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For Gundam fans, this October will mark an historic occasion: the return of series creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, who has been absent from the Gundam director’s chair since 1999’s Turn A Gundam . This time around, he’s the writer and director of Gundam Reconguista in G …Read more »
For anime fans, it’s one of Tokyo’s must-sees: the 1:1 scale Gundam statue. Completed in 2009, the real-life RX-78 currently keeps watch over the Gundam Front theme park in Odaiba, Tokyo. It’s an impressive tribute to the continued popularity Gundam has had over the decades, …Read more »
When you hear the word Gundam , what comes to mind? Personally, my mind’s eye fills immediately with the spectral visage of Yoshiyuki Tomino, director of the original 1979’s Mobile Suit Gundam and countless other classics of anime history: Zeta Gundam , Xabungle , Garzey’s …Read more »
I consider myself a casual Gundam fan at best. I've seen enough series and movies to satisfy myself, but I'm definitely not a maniac for the work of Yoshiyuki Tomino and those who followed. Some of it is pretty good, a few pieces are really …Read more »
When we interviewed legendary director Yasuhiro Imagawa for our February issue, little did we expect we’d have the chance to speak to him again a scant few months later. That’s what happened, though, at this weekend’s Pacific Media Expo in Los Angeles, where Imagawa was …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! For the penultimate episode of Friday ACE, Mike resurrects the J-Indies Spotlight! SHOW NOTES: This week's Opening Theme: "You Bet" by Kaela Kimura Highlight Reel: Kodansha USA Republishes SAILOR MOON, CODENAME: SAILOR V …Read more »
If you've ever been fortunate enough to attend San Diego Comic-Con, then you know how hard it can be to keep track of all the little goings-on sprinkled here and there. I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for missing Bandai Entertainment's announcements, for example, as they …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! -Yoshiyuki Tomino going post-modern? -Funimation catches the Sushi Typhoon -And June's Best In Tune Special, OMEGA!! All that, and the best fan-reaction ever in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: Mike here. Let …Read more »
Here is my short list of highlights from the 4th and final New York Anime Festival: - Yoshiyuki Tomino draws a haru-ball with every signature. - The one-man Indy-short Cencoroll premiered and looks like fun (I only saw the trailer). - Vertical picked up Chi's …Read more »
The Tomino Ending. It is a term that most anime fans know and dread the very utterance of, knowing that means that everybody in the main cast of a show is going to be killed off by the final episode. It is the trademark of …Read more »
Wings of Rean , the latest anime from Gundam director Yoshiyuki Tomino, isn't what one would call his most accessible work. Although it shares a title with a serialized novel he wrote back in the '80s, Wings of Rean is essentially a spinoff of Tomino's …Read more »
Aura Battler Dunbine is one of the classics of Sunrise and Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, and it’s also been the subject of a recent project from Sunrise Robot Laboratory. Back in May, an experimental movie titled AURA BATTLER DUNBINE SIDE L was released, and now …Read more »
Yoshiyuki Tomino’s original Mobile Suit Gundam anime has been celebrating a major anniversary this year, and the party continues with Gundam Cinema Fest. The event will help ring in the 45th anniversary for the anime, which first aired in Japan back in 1979, with screenings …Read more »
Big news for fans of robots, space battles, awesome music, and love geometry: Macross (or at least most of it) will be streaming on Disney+! For many fans, this will mark the first time the legendary series is viewable at all, with most of the franchise …Read more »
Toei’s 1975 anime adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid has gotten a surprising amount of attention in the last handful of days. First, Rifftrax — the movie-riffing group made up of three MST3K stars — added it to their catalogue. A scant couple of …Read more »
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