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It’s the end of an era for anime. Yet another giant of the field has left us for good… On April 17, 2011, Osamu Dezaki died of lung cancer, aged 67. The highlights in Dezaki’s filmography are legion. His career stretches back to the very …Read more »
Here's your blink-and-you'll-miss-it item of the day. Try to keep your peepers peeled and you'll bear witness to a 14-second announcement promo for the legendary director Osamu Dezaki's latest project, Genji Monogatari Sennenki Genji ( The Tale of Genji: A Millennium-Old Journal: Genji ). If …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 »
photo by Yves Tennevin Osamu Kobayashi grew up in the 1970s, something of a golden era for future animators. Weaned on the work of Yoshinori Kanada, Isao Takahata, and Hayao Miyazaki, Kobayashi knew he wanted to be an animator from an early age. After working …Read more »
Christianity gets all the good movies. Oh sure, they get quite a few stinkers, but if a Left Behind is what it takes to get a Jesus of Montreal or The Gospel According to Matthew (which was produced by a gay communist for crying out …Read more »
Madhouse is one of the most venerable anime studios out there. From the minds and hard work of former Mushi Pro ( Astro Boy , Dororo , Kimba the White Lion ) animators like Masao Maruyama (see our MAPPA feature), Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Rintaro, Osamu Dezaki, …Read more »
photo by Grenouille Vert With over 40 years of experience, Masao Maruyama is one of the great stalwart figures of the anime industry. Originally an animator at Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Productions in the 1960s, Maruyama left to co-found legendary animation studio Madhouse in 1972, along …Read more »
Great news for fans of classic shoujo, as Right Stuf, Inc. announced the license of The Rose of Versailles anime today. The 40-episode series will begin streaming on Viki this December, with two limited edition DVD sets to follow in 2013. Based on the manga …Read more »
In tribute to the passing of anime director Osamu Dezaki, I decided to pull this piece out of mothballs. Hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane. I was sitting around recently rummaging through my VHS collection when I came across an old favorite: …Read more »
Discotek Media may have released the (now out of print) anime films, but for the first time in the U.S. the Ashita no Joe TV anime will be available to stream legally. Kodansha USA Publishing announced that TMS Entertainment plans to stream the adaptation of …Read more »
If Tubi is one of your go-to spots for streaming anime, three more titles recently made their way to the service. The latest additions include Black Jack 21, Monsuno and Treasure Island. Following the act of the 62-episode 2004 Black Jack anime, Black Jack 21 …Read more »
As much as we love keeping up with the newest anime via our favorite streaming services, we’re also very happy to have RetroCrush. The platform carries classic anime of every vintage, from definitive 60s and 70s titles to turn-of-the-millennium series that might otherwise get lost …Read more »
A new film adaptation of Riyoko Ikeda’s The Rose of Versailles is on the horizon. And we couldn’t be more excited. Seeing Oscar, André, Marie, and the rest back in action is something we’ve wanted for a long time. Not only that, we’re getting a feature …Read more »
I could barely believe it in 2012, when the United States finally saw a DVD release of the 1979 shojo anime classic, The Rose of Versailles. In 2020, I was taken even more aback by the release of an English version of Riyoko Ikeda’s original …Read more »
Director Mamoru Hosoda is riding high off the success of his latest film, BELLE, but that didn’t stop him from recommending some other essential anime you absolutely have to see. During Saturday’s “The Most Useful School in the World” program, Hosoda ran through a list …Read more »
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