Discotek Media busted out a handful of license announcements via its Facebook page yesterday, laying out some more action for the coming year that includes both classics and rescues. The titles started rolling with Lupin III: Bye Bye Liberty Crisis , the first of the …Read more »
Toonami had a couple of things to chime in on yesterday, starting with the clarification of their deal with Space Dandy , which is set to air alongside its broadcast in Japan. The bigger news for fans of the block, however, is the addition of …Read more »
You know right from the start of Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion that something is terribly wrong, because everything is very, very right. Puella Magi Madoka Magica , or "Mado-Magi" as it's colloquially known, was one of the biggest anime sensations of 2011. Written by …Read more »
Every time I’ve written about some iteration of Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed , I’ve led with a comparison to Warhammer 40K by Games Workshop, but I promised myself that I wouldn’t do it again. The comparison is apt; both Appleseed and 40K combine a grimdark concept—a …Read more »
On Saturday, October 19, 2013, Cartoon Network premiered the 16th Pokémon movie, Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened , three months after its successful theatrical run in Japan, the quickest trip to a U.S. showing in the entire history of Pokémon movies. This …Read more »
Studio Ghibli's upcoming Princess Kaguya anime film marks the first by director and studio co-founder Isao Takahata since 1999's My Neighbors the Yamadas . While it was originally set to open on July 20 alongside Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises ( Kaze Tachinu ), it …Read more »
To say 2013 is a big year for Studio Ghibli is a bit of an understatement. First we saw the release of The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in four years. Then we learned it would be his last when he announced his retirement …Read more »
Growing up, I always dreamed about how awesome it would be if there was a Dragon Ball Z theme park. Well, more than a decade later, my wish has (kind of) come true through J-World Tokyo. Opening this past July in Ikebukuro’s Sunshine City shopping …Read more »
The Kickstarter stories just don’t stop ‘round here. It’s about a year since we reported on the launch of Production I.G. launching their Kickstarter project to fund their short Kick-Heart . At the time, it seemed like a totally wild and crazy idea. Since then, …Read more »
Back at the beginning of 2013, we ran a story about Anime! Real vs. Dream , a book on the state of the anime industry written by insiders at Studio Madhouse. What kind of insights lie inside? Let’s take a look. Anime! Real vs. Dream …Read more »
Like him or not, it’s clear director Shinji Aramaki is at the forefront of Japan’s 3D, computer-generated animation movement. Beginning his directorial career with traditional, hand-drawn anime OAVs like Megazone 23 and MADOX-01 , Aramaki turned to computers to create 2004’s Appleseed . Since then, …Read more »
One of the most hotly anticipated anime of this season has been Kill la Kill , which comes from relatively fresh anime studio Trigger ( Little Witch Academia , Inferno Cop ). While they've already managed to make quite a name for themselves in a …Read more »
Studio Kara’s Hidenori Matsubara has been working in the trenches of the anime industry for over 25 years. Chances are he’s worked on something you liked without your even realizing it. The list of his key animator credits alone is staggering: Evangelion , Patlabor: The …Read more »
To know Patlabor is to love Patlabor . It was never a huge hit over here in the States, but the fans the real robot / police procedural show does have are pretty passionate about it. Patlabor, which began life as an original video series …Read more »
Last week saw the release of Captain Harlock, the new film based on the classic manga and anime series by Leiji Matsumoto. The new film, the latest from CG wiz Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed), is the director’s highest budget film yet, allowing Aramaki to expand and …Read more »
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