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Junya Inoue is best known for his character designs and artwork for shooters by famed Japanese developer Cave—from DoDonPachi to Deathsmiles —as well as his manga, Otogi Matsuri . We sat down to discuss everything from the beginnings of his storied career in games to …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! -A New Unico Series!? -Optimus Prime in China?!! -And Hiroshi Fujioka takes you to tea?! All that, and a glimmer of hope in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: Mike here. I'm not …Read more »
The American public education system doesn't teach anything about Japanese history, so all that I—and most US anime fans—know about the subject is what is conveyed within pop culture, and most of that focuses on samurai or ninja since they’re the ones with the sharp …Read more »
It’s a mark of petty pride and immense shame to be greeted in a maid café with a “Long time, no see” from the manager. To be honest, a café is an easy way to find native otaku, especially in Tokyo, where most greetings are …Read more »
Winter is a depressing time to be in Japan. Most of the trees are brown, leafless skeletons and the weather is bitterly cold. As someone from San Diego, home of the everlasting summer, this is double-plus ungood. For those living in Japan, the only thing …Read more »
Before you get too excited, this is not a top 10, 5, or even 3 list. I enjoy skimming those as much as the next, but if I haven't been cataloging every single thing I touched over the course of a year, it …Read more »
Is this it? Has the 2010 Roll-Out Riot come to a close with the end of the week? If that's the case it's done so with a bang, as FUNimation's latest announced acquisition is Axis Powers Hetalia , a wildly popular anime series that mixes …Read more »
Mai Mai Miracle (or, to literally translate the Japanese title, Mai Mai Shinko and the Millennium-old Magic ) could have been a Studio Ghibli film. Like Isao Takahata’s I Can Hear the Sea and Only Yesterday , Mai is a nostalgic film with a slightly …Read more »
Here is my short list of highlights from the 4th and final New York Anime Festival: - Yoshiyuki Tomino draws a haru-ball with every signature. - The one-man Indy-short Cencoroll premiered and looks like fun (I only saw the trailer). - Vertical picked up Chi's …Read more »
"HAND ROLL! ROLL, ROLL, ROLL, ROLL POOPY!" "Ah-ha-ha-ha! That'd disgusting. They roll their sh** up with their hands?" "THAT'S RIGHT! WITH A THREE-STAGE PROCESS THAT'S #1 IN THE POOPY WORLD!" "Woah, elegant." "ISN'T IT?" IN A WORLD where every fighting manga endeavors to give kids …Read more »
If you've ever spent a semester in college and suffered a fit of procrastination, you have probably felt exactly like this series' protagonist, Satou Tatsuhiro, on some level or other. Pressed with the stresses of college classes and the outside world, and left on his own …Read more »
I'm not sure if Yoshi's has ever had a crowd surfer before. The venue, near San Francisco's Japantown, is primarily a jazz lounge, but Sunday night it hosted the Japan Nite Special Girl Rock Explosion! + Harajuku Kawaii Experience presented by NEW PEOPLE, and all …Read more »
The economy may be in the dumps, but with over 26,000 people having attending Otakon 2009 you sure wouldn’t know it. Granted, that’s roughly the same as 2008, but to just hold steady demonstrates that even though money is tight, people will still come out …Read more »
There's a lot going on at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this year, especially with everyone battling it out on the new frontline of motion control warfare. Both Microsoft and Sony busted out some interesting tech demos displaying the potential for their Wii-competing technology, but a …Read more »
In the manga world, it's easy to become jaded by the legions of cookie cutter bishounen pretty boys and angsty school girls, and resort to dismissing everything with a school uniform on the cover. I peeled the shrink wrap off Gakuen Prince with a groan, …Read more »
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