Search Results for: Evangelion
Hybrid x Heart is an unfortunate case of “what you see is what you get” when it comes to titillating manga. It features fantastic art and incredibly detailed costumes, but its overarching narrative is as flat as its protagonists’ chests are inflated. While there’s nothing …Read more »
As fans of Mr. Osomatsu know, one of the Matsuno brothers’ favorite activities is going to the public bath. Now at an arcade in Tokyo, you can join them. In virtual reality, that is. “Osomatsu-san VR,” which opened to the public December 7, is the …Read more »
Anime theme songs make for great karaoke fodder, and the new number one sing-along hit in Japan should come as a surprise to no one. According to rankings released by DAM, Japan’s largest online karaoke service, RADWIMPS’ theme song to Makoto Shinkai’s your name. anime film …Read more »
“What were you watching in 2009?” On October 18, a hashtag that asked that question started to trend on Japanese Twitter. Originally an ad for political party Komeito, it quickly morphed into a discussion about 2009 anime. Fans dished on the nostalgic series from eight …Read more »
Believe it or not, we’re almost 20 years into the new millennium. Toyo Keizai, a Japanese finance magazine that also reports on pop culture, has assembled a list of 20 anime titles that have defined the first two decades of the 2000s. In chronological order, …Read more »
Clocking in at just 90 minutes between two 45-minute episodes, The Dragon Dentist is delightfully concise, which should come as no surprise to fans of Tsurumaki's most famous work, the six-episode OVA FLCL. In an alternate retelling of World War II (presumably, though the war …Read more »
You know that feeling when an anime really grosses you out… but you can’t stop watching? These Japanese fans sure do. They’ve taken to ranking site Goo to list anime’s most grotesque series and films, and here are the top 20: 20. Shiki 19. The …Read more »
Universal Studios Japan continues to make itself a prime destination for the otaku crowd. The Osaka-based theme park has previously hosted attractions based on Neon Genesis Evangelion, Resident Evil and Attack on Titan, among others. Now for 2018, it’s adding the classic anime and video …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: What originally started as an 8-minute ONA (original net animation) from the Rebuild of Evangelion project’s anime studio Khara is now a feature-length adventure! The Dragon Dentist follows a girl with a mighty, nay, colossal task ahead of her, and it can be …Read more »
Zoom zoom. Taking a star turn in a new commercial for the Honda Civic is none other than Hideaki Anno, director of Evangelion and Shin Godzilla , who stars alongside band ONE OK ROCK. This isn’t actually the first commercial work Anno has done: he …Read more »
Late last year Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara held a huge Tokyo exhibition to celebrate its 10th anniversary which included a charming short film about the studio’s trials and tribulations up to now. Now Khara has released that film on YouTube for all to enjoy. The …Read more »
Being somehow psychically scarred by a scary, depressing or otherwise disturbing piece of entertainment is an experience most of us share – and as a medium, anime certainly isn’t lacking in series or films with some pretty distressing elements. Ranking site Goo recently asked its …Read more »
Title, subtitle and premise all suggest that Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions is another negligible addition to the isekai fantasy subgenre so prominent in anime and light novels these last few years. “Grimgar” is exactly the kind of name a teenager obsessed with a particularly violent kind of power fantasy might ascribe to the …Read more »
You may recall when Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno's current anime production house, Studio Khara, sued his former studio Gainax last year. The suit came about as a result of unpaid royalties and other fees related to a substantial loan, and a Tokyo District Court ended …Read more »
Over the last few years, the Tokyo International Film Festival has been devoting a lot of energy to anime: the festival has hosted auteurs like Hideaki Anno ( Evangelion ), Yoshiyuki Tomino ( Gundam ) and Mamoru Hosoda ( The Boy and the Beast ). …Read more »
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