It’s the summer of 2004, and I’m in the passenger seat of my friend’s wilderness-green Subaru Outback. He reaches behind the dashboard, pulls out a foam sleeve of burned CDs pushed well past breaking, and slips a disc into the CD player loaded with strange, …Read more »
As Sunrise mecha shows slowly but surely appear on Western streaming services, one title has remained conspicuously absent: Mobile Fighter G-Gundam . That is… until now. Originally airing in 1994, G-Gundam broke with series tradition by eschewing the Gundam franchise’s usual attempts at depicting gritty …Read more »
Justice has been delivered at last: the man responsible for throwing cockroaches around at the Animelo Summer Live concert last summer has finally admitted to his wrongdoing. The suspect, a 33-year-old chef from Higashi Osaka by the name of Kazuyuki Iwatani, admitted to releasing a …Read more »
Despite being over twenty years ago old and one of the most influential anime and manga series of all time, it somehow took until the beginning of last year for Sailor Moon to get an official fan club: The Pretty Guardians. Now that we’re well …Read more »
Atsushi Kamijou’s 80’s manga Sex (not to be confused with Joe Casey and company’s 2013 comic Sex ) was, along with TO-Y , one of those defining manga series that never quite had the chance to impact readers overseas, but nonetheless made tremendous waves in …Read more »
Game music is a powerful, multifaceted thing, capable of not just providing background accompaniment to our favorite games, but pushing us forward in our daily lives, and yes, even occasionally lulling us to sleep. Former Destructoid Music Editor and Scarlet Moon Productions founder Jayson Napolitano …Read more »
Mike McFarland has been involved with the anime industry a very long time, getting in on the proverbial ground floor as one of the first voice actors Funimation hired for their dub of Dragon Ball Z (as Master Roshi and Yajirobe) back in the mid …Read more »
A few years ago, we had the opportunity to speak with Taliesin Jaffe, a veteran of anime and video game voice acting with countless acting, direction and script adaptation credits to his name: Hellsing Ultimate, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, R.O.D. the TV, and many …Read more »
If you enjoyed any of the well-regarded anime dubs from Geneon during the mid-2000s, you likely have Jonathan Klein to thank. As the vice-president and co-owner of New Generation Pictures, Klein produced the dubs for Hellsing , Ergo Proxy and Paranoia Agent during the American …Read more »
A workhorse of the Japanese voice acting field, Toshio Furukawa made a name for himself playing a variety of heroes and villains in some of the Bubble era’s defining shows: Kai Shiden in Mobile Suit Gundam , Ataru in Urusei Yatsura , Piccolo in Dragon …Read more »
Tokyo-based band BACK-ON has been making high-energy music for anime openings and themselves for a little over a decade now. After breaking onto the scene with “Chain,” the opening song for 2006’s Air Gear , they’ve since gone on to create openings and endings for …Read more »
A secret workhorse of the Japanese animation industry, Kazuhiro Soeta has been involved in the creation of dozens of TV shows, movies and direct-to-video productions. Some of the more recognizable shows he's worked on include Black Lagoon (storyboarding, animation direction), the Record of Lodoss War …Read more »
The acting bug bit Ai Nonaka from an early age, when Yu Yu Hakusho convinced her that being a voice actress was pretty much the coolest thing ever. From there, she dove into the world of acting, becoming head of her school’s acting club, striving …Read more »
The infinitely deep well of Evangelion merch ideas gets just a little bit deeper this year with a recently announced new addition to the EVA micro macro line, a collaboration with Hello Kitty creators Sanrio that reimagines characters from the series in the cutest way …Read more »
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