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Just a few weeks ago we were praising Otaku no Video for being the first "anime about making anime" meta show, predating Shirobako by a couple decades (its 25th anniversary is coming up, actually). Evidently AnimEigo has noticed these parallels as well, as it's decided …Read more »
Here we’ve got yet another buried treasure of Japanese animation, bubbling back to the surface thanks to the reticence of a certain King of the A$$holes World, James Cameron. Superstar producer/director Cameron has a lot of irons in the fire, and when he announced his …Read more »
With the recent success of Edge of Tomorrow and the release of Godzilla , it’s clear Japan’s pop culture franchises can be adapted into big-budget Hollywood films. While neither Edge of Tomorrow or Godzilla were based on anime or manga properties, Japanese cartoons and comics …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 »
Another year is over and somehow, despite my best efforts to streamline and condense my DVD collection, the anime continues to overflow my shelves, threatening to burst the hinges off the Vault of Error. 2013 is dead and gone, leaving me with little more than …Read more »
Michael Sinterniklaas is no stranger to the world of voice acting. Founder of New York-based recording studio NYAV Post, Sinterniklaas is well-known not just as the voice of American cartoon characters like Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) and Dean Venture in …Read more »
That’s Metal Skin Panic: MADOX-01 for you, another one-shot OVA from those halcyon days of yore, the Nineteen Eighties, when anime didn’t have to make sense and when dedicated animators poured their blood, sweat, and tears into making sure every cel of a firing howitzer …Read more »
We’ve already invented time-travel, but it only works in the forward direction. And that’s what The Humanoid is: the proof of the process, a time-traveling, coffee-flavored bullet that has crossed nearly a quarter century of space and time to lodge itself irrevocably in the center …Read more »
Tough work, but someone has to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpE4Wv0xsc Dear Otaku USA readers (website, magazine, or otherwise)! This is your humble editor-in-chief inviting you to check out my new extracurricular activity: co-hosting a web show in Japan! And thus, do I give you episode zero …Read more »
Ah, Excel Saga . I have a love/hate relationship with the series, because while I loved and watched the whole thing, I was never not aware of how grating it could get. Still, good memories in general, and Funimation will be supplying it to fans …Read more »
The first one is usually free. You like it, and for a while you limit yourself to partaking of just that - but then your supply runs out and you start thinking "got anything else I can try, man?" One thing leads to another, and …Read more »
Interview excerpted from the December issue of OTAKU USA ] In spite of the success of his groundbreaking 2004 film Appleseed and the buzz surrounding the upcoming sequel, Ex Machina , Shinji Aramaki is quite possibly the most famous and influential anime insider you've never …Read more »
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