The wait to see most anime feature films released stateside can be pretty arduous – let’s consider Studio Ghibli’s own From Up On Poppy Hill, for example. The film, released theatrically in Japan way back in July of 2011, wasn’t given a theatrical run in …Read more »
The worlds of manga and modern art have long been connected, with artists like Takashi Murakami combining the two to international acclaim. More recently, the launch of Japanese art sites like Pixiv has spawned a new movement of internet-based artists working in an anime-influenced style. …Read more »
For those wondering when to expect Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises anime film in North America, we have some fresh news regarding distribution plans. While Ghibli's last film, From Up on Poppy Hill , was released courtesy of GKids, The Wind …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 »
Miyazaki’s latest film, The Wind Rises , has been playing in Japanese theaters for about a month now, and opinion has been... mixed, let’s say. Some of it is directed at the film itself. Is the story, focused on the life and struggle of Jiro …Read more »
It's Geek Week on YouTube, and the PBS Idea Channel is getting in on the fun by posing the question, "Does it matter what Evangelion 's creator says?" As the video's description reads: Hideaki Anno says Neon Genesis Evangelion is meaningless. For #GeekWeek we ask …Read more »
The next English Naruto anime film release is coming up next month, with Naruto Shippuden The Movie - The Lost Tower 's arrival on home video. Before it hits shelves, you can go ahead and soak in an English preview below. The synopsis: The Rogue …Read more »
Toonami saw some great results with the March airing of Evangelion 1.11 , which managed to pull in 959,000 viewers. Naturally, Toonami was very happy with this, and they said as much in response to a Tumblr question, adding, "It was a solid showing that …Read more »
When machines of peace are used as weapons of war, does the creator bear responsibility? That’s the question underpinning The Wind Rises , the first film from master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki since 2008’s Ponyo . Unlike Ponyo, this is definitely not a kids’ film. The …Read more »
Most Tokyophiles are well aware of Akihabara, east Tokyo’s hub for all things anime, manga, and general otaku-related shopping, and readers of Otaku USA e-News have also gotten a peek at Nakano, west Tokyo’s slightly hipper, grungier answer to Akiba. One Tokyo neighborhood we haven’t …Read more »
Attack on Titan is one of the biggest anime out there right now, and we're right on top of it in the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine! Our One Piece Strong World cover nearly caved from the ramming speed of a colossal titan, but …Read more »
Anime has a long and proud history of gender-bending and stereotype challenging, be it for comedic purposes or awkward romantic entanglements. But there is a through-line of three girls in particular who don’t just mirror each other, but directly inspired each other’s creation. One was …Read more »
If there’s one thing around we write about as much as Evangelion , it’s gotta be Kickstarter. Since about this time last year, the crowd-funding site became the hot new thing when it comes to anime. Just to recap, on Kickstarter itself, we’ve seen the …Read more »
Way back in February we ran a story about how the The Wind Rises , Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, is coming out on July 20th. That’s soon (we’ll have a review here, of course, so watch out for it)! We also noted that Miyazaki was …Read more »
The promotional madness between the Evangelion films and Japanese razor company Schick continues with a new campaign: Operation: Refresh 10,000 . So what does the giveaway entail? Schick will be offering up Hydro 5 razors—the razor personally and enthusiastically endorsed by Gendo Ikari—to 10,000 randomly …Read more »
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