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Sentai Filmworks just keeps rolling out with solid acquisition announcements, and their latest is no exception. On Friday, they announced that they've acquired the rights to the 2009 Guin Saga anime, which is based on the 151-volume novel series by the late Kaoru Kurimoto. Directed …Read more »
These pages are typically home to more uplifting fare, so it saddens me to pass along news of Kaoru Kurimoto's passing. Kurimoto, just 56 at the time of her death, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007. She leaves behind her husband, Kiyoshi Imaoka, and …Read more »
In 1979, Japanese author Kaoru Kurimoto wrote the first volume of The Guin Saga series of novels, a heroic fantasy epic originally planned for 100 volumes. So far, the series is up to 116 volumes and still going. The story of an amnesiac warrior with …Read more »
Tokyo Station, the main hub for a whole mess of local trains, bullet trains in and out of the capital city, plus a vast underground shopping center, recently turned 100, and, naturally, an anime was released to mark the occasion. Because Japan. The short, which …Read more »
Given that modern Japanese culture is fairly preoccupied with the interface between fantasy and reality, fantasy—whether it involves the construction of an entire new world, as is common in Western fantasy, or simply the layering of a fantasy world along with the real world—is a …Read more »
Game of Thrones fan art by Joscomie [This story was original published in the June 24th, 2014 issue of Otaku USA e-News.] With the fourth season of HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones now behind us, many of us will be feeling a familiar sense …Read more »
It's kind of interesting to look at the variety of high fantasy anime out there. Considering that the whole high fantasy deal is usually a very, very western affair, you'd think that the stuff from Japan would tend to be obviously Japanese, or at least …Read more »
<< Back to Page 1 MARCH 30, 2011 Sket Dance Trivial troubleshooters Crunchyroll is adding another situational comedy to their spring lineup, this time in the form of Sket Dance . Based on Kento Shinohara's manga—recipient of the 55th annual Shogakukan Manga …Read more »
Anime distributor Section23 recently rolled out a fresh slew of acquisition announcements. Among them is Shin Koihime†Musō , a show based on BaseSon's series of adult adventure games, which is loosely based on the classic novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms . They'll be releasing …Read more »
Here is my short list of highlights from the 4th and final New York Anime Festival: - Yoshiyuki Tomino draws a haru-ball with every signature. - The one-man Indy-short Cencoroll premiered and looks like fun (I only saw the trailer). - Vertical picked up Chi's …Read more »
A new trailer has dropped for season two of the anime Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- (a.k.a. Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Dōchū in Japanese). It gives us info on actors joining the season. According to the trailer, Ai Kakuma plays Hibiki Otonashi, Ami Koshimizu plays Navarre Polar, …Read more »
Do you know? Do you know? Have you heard the news? “Geek” is now “mainstream.” Several of the most successful movies in the world and most popular shows on television are adaptations of comic books and SF novels. Multiple sitcoms, dramas, and unscripted “reality” programs …Read more »
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