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Mamoru Oshii, best known for directing anime like Ghost in the Shell and Blood: The Last Vampire, is offering an online course through the Japanese video on-demand site Narō! The course is more than five hours long, and will be in Japanese with English subtitles. …Read more »
Rieko Hinata and illustrator Akihiro Yamada’s Hikari no Ou novel series is coming to the screen in an adaptation featuring series composition by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and direction by regular collaborator Junji Nishimura (Dog Days’). With the anime coming in January 2023, …Read more »
Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding mastermind Hideo Kojima recently announced plans to launch his own podcast, which will debut as a Spotify exclusive in September. Titled “Hideo Kojima Presents Brain Structure,” the podcast will have some big-name guests on board to chat with Kojima, …Read more »
Hey, this is cool. So, one: Niigata, a city and prefecture a few hours north of Tokyo, is getting a new animation festival in 2023. It’s called the Niigata International Animation Film Festival, and it’s set to run from March 17 to 23, 2023. Two: …Read more »
Director Mamoru Oshii hasn’t seen Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, but he gave his thoughts on Evangelion director Hideaki Anno during a recent interview. Oshii thinks Anno is “more of a producer than a director” and that his works “lack a theme.” He also …Read more »
Mamoru Oshii and Koji Morimoto, two of anime’s most lauded creators, have teamed up for an animated ad for Kenwood. The ad, called “Connected,” is for Kenwood’s voice assistant-powered wireless earphones. Yes, there is a basset hound involved. Says Morimoto’s office: We made a promotional …Read more »
Anyone who writes science fiction has to worry about the present overtaking their futuristic fantasies. It’s particularly true for a franchise like Ghost in the Shell, which is over 30 years old (the first chapter of the manga came out in April 1989) and has …Read more »
It’s been many years since Mamoru Oshii, the man behind Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell, has been involved with an anime. But he’s finally back with VLADLOVE, a new series about vampire girls. We’ve got a fresh look at the series with a trailer, …Read more »
Some new details surfaced for VLADLOVE, the upcoming anime series from Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii and Ichigo Animation. The latest cast addition brings Rina Hidaka into the mix as Mai Vlad Transylvania, which is just about the most vampiric name possible. You …Read more »
Back in June, plans were revealed for the latest anime project from anime great Mamoru Oshii, of Ghost in the Shell fame and much more. That project was announced as vampire comedy VLADLOVE, and a new update is here to present a new visual and …Read more »
Mamoru Oshii, the lauded director behind Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell and more, is creating a new anime series. It’s the first time the director has worked in anime since 2008’s The Sky Crawlers. The series, which is set for broadcast in spring or early …Read more »
It’s been 10 years since Mamoru Oshii’s last anime film, Sky Crawlers. That’s far too long for fans of the legendary director, whose works include Urusei Yatsura, Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell. Now it’s been announced that Oshii will be back in the director’s …Read more »
If you’ve been wondering where the director of the original Ghost in the Shell comes down on the whole live-action whitewashing debate, let it be known he is definitively on team ScarJo. That’s the word from an IGN interview with Mamoru Oshii, in which he …Read more »
Renowned director Mamoru Oshii ( Ghost in the Shell , Patlabor ) and Production I.G have their Sand Whale and Me short film coming to Toonami as a five-part micro-series on March 18. The block is here to hype the production again on Facebook with …Read more »
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