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Sponsored Spotlight: It’s a tale as old as time, but you’ve never seen it told quite like this before. The classic Journey to the West saga comes to wildly imaginative life in the Saiyuki anime, which can now be yours in Sentai Filmworks’ complete Blu-ray collection. Demonkind and mankind once …Read more »
The anime Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (a.k.a. Sōsō no Frieren in Japanese) has just debuted, and the people behind the project released both the creditless opening theme song “Yūsha” (translated as “Hero”) being performed by YOASOBI, as well as an official amv with footage from …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con occurred over the weekend, and that means that the winners of the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced. In the category Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia, the award went to Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki. The other nominees were …Read more »
The anime Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (a.k.a. Sōsō no Frieren in Japanese) will debut on September 29 with a special that’s a whopping two hours long. This was revealed in a new trailer that also lets us listen in on some of the Japanese voices. …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s early work Shuna’s Journey finally received an English release, thanks to graphic novel publisher First Second Books. Alex Dudok de Wit, who has written a book about Grave of the Fireflies published by the British Film Institute, worked as the translator. He spoke …Read more »
People the world over know about Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, but his book Shuna’s Journey, published in Japan shortly before the creation of Studio Ghibli, is not as well-known. It is just now getting an English translation thanks to graphic novel publisher First Second, so fans …Read more »
Hiraeth: The End of the Journey is an emotional and numinous manga. Teenager Mika runs in front of a truck, and a man knocks her to safety before she dies. But she doesn’t want to thank him, because she was trying to kill herself. Mika …Read more »
Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series is coming to Netflix on September 10, with twelve episodes becoming available that day. After that we’re supposed to get quarterly releases. This is the twenty-fourth season of Pokémon, and a trailer has been released for it. This is the …Read more »
Today Pokémon Journeys: The Series tweeted a trailer for future episodes and also shared more information about the anime. Two new actors have been cast in the Japanese version: Hiroshi Kamiya will play Tsurugi and Ryoko Shiraishi will play Asahi, both of whom are on …Read more »
Tsai Kun-lin, a Taiwanese manga publisher, helped bring about the country’s manga explosion in the 1960s. Now The Boy from Clearwater, a new graphic novel series from author Yu Pei-yun and illustrator Zhou Jian-xin, shares his incredible true story. Volume two drops on May 7 …Read more »
Yusuke Murata—who works as the One-Punch Man manga artist, following the act of creator ONE—is always impressing us with his artistic feats. The latest has him creating his first original anime project titled Zaiyuki with his in-house Village Studio behind production, and he went ahead …Read more »
Mark Osborne, director of Kung Fu Panda and 2015’s The Little Prince, is a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki. He also knows Miyazaki is a big fan of the French classic The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Osborne wanted to make sure he …Read more »
Anime fandom has gone global, and globally, people and companies are increasingly interested in Eastern animation. Variety just covered two such examples: American comics publisher Lion Forge has been reaching out to China, South Korea, and India for animation, and Saudi Arabian company Manga is …Read more »
Discotek, the licensor of choice for those into classic and/or leftfield anime, is out with an impressive list of new licenses and release details. The company unleashed this flood of information through a series of posts to its official Facebook page today. Let’s go through …Read more »
The tale of Goku, the world's strongest and yet most strangely underdeveloped fourteen-year-old, begins here, in a world where almost everyone of any importance is incompetent, a pervert, or both. Akira Toriyama was in what I like to refer to as his "white hot" phase, …Read more »
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