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Last week’s Nikufes (Meat Festival) Tokyo 2017 was host to some anime-related programming, including a panel featuring a roundtable discussion with producers Hiroshi Kanemaru, Tomoki Misawa, and 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime director Seiji Mizushima. When the topic came around to the trend of live-action films …Read more »
That’s it. I quit. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: teen idols and bright yellow blobs failing to act their way out of a paper bag in Assassination’s Classroom . ERASED , a film I wish someone would’ve had the sense to do with …Read more »
Manga to live-action adaptations, with rare exceptions, are not known as the highest-quality films, to put it mildly. But it sounds like viewers at a film festival in Switzerland were impressed with the live-action JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure film, giving it the festival’s Audience Award. The …Read more »
The first advance review for the live-action adaptation of Terra Formars , which opens Friday in Japan, is out, and it is not exactly glowing. Critic Yuichi Maeda of the movie review site Chou Eiga Hihyou gave the film 5 out of a possible 100 …Read more »
Bakuman is the best live-action manga adaptation I’ve seen this year. Based on the manga by Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Bakuman is the story of two high school students who team up to create a manga worthy of serialization in Shonen …Read more »
You've likely already seen the photos released of Kaede Aono dressed as the Major for the Ghost in the Shell Arise: Ghost is Alive stage play hitting Tokyo in November, but what about the rest of the cast? The play's official website announced most of …Read more »
It was tough to miss the loud accusations of whitewashing leveled at Dreamworks earlier this year when their live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost In the Shell was announced, placing Scarlett Johansson in the lead role of Major Kusanagi. The news this week is that …Read more »
Lupin trivia time: what’s the first Lupin the Third feature film? Castle of Cagliostro ? Not even close. You’ve clearly never read our in-depth Lupin primer . Mystery of Mamo , aka Lupin vs. The Clone ? A lenient quizmaster might give you points for …Read more »
With his latest film, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man , raking in an assortment of mixed criticism—an example of which you can find in the latest issue (June 2011) of Otaku USA —there's no better time than the present to look back at the works of …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! - Evangelion is better than Michael Jackson?! -A Polish-Style Ero-Manga Scandal? -And Thunder-Thunder-THUNDER! THUNDERCATS, HO!! All that, and the May 2010 Best In Tune Special, OMEGA!!! in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: …Read more »
Kinji Fukasaku's original Graveyard of Honor (1975) is my favorite Japanese yakuza film ever made. Just as Fukasaku was, to me, Japan's own Martin Scorsese, Graveyard of Honor is basically the Japanese equivalent of Raging Bull . Both are tragic and powerful films about a …Read more »
I started reading manga back in the 80s. Most of the manga I initially read came from mainstream publishers - Shogakukan, Shueisha, and Kodansha. You could say that the first decade or so of my otaku-life only knew of Shonen Jump , Shonen Sunday , …Read more »
In the new episode of Karas , a gangster fat cat in a fur-lined coat shoves a gun in our hero's face and says it best, "This city takes in anyone that comes its way. Even the worst scum can find some small function to …Read more »
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