Search Results for: Blade
It's been a while, but thanks to Comic-Con, news about the Madhouse-animated Marvel projects is finally starting to surface. Superheroes in anime form— Iron Man , Wolverine , X-Men and Blade —will air on the G4 network in America in 2011. Iron Man will kick …Read more »
If you've ever been fortunate enough to attend San Diego Comic-Con, then you know how hard it can be to keep track of all the little goings-on sprinkled here and there. I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for missing Bandai Entertainment's announcements, for example, as they …Read more »
For those readers who aren’t familiar with the man or the studio, Hiroyuki Yamaga is one of the founding members of GAINAX, the animation studio that produced such works as Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise , Neon Genesis Evangelion , FLCL and Gurren …Read more »
We've posted about the upcoming Gantz film a few times, and while each tidbit has offered a hair more than the previous, the latest video to surface finally gives us a minute or so of solid footage. This live-action take on Hiroya Oku's manga, directed …Read more »
The YouTube video below, as originally aired on NTV in Japan, offers a brief (55 second) glimpse at what to expect from Shinsuke Sato's ( The Princess Blade ) live-action adaptation of Hiroya Oku's Gantz manga. The series, which is still ongoing in Weekly Young …Read more »
The 2010 New York International Children’s Film Festival offered U.S. premieres of three Japanese animated features from 2009— Summer Wars , Oblivion Island , and Mai Mai Miracle —all shown in subtitled 35mm prints to sold-out houses of parents and enthusiastic children of all ages. …Read more »
Nabari No Ou proves relatively dense for a ninja manga. As mentioned in my review of volume one, it stands out from other shonen ninja series in its reversal of protagonist archetypes. Miharu's withdrawn, indifferent attitude has been seen before in mecha series, but in …Read more »
Katsuhiro Otomo has always had it kind of rough. That's not to say he's living a transient life on the skids, but there aren't many other creators out there standing in the booming shadow of a single piece of work (or, in his case, two …Read more »
Welcome to Wakaba-soh publisher: Yen Press story and art: Chaco Abeno rating: 16+ Kentarou, a short 15-year-old, is in love with Karen, a prim-and- proper girl from a rich family. His mind is blown when he discovers that Karen is taking a year off of …Read more »
Hey, remember pogs? How about Troll dolls? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry. It’s only a matter of time before someone tries to bring them back. The same is true for our entertainment. Whether talking about America or Japan, the last …Read more »
From the very opening episode of Manglobe's Ergo Proxy , I knew I had stumbled upon an anime that was incredibly special. Set in a future that doesn't seem too far-flung from our own, Ergo Proxy begins in the domed city of Romdo, a place …Read more »
Yoji Yamada's career is a long and prestigious one that's been riddled with awards, and this only increased in 2004, when his Oscar-nominated Twilight Samurai served to spread his notoriety even further. Known for incredibly long-running film series such as the 48 Tora-san films (most …Read more »
As I noted in the pages of Otaku USA, the trouble with Ergo Proxy is that Re-l Mayer isn't the main character. Contrary to the advertising, the series is not actually about a young girl blasting robots to smithereens throughout the war-torn, post-apocalyptic future. Post-apocalyptic …Read more »
I remember the disdain among the hardcore Gundam fans after the first glimpse of the mustached Turn A Gundam. "What the f*** was Syd Mead smoking when he came up with that!?" was a conversation topic that would pop up from time to time with …Read more »
They said it couldn't be done, but because YOU DEMANDED IT, we've gone off our rockers and succumbed to the siren's call of "moe for this issue's installment of Hobby Lobby. For the uninitiated, "moe is a hard-to-translate (and arguably hard to understand) word that …Read more »
Joseph Luster
Mark Aspillera
Brian Camp
Julian Gnam
Jason Bradley Thompson
Daryl Surat
C.M. Brendelson
Mike Dent
Patrick Macias