Search Results for: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
There’s new anime — including new mecha anime — coming out all the time! With daily new choices, it can be hard to catch up to the classics if that’s your thing. So how do you know where to start? You let us tell you, …Read more »
Greek myths never really go out of style, but Hades is bringing the love back in a big way. In a season dominated by big-hitters like Cyberpunk 2077, it’s holding its own and making a name for itself among gamers of all levels. And if revisiting mythology has …Read more »
Thrust into the theater of war somewhere in space, reading Space Battleship Yamato 2199, I couldn’t help but to feel like I’d tuned in a few minutes too late to a grandiose epic already several scenes underway. Now over 40 years old, the original Space …Read more »
It’s been 30 years since The Venus Wars anime film opened in Japanese theaters, so it’s definitely time for the classic to get the remaster it deserves. The 1989 feature is coming back to shelves in Japan in a Blu-ray box set remastered in HD using …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin features some of the most top-rate action animation made in years. “Prequel saga” is a phrase that, at this point, elicits otaku dread and disappointment. After all, how much do we really want to see our favorite heroes and villains …Read more »
I feel as though I could write a book on all of the things that were done incorrectly with regard to the handling of Mobile Suit Gundam and its various sequels and spinoffs in the United States. Perhaps, between all I’ve said the past few …Read more »
The hype surrounding the recent Sailor Moon remake is yet another reminder that the Japanese animation industry is an unrelenting, ouroborosian machine that consumes itself just as fast as it reinvents itself. Sailor Moon ’s staggering popularity in Japan was matched in the U.S. by …Read more »
If you pay attention to social media, you may have noticed that people have been talking non-stop about the World Cup for what feels like forever. If you keep up with current anime, you may have noticed that one of last season’s most interesting titles …Read more »
Sometimes it’s fun seeing an old friend get a new look to appeal to a new crowd while retaining what made her special in the first place. Such is the case in the newest American release of the Dirty Pair OVA series. Some of my …Read more »
As Right Stuf has just finished releasing the last anime in the Dirty Pair universe from the '80s needing R1 distribution (namely Dirty Pair TV Collection 2 ), we thought it was time to look back at its sister series, Crusher Joe , which has …Read more »
It's a shame that Dark Horse's release of the first two Dirty Pair novels by Haruka Takachiho went unnoticed upon their 2007 release in America. I myself didn't become aware of them until that year's Otakon when the first book, the Seiun Award-winning Great Adventure …Read more »
Junya Inoue is best known for his character designs and artwork for shooters by famed Japanese developer Cave—from DoDonPachi to Deathsmiles —as well as his manga, Otogi Matsuri . We sat down to discuss everything from the beginnings of his storied career in games to …Read more »
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