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No secret around here at e-New s HQ that we really, really like Masaaki Yuasa, director of The Tatami Galaxy and Kick-Heart . So it was with joy we learned this week that Yuasa has a new series premiering this spring. Ping Pong The Animation …Read more »
Fans of director Masaaki Yuasa made their way to Tokyo’s Roppongi district May 26th for a one-of-a-kind event – the premiere of the long-awaited Kickstarter-backed short Kick-Heart . While backers await their imminent DVDs and download codes, a few lucky folks got a first glimpse …Read more »
Kick-Heart , the Masaaki Yuasa-directed anime that made waves with its success on crowd-funding site Kickstarter, is gearing up for its May 26 premiere in Tokyo. The Masked Ball event will feature a live painting by Yuasa, as well as a musical performance by Oorutaichi …Read more »
If the name Masaaki Yuasa doesn’t ring a bell with a lot of anime fans, it’s not for lack of talent. The 47-year old director has marked himself over the last decade as one of the most bold and unique auteurs in Japanese animation, delivering …Read more »
This week marked the deadline for the funding of Kick-Heart , the crowd-funded anime short by Production I.G. and Masaaki Yuasa. With the ringing of the closing bell came good news: not only had Kick-Heart met its $150,000 goal, backers had helped reach a total …Read more »
As we recently reported , last week saw the announcement of an extremely ambitious and exciting project from animation house Production I.G. and director Masaaki Yuasa: Kick-Heart , an animated short to be paid for by fan contributions via crowd-funding website Kickstarter. Kick-Heart , a …Read more »
The government of Japan bestows the Medal with Purple Ribbon on “individuals who have contributed to academic and artistic developments, improvements and accomplishments.” This autumn, they’ve giving it to Masaaki Yuasa. Yuasa has been in the anime business for a long time. He began as …Read more »
Sumito Oowara’s Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! manga is getting an anime adaptation, and it has some heavyweight talent behind it. The official reveal has anime studio Science Saru handling production, with Devilman crybaby director Masaaki Yuasa on board as director and series composition writer. Production members working alongside …Read more »
I still can’t get over how one of the most popular and beloved anime titles of 2018 is one from Masaaki Yuasa of all people. For those wowed by the aesthetic of DEVILMAN Crybaby who are curious to see how much further their mind can …Read more »
We’ve been telling everyone who’ll listen that Masaaki Yuasa is one of the greatest anime directors working today, and he’s proven us right again with Devilman Crybaby, the Netflix original series that’s got everybody talking. Now it’s been announced you can do some talking to …Read more »
For folks into both the classics and stuff that’s a little bit “out there,” Discotek continues to be the anime distributor par excellence. The company’s latest batch of announcements includes two of the greatest anime films of all time, an early, whacked-out series from mastermind …Read more »
Masaaki Yuasa is back. The visually-inventive auteur behind anime like Mind Game , Kemonozume and Kick-Heart had a busy 2014, directing the series Ping Pong , helming episodes of Space Dandy and Adventure Time and founding his own animation studio, Science Saru. What followed was …Read more »
We’ve been hearing for a while now that Science Saru, the studio run by mad genius Masaaki Yuasa ( Ping-Pong , Kick-Heart ) was working on a new anime film. Now we know what. Yuasa and the team behind the 2010 anime series The Tatami …Read more »
Studio Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura (actually, ex-producer, as he made sure to point out in his apology) kicked up a ruckus last month when he declared that women are “realistic” as compared to “idealistic” men, making the former unsuitable for directing Ghibli films. Never mind …Read more »
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