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The fate of quite a few very popular titles is looking pretty bright, as FUNimation announced a deal with Geneon to distribute select DVD titles in North America. This partnership, which bodes well for pretty much everyone, includes mega-hits like Ergo Proxy , Black Lagoon …Read more »
Producer Hiroe Tsukamoto was a major force in getting anime to America. Now Bang Zoom! Studios has shared the sad news that she has passed away. Bang Zoom! Studios wrote: “It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the loss of one of the greats …Read more »
The first 13 episodes of the BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- anime launched on Netflix in late June, and episodes 14-24 will start streaming next week, on Thursday September 15. Ahead of this a trailer has dropped that’s a little over two minutes long. In …Read more »
The English dub for Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU becomes available on Funimation this week, and it has a returning cast from the previous Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU anime. Apphia Yu is back as Rika Furude, Emi Lo is back as Rena …Read more »
The most jacked featherweights ever The definitive boxing anime of the 2000s is back, and perhaps for the first time it’s getting a fair shot at success in the US. It took Jyoji “George” Morikawa roughly a decade before he would agree to permit his …Read more »
Otaku of a certain age will remember a franchise called Battle Athletes, a manga and anime from the ‘90s in which girls from around the world face off in an Olympic-style athletic competition… in space! Now the ‘90s franchise is back with a new manga …Read more »
One of the most interesting anime series of the 2000s may be set for a comeback. Funimation recently tweeted an image with the following text: “A mystery is about to unfold, but are you ready for the answer? Something is about to make its way …Read more »
In A Little Snow Fairy Sugar , Saga is a hyper-competent, hyper-organized girl who lives with her grandmother in the (fictional) walled town of Muhlenberg, Germany. Between school, a part time job at the “Little Me” coffee shop, and visits to the local music store …Read more »
It’s June in 1983, and Keiichi Maebara has recently moved from Tokyo to Hinamizawa—a rural village steeped in superstition and inhabited by a tightly knit but relatively small population that’s quietly grown slightly smaller over the past few years. Initially, everything about Hinamizawa agrees with …Read more »
If you enjoyed any of the well-regarded anime dubs from Geneon during the mid-2000s, you likely have Jonathan Klein to thank. As the vice-president and co-owner of New Generation Pictures, Klein produced the dubs for Hellsing , Ergo Proxy and Paranoia Agent during the American …Read more »
A friend of mine once described the 1998 anime classic Cowboy Bebop as an “anime for people who hate anime.” I suppose in many ways then, Samurai Champloo is an animated samurai film for those who can’t be bothered to check out jidaigeki or “period …Read more »
Part Indiana Jones, part military badass, Taichi Hiraga Keaton is truly an international man of mystery. His outward appearance is that of any average college lecturer, but his specialties are something to behold. Formerly a member of the SAS, Keaton is a master of survival, …Read more »
Taliesin Jaffe broke into the anime industry via, perhaps, the most romantic and idealized method imaginable: he made fandubs, shopped them around, was in the right place at the right time, and soon enough found his foot in the door in a big way, doing …Read more »
Tom Wayland could be called a Renaissance man of the anime world, or of the entertainment world in general. He knows how to direct (he’s Pokémon ’s longest running director, in fact), produce, write and act in anime, and he’s been involved one way or …Read more »
George Morikawa’s boxing manga series Hajime no Ippo is the stuff of legends. It’s been running for 24 years, starting at a time when using Mike Tyson as an inspirational figure to shy, bullied main protagonist Ippo Makunouchi seemed like a totally reasonable idea. Just …Read more »
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