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Much like Macross helped define anime of the early '80s and Evangelion is the poster boy for mid/late 1990s anime, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is one of the medium's touchstones of the present day. The series and its titular villain burst onto the scene in …Read more »
If you're a fan of FLCL —Gainax's kinetic, Pillows-infused 2000 OVA that graces the cover of our latest issue—then you're no doubt an admirer of director Kazuya Tsurumaki. Despite having been involved in Gainax projects since his work as an animation director for select …Read more »
As an otaku, or just a regular anime/manga/Japan-obsessed nerd, the holidays present a seemingly golden opportunity to introduce friends and relatives to your hobby. This is your chance to reach out to people. You are (practically) an ambassador of Japanese pop culture. Don't mess up …Read more »
Not long ago, an article on the small town of Washimiya and its shrine was featured on this fair site. As fate would have it, the recent Skip City International D-Cinema Film Festival in Kawaguchi was holding a screening of Washimiya Monogatari ( Washimiya Story …Read more »
For Day 2, we jumped straight into the craziness of industry activity and con events. First stop was the Universal Geneon panel, where the representatives talked about the titles Geneon was releasing in Japan and preparing for license in the U.S. and other places. Titles …Read more »
Another con, another lot of scintillating acquisition announcements from reigning champeen Funimation. Seriously, there are some really good ones in this batch, as detailed below. Let's get what I would consider the "major whammies" out of the way first. As was expected but never quite …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! -Manga Entertainment up for sale?! -The War of the Idols approaches?! -And Evangelion Cosplay kicks ass at K-1?! All that, and mind-shattering manga in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: Mike here. Not …Read more »
For those readers who aren’t familiar with the man or the studio, Hiroyuki Yamaga is one of the founding members of GAINAX, the animation studio that produced such works as Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise , Neon Genesis Evangelion , FLCL and Gurren …Read more »
Northern California's Bay Area was once a hot bed of anime fandom drama and in-fighting; the financial failure of AnimeCon in 1991 (the first large scale anime convention in the United States) caused the local community to splinter, leading to the creation of two new …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 »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! -Konami set to enslave AND save Japan? -Evangelion sighted at Mount Fuji?! -At long last, The return of Saban?! All that, and Tokyopop keeping it real, in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW …Read more »
This should come as good news for anyone that double-dipped on FUNimation's Evangelion 1.0 and 1.11 releases. The Japanese Blu-ray and DVD editions of the second in the rebuild series, Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance , will feature the longer version of the film …Read more »
I think I have some kind of weird pseudo-nostalgia thing going on with The Slayers . I only saw a single volume tops of both Slayers and Slayers Next back when the videos first came out, but it's hung with me throughout the years as …Read more »
Before I read Walking Your Way to a Better Life (released by Vertical in August) I'd never heard of a walking class, let alone "face yoga," but apparently these kinds of classes are common in Japan. Kimiko (the book's single-name author) was once an average …Read more »
It's a wonder that I've managed to stave off the webbed wiles of Sgt. Frog for so long. I was really close to picking up the manga at some point, but for whatever reason it evaded my grasp, so here I am finally soaking in …Read more »
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