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Studio Ponoc, the folks behind 2017’s Ghibli-lookin’ Mary and Witch’s Flower, unveiled their second feature, Modest Heroes, a few months back. Now we’ve got a look at that film via a brand-new trailer. Modest Heroes is a collection of three shorts, and the first of …Read more »
Ponoc, the studio composed largely of Studio Ghibli veterans, has announced their latest project: a series of shorts helmed by various acclaimed anime directors. As a whole, the project is called Ponoc Short Films Theater, and the first collection of shorts is titled Modest Heroes. …Read more »
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes a heartwarming family adventure. Ponyo is celebrating its 10th anniversary as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2018, and you can relive the gorgeous feature in …Read more »
Of all the anime films coming out this year, this may be the one we’re most looking forward to. It’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower from Studio Ponoc, a bunch of folks who used to work at Ghibli and have made what looks like a …Read more »
Studio Ghibli may be in hibernation, or low-power mode, or whatever metaphor works for you, but a generation of animators and producers trained at the legendary studio have come together to bring us a new film with a distinctly Ghibli feel. The film, announced last …Read more »
No one can resist a good ponytail. That’s true for both the male and female respondents to the latest poll from Charapedia, which asked its readers to choose the anime girls who look best with the classic horse tail-resembling ‘do. Who wields anime’s best ponytails? …Read more »
While a relatively niche spectator sport in the US, Japan takes its ponies more seriously. Called Keiba, It’s home to over 21,000 annuals races which are watched and observed by numerous salaryman as much as passionately as any Hanshin Tigers vs. Yomiuri Giants match. The …Read more »
Ken Pontac is a man who’s worn many career hats in his life (art director on Gumby , creator of Bump in the Night , writer for cartoons), but his work in Japanese video games would probably be in the area of most interest for …Read more »
Talk about taking video games seriously: Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan University recently held a conference debating the impact Nintendo has had on society. The original Nintendo Entertainment System was released in America in 1985, making 2015 the console’s 30th birthday. The Japanese equivalent, the Family Computer System …Read more »
FUNimation will be releasing Ping Pong the Animation —directed by Masaaki Yuasa and based on the original manga by Taiyo Matsumoto—on DVD and Blu-ray this June. With the release date looming, FUNi recently uploaded a couple samples of the anime's English dub. Here's the cast …Read more »
Lists of stuff – can you even remember what the internet was like before them? The latest list out from Goo, a Japanese site that asks its readers to rank all kinds of stuff, has busted out the moe question of moe questions – which …Read more »
As if one giant anime event weren’t enough, the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2015 also took place this past weekend, and the prize for best anime TV series of the year went to Masaaki Yuasa’s adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto’s Ping Pong . The 11 episode …Read more »
In the early 2000s, as broadband home Internet spread nationwide, it finally became possible to see what was new in Japanese media. Thus a generation went from Pokémon straight to ultraviolent fare like Battle Royale and Versus, as well as quirkier teen sports comedies like …Read more »
Sit back and take a long, hard look and you'll see we're living in a pretty swell period for anime. Each season has had at least a few standout shows, both new and recurring, one of which involved Mind Game director Masaaki Yuasa returning to …Read more »
Noitamina, the alternative anime programming block on Fuji TV, is celebrating their almost-10-year anniversary with a series of interviews with creators who’ve worked on Noitamina shows. That impressive list includes Masaaki Yuasa, a highly regarded figure for anyone into anime that goes beyond (often way …Read more »
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