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© Katsuhisa Kigitsu 2007, 2008 As a horror manga connoisseur, I’ve always stuck to the classics: Junji Ito, Shintaro Kago, and Hideshi Hino. Katsuhisa Kigitsu’s Franken Fran was always one series that called out to me, however, after untranslated images hit the Internet and I …Read more »
If you missed out on a fairly meager US theatrical outing (festivals only) for Yoshihiro Nishimura ( Tokyo Gore Police ) and Naoyuki Tomomatsu's Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl , you'll be able to make up for that soon enough thanks to Funimation. The US …Read more »
This year's New York Asian Film Festival featured quite a few special guests flown from overseas, but none seemed more omnipresent than Tokyo Gore Police director Yoshihiro Nishimura. Even in comparison to fellow goremeisters Tak Sakaguchi ( Versus , Yoroi Samurai Zombie ), Noburo Iguchi …Read more »
Stop me if you've heard this one: At the close of World War II, in a desperate attempt to create the ultimate super-soldier, a Nazi submarine absconds from Germany with the heart of Frankenstein's Monster in tow. The submarine transports the still-beating heart to Hiroshima, …Read more »
There is sad news as it’s been reported that actor and director Greg Finley has passed away. Finley lent his talents to many movies and TV shows, ranging from Lilo & Stitch to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But to otaku, he …Read more »
It’s just a month ’til Halloween! With spooky season now underway, we’re already in the mood for monsters, ghouls, ghosts, and all things scary. But it’s early days yet, so we’re easing into the frights. To get started, why not try this short list of …Read more »
A good number of fall anime series are wrapping up this week or next. So if you’re the type who prefers to wait and marathon a show, you’re about to have your pick of a lot of fun titles. Among them is Undead Murder Farce, a …Read more »
This week, Daisuke Enoshima’s Fabricant 100 came to a rather sudden end. Originally published as a one-shot in 2021, the series gives themes from Frankenstein a shonen flare. Now, at 36 chapters in, Yao Ashibe’s story has come to a close… and we’ve gotten some answers about the strange …Read more »
In a perfect world, we’d all be reading more manga. Especially since simulpubs are a thing now, meaning we don’t have to rely on the manga section at the local bookstore to decide what to read. At the same time, lots of popular titles are …Read more »
Kitaro mixes horror, weirdness and humor in a unique formula. The main character, Kitaro, is a strange little boy whose father lives in his eye socket . . . in fact, his father is an eye with a tiny body, arms and legs underneath. And …Read more »
It was recently announced that Junji Ito has put his unique spin on four Magic: the Gathering cards. The horror manga master and wholesome cat owner drops his Secret Lair contribution for a limited time next month. And what we’ve seen so far is absolutely …Read more »
Who says anime and manga can’t be educational?… Okay, at this point, no one (thank you, Cells at Work!). Let’s put it another way: just as anime and manga are great ways to experience new stories, they’re also home to a lot of very cool retold …Read more »
A 34-year-old man in Fujimicho, Tokyo has been arrested for allegedly selling a counterfeit Puella Magi Madoka Magica figure on an auction site. And the figure, it turns out, was very, uh, special. Get this: the suspect allegedly took the head off a legit figure …Read more »
Following up on an earlier OVA, one of the big Crunchyroll Original anime titles on the horizon is the new Noblesse anime. Now we know what to expect from the Noblesse anime OP and ED themes, which both tap some major K-Pop talent for the …Read more »
We’ve got a bunch of new deets on Noblesse, the new Crunchyroll-produced anime based on a Korean manhwa from Jeho Son and Kwangsu Lee. The series, about a Noble named Raizel who awakens after a 820-year slumber, is set to hit the streaming service this …Read more »
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