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Heritage Auction’s The Art of Anime and Everything Cool Signature Auction over the weekend was a great success. The auction house estimated they’d take in $979,222, but they ended up earning $2,118,954. My Neighbor Totoro and Akira pulled in the most money and were in …Read more »
Heritage Auctions is putting on the The Art of Anime and Everything Cool Signature Auction from June 25-27. Hundreds of items are up for bids. “We’ve been sprinkling anime art in all our Signature Sales to test it,” Jim Lentz, the Director of Animation Art …Read more »
Sad news comes out of Japan as we learn of the passing of veteran voice actor Masahiro Anzai, who was 66. Reports say that he died earlier this week of acute heart failure. Anzai voiced Ryuunosuke’s dad in Urusei Yatsura, where he also worked briefly …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki was born 80 years ago today, on January 5, 1941. Enough people who are fans of his work also have Twitter accounts, because they got his name trending while sending him birthday wishes. Here are some of the people celebrating: «I do believe …Read more »
Re:Zero’s Rem is so popular that she scored #2 in Anime Anime’s “what anime character would make the best wife” poll, and she’s been the subject of multiple unaffordable life-size figures (including one that fell apart on its owner a year after purchase). There’s bound …Read more »
The Simpson’s new Treehouse of Horror included a segment called “Into the Homerverse,” where Homer accidentally makes a tear in the space-time continuum while trying to get Halloween candy out of a strange machine at the power plant. Homers from other universes show up, including …Read more »
Mega company Sony is busy releasing movies, music, and video games, and it’s getting ready to really push its anime and challenge the likes of Netflix and Disney for sales. Netflix has been increasing their anime load, and Disney . . . well, anyone aware …Read more »
You know how they say you should never meet your idols? Chiyo Sakura learned this lesson the hard way, unfortunately. All she wanted to do was confess to the tall and somber Umetaro Nozaki. Unfortunately, she stumbles and ends up saying she’s his “biggest fan.” …Read more »
Pixiv Zingaro, a anime and manga-centric gallery in Nakano, Tokyo, is this month the host of an exhibition of works by Yoshitoshi ABe, character designer and doujinshi artist responsible for anime like Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei . The exhibition marks 20 years since …Read more »
As we entered the space, the first thing we encountered was a greeting from Rui Araizumi, who illustrated the original Slayers manga. Araizumi’s note, welcoming visitors to the exhibition, said, among other things, “since you’ve come all the way here, there’s no choice – I’m …Read more »
Akira , the classic anime film that helped launch a wave of anime fandom in these here United States, is, believe it or not, almost thirty years old. Geez Louise. Akira used to be practically required viewing for anime fans who grew up in the …Read more »
In celebration (or lament) of the release of Mamoru Oshii's Garm Wars: The Last Druid , we decided to revisit his "Kerberos Saga" by pulling two of Daryl Surat's stories on the subject out of the vault from way back in 2008. For all the …Read more »
3331 Arts Chiyoda, a multi-purpose modern art museum close to Akihabara, Tokyo, has been the sight of a few anime-related exhibitions over the years, including a huge Katsuhiro Otomo retrospective back in 2012. Last week, it hosted a pretty amazing exhibition dedicated to two recent …Read more »
The roundtable listens intently to Consul-General Tadahiko Yamaguchi’s speech Last month in Denver, Colorado, academics, industry leaders and fans alike met up for SANA, the Summit for Anime in North America, an event organized to ponder just why anime has the appeal it does in …Read more »
Shin-chan really loves his own butt. This is consistent in both the Japanese original and this dub-only US release; most everything else, however, is not. You see, Crayon Shin-chan , as it's known in Japan, is a nightmare of a show to westernize. The trademarks …Read more »
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