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MAPPA has a new production underway, and this time it's an adaptation of Homura Kawamoto and Toru Naomura's high-stakes gambling manga Kakegurui . Garo the Animation 's Yuichiro Hayashi directs the anime, with Yasuko Kobayashi ( Attack on Titan , JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ) on …Read more »
Your Name , where art thou? The Tokyo Anime Award Festival has joined the ranks of sites looking back on 2016 and has just published a list of the best anime films of the year as chosen by 480,004 fans. The list is making waves …Read more »
To understand why production studios like TRIGGER, which featured in the previous all-anime issue, and MAPPA, which I have the distinct honor and pleasure to write about right now, matter in the grand scheme of anime production, it is imperative to understand the circumstances behind …Read more »
What do Hawaii and Texas have in common (aside from having been independent nations before becoming states)? They are both set to host some rocking Japanese musical performances at upcoming cons, that’s what. Hawaii’s Kawaii Con will host GARNiDELia, the duo behind Kill la Kill …Read more »
Live-action adaptations of anime and manga are an inevitably contentious topic, as more often than not fans are worked into a furor over a film project that may not ever enter production. Case in point: the recent announcement that Scarlet Johannson has been cast as …Read more »
In the toyetic, merchandise-run world of tokusatsu, it’s hard to shake the feeling that it’s all just crass commercialism designed to sucker kids, big and small, into wanting some gimmicky piece of plastic. Enter Keita Amemiya. A visionary in a genre dominated by toy sales, …Read more »
It may not be immediately apparent, but for all the seemingly minor iterations King of Fighters has gone through over the years, it is actually a deeply sophisticated series. Sure, it may have garnered a bit of flak for having reused so many of the …Read more »
You would think having an event devoted entirely to anime smack dab in the epicenter of Japanese pop culture would be more exciting. You’d think. In all honesty, I wasn’t looking forward to visiting Tokyo Anime Fair this year. Last year’s was something of a …Read more »
The fellas over at Same Hat are now officially the recipient of our coveted Internet Super Sleuthing award. It seems like a no-brainer, but this upcoming Drawn & Quarterly release was unearthed via a simple Amazon listing discovery. Now that you all know one of …Read more »
Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby is one of the strangest manga you will ever read. It's also one of the most filthy, depraved and disgusting comic books available in English. Not a page goes by without some form of penis gag, and the contents in general …Read more »
Regardless of one's familiarity with Sanpei Shirato's Legend of Kamui manga, the upcoming film adaptation from director Yoichi Sai ( Blood and Bones ) looks like it could be shaping up nicely. It helps if you're a sucker for historical fiction peppered with swords and …Read more »
The following statement may or may not be fully supported by this magazine's editorial staff, but given my years of manga experience I wholeheartedly believe it to be true-- "Manga are comics; comics are manga." The differences between the two are so insignificant that in …Read more »
I know even the idea of a remake nowadays will summon the mightiest of groans from pretty much everyone, and there's definitely some justification for that, but the latest bit of news to come out of the Oldboy remake is pretty interesting. According to Will …Read more »
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