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Lest we forget, the new Ranma 1/2 anime is coming to Netflix, and as such we have a new subtitled trailer for the updated take on Rumiko Takahashi’s classic series. The anime by MAPPA kicks off on October 6, and you can see how it’s …Read more »
It’s official, the details are in for the new Ranma 1/2 anime, as promised when the fresh adaptation was first announced near the end of June. In addition to the anime’s first trailer and visual, we now know anime studio MAPPA is cooking up the …Read more »
Uru Okabe’s Good Night World manga is officially coming to the screen in an anime adaptation, and the series will stream exclusively on Netflix starting October 12. Ahead of launch, a key visual and trailer made their way online along with an overview of the …Read more »
Sad news in the world of Japanese film today. Sadao Iizuka, whose optical effects work graced legendary tokusatsu titles from Godzilla to Ultraman, has died at the age of 88. Iizuka’s cause of death was pneumonia. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Iizuka worked on effects …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con 2022 just wrapped up, and there were some great moments for manga creators. Moto Hagio was finally inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame by the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and Junji Ito received the Eisner Award for …Read more »
If you were hoping to see Mamoru Hosoda’s BELLE, or one of the many other recent anime features on the list of nominations for the 94th Academy Awards, this week was a big letdown. The Academy officially unveiled its list of nominations, and there isn’t …Read more »
Yesterday Kodansha revealed five manga series that will receive digital debuts for Americans in September. Kodansha wrote, “As a reminder, these new digital debuts as well as returning favorites will be available upon release across all our participating digital vendors including Bookwalker, comiXology, Kindle, Apple …Read more »
Junji Ito’s Lovesickness is billed as a “story collection.” It’s set up in three parts. The first part is the titular Lovesickness part, which is broken up into stories (or chapters) titled “The Beautiful Boy at the Crossroads,” “A Woman in Distress,” “Shadow,” “Screams in …Read more »
Beck opens with 14-year-old Yukio Tanaka complaining about how boring his life is. But the manga is never boring, and Yukio quickly finds his life changing. He has a number of things going on with him that teenagers can relate to, including getting a crush …Read more »
Spoofs of fantasy anime and JRPG tropes are by no means a recent development. Back in the 1990s, the two-part OVA Dragon Half was frequently praised as one of the silliest anime ever, and the longstanding fan rumor to explain why it only lasted two …Read more »
The Boy and the Beast was a big hit with casual fans in 2015. For folks interested in the business of anime, the release of the Association of Japanese Animation’s yearly industry report is something akin to Christmas. A dry, numbers-filled Christmas. Still, for industry geeks, …Read more »
Anno and Hikawa speak at an earlier panel at TIFF. Acclaimed director Hideaki Anno of Evangelion fame held a special panel entitled, “Anno and Hikawa’s Collection of Showa TV Manga Openings” at movie theater Wald 9 in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on November 8. …Read more »
If you’ve been watching Aoi Hono , the TV show about manga author Kazuhiko Shimamoto’s college days, you might remember a scene in which Hideaki Anno, future anime director and creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion , draws an incredibly detailed piece of animation on a …Read more »
[Excerpted from the December 2007 Issue of Otaku USA magazine.] Do you know what they call people who own hundreds of anime DVDs and can talk in obsessive details about them? "Otaku." Do you know what they call people who own hundreds of music CDs …Read more »
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