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Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi ( Arrietty , When Marnie Was There ) is back with his latest film, this time at Yoshiaki Nishimura's Studio Ponoc. Based on Mary Stewart's book The Little Broomstick , Mary and the Witch's Flower features other former Studio Ghibli staff members, …Read more »
Of all the anime films coming out this year, this may be the one we’re most looking forward to. It’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower from Studio Ponoc, a bunch of folks who used to work at Ghibli and have made what looks like a …Read more »
Studio Ghibli may be in hibernation, or low-power mode, or whatever metaphor works for you, but a generation of animators and producers trained at the legendary studio have come together to bring us a new film with a distinctly Ghibli feel. The film, announced last …Read more »
The rise of yuri as an identifiable subgenre of anime and manga has brought some distinct oddities with it. One of the biggest oddities—and the one most relevant to AOI HANA: Sweet Blue Flowers in a roundabout way—is that yuri very rarely deals with actual …Read more »
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day , the popular 2011 anime series about a group of friends who reunite after a tragedy splits them apart, will be adapted into a live-action TV drama this year. The series will air “this year,” though a more …Read more »
The 13-episode run of the divisive Flowers of Evil anime has come to an end, wrapping what we first favorably spoke of a couple months back . Guess what? It's still divisive! That's ok, because truly interesting entertainment often finds its viewers split down the …Read more »
I decided to wait until at least episode three to gather my thoughts on the Flowers of Evil anime adaptation for a few reasons. The primary factor is pacing. While I've read all five volumes of Shuzo Oshimi's manga (you can read the latest review …Read more »
At this point in Shuzo Oshimi's The Flowers of Evil , our hopeless lead Takao Kasuga is officially under the spell of Sawa Nakamura. It's up to the reader to decide just how deep her strings plunge, but the wicked activities and plotting between the …Read more »
In the very first episode of Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne , we get robots, aliens, and girls stripping. Not necessarily in that order. Ditsy high schooler Madoka is all about her Jersey Club, but soon she’s going to have bigger things to be concerned …Read more »
Quite a bit went down in the lives of our central characters over the course of the first three volumes of Shuzo Oshimi's The Flowers of Evil , and when it all wrapped up it kind of felt like we might be right back where …Read more »
Unofficial Gundam videographer darwinfish has done a great job of capturing stuff like the full-scale Odaiba Gundam and other similarly themed spectacles, and his latest focus is the Flower Gundam in Shiokaze Park for the 29th National Urban Greenery Fair Tokyo. The Flower Gundam promotes …Read more »
The cruelty continues in volume two of The Flowers of Evil , by Shuzo Oshimi ( Drifting Net Cafe ). Pure, unadulterated elation mixes potently with a maddening telltale heart as Kasuga embarks on a dream date with his school crush, Saeki. Despite all the …Read more »
Beyond the specifics, The Flowers of Evil will probably contain at least some aspects of life to which most can relate. Takao Kasuga is a middle-schooler who isn't quite like his peers. He keeps to himself, finding joys in leisure-time entertainment others around him would …Read more »
Anime series weren't the only pickups announced at this past weekend's Anime Weekend Atlanta convention. Manga publisher Vertical Inc. let its latest acquisition be known, as well: Flowers of Evil ( Aku no Hana ). Flowers of Evil is an ongoing series by Shuzou Oshimi, …Read more »
The last PSN title from thatgamecompany, fl0w , resonated with a lot of people. It took the concept of designing a game that absolutely anyone can pick up and play and ran with it, for better or worse. I enjoyed fl0w , but it wasn't …Read more »
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