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We just learned that a bunch of anime titles are in possible contention for this year’s Academy Awards. Meanwhile, the Japanese version of the Oscars, the Japan Academy Film Prize, have revealed the nominees for Animation of the Year. These films are up for the …Read more »
When you think of the last decade of modern anime films, which features strike you as the most impressive? Japanese survey site Rankingoo aimed to find the answer by polling 10,314 people between the age of teenagers and 60-year-olds, with the only major stipulation being …Read more »
A thousand-year dream arrives after 10 Sunao Katabuchi established himself as the bona fide successor (but not imitator) to his old mentor, the late Isao Takahata of Studio Ghibli fame, with 2016’s In This Corner of the World. The extended edition, In This Corner (And …Read more »
New CG-animated feature Stand By Me Doraemon 2 was supposed to arrive in August, but has since been delayed. There’s currently no new release date, but there is a new trailer along with some fresh additions to the cast. Grown-up Nobita will be played by …Read more »
My Tyrano (also known as Sayonara Tyrano or even Hello Tyrano, depending on who you ask) is an animated co-production that combines the forces of Japan, China and South Korea to adapt a series of dinosaur-themed books by Tatsuya Miyanishi. Tyrano, which is set to …Read more »
To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts, AKA Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e, is a manga by writing duo MAYBE that’s been running in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shonen Magazine since July 2014. Vertical publishes the series in North America, and the next step is an anime adaptation by …Read more »
Acclaimed anime screenwriter Mari Okada (Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Anthem of the Heart) makes her directorial debut with Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. We’ll get a chance to check it out in North America soon, because ELEVEN ARTS Anime Studio announced …Read more »
The official nominees for the 2018 Academy Awards were announced today, and the list is a bit of bummer for anime fans: no Japanese films made the cut. The films nominated in the Animated Feature Film category are The Boss Baby, The Breadwinner, Coco, Ferdinand …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 »
Five years after the release of what was billed as his final film, the (ultimately pointless) debate rages on: who is the next Miyazaki? His son, Goro? His one-time almost-collaborator, Mamoru Hosoda? New box-office king Makoto Shinkai? This week, it turned out the next Hayao …Read more »
Tetsuya Akutsu stands with his hands in his pockets, an embarrassed grin on his face. “I haven’t cleaned the place in a while,” he explains. In his defense, the place, a room on the second floor of a house in west Tokyo, isn’t so much …Read more »
Your Name , where art thou? The Tokyo Anime Award Festival has joined the ranks of sites looking back on 2016 and has just published a list of the best anime films of the year as chosen by 480,004 fans. The list is making waves …Read more »
As an anime fan, living in Japan doesn’t have the same import it used to. Sure, the omake – the events, the posters, the feeling of being in the country that makes the stuff you’re into – that’s all there. But as a pure consumer …Read more »
If you’ve spent any time around a television in Japan, you know the average evening of entertainment is, well, bad. Swathes of primetime programming are filled with soap opera-quality scripted programming, or worse, Japan’s dreaded “variety” shows, in which quasi-celebrities sit around a set commenting …Read more »
To understand why production studios like TRIGGER, which featured in the previous all-anime issue, and MAPPA, which I have the distinct honor and pleasure to write about right now, matter in the grand scheme of anime production, it is imperative to understand the circumstances behind …Read more »
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