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The most recent long-running manga from Rumiko Takahashi—creator of series such as Urusei Yatsura , Maison Ikkoku , Ranma ½ , and InuYasha —is getting ready to follow her previous work into the world of animation. Rin-ne , which began in the pages of Shogakukan's …Read more »
I frequently bemoan the fact that Studio Ghibli, despite its status as the single most prestigious anime studio of all, has trouble cultivating new creative talent beyond its principal founding members. But I kind of understand why they became that way. It’s because of I …Read more »
The near future: A cargo plane crashes in Tokyo Bay, scattering debris as it plummets from the sky. Among the wreckage is a ruptured container belonging to a biological research firm—a container that seems to have been torn open from the inside out. Some time …Read more »
Ocean Waves ( Umi ga Kikoeru , aka I Can Hear the Ocean ) is a made-for-TV animated movie from Studio Ghibli that was first shown on TV in Japan on May 5, 1993. It’s long been considered the “lost” Studio Ghibli film because it …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 »
“A hapless, average guy finds himself surrounded by beautiful women, all of whom love him inexplicably for simply existing and have one or two defining personality traits. The guy lacks the backbone to pick just one girl, so he’s content to keep things as they …Read more »
We really take our cushy lives on the surface for granted sometimes—basking in the sun, taking strolls by the ocean—it's become an expected delight, right? Not so for Simon, who whittles away the days drilling underground, slowly helping to expand his village by boring deeper …Read more »
[Excerpted from the December 2007 Issue of Otaku USA magazine.] Do you know what they call people who own hundreds of anime DVDs and can talk in obsessive details about them? "Otaku." Do you know what they call people who own hundreds of music CDs …Read more »
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