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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has gamers everywhere turning into armchair engineers. Link’s gone full artificer in this Breath of the Wild sequel, assembling everything from battle bots to exploding statues. It’s hard to put down your joy-cons… but if you need to, we’ve …Read more »
50 years ago today, Go Nagai’s Mazinger Z debuted. And it went on to change the world of giant robot anime—and anime in general—forever. Today, fans around the world are celebrating the show’s legacy. And it’s one heck of a legacy. We’d be here all day …Read more »
July 22 marks the Japanese theatrical debut of the fourth Gundam Reconguista in G compilation film, subtitled “Gekito ni Sakebu Ai” (“Love Screaming in the Face of Battle”). To get Gundam fans ready, a new trailer has arrived along with a key visual drafted by …Read more »
Already steamed straight through season 4 of Stranger Things? Us, too. So… now what do we do? Besides rewatching seasons 1-3 and dusting off our old Kate Bush albums, we’re searching for those nerdy, otherworldly vibes elsewhere. Fortunately, the hit Netflix series shares plenty of tropes …Read more »
In Kirby and the Forgotten Land, you get to steer everyone’s favorite hungry blob through an overgrown, possibly formerly human, landscape. More importantly, though, you get to eat all sorts of crazy things. Like cars. If you can dream it, he can devour it. But should he? …Read more »
When it comes to isekai anime—literally “another world” stories in which a main character or group of characters end up transported into an alternate world of some type—there’s no shortage of series and films to choose from. With no signs of slowing down, Japanese website …Read more »
There’s nothing like the approach of a new series of anime. After years of reading manga and light novels and months of following production, it’s almost here. And the incoming selection of winter anime has some seriously big hitters… some of them starting this week! …Read more »
The Japanese government has unveiled the names of 21 people who will receive this year’s Person of Cultural Merit honor, and two of them are beloved by otaku. First up is none other than Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. Tomino got his start working under Osamu …Read more »
Super Robot Wars 30 is just a few weeks from release, marking the first time one of the series’s main games has gotten an official global release. You’ll be able to command legendary classics like Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and a fleet of Gundams. You’ll also …Read more »
Japanese paper The Mainichi interviewed Goro Miyazaki about his movie Earwig and the Witch, computer-generated animation, and the future of Studio Ghibli. “With 3DCG, you try to handle the characters like dolls,” Miyazaki said. “But if you make it look too much like a doll …Read more »
Gundam is one of Japan’s most successful pop culture franchises, and the life-sized Unicorn Gundam statue at Odaiba district in Tokyo Bay got some extra attention during the Olympics (even if the BBC did mistakenly call it a Transformer at first). The popularity has led …Read more »
Now that the world has seen the last of Evangelion (short of merchandise for days, of course), a lot of people are feeling abandoned. Some are lonely in the wake of “Eva Loss,” but for others, it’s a desire to sink their teeth into more mecha anime …Read more »
Following up on the success of the first of three Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway movies, Sunrise producer Naohiro Ogata revealed more information on what’s next. According to the announcement at the talk event that was held at Tokyo’s Shinjuku Piccadilly theater on September 2, the …Read more »
79-year-old Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino says he probably has three more years to work in the anime industry due to health issues. Tomino has been diagnosed with spinal canal stenosis, which is described by the Mayo Clinic as “a narrowing of the spaces within your …Read more »
Director Mamoru Hosoda is riding high off the success of his latest film, BELLE, but that didn’t stop him from recommending some other essential anime you absolutely have to see. During Saturday’s “The Most Useful School in the World” program, Hosoda ran through a list …Read more »
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