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It doesn’t quite have the Stateside name recognition of, say, Shonen Jump, but Shonen Sunday, the weekly manga magazine that’s been running since 1959, has produced its share of classics. But what are the best of the best from those 60 years of manga? That’s …Read more »
One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented battle-of-the-sexes to TV audiences in the early-to-mid 1980s. At its core was the sitcom relationship between lecherous high school …Read more »
Anime NYC had a huge guest announcement to make today. Since the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise is celebrating its 40th anniversary, it’s only appropriate that the mind behind it all, Yoshiyuki Tomino, gets in on the fun at this year’s event. Tomino will be an Official Guest …Read more »
Mamoru Oshii, the lauded director behind Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell and more, is creating a new anime series. It’s the first time the director has worked in anime since 2008’s The Sky Crawlers. The series, which is set for broadcast in spring or early …Read more »
Japan’s Heisei era, which began in 1989, comes to a close this May 1. As you might expect, there are all sorts of rankings and best-of lists marking the occasion, including this one, in which Goo has asked its readers to rank: The best anime …Read more »
From now until the end of the year, Otaku USA e-News presents 98 Degrees: a deep dive straight into the anime of 1998. Which greats of ’98 would you like to see covered? Comment below or drop our editor a line. Adapted from a long-running …Read more »
The latest update is here for the live-action Bleach movie, which has director Shinsuke Sato (GANTZ) helming the adaptation of Tite Kubo’s manga. At the top of the new additions we have Erina Mano (Akira Izumino in The Next Generation – Patlabor live-action series) as …Read more »
It’s been 10 years since Mamoru Oshii’s last anime film, Sky Crawlers. That’s far too long for fans of the legendary director, whose works include Urusei Yatsura, Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell. Now it’s been announced that Oshii will be back in the director’s …Read more »
Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou, the directorial debut from acclaimed screenwriter Mari Okada, is due out in February 2018, and we’ve got our first look courtesy a new trailer and poster. The film, which is being called SayoAsa for short (the …Read more »
Naoki Urasawa's Pluto manga is up there with his best work, taking a classic Astro Boy story and expanding it into a complex and engrossing murder mystery. Now it looks like we have an anime adaptation on the way, with a poster on display at …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 you’ve been wondering where the director of the original Ghost in the Shell comes down on the whole live-action whitewashing debate, let it be known he is definitively on team ScarJo. That’s the word from an IGN interview with Mamoru Oshii, in which he …Read more »
As I’m writing this, we are mere months away from the premiere of the live-action Hollywood adaptation of Ghost in the Shell . But before we get to the, ahem, Johansson-ization of Ghost in the Shell , let’s take a look at the anime and …Read more »
Renowned director Mamoru Oshii ( Ghost in the Shell , Patlabor ) and Production I.G have their Sand Whale and Me short film coming to Toonami as a five-part micro-series on March 18. The block is here to hype the production again on Facebook with …Read more »
No way around it: the end (and beginning) of a year is always list-heavy. This one’s a bit different, though, in that it has nothing to do with 2016. Nope, this is something a bit more ambitious. Music and entertainment magazine Paste has put together …Read more »
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