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If you're looking for a place to catch the Los Angeles premiere of Takeshi Koike's Redline , look no further than this year's Los Angeles Animation Festival. The festival will screen Redline on December 5, both at 12:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., marking the official …Read more »
It's been a while since we posted a trailer for Takeshi Koike's upcoming film Redline , but that doesn't make us any less excited to check out it out when it finally hits North America. In fact, the trailer is just serving to make the …Read more »
Yasuke—a Netflix original anime that has LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) directing and Takeshi Koike (Redline) handling character designs at anime studio MAPPA—revealed its April 29 premiere plans early last month. The story of real-life African samurai Yasuke stars Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah) …Read more »
Yasuke, the LeSean Thomas/MAPPA joint about the real-life African samurai Yasuke, is set to hit Netflix April 29. The series will run six episodes. It’s directed by LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) with character designs from Takeshi Koike (Redline) and animation by MAPPA (Yuri on Ice). …Read more »
Usually when we talk about anime and movie adaptations, it’s going in one direction. That is, we’re excited for (or fretting about) what will happen to our favorite animated series under the Hollywood knife. But for a few projects — like Pacific Rim: The Black — …Read more »
There’s lots of Lupin III out there — more than half a century’s worth, in fact. So you’ll almost never be out of material to watch. But there’s one series in particular — The Woman Called Fujiko Mine — that deserves your special attention. Released in 2012, the …Read more »
Redline, possibly the most intense anime film ever made, turns 10 this year. Takeshi Koike’s sci-fi film about a no-holds-barred race in the future didn’t make much of a dent at the Japanese box office, but it’s become a cult favorite over the years, with …Read more »
It’s a terrible cliché, but films like Redline don’t come around very often. The popularity of sci-fi anime films seems to have died out with the rise of digital animation, but while Redline succeeds in appealing to old-school fans, it has plenty to offer newer fans as well. Takeshi …Read more »
If the sudden flood of new Lupin the Third properties feels a bit hard to keep track of, well, there are certainly worse problems to have. The franchise has come a long way from its thinnest years, when about the only Lupin stuff being released …Read more »
For a solid recent example of sakuga, Trigger's Little Witch Academia (now a TV anime!) short is truly exceptional. Since the days of Astro Boy , the Japanese animation industry has by and large followed a conservative production model, relying on cost-saving limited animation tricks. …Read more »
This current decade has been quite the phenomenal one for a character who made his anime debut roughly 45 years ago courtesy of an author whose pen name is ”Monkey Punch.” In the past six years alone Lupin the Third, anime’s greatest thief, has found …Read more »
Madhouse is one of the most venerable anime studios out there. From the minds and hard work of former Mushi Pro ( Astro Boy , Dororo , Kimba the White Lion ) animators like Masao Maruyama (see our MAPPA feature), Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Rintaro, Osamu Dezaki, …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda is back. The director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time , Summer Wars and Wolf Children ’s first film in three years, The Boy and the Beast ( Bakemono no Ko ), premiered this past weekend in Japan and proceeded to take …Read more »
This month, one of the great anime films of all time and the theatrical directorial debut of one Hayao Miyazaki, 1979's The Castle of Cagliostro , had a limited rerelease in Japanese theaters. The film, set to be released in HD in Japan and America …Read more »
It's not easy to assess an entire year after the fact, but we do what we can here at Otaku USA. We presented a handful of our contributors with a hefty challenge: Pick ONE standout anime from the entire year, whether it be theatrical, televised, …Read more »
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Matt Schley
Kara Dennison
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Daryl Surat
Otaku USA Contributors
