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Vulture has put together a list of “The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation,” and anime plays no small role in the rankings. Vulture explained part of its criteria in the decision process: “Since this list is for an American audience, entries skew toward what influenced …Read more »
Studio Ghibli, the famed folks behind Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies and many more classics, has unleashed a bunch of free screenshots on the world. The screenshots, which come from eight of the studio’s classic films, are available for free personal …Read more »
It’s time once again to open your mailbox or venture out to your go-to bookstore and pick up the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine! The April 2020 issue is now on sale, and it has the usual bounty of amazing content, with Luffy leading …Read more »
The Los Angeles Anime Film Festival, which launched last year, is adding a new feature for its second annual event: an awards ceremony for English-language dub actors. The ceremony will take place on the opening night of the festival, September 21, and feature the following …Read more »
Renowned anime director and Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata has passed away at age 82. As Yahoo! News Japan reports, the sad news comes after Takahata was recently hospitalized for heart-related conditions. Isao Takahata co-founded Ghibli along with Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki in 1985. …Read more »
More big-screen Ghibli fun is on the way to theaters in the United States this year. Fathom Events and GKIDS have teamed up once more to bring classics to cinemas, and Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 will feature nine anime films in total with limited screenings …Read more »
Of all the anime studios out there, Studio Ghibli seems to be the most adept at jerking those tears loose. Over its three decades of anime production, the studio has produced films that keep fans welling up—sometimes out of sadness, sometimes out of happiness, and …Read more »
Being somehow psychically scarred by a scary, depressing or otherwise disturbing piece of entertainment is an experience most of us share – and as a medium, anime certainly isn’t lacking in series or films with some pretty distressing elements. Ranking site Goo recently asked its …Read more »
As you may have heard, 2017 is kind of a big deal for the history of anime. The first piece of animation made in Japan was produced in 1917, making this whole Japanese animation thing a century old. What better time, thought the folks behind …Read more »
What are the most moving anime of all time? That was the question put to readers of Charapedia, who were asked this week, “what are the anime and manga series that have moved you most?” The results themselves may move you (well, move you to …Read more »
No way around it: the end (and beginning) of a year is always list-heavy. This one’s a bit different, though, in that it has nothing to do with 2016. Nope, this is something a bit more ambitious. Music and entertainment magazine Paste has put together …Read more »
Gutted. That’s how you may feel after finishing the series and films on this list, which feature the most tragic endings in anime history, according to the Japanese fans who voted on ranking site Goo. We definitely do not recommend watching them all at once. …Read more »
Say “Hiroshima” to someone from the west and someone from Japan, and you’re likely to conjure up two very different mental images. For most people in America, Hiroshima is synonymous with a single moment: 8:15 am, August 6, 1945, the world’s first use of a …Read more »
Studio Ghibli: the legendary studio is known for creating some of the best and most financially successful anime films of all time, but it’s also had its share of failures. Ever wondered how much Studio Ghibli’s movies cost to make, and how much the studio …Read more »
The last time I talked about Only Yesterday in this magazine, I was lamenting the fact that it was one of only two Studio Ghibli films to have never received an English-language release (the other being Ocean Waves ). Now I’m back in the pages …Read more »
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Otaku USA Staff
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