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Koji Morimoto. If you don’t know the name, well, you probably should. One of Japan’s premier animators, Morimoto is the director of shorts like The Animatrix ’s “Beyond,” Memories ’ “Magnetic Rose” and Noiseman Sound Insect , and key animator on dozens of brilliantly-animated films …Read more »
Remember when pretty much every Saturday morning cartoon had white-hot opening credits followed by abysmal animation for the next twenty minutes? Warner Bros. Animation is looking to fix that issue with a revival of Thundercats —which was itself a co-production between East and West—by putting …Read more »
I'm a sucker for anthology projects, and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers are, too. Both The Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight were wildly mixed bags, but that's part of the fun, isn't it? If one of the stories isn't really resonating, …Read more »
Author and journalist Roland Kelts’ new book The Art of Blade Runner: Black Lotus is a beautiful coffee table book of artwork from the titular anime. Blade Runner: Black Lotus itself is part of the Blade Runner franchise, and was directed by Shinji Aramaki and …Read more »
Forbes’s Ollie Bardie conducted a lengthy interview with Shinichiro Watanabe, talking about his beginnings, his work on the anime Cowboy Bebop, what he thought of the Netflix live-action Cowboy Bebop, and his experiences working on The Animatrix. The interview brings alive much of Watanabe’s life …Read more »
NOISEMAN SOUNDINSECT, an anime short from 1997 that brought together some of the industry’s top talent, is streaming for free on YouTube until November 18. That’s thanks to Studio 4°C, the studio which originally produced the short. NOISEMAN SOUNDINSECT, which runs 15 minutes, was directed …Read more »
Usually when we talk about anime and movie adaptations, it’s going in one direction. That is, we’re excited for (or fretting about) what will happen to our favorite animated series under the Hollywood knife. But for a few projects — like Pacific Rim: The Black — …Read more »
Redline, one of the most raucous, eye-smashing films of the last, well, ever, has been made available for streaming on YouTube at no charge. In celebration, we’re posting this feature on the film, first featured in the magazine back in 2010: Once upon a time, …Read more »
From now until the end of the year, Otaku USA e-News presents 98 Degrees: a deep dive straight into the anime of 1998. Which greats of ’98 would you like to see covered? Comment below or drop our editor a line. Adapted from a long-running …Read more »
Ask us at Otaku USA HQ what our favorite anime studio is, and on days when we’re feeling arty and experimental, we’ll definitely answer “Studio 4°C.” The studio, founded by producer Eiko Tanaka and animator Koji Morimoto and named after the temperature at which water …Read more »
This weekend, Mad Max: Fury Road finally, finally opened in Japan, and to mark the occasion, the morning TV show Mezamashi Doyoubi showed off a neat Japanese connection to the film. As it turns out, anime designer and director Mahiro Maeda ( Gankutsuou: Count of …Read more »
Katsuhiro Otomo likes to take his time. The legendary artist and anime director, best known for his magnum opus Akira , took almost 15 years between that film and his next major work, Steamboy . So fans of Otomo take note whenever he’s involved in …Read more »
The used anime section is a cultural wasteland. Younger anime fans may not remember the days when anime on American home video didn’t generally come in full-season or half-season chunks. In the late Nineties and early Aughts, a typical twenty-six episode television series would run …Read more »
There is a small, albeit significant, minority of anime fans out there for whom the feature film Redline encapsulates the spirit of what they wished most anime produced was like. I consider myself one of them, which is why it’s that much more crushing that …Read more »
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