It took literally half my life, but I can finally truthfully say it: “Legend of the Galactic Heroes is available to watch legally in English.” The anime adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka’s hard sci-fi novels from the 1980s—currently being released in English courtesy of Viz Media’s …Read more »
The season finale at Episode 25 left anime viewers with many unanswered questions, but none more vital than “how long until new episodes come out?” Yet no new Attack on Titan season was even in the pipeline, such that it’s only now—nearly four years later—that …Read more »
The dark fantasy realm in which the current anime adaptations of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk unfolds is a turbulent existence, where it’s a struggle for heroes to survive each day as they’re relentlessly assailed by ceaseless hordes of malevolent beings fixated on their destruction. In a …Read more »
Manga author Rei Hiroe had a problem. After having spent most of the 2000s writing the gun-based action series Black Lagoon, he got stuck in a rut. Release of new chapters became sporadic, until one day he just stopped right in the middle of an …Read more »
The all-woman manga circle collectively known as CLAMP has amassed a string of notable hits over the decades—look forward to the new Cardcaptor Sakura anime in the works—but my personal favorite is Magic Knight Rayearth . Its combination of beautiful artwork with action, comedy, romance, …Read more »
Manga authors rarely visit the United States because of their constant deadlines, so seeing Rei Hiroe, creator of Black Lagoon, at AnimeNEXT 2016 was quite the rarity. We got a chance to talk with him … while surrounded by a small army of publishing execs …Read more »
Whenever I watch Drifters: Battle in a Brand-New World War, that opening exchange from 1985’s Rambo: First Blood Part II comes to mind. It’s a top-rate action movie, hugely influential on film and video games (you’d have no Metal Gear without it), but it’s also …Read more »
If Drifters contains too much testosterone in your revisionist war history wish fulfillment for your liking, worry not! Japanese otaku and the Winter 2016 anime season also offer their other most common variant. For, as strange though it is for me to say this, “alternate …Read more »
In our recent Anime USA special issue, as part of an overview of anime studio BONES I expressed regret that their 2007 theatrical film Sword of the Stranger originally released by Bandai Entertainment was long out of print and more or less forgotten, if it …Read more »
The beauty of the action-adventure shonen battle formula is that it works even when applied to activities that have nothing to do with martial combat. The activity barely matters: you can play games, race cars, build models, and do yo-yo tricks with the same bombast …Read more »
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be watching anime about gangsters. Fortunately, Japanese animation has provided a handful over the past few years. I’ve enjoyed practically all of them, but a valid criticism of most is that they don’t offer …Read more »
If the success of American television broadcasts of anime titles such as Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans , Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure , and One-Punch Man isn’t enough to fill your anime fan spirits with hope for what’s to come, then perhaps going psycho is the answer. For …Read more »
© Tezuka Productions, used courtesy of Stone Bridge Press You’ve got to hand it to Tezuka Productions. Despite the “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka having been dead for more than 27 years, he’s never been more relevant to American fans than now. The secret is …Read more »
For literally over half my life I’ve been waiting on Berserk . When I first saw the original anime TV series in the late 1990s, years before the English-language editions of the manga commenced, I watched each episode waiting to see when the extended flashback …Read more »
Never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed that one of the most beloved anime titles of the 2010s would be a virtual word-for-word, scene-for-scene reenactment from a manga dating back over 20 years. I never thought I’d see the day where Hot Topic …Read more »
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