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With the Shonen world already firmly in their grasp, Viz Media is moving on to more daunting pastures: the world of Japanese science-fiction novels. Beginning this summer, Viz is launching their Haikasoru imprint with a selection of contemporary sci-fi books from Japanese authors, a dedicated …Read more »
It took literally half my life, but I can finally truthfully say it: “Legend of the Galactic Heroes is available to watch legally in English.” The anime adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka’s hard sci-fi novels from the 1980s—currently being released in English courtesy of Viz Media’s …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks had a large assortment of acquisitions to announce at its Anime Expo panel on Thursday, including the Ushio and Tora anime, based on the original manga by Kazuhiro Fujita. Among the other summer 2015 anime licenses from Sentai were Aoharu x Machinegun , …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 »
Part short story collection, part novel, Hiroshi Yamamoto's The Stories of Ibis is largely a story about stories. It lurks somewhere in the interstices between the framing story of an android telling stories a la Scheherazade to a storyteller and the stories she tells. It …Read more »
Housuke Nojiri’s novel Usurper of the Sun is a novel of first contact, of enigmatic artifacts and ineffable extraterrestrials, of cognitive science and astroengineering. When high school astronomer Aki Shiraishi notices a tower on Mercury during its transit of the Sun, she immediately finds herself …Read more »
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