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This year, Amazon Prime Day has doubled into a full 48-hour period of deals. If you’re a Prime member, you have access to bargains on hundreds of products from July 15 to 17. Pretty much everything is discounted, from games and PC hardware to console controllers and VR headsets. That includes tabletop games as well.

In the following guide, we outline our favorite tabletop game deals happening on Amazon right now. Whether you’re looking for a simple card game to play with the family, a multi-layered board game to take on with your friends, or something in-between, we’ve got you covered.

As Prime Day hasn’t started yet, many of these deals can be enjoyed by all shoppers, not just Prime subscribers. That may no longer be the case come Amazon Prime Day, so if you’re not a Prime member and you see a deal that you want to take advantage of, it’s better to buy sooner rather than later.

Board Games

Card Games

If you’re looking for some advice, I’d highly recommend Red Dragon Inn 5: The Character Trove (which is linked above). Red Dragon Inn is a fairly easy card game to pick up, but the addition of yearly character expansions means strategies for the game are constantly evolving and growing more complex over time. The aforementioned fifth expansion comes in a box large enough to store the four included character decks as well as all the cards that come in the original game and expansions 2-4, making it the perfect box to start with. Red Dragon Inn requires a minimum of two players, but the maximum is only limited by the number of unique character decks you have. Currently, there are over two dozen characters (with even more on the way) so you can play with a massive group of people.

Amazon Prime Day 2019 Coverage

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A new trailer for the upcoming movie by anime director Tatsuyuki Nagai has been released. Nagai is best known in the anime industry for directing the anime series Toradora and Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, as well as the movie The Anthem of the Heart. The new trailer for his upcoming film can be watched below.

The 90-second trailer teases the upcoming movie’s story, which follows the evolving relationship between two sisters: Akane and Aoi. The siblings live on their own, as their parents both died 13 years prior. One day, Akane (who’s the older sister) reunites with her ex-boyfriend, Shinnosuke, who is now a professional musician. At the same time, a teenage Shinnosuke (from 13 years ago and who goes by Shinno) travels forward in time from the past and befriends the younger Aoi. As Akane and Shinnosuke rekindle their old flame, Aoi begins to fall in love with Shinno.

The upcoming film, Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito Yo (which, according to Crunchyroll, translates into The Person Who Knows About the Sky’s Blueness) is the third and final anime in a planned trilogy of stories all taking place in the same setting. The previous anime in the series are Anohana and The Anthem of the Heart. The Person Who Knows About the Sky’s Blueness is scheduled to be released in Japan on October 11, with an international debut planned for a later date.

For more anime, check out our coverage of Anime Expo, which is linked below.

2011’s Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day follows a group of childhood friends who slowly reunite in high school. The group drifted apart after one of its members, Menma, died in an accident unwittingly caused by the others. Jinta, the leader of the group and who loved Menma, becomes a recluse after her death. However, when Menma’s ghost appears to Jinta and begins asking him to help her grant her one true wish so she can go to the afterlife, Jinta reluctantly turns to his old friends to help him figure out what the wish is.

2015’s The Anthem of the Heart revolves around high school student Jun, who is unable to speak. Her disability is the result of a fairy’s curse, a punishment enacted on Jun when she was a little girl. Always talkative as a child, Jun accidentally caused her parent’s divorce when she tells her mom about seeing her dad at a love hotel with a strange woman. In the present day, Jun is assigned to the Charity Committee, where she happens upon one of the members, Takumi, singing. Captivated by his voice, Jun begins planning a musical with him and her fellow committee members, believing that, through song, she will finally be able to speak.

This year, Amazon Prime Day is actually more Amazon Prime Days with a full 48 hours of deals. Provided you’re a Prime member, you have access to bargains on hundreds of products. Everything, from games and PC hardware to console controllers and VR headsets, is on sale. Even plenty of anime products receive a hefty discount.

Given Prime Video’s rapidly growing presence as a serious contender in the anime streaming space, Amazon may not discount as many Blu-ray and DVDs for mainstream series and movies as it did last year. Even if it does, you may not want to take advantage of all of them. Amazon Prime Video has spent the past few years getting the streaming rights to many of those major anime series, as well as securing exclusivity on some truly remarkable stories–such as Re:Creators, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, After the Rain, Iroduku: The World in Colors, Dororo, and Vinland Saga. Without a doubt, the best anime deal you can find on Amazon right now is buying into Prime Video. You’re missing out on some great series without a membership.

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Amazon hasn’t completely stepped away from physical sales, though, and is planning on using Prime Day to offer discounts on the series that aren’t a part of Prime Video. There’s a whole lot more than just Blu-ray deals for anime fans to take advantage of as well–there are discounts on box sets, plushies, and other types of collectibles.

Below we’ve highlighted some of the best anime deals to take advantage of around Prime Day, and most of them aren’t at Amazon. Rightstuf is having one of its huge anime sales right now, and Best Buy and Walmart both have a few excellent anime deals going on at the moment. We’ll continue to fill the list out with Prime Day deals as we hear of them, so stay tuned.

Best anime deals at Amazon

Best anime Blu-rays and box set deals elsewhere

Anime collectibles deals

• Darling in the Franxx (Zero Two & Ichigo) Nendoroid Bundle — $80 (Rightstuf)
• Haikyu!! Competitors (Kenma & Kotaro) Nendoroid Figure Bundle — $64 (Rightstuf)
• Haikyu!! Crows (Yu & Ryunosuke) Nendoroid Figure Bundle — $70 (Rightstuf)

If you’re looking for even more anime as you wait for Prime Day, we’ve got you covered. July marks the start of the summer season, which means a bunch of new movies and series have made their debut. To help you wade through the dozens of new titles to choose from, we’ve put together a guide of the eight anime to add to your queue and watch this summer–one of which is a Prime Video exclusive. Earlier this month, we attended Anime Expo and compiled galleries of the best anime games and best cosplay at the convention.

For more on Amazon Prime Day(s) 2019, look below to read through all the deals we’ve compiled. Prime Day ends at on July 17 at midnight (no matter which timezone you live in).

Amazon Prime Day 2019 Coverage

It’s been a boon for Persona 5 fans lately as developer Atlus has been consistently revealing details on the upcoming Persona 5 Royal–the definitive version of the original RPG. And the latest “Morgana Report” video outlined several new features and mechanics that the game will include. These videos are in Japanese but translations have given us further insight into what Morgana has to say about P5R’s new content.

The new partner attacks that we’ve been seeing throughout P5R’s build up have an official name now; they’re called Show Time attacks. So far, we’ve seen Show Time attacks from the duos of Haru-Morgana, Ryuji-Yusuke, Ann-Morgana, Makoto-Ryuji, and most recently Yusuke-Ann. It’s not entirely clear how you’ll initiate these extravagant, high-damage attacks, but it was hinted that their availability will be tied to developing relationships between specific characters.

Another aspect of combat that has been further explained is changes to the Baton Pass mechanic. With a high-enough Confidant level, party members in the original game could transfer their extra turn (earned from critical or weakness hits) to another member. P5R will flesh out the feature even more to make it more effective. Taking a page out of the Persona Q book, spells and attacks can be used free of HP or SP costs after a Baton Pass. Furthermore, party members will restore a small amount of HP and SP when chosen to receive the extra turn. It appears that these perks will develop through a separate social ranking system, which was briefly shown in the Morgana Report video, where the player reached Rank 3 with Ann after a game of darts.

Combat will be even more dynamic because of accessories you can equip to other party members’ personas. Depending on what you equip, characters can cast spells outside of their original moveset; for example, we see Ann using an Ice-type attack through this system. It’s another similar element from Persona Q where characters can have sub-personas and cast different spells.

Yusuke and Ann shutting it down with their Showtime attack.

Outside of combat, social activities have expanded. Some of the hangout spots in the new part of town called Kichijoji were previously teased, but the latest video shows more of what these entail. You can actually take part in the DartsLive minigame (shout out to the Yakuza games) that’s in the pool hall Penguin Sniper. There’s also a jazz bar to chill at and get a drink with the team; you can see Joker and Makoto on a date at Jazz Jin and subsequently leveling up her persona. Like previous Persona games, P5R will feature a Shrine to visit during off hours, and it seems like it’ll provided boosts to Joker’s SP. Other small addition were showcased as well, like the ability to trade in gear you don’t use in exchange for points to spend on other equipment.

We’ve been keeping up with the new, upcoming version to Persona 5; you can catch up with our breakdown of the first P5R reveal trailer and compilation of all the P5R details that have come out since. While the game is set to release on October 31, 2019 in Japan, we’ll have to wait until sometime in 2020 when P5R launches worldwide, exclusively for the PlayStation 4.

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