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Four years ago, back in 2008, first-time anime series director Sayo Yamamoto debuted with Michiko and Hatchin , a phenomenal television show with solid characterization and a distinct visual and aural style that in my mind seemed like a no-brainer for US release. I was …Read more »
It's that time again – new manga time! The past month has been so full of new manga license announcements that it's almost too easy to let your mind drift to the future and forget the present. Good thing a visit to your book buying …Read more »
Looks like I spoke too soon about NYCC being the news-ending event of 2011. Yaoi Con was held this past weekend and, whether you enjoy BL or not, the news they announced is pretty exciting. While I stick to print releases myself, I love seeing …Read more »
Nobody quite expected Tiger and Bunny , a recent Japanese animated TV series about American-style superheroes, to be the big hit anime series of 2011. Where had Japan been hiding the people who could make such a show? For the answer, let's look back in …Read more »
It's finally here. It's the week so many of us have been waiting for—for weeks, for months, for years! It's the newly translated, uncensored, right-to-left oriented edition of Sailor Moon ! Not to mention the first time ever that its predecessor, Codename: Sailor V , …Read more »
Hey, remember back when they used to release anime and the Japanese would include professionally made AMVs of their own stuff, such that when the show got released in the US, companies would just use the AMV as the trailer to sell the show? And …Read more »
What would you do if, moments after what you took to be your dying breath, you found yourself in an eerily sterile room surrounded by complete strangers… and one large, menacing black ball? Gantz may not explicitly ask that question of the viewer, but it's …Read more »
“…unusually intelligent and challenging science fiction, aimed at smart audiences.” The above quotation by Roger Ebert along with its “Two Thumbs Up” rating featured prominently on the VHS—and later, DVD—packaging, convinced a substantial amount of American cinema fans and casually interested “geeks” alike to watch …Read more »
Technically Persona 4 was already animated—at least in the form of cutscenes in Atlus's beloved Playstation 2 role-playing game—but now it's getting the full TV series treatment. AIC ASTA ( Bamboo Blade , GUNxSWORD ) is heading up production, with Seiji Kishi ( Angel Beats! …Read more »
In the "before years" that would be about the least anime-related headline ever, but we're livin' in a different age now, baby. Marvel Entertainment's collaborations with Madhouse are finally rolling their way to North American television, starting with Iron Man and Wolverine . Marvel's Head …Read more »
The 2011 New York International Children’s Film Festival offered U.S. premieres of two Japanese animated features from 2010— Welcome to the Space Show and Time of Eve , both shown via digital projection in Japanese with English subtitles. One is a whimsical children’s journey through …Read more »
After a while, Japan starts becoming the equivalent of finding out that Santa doesn’t exist. There is no denying that the halls of Nakano Broadway are full of magic and wonder, and Harajuku has rows of lolitas strutting down in their platform boots if you …Read more »
Between Birdy the Mighty: Decode and having designed the new Vocaloid character Gumi—aka “Megpoid” due to her voice being provided by Megumi Nakajima, best known for being Ranka Lee in Macross Frontier —Yuuki Masami has experienced a sort of popularity resurgence within the last few …Read more »
If you were an anime fan in the mid-nineties, it’s likely you ran across Armitage III . A cyberpunk tale in the vein of Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell , Armitage III was once so synonymous with “anime” that it was featured as …Read more »
As exciting as all the new licenses we hear about are, sometimes it's refreshing to see some classic stuff put back into the active retail roster. For those already duly titillated by such a statement, Diskotek Media are your heroes of the day. Their latest …Read more »
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