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 Mamoru Hosoda Exclusive InterviewBy Brian Camp Last week, we brought you a transcript of Mamoru Hosoda's public Q&A session on Wolf Children at the New York International Children's Film Festival. We were also able to get some one-on-one time with the famous anime director to discuss things in further detail. Q: How do you get an animated feature like this made these days— something that’s totally original and not based on a TV show or...
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 Mamoru Hosoda Brings Wolf Children to AmericaBy Brian Camp Mamoru Hosoda, director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006), Summer Wars (2010), and the first two Digimon movie shorts (1999-2000), appeared at the New York International Children’s Film Festival on March 9, 2013 to present his newest animated feature, Wolf Children , and take questions from the audience afterward. As with his two preceding features, Wolf Children , shown in a Japanese-...
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 Evangelion merchandise hands-onby Matt Schley It seems like not a week goes by when we don’t feature an article about some new Evangelion merchandise. Hey, we’ll stop reporting on it just as soon as they stop making the stuff (but considering it’s been coming out in a pretty much constant stream since 1994, don’t expect that to happen anytime soon). This week, we decided to get down and dirty in the Tokyo trenches and try out some of the ... |
 The Vault of Error: Hyper Dollby Paul Thomas Chapman A tsunami of recent nostalgia releases is wreaking havoc with my Vault of Error. I planned to review Demon City Shinjuku , but that title is once again readily available courtesy of Discotek Media. I considered examining Dominion: Tank Police and Black Magic M-66 , but Section23 has rescued the licenses for both of those. Every month it seems another relic from the early days of Amer... |
 A Memorable Stay at the Occult AcademyBy Joseph Luster In the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine, we bust out a feature on the mega-popular Sword Art Online , based on the light novels by Reki Kawahara. While Kawahara is no doubt a hot topic when it comes to SAO , the anime adaptation is also something director Tomohiko Ito has come to be known for. That's fine and dandy, but let's not forget Ito and studio A-1 Pictures' 2010 show, Occult Academy ...
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 Anime First Impressions: Valvrave the LiberatorBy Joseph Luster Valvrave the Liberator is a decent show that could be great. Sunrise's production isn't too shabby, it has a few cool mecha designs by folks like Makoto Ishiwata ( Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet , Robotics;Notes ), and, best of all, it has a twist at the end of the first episode that isn't obviously telegraphed. In order to talk about the series, I'll have to get into that, so if you still ...
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 The First Few Secondsby Ian Martin An old man sits writing in his home, built from the ruins of a crashed space rocket. He is interrupted by a young boy, who shouts excitedly that a shark is attacking the fish, before snatching a spear and running off. He climbs over the rusted hulk of an old battleship, takes a deep breath and dives in. Underwater, fish swim among the remains of a city, crashed cars piled up against the rottin... |
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