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Warner Bros. Japan's official website for the Rurouni Kenshin live-action film adaptations recently updated with a fast-paced teaser for the upcoming sequels. The pair of films— Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen ( Rurouni Kenshin: The Great Kyoto Fire Arc ) and Rurouni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen …Read more »
Space Dandy is gearing up for its January 2014 debut in Japan and in America, and Bandai Visual has a preview of the latest from Shinichiro Watanabe ( Cowboy Bebop , Samurai Champloo ) in a new full promo. The Japanese voice cast is on …Read more »
The world of anime still has a handful of directors that make everyone stop and take note. Obvious choices include heavy hitters like Hayao Miyazaki , Mamoru Hosoda , Hideaki Anno , and Makoto Shinkai , the latter of which recently unveiled his latest work, …Read more »
The contrast between real and virtual life can be stark. One can be a complete stud online and a loser in the real world, but what happens when those lives collide? In the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine, Danica Davidson had a helluva time …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai's anime has a very distinct feel to it, from the first work that really got his name noticed, 2002's Voices of a Distant Star , to 2011's Children Who Chase Lost Voices . Most of this comes from both his personal visual touch …Read more »
When we wrote about Free! earlier this year -- the Kyoto Animation-produced TV anime about some high school boys who start a swim club -- the response was overwhelmingly “yes, more of this, please.” So, like, how about a show about some high school boys …Read more »
Anime conventions are vast, singular, beautiful, and incomprehensible, a riotous, amorphous celebration of what it is to be a fan of Japanese cartoons and comics. And across North America, from sea to shining sea, there’s no anime convention as vast as Anime Expo, the longest-surviving …Read more »
Presented by Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo and Gundam studio Sunrise, Short Peace is an upcoming anthology of shorts by renowned anime talent that's set to open in Japan on July 20. Shorts include A Farewell to arms from Hiroaki Ando ( Freedom ), Combustible from …Read more »
Valvrave the Liberator is a decent show that could be great. Sunrise's production isn't too shabby, it has a few cool mecha designs by folks like Makoto Ishiwata ( Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet , Robotics;Notes ), and, best of all, it has a twist …Read more »
The season is still young, but Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet ( Suisei no Gargantia ) has about as effective an opening episode as one could ask for. The spring series comes from Production I.G, with Kazuya Murata ( Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of …Read more »
The official website for the upcoming Persona 3 anime movie recently updated with a healthy chunk of new information, including a premiere date and details on the production's staff and cast. Titled Persona 3 the Movie #1: Spring of Birth , the movie is set …Read more »
Fans of one-man anime movie monster Makoto Shinkai found an unexpected present under the tree this year. Shinkai, the director of Voices of a Distant Star, 5 Centimeters Per Second, and Children Who Chase Lost Voices announced via his official website on Christmas Eve that …Read more »
The latest mecha series from Gundam studio Sunrise, Valvrave the Liberator , is due to make its debut in April. Since revealing the project, Sunrise has been gradually showing it off, and the latest "Explanation" promo offers a bit of footage along with some brief …Read more »
The latest anime acquisition out of Sentai Filmworks is Rurouni Kenshin ~ New Kyoto Arc , the new adaptation of Kenshin's most popular story arc. Current plans include releasing the OVA through digital outlets and on bilingual DVD and Blu-ray in 2013. New Kyoto Arc …Read more »
Dark Horse starts off the third hefty week of manga releases this month with a new edition of Trigun Maximum . They're releasing this sequel series in 3-in-1 omnibus format, offering over 500 pages of bounty hunters and donuts per volume for only about twenty …Read more »
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