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February 2015 been intense for the Power Rangers franchise. Not long after former Red Ranger Ricardo Medina allegedly murdered his roommate with a sword earlier this month, the violent and explicit bootleg "deboot" short film by Adi Shankar and Joseph Khan was released this week to …Read more »
Godzilla: Final Wars begins where other Godzilla films end, and I don’t intend that as hyperbole, it actually begins where another one of these Big G flicks ends. Our favorite mon-star is getting ready to take the kaiju ice bucket challenge just like during the …Read more »
Godzilla saw his first cinematic outing in a decade earlier this year with the release of the Gareth Edwards-helmed Godzilla , but in Japan, he’s been in cinematic slumber since 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars . That’s set to change, with the announcement from Godzilla studio …Read more »
Anno and Hikawa speak at an earlier panel at TIFF. Acclaimed director Hideaki Anno of Evangelion fame held a special panel entitled, “Anno and Hikawa’s Collection of Showa TV Manga Openings” at movie theater Wald 9 in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on November 8. …Read more »
If you’ve been watching Aoi Hono , the TV show about manga author Kazuhiko Shimamoto’s college days, you might remember a scene in which Hideaki Anno, future anime director and creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion , draws an incredibly detailed piece of animation on a …Read more »
The Tokyo International Film Festival, one of Asia’s most important film fests, will devote a section to Hideaki Anno, creator and director of Evangelion . Anno, a co-founder of studio Gainax, is one of the most influential and important anime directors of the last twenty …Read more »
It’s been a big week for Godzilla in his hometown of Tokyo. We reported the other day in a giant Godzilla statue that’s been set up in a park in Tokyo, and the new Godzilla film is finally opening in Japan this Friday. Well, thanks …Read more »
Has Japan been bombarded by enough Evangelion merchandise? No way, Jose, says Evangelion copyright holder studio Khara, for whom Eva continues to be a golden goose regardless of the critical reaction to the films themselves. April 24th will see the latest deluge of Evangelion products, …Read more »
2012. A historical year that brought us a pivotal presidential election, the (non) end of the world as we know it, and, most importantly, the the launch of Otaku USA e-news, the free (!) bi-weekly newsletter full of news, reviews, interviews and event reports straight …Read more »
There was a moment of awkward silence once the house lights came up in the theater after the end credits of Evangelion 3.0 : You Can (Not) Redo . To Evangelion veterans who were there the first time around, it was probably a familiar feeling. …Read more »
Tokusatsu is, if anything, a genre of extremes. At its best, it's basically live-action anime as the 12-year-old boy in us remembers it, full of cool vehicles, explosions, and gratuitously convoluted storylines full of cool-sounding buzzwords that boil down to a simple framework. At its …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! • K-ON! meets Kamen Rider?! • AKIRA has his eyes on Justin Timberlake?! • And Oxford has Hentai in the Dictionary?! All that and some last hurrahs on this, the final episode of …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! -Anime fans being idiots--wait that's not news. -Golgo 13 gets hacked for the greater good?! -And Tetsuo The Iron Man's going to comic?! All that, and serious moon power, in this week's Friday …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! - Go Nagai is good on his word!? - Live-action Mega Man!? - Noboru Iguchi revives a Tokusatsu legend!? All that, and courtroom con drama, in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: Mike …Read more »
On January 2nd, 2010, the Saturday morning ABC Kids line-up debuted the first episode of what fans have called Power Rangers: Remastered . Boasting improved picture and sound, these re-runs of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are taking the place of the usual yearly Super Sentai …Read more »
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