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One advantage the Japanese version of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse—the sequel to hit award-winning 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse—has over the rest is a unique theme song, and it’s being sung by none other than anisong superstar LiSA, known for her Demon Slayer: Kimetsu …Read more »
Another week, another depressing story about the Japanese animation industry! Okay, this info isn’t particularly new, but it’s making the rounds again thanks to being shared on a Japanese TV show. The show compared the average yearly salary animators in China and Japan. On the …Read more »
With Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba making mega yen in Japan, weekly rag Spa! has decided to delve into that time-honored topic: poor conditions for animators. To learn more about conditions on the ground, Spa! interviewed a 43-year-old Japanese animator going by the pseudonym Daigo …Read more »
Every year, France’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival features a special program devoted to the animation of a selected country. This year, for the first time in 20 years, that country is Japan. That’s the word from an Annecy press conference held in Tokyo today. …Read more »
We hear it a lot around here: the number of anime series goes up every year, but the actual number of animators doesn’t (no small wonder, with the money they get paid). That means production delays, wonky animation and sometimes flat-out cancelations. One group of …Read more »
Many western anime fans find themselves drawn to the medium because, unlike western cartoons, some anime films and series are aimed at an adult audience. This particular fan remembers well the shock he received on stumbling across the ultra-violent Fist of the North Star at …Read more »
Law & Order , CSI , True Detective : America loves its police shows, all right, but it doesn’t have a lock on genre by any means. To prove the point, ranking site Goo has asked its readers to list their 20 favorite police anime. …Read more »
Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of. If that’s the case, what then are teenage girls made of? And what must they be to become idols? That’s the million dollar question in Wake Up, Girls! , the new idol-themed …Read more »
Yesterday, Japanese TV station NHK announced starting next year, they will be showing reruns of Love Live! , the popular series about idols who team up to prevent their school from shutting down. That and a weird conflux of other otaku-related topics, prompted a wave …Read more »
Ever since 2010, the Japanese Government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs has chipped in money (about $2 million annually) to the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA), who then go on to distribute that money to studios as part of what they call the Young Animator Training …Read more »
Frequent Otaku USA readers are well aware that it’s a hard world out for young Japanese animators. The industry is awash in profit, but very little of that profit seems to be trickling down, with newbie animators making so little money they have to live …Read more »
As anime’s popularity grows, so does the awareness that it’s not uncommon for people working at anime studios to be overworked and not paid very well. There have been calls for this to change, and animator Joan Chung spoke to Anime News Network about her …Read more »
For those of us who have been waiting for more details on the Star Wars: Visions animated anthology—which features the work of renowned Japanese animators and creators and will tell new stories in the universe—there’s a panel on the way to this year’s Anime Expo …Read more »
The sad news that anime director Osamu Kobayashi has passed away is making its way across the internet today. The director and animator was known for his work on BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad, Paradise Kiss, Naruto Shippuden, Gurren Lagann, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and …Read more »
If you stick around for the credits when you watch anime (which you totally should!), you’ll notice that a lot of the folks who help make it happen are from outside Japan. It’s been pretty standard practice for decades for Japan to outsource animation—especially in-between …Read more »
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