Set the date, get your plans together for that big farewell party. Manga author Hajime Isayama plans to end his blockbuster success Attack on Titan in about three years, according to a recent interview with Da Vinci magazine . Originally Isayama had slated the series …Read more »
Every Final Fantasy game (well, most of them) is supposed to be a big departure: it's part of the franchise's design that every game starts over from the barest superficial elements and builds a completely new thing upon them, keeping only a mascot character or …Read more »
The idea that the figure behemoth Good Smile would expand its offerings is almost absurd, given they've produced over 600 figures in the Nendoroid and figma lines alone. Or it isn't, because the flagship figma line-- an action figure line that has become the default …Read more »
Fans of the currently airing TV adaptation of Hunter x Hunter had a huge surprise in store for them this past year when Takahiko Abiru, one of the main animation directors on the show, started uploading scans of some of the more than 18,000 frames …Read more »
Azure Striker Gunvolt is basically a new Mega Man game. It was developed by Inti Creates, the guys responsible for the Mega Man Zero series, Mega Man 9 , and Mega Man 10 . It features a protagonist who dashes by pressing the L button, …Read more »
The Sega Genesis, birthplace of Sonic the Hedgehog , Streets of Rage and countless other 16-bit video game classics, recently had its 25th Anniversary in the United States, and what better way to celebrate than with a Transformer that turns into the iconic game machine? …Read more »
As infrequently as live action Hollywood adaptations of manga and anime properties tend to actually make it through to production (see: Akira , Battle Angel Alita , the live-action Robotech with Tobey Maguire), every once in a while something slips through, a freak blip in …Read more »
Bad news for any fans of the Japanese music scene: according to a statement released by record company Avex yesterday, Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder and prominent composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has been diagnosed with throat cancer. YMO is one of the most influential bands of the …Read more »
After 10 years, magical girl anime series Pretty Cure has done the unthinkable and matched the original TV versions of Dragon Ball in episode count: 508. Whoa. Let’s break this down. Dragon Ball had 153 episodes, Dragon Ball Z with its notorious Hyperbolic Time Chamber-level …Read more »
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame announced last Thursday that Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is one of the four new inductees for this year, alongside other visionary creators like fantasy artist Frank Frazetta and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick. For those wondering, the …Read more »
Cutie Honey creator Go Nagai is starting a new manga series next week in the pages of Weekly Manga Goraku magazine, and it’s autobiographical. Well, sort of. Nagai wrote a manga series called Gekiman a few years ago that told the story of how he …Read more »
If Evangelion is an infinite money-making merchandising machine, then popular characters Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley are its endlessly profitable power generators, never giving up, never stopping, always giving more and more in unlikely and surprising ways. And hey, now they have their own clothing …Read more »
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