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Streaming platform Nico Nico has one heck of a way to commemorate what would have been God of Manga Osamu Tezuka’s 90th birthday. Starting Halloween night at 6:00pm Japan Time, viewers can look forward to a 90-hour marathon of classic Astro Boy anime. A talking …Read more »
Otaku USA contributor Danica Davidson is about to publish her second instructional manga art guide book, Manga Art for Intermediates, so we took the opportunity to talk about the process with her and the book’s illustrator, Rena Saiya. The book officially hits stores on June 12, so …Read more »
The antihero: far cooler than your average goody two shoes, this is the archetypal badass who takes no prisoners, cares about no one, and doesn’t have time to chat. Think Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Mad Max or basically …Read more »
Law & Order , CSI , True Detective : America loves its police shows, all right, but it doesn’t have a lock on genre by any means. To prove the point, ranking site Goo has asked its readers to list their 20 favorite police anime. …Read more »
Studio Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura (actually, ex-producer, as he made sure to point out in his apology) kicked up a ruckus last month when he declared that women are “realistic” as compared to “idealistic” men, making the former unsuitable for directing Ghibli films. Never mind …Read more »
Crunchyroll has been adding a bunch of new shows to its fall anime simulcast lineup, and the latest is Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon . The launch date and time are currently TBA, but details should arrive soon. In the meantime, here are the …Read more »
The latest anime acquisition for Sentai Filmworks is Is the Order a Rabbit?? Season 2 , which is coming this month as part of the fall 2015 anime season. A home video release will follow sometime after its digital debut across various streaming outlets. Is …Read more »
Back in December we reported the manga Himitsu would be getting a live-action adaptation courtesy of Rurouni Kenshin director Keishi Otomo. Now the casting for the main two characters, Maki Tsuyoshi and Aoki Ikkou has been announced. Tsuyoshi will be played by singer and actor …Read more »
If you are in the habit of pouring one out for dead homies, please offer your next libation to crowdfunding site Anime Sols, who will shutter their virtual doors May 1. As stated on the Anime Sols news page : As you may have noticed, …Read more »
If you’re a fan of supernatural series and you haven’t already picked up Mushi-shi , you really should. Finding really good supernatural tales, the stories that are really evocative of the otherworldly, where the supernatural is integral to the story and world rather than tacked-on, …Read more »
After three decades, the ultimate sci-fi male fantasy anime comes to the U.S. As I’m sitting here typing this, the final episode of Space Dandy has just finished playing on my TV. I can’t help but think that when Shinichiro Watanabe was working on this …Read more »
Sam Pinansky of Yomiuri TV Enterprise appeared on the Anime News Network ANNCast on May 3 to talk about “Anime Sols,” a new web site he helped found that might just change the way anime is sold in the west. The goal of Sols is …Read more »
A short manga recently found in a used bookstore catalog is reported to be a very early work by “God of manga” and anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy and Phoenix . The manga depicts Japan’s food shortage problem after World War II, …Read more »
Don’t get me wrong: I love the Golgo 13 television series. The episodes are quite faithful adaptations of their source material. But in a sense, they just might be a little TOO faithful. That source material consists of Japanese comic books created by an assembly …Read more »
Happy You-Survived-Black-Friday week! I heard it got pretty crazy at some stores, but if you risked the mobs, I hope you found some shiny goodies. I was pleased to see online retailers offered sales of their own and I stocked up on a bunch of …Read more »
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