A lot of comments we got on our post about Gundam Reconguista in G the other day were some variation on “my favorite Gundam is still definitely Gundam Wing !” The mid-90s Gundam series, which ran for 49 episodes, gained a lot of popularity in …Read more »
At a recent lower house budget committee meeting, opposition lawmaker Tomohiko Kinoshita used the floor to express his reservations about the government’s Cool Japan program, which gives financial support to companies that promote Japanese pop culture, according to Japanese news blog Livedoor. To make his …Read more »
In celebration (or lament) of the release of Mamoru Oshii's Garm Wars: The Last Druid , we decided to revisit his "Kerberos Saga" by pulling two of Daryl Surat's stories on the subject out of the vault from way back in 2008. For all the …Read more »
This story was originally published in the April 2008 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is the finest Mamoru Oshii film not actually directed by Mamoru Oshii. Although Oshii wrote the screenplay and established the universe, it’s the first (and only) film …Read more »
The ending of Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga may be right on the horizon, but more of the creator's ninja action is on the way, with The Last: Naruto the Movie slated to premiere in Japan on December 6. The Last features a story and designs …Read more »
This week the Tokyo International Film Festival teamed up with the World Cosplay Summit for a live show featuring some of the world’s best cosplayers. The World Cosplay Summit, a yearly cosplay contest held in Nagoya, attracts contestants from 22 participating countries. 44 of the …Read more »
In the spirit of the season, Kotobukiya has just released a gorgeous PVC figure of Friday the 13th 's slasher Jason Voorhees -- except scary has been traded for sexy. This Jason-chan (let's call her Jason-chan) has the signature hockey mask up on top of …Read more »
Guys have had a monopoly on otaku underwear for too long now! The Sonico s, the Lucky Star set, even Excalibur for the bold: this is a dude-with-his-anime-wife-printed-on-an-intimate-location-dominated market. Enterprising merchandiser GATE has realized that girls might perhaps wear their anime husbands underneath their clothes …Read more »
Via a tweet from Sega, it appears that the first Valkyria Chronicles game, a strategy-RPG with decidedly anime-style graphics, will be coming to PC. This is particularly unexpected because the game was first released back in 2008, exclusively to the Playstation 3. Games like this …Read more »
It's been hinted at in the recent past, and now we have official confirmation of a TV anime set to adapt Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma manga. The confirmation comes from the cover of the November issue of Shueisha's Comics …Read more »
Fans of Mamoru Oshii, the director of anime classics like Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor , are split into two distinct groups: those who like his live-action work and those who don’t. Oshii’s been working in live-action for years, but his real-life films are …Read more »
Takeshi Kitano, director of such films as Zatoichi and Sonatine , also known as Beat Takeshi, comic host of Takeshi’s Castle and star of Battle Royale , was awarded the first ever Samurai Award this week at the Tokyo International Film Festival. During his talk …Read more »
Adapting manga and anime to live-action is the new black, apparently. Japan, America, even Korea is doing it. A trailer for the latest manga-to-live-action adaptation hit the internet this week, so let’s take a look. This time around, it’s the feature film of Clover. Not …Read more »
Hideaki Anno, director of Neon Genesis Evangelion , announced Sunday at the Tokyo International Film Festival his company, Khara, would be teaming up with media company Dwango to launch a new site called Animator Expo. Animator Expo is a website devoted to showing animated shorts …Read more »
Matt Schley
Daryl Surat
Joseph Luster
David Cabrera
