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Hayao Miyazaki, the anime director who needs no introduction (but we’re going to do it anyway) turned 77 this January 5. Miyazaki, who co-founded Studio Ghibli with director Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki in 1985, is currently at work on his latest film, Kimi-tachi …Read more »
Soon, theatergoers in Japan will be able to experience the sights, sounds and smells of last year’s hit series Yuri on Ice in 4D. The entire 12-episode series will get 4D screenings in theaters in Japan starting September 23, it was announced today. The technology …Read more »
As you may have heard, 2017 is kind of a big deal for the history of anime. The first piece of animation made in Japan was produced in 1917, making this whole Japanese animation thing a century old. What better time, thought the folks behind …Read more »
If the sudden flood of new Lupin the Third properties feels a bit hard to keep track of, well, there are certainly worse problems to have. The franchise has come a long way from its thinnest years, when about the only Lupin stuff being released …Read more »
This current decade has been quite the phenomenal one for a character who made his anime debut roughly 45 years ago courtesy of an author whose pen name is ”Monkey Punch.” In the past six years alone Lupin the Third, anime’s greatest thief, has found …Read more »
Whereas the practice of adapting popular anime series into live-action films seems to be an ever-increasing phenomenon , less common is the reverse – films that start out in live-action and later make the move to animation. But that’s the case with The Case of …Read more »
CG animator , political activist , forest cleaner-upper : even putting Academy Award-winning director aside, Hayao Miyazaki’s still got a pretty impressive resume. Miyazaki has one more job not often discussed in western writing: manga artist. While his magnum opus, Nausicaä, has been available in …Read more »
There's more Lupin the Third anime on the way on top of the currently-running TV anime. Nihon TV plans to air a new special called Lupin the Third: Italian Game on January 8, 2016. The two-hour special will be the first since November 2013's Princess …Read more »
In English, it reads like a portmanteau of anime and amnesia, but the new Japan-based Animesia has an entirely different meaning – “anime” plus “meshiya,” meaning, roughly, “restaurant.” It’s a new project based in – no surprise here – anime capital of the world, Akihabara, …Read more »
I recently sat down for dinner with a fellow Lupin III fan to watch blu-ray discs of the newest series, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine . We’re both fans of the films and TV shows showcasing the comedic adventures of this infamous group of burglars. …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki is leaving the world of film animation. That’s according to Studio Ghibli President Koji Hoshino, who announced this past Sunday at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival in Italy that the world-famous anime director will “retire from the production of feature-length …Read more »
The roundtable listens intently to Consul-General Tadahiko Yamaguchi’s speech Last month in Denver, Colorado, academics, industry leaders and fans alike met up for SANA, the Summit for Anime in North America, an event organized to ponder just why anime has the appeal it does in …Read more »
Have you ever wished you could eat food from, like, a real anime? Put that pocky away, because there’s a new cooking app for iPhone and Android phones that’s set to make your anime cooking dreams come true. Released just this past week, the free …Read more »
As I sit down to write this, the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall , is currently playing in movie theaters worldwide, and a lot of people who enjoyed that movie (which is a LOT of people) are now rather interested in watching more James Bond …Read more »
Four years ago, back in 2008, first-time anime series director Sayo Yamamoto debuted with Michiko and Hatchin , a phenomenal television show with solid characterization and a distinct visual and aural style that in my mind seemed like a no-brainer for US release. I was …Read more »
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