Anime News NetworkVFXPlayStation 5 Reaches Over 97 Million Shipments Sony shipped 4.2 million PS5 units for current fiscal year so far

Anime News NetworkVFXNintendo Switch 2 Sells Over 26 Million Units Mario Kart World , Donkey Kong Bananza , Pokémon Legends: Z-A , Pokémon Pokopia top Switch 2 sales

Anime News NetworkVFXI'm Kodama Kawashiri Manga Gets Live-Action Short Series Kanna Hashimoto stars in series starting on January 11

Anime News NetworkVFXEternal Palace Sakura Game Launches for Switch, PC Denneko Yuugi's 3D action roguelite game streams trailer

Anime News NetworkVFXCrunchyroll to Stream Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Anime's English Dub on November 12 English trailer previews returning dub cast

Anime News NetworkVFXTitan Manga Licenses Kuruno Loves the Occult!, Dominating at the Academy of Returned Heroes, More Manga Also: The Limits of High-Spec Marriages , Revenge of the Rock 'n' Roll Sisters , Mountain God's Personal Manga Artist

Anime News NetworkVFXGood Smile Company Partially Reopens on November 6 Following Data Breach of Online Store Store reopens for viewing product information only after company discovered breach on October 23

Anime News NetworkVFXLycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. Anime Short Films Get Manga Adaptation Lycoris Recoil manga adaptation's Yasunori Bizen to draw new manga

Anime News NetworkVFXThe Dangers in My Heart Season 3 Anime's Teaser Trailer Reveals April 2027 Premiere Manga's 14th, final volume shipped on Friday

Anime News NetworkVFXOceanVeil Streams English Dub of Even the Student Council Has It's Holes! Anime Alan Lee, Courtney Lin, Xanthe Huynh, more star in English dub that debuted on October 31

Anime News NetworkVFXMAGES. Works on New Girls und Panzer Console Game Franchise announces new game on November 14 at Oarai

Anime News NetworkVFXA Few Moments of Cheers' Studio Hurray! Animates Wondering Mate Net Shorts Yuno Nakahara, Nobuhiko Okamoto play avatars from discontinued apps

Anime News NetworkVFXFool Night Anime's Trailer Reveals Theme Songs, Additional Cast Tempalay, Nowlu perform theme songs for November 26 anime

Anime News NetworkVFXSenren * Banka Anime Reveals TV Format The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the anime adaptation of Yuzu Soft's Senren * Banka visual novel opened on Thursday and revealed...

Anime News NetworkVFXSatoshi Mizukami's Spirit Circle Manga Gets TV Anime in December Late director Tatsuo Satō helmed his final work at studios NAGOMI x EOTA

Anime News NetworkVFXNew Code Geass Star Chaser Aspal Anime Unveils Cast, More Staff Ivan Shibata, Hibiku Yamamura star in Sunrise anime

Anime News NetworkVFXThe Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom Anime Casts Ryōta Takeuchi Takeuchi plays character Saturno in episode 6 on Saturday

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo