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Sounds like we may be able to get our peepers on the South Korean Jin-Roh remake before too long. Netflix has announced they’ve licensed the streaming rights to the film, which is called Inrang. The film opens in South Korea next week. The original Jin-Roh …Read more »
There’s a live-action adaptation of Mamoru Oshii’s Jin-Roh coming soon, and from an unexpected source: South Korea. The original anime film, set in Oshii’s sprawling Kerberos universe, was directed by Hiroyuki Okiura at Production I.G, and released in 2000. The live-action version from Korea, which …Read more »
Recently there was a series called Young Black Jack. Billed as an origin story for Osamu Tezuka’s famous creation, the title suggested we’d learn about what made him become an unlicensed rogue surgeon to begin with. Instead, what we got was him doing what he’s …Read more »
With all the skepticism over recent announcements of the Ghost in the Shell live-action movie , the 2015 animated film , and the lukewarm reception of 2013's Arise films still relatively fresh on our minds, we thought it'd be a good time to look back to the …Read more »
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 was released last month, and fans of the franchise are now forced to wait another year before watching the conclusion. Rather than spending the next twelve months rewatching the films, we here at Otaku USA Magazine have decided to …Read more »
Big new development in the case of the Dreamworks-backed live-action Ghost in the Shell adaptation. According to Hollywood news site Deadline, Scarlett Johansson has been offered the main role in the film after talks with actress Margot Robbie went south. Johansson has starred in a …Read more »
If the name Masaaki Yuasa doesn’t ring a bell with a lot of anime fans, it’s not for lack of talent. The 47-year old director has marked himself over the last decade as one of the most bold and unique auteurs in Japanese animation, delivering …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 »
Warning: This cyber/neural transmission is under surveillance by “net-jackers” and could conclude at any moments. Here’s what you need to know: Tokyo. Again. Late February, 2011. I am dining on curry n’ nan in Shinjuku with the otherworldly Kiria Noir Arondight and Franck Shigetora, he …Read more »
One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented battle-of-the-sexes to TV audiences in the early-to-mid 1980s. At its core was the sitcom relationship between lecherous high school …Read more »
There’s no time of year I dread so much as late summer. Even now, almost a decade removed from the concept of summer vacations and the dread of school’s impending return, the wan lighting and redoubled, oppressive heatwaves that herald the last gasps of the …Read more »
As I’m writing this, we are mere months away from the premiere of the live-action Hollywood adaptation of Ghost in the Shell . But before we get to the, ahem, Johansson-ization of Ghost in the Shell , let’s take a look at the anime and …Read more »
Westworld : the HBO series about cowboys and robots is the biggest thing among TV geeks since, well, HBO’s last geek-centric series, Game of Thrones . And just like that series, the break between seasons already feels interminable. Enter our handy solution: a rundown of …Read more »
It’s a topic that comes up every so often on sites like Reddit or 4chan (and on message boards, BBSes and in convention halls before that): what should people just getting into anime watch first? For a Japanese take on the matter, we turn to …Read more »
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