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Voice actress Amy Howard Wilson passed away late last month, and no cause of death has been given. She was best-known to her fans for playing Nova in Star Blazers and Miranda in The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA. The news was announced on her Facebook …Read more »
Thrust into the theater of war somewhere in space, reading Space Battleship Yamato 2199, I couldn’t help but to feel like I’d tuned in a few minutes too late to a grandiose epic already several scenes underway. Now over 40 years old, the original Space …Read more »
1974’s Space Battleship Yamato is considered among the greatest Japanese animated series of all time, revolutionizing not only anime itself but its promotion and merchandising. Inspired by its melodramatic sci-fi storytelling, several Yamato “maniacs” (so named before “otaku” was in common use) joined the anime …Read more »
Since it started to run in Japan as a theatrical release in 2012, fans overseas have wondered about a release for the new Space Battleship Yamato series, Yamato 2199 . It wasn't clear if the spectacular remake of the landmark original series (released here as …Read more »
By my count, it’s been almost 15 years since we got any English-translated manga from sci-fi master Leiji Matsumoto (that being Galaxy Express 999 in 2002). This despite his mentor, Osamu Tezuka, getting attention in the US manga industry for over a decade now and …Read more »
The Hollywood remake train keeps rollin’. It was announced this week a Hollywood version of Space Battleship Yamato has been greenlit, with a tentative release date of 2017 or 2018. The Space Battleship Yamato film, which may be titled Star Blazers after Yamato’s American dub, …Read more »
A Space Battleship Yamato fan event in Tokyo this weekend had something special for attendees: a 4-minute preview of Space Battleship Yamato 2199 , a remake of the 1974 anime classic also known as Star Blazers . Now that same footage is streaming at Amazon.jp, …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! - Star Blazers (might be) headed to SyFy Channel? -Shotaro Ishinomori Crossovers of Epic Proportions?! -And Mike worships KREVA yet again?! All that, and the beginning of the (living) end in this week's …Read more »
Roman Album book cover for the 1979 Galaxy Express 999 movie. Boffo b.o.! Call me old-fashioned, nostalgic, or just plain crazy IF YOU WILL, but I just can’t stop thinking about the year 1980 and what it meant to anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture …Read more »
The latest entry in the series of Space Battleship Yamato 3199 anime film remakes is Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199 (Yamato yo Towa ni: Rebel 3199), and now you can see how it kicks off. The second film, Sekijitsu no Shutsugeki (The Assault of the …Read more »
Leiji Matsumoto has been a driving force in the world of anime for literal decades. His works have influenced, inspired, and carried on. His loss is heartbreaking, but he filled our world with beautiful stories in his time. So many, in fact, that we’d be …Read more »
In the world of anime and manga, there are few figures as influential as Leiji Matsumoto. It would be difficult to imagine the landscape of the industry, particularly that of overseas fandom, without his creations fueling and shaping it. Sadly, according to an announcement from …Read more »
The anime music video, or AMV, has become a pretty popular thing in anime fandom. The very first AMV on record was made by James Kaposztas in 1982, when he was 21. He may not have known then that he was the inventor of something …Read more »
Tatsunoko Production is currently in the midst of its 60th anniversary festivities. Fans can look forward to a celebratory Yatterman drama, for example. If you’re feeling a little lost, or aren’t sure what this is all about… we’re here to tell you that, actually, you’re probably a …Read more »
Voice actor Yuji Mitsuya was recently on the Japanese show Onegai! Ranking on TV Asahi and revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer a year ago. He’s shared the news with some people, but this was his first public announcement of it. He aims …Read more »
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