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Anime demons can be terrifying: bloodthirsty, super-powerful, and with those weird long nails. You know the ones. But sometimes, they’re just absolutely adorable. We can’t help it — they don’t feel very cursed to us at all. Today, we’re thinking of some of our favorite …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 »
Teenager Ataru Moroboshi just has the worst luck. He was born on Friday the 13th, on an inauspicious day in the Japanese calendar, and since the day of his birth things keep going wrong for him. His mother often finds him annoying, his father hides …Read more »
There’s no time of year I dread so much as late summer. Even now, almost a decade removed from the concept of summer vacations and the dread of school’s impending return, the wan lighting and redoubled, oppressive heatwaves that herald the last gasps of the …Read more »
Viz Media had a handful of announcements to make at this past weekend’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, including the acquisition of Frederator’s Castlevania animated series. They have the home media distribution rights to the first season, which is currently available to stream on Netflix. …Read more »
The anime world is full of tropes, but this is one of our favorites: the female perpetrator of ultra-violence. Simultaneously frightening and attractive, this character type (variations on which are referred to in Japanese as tsundere, yangire and yandere) probably made its way into the …Read more »
Nendoroids: this collection of adorable palm-sized figures is about to get a new addition. It’s none other than Lum, the perpetually bikini-wearing alien from Urusei Yatsura , who’s set to be released this September. Like other Nendoroid figures, Lum comes with a variety of facial …Read more »
Stories about being sucked into virtual worlds have proliferated since their inception—from the early 1980’s Guardians of the Flame novels about a D&D group transported into the game narrative, to Tron early in the history of the video game, and more recently in franchises like …Read more »
A workhorse of the Japanese voice acting field, Toshio Furukawa made a name for himself playing a variety of heroes and villains in some of the Bubble era’s defining shows: Kai Shiden in Mobile Suit Gundam , Ataru in Urusei Yatsura , Piccolo in Dragon …Read more »
Crunchyroll made a couple of new show announcements today, with the addition of a pair of princely anime to the spring 2013 lineup. Both Majestic Prince and Uta no Prince-sama 2 are gearing up to kick off this week, with the first season of the …Read more »
A little over a decade ago, everyone was trading fansubs of Kimagure Orange Road . In 2002, I borrowed a milk crate of VHS tapes from a friend and watched my way through the 1987-1988 TV series, followed by Kimagure Orange Road: The Movie . …Read more »
Perhaps it’s just the nostalgia talking, but I believe the eighties were a magical time for anime, when production budgets were padded out by the laughter of unicorns and all the tedious in-betweening was accomplished by teams of mystical pixies high on fairy dust. Then …Read more »
“A hapless, average guy finds himself surrounded by beautiful women, all of whom love him inexplicably for simply existing and have one or two defining personality traits. The guy lacks the backbone to pick just one girl, so he’s content to keep things as they …Read more »
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