It’s been 15 years since Tai and his friends spent their summer vacation in the Digital World. Digimon Adventure is celebrating its 15 th anniversary by returning to its roots. A teaser trailer released earlier this week revealed that there will be a new show …Read more »
As previously reported, the next Naruto anime flick has the foreboding title of The Last: Naruto the Movie , and it's slated to open in Japanese theaters on December 6. Series creator Masashi Kishimoto is supervising the story and designs, and the official website was …Read more »
Fans of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind will remember Nausicaa’s main method of transport was a sleek one-man glider called a Mehve. The Mehve is a work of fiction, but one man, Kazuhiko Hachiya, has been working on a real-life version …Read more »
Estimating losses in the trillions of yen due to piracy of anime and manga, the Japanese government, plus a coalition of anime companies, will begin a five-month crackdown campaign starting in August. The campaign will mostly focus on websites in China where anime and manga …Read more »
The Tokyo International Film Festival, one of Asia’s most important film fests, will devote a section to Hideaki Anno, creator and director of Evangelion . Anno, a co-founder of studio Gainax, is one of the most influential and important anime directors of the last twenty …Read more »
Sit back and take a long, hard look and you'll see we're living in a pretty swell period for anime. Each season has had at least a few standout shows, both new and recurring, one of which involved Mind Game director Masaaki Yuasa returning to …Read more »
The anime adaptation of Nakaba Suzuki's shonen fantasy adventure The Seven Deadly Sins is set to premiere in Japan this October, airing Sundays at 5pm on MBS/TBS. While we still have a bit of a wait ahead of us, Aniplex posted a brief ad for …Read more »
With the recent success of Edge of Tomorrow and the release of Godzilla , it’s clear Japan’s pop culture franchises can be adapted into big-budget Hollywood films. While neither Edge of Tomorrow or Godzilla were based on anime or manga properties, Japanese cartoons and comics …Read more »
It’s been four years since the all-too-soon passing of one of anime’s great directors, Satoshi Kon, who died of pancreatic cancer at age 46. Kon, one of my favorite directors, left behind an incredibly impressive body of works, including Perfect Blue , Tokyo Godfathers , …Read more »
Do you like trailers? We sure do. Used to download ‘em on a dialup internet connection! Took ages! Now thanks to the wonders of 21st century internet, you can load up this puppies right away, so why not do it? First: Space Brothers #0 , …Read more »
July 25th saw the Japanese release of a special Blu-ray box of Macross II: Lovers Again , the 1992 OVA sequel to the original Macross series. Macross II has been pretty divisive over the years, with Shoji Kawamori, the creator of Macross himself, writing it …Read more »
The TV anime adaptation of Yusei Matsui's Ansatsu Kyoushitsu/Assassination Classroom manga is set to premiere in Japan in January 2015, and a new video is here to serve as a quick tease. This 15-second commercial from the official website comes in two flavors, and features …Read more »
When Marnie Was There , the new Studio Ghibli film and the first of the post-Miyazaki era, didn’t fare particularly well in its opening weekend, earning 379 million yen (about $3.7 million) and opening third behind the new Pokemon film, Diancie and the Cocoon of …Read more »
In addition to the next Dragon Ball Z movie, we can officially look forward to another Naruto flick in the not-too-distant future. This one's coming at the tail end of this year, with The Last -Naruto the Movie- slated to open in Japan on December …Read more »
A little over a week ago we posted about the announcement of the next Dragon Ball Z anime feature , which is due out in 2015 with a "funny story" written by series creator Akira Toriyama. That news was quickly followed up with the reveal …Read more »
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