October 3rd marked the 30th anniversary of the premiere of the first episode of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the seminal robots, pop singers ‘n’ love triangles series that launched a franchise still going strong today. In celebration, a live-action stage musical called Macross the Musicalture …Read more »
While this week’s biggest crowd-funding story was that of Production I.G.’s Kick-Heart , it wasn’t the only game in town. Japan-based manga website J-Comi, which offers free, legal digital versions of classic manga, held its own crowd-funding project in recent days, offering up digital sets …Read more »
photo by Grenouille Vert With over 40 years of experience, Masao Maruyama is one of the great stalwart figures of the anime industry. Originally an animator at Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Productions in the 1960s, Maruyama left to co-found legendary animation studio Madhouse in 1972, along …Read more »
As we recently reported , last week saw the announcement of an extremely ambitious and exciting project from animation house Production I.G. and director Masaaki Yuasa: Kick-Heart , an animated short to be paid for by fan contributions via crowd-funding website Kickstarter. Kick-Heart , a …Read more »
This past weekend saw the announcement of two new licenses from Discotek Media, and they're a couple of real doozies for fans of classic anime. Discotek saw fit to dip into the iconic catalog of Go Nagai by picking up both the complete 1973 Cutie Honey …Read more »
Hello, this is otaku and trend watcher, Yunmao Ayakawa! I mentioned that I have my Otaku Cosplay spies everywhere… Rain or Shine, they’ll be there any time! Well this past weekend they witnessed the over pouring of fun cosplayers at Anime Weekend Atlanta! – Even …Read more »
The fall anime licensing flood is still underway, but Crunchyroll has already announced a bundle of new shows for their fall lineup, many of which will also be released on home video in 2013 courtesy of Sentai Filmworks. One of the biggest announcements came yesterday …Read more »
It's a week of omnibus collections and Seven Seas is paving the path! The list may seem small but the page count is high in this week's assortment of purchasable pleasures. Seven Seas' first title is Dance in the Vampire Bund (Vol.13), is the only …Read more »
I realize that even acknowledging the fact that Keiko Suenobu's Limit isn't your average shoujo story can alter expectations, but that needs to be said right up front. While many conventions are adhered to, going into this manga blind is best, so if you can …Read more »
Some of the most interesting news to come out of anime in recent memory has been spreading around the Internet today, with the debut of a Kickstarter aiming to fund a 10-minute anime short. This isn't just any anime short, though. Kick-Heart is a project …Read more »
You Kikkawa (aka Yuu Kikkawa) is the latest solo artist to come out of Hello! Project, the J-pop organization responsible for Morning Musume, Berryz Kobo, C-ute and assorted spin-off groups and solo singers. She had auditioned for Morning Musume’s 8 th Generation back in 2007 …Read more »
Hints have been floating around, but a countdown on the official website for the Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos anime has officially confirmed that a second season is on the way. Nyarko-san is based on the light novels by Manta Aisora, and the first season of …Read more »
Humanity Has Declined ( Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita )—based on a series of light novels by Romeo Tanaka—has a title that's much more dire than its subject matter. What sounds like a post-apocalyptic pity party is really a somewhat nonsensical comedy with a bright color …Read more »
K is an original anime series heading to Japanese television on October 4, but it's not stopping there, thankfully. Viz Media took to Twitter to announce the acquisition of the series, which will make its way to Viz Anime next month. K is being directed …Read more »
Happy official-first-days-of-Autumn! Just like I used the summer heat as a reason to stay indoors and read more manga, so too will I now use the cooling days as further reasoning also (not that we need a reason to coop up surrounded by dozens of …Read more »
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