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The Los Angeles Anime Film Festival, which launched last year, is adding a new feature for its second annual event: an awards ceremony for English-language dub actors. The ceremony will take place on the opening night of the festival, September 21, and feature the following …Read more »
GKIDS is bringing director Nobuyuki Takeuchi and chief director Akiyuki Shinbo’s anime film adaptation of Shunji Iwai’s Fireworks drama to theaters in the U.S. on July 3, and a new English-subtitled trailer is here to preview the feature. Fireworks has producer Genki Kawamura attempting to …Read more »
Acclaimed anime screenwriter Mari Okada (Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Anthem of the Heart) makes her directorial debut with Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. We’ll get a chance to check it out in North America soon, because ELEVEN ARTS Anime Studio announced …Read more »
If you had the chance to relive your high school days again, would you take it? What if you were forced to start the entire journey over to smooth over the mistakes you wound up making—just as you were graduating? That’s what happens to high …Read more »
For yet more proof that critical acclaim and box office results have little to do with each other, look no further than Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. The film, which is referred to as SayoAsa in Japanese, has been getting good reviews, but ended …Read more »
Oricon, Japan’s tracker of all things sold, just released the stats on the best-selling light novels and manga of 2017 (how they did this before 2017 is actually over is anyone’s guess). Anyway, here’s how light novels and manga fared in the year 2017: Light …Read more »
Live-action adaptations of manga and anime are common—the reverse, not so much. The live action-to-anime adaptation is a rare beast indeed, but one that seems to be of particular interest to popular indie director Shunji Iwai, who, in 2015, used animation to create a prequel …Read more »
Forget plot, forget characters – based on images alone, what is the greatest-looking anime of all time? That was the question put recently to readers of popular Japanese anime site Charapedia, who got to work whipping up a list of the top 20 most kirei …Read more »
Five years after the release of what was billed as his final film, the (ultimately pointless) debate rages on: who is the next Miyazaki? His son, Goro? His one-time almost-collaborator, Mamoru Hosoda? New box-office king Makoto Shinkai? This week, it turned out the next Hayao …Read more »
If you’ve been watching anime for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed a mysterious entity called DR Movie keeps popping up in the credits. This is not a human named Movie who has completed a doctorate (though that would be pretty awesome), but a …Read more »
For Japanese film fans, the annual top 10 list by movie magazine Kinema Junpo is a big deal. The twice-monthly magazine, which started publication in 1919, is one of country’s most respected, and their top 10 list is arguably more prestigious than Japan’s version of …Read more »
As an anime fan, living in Japan doesn’t have the same import it used to. Sure, the omake – the events, the posters, the feeling of being in the country that makes the stuff you’re into – that’s all there. But as a pure consumer …Read more »
If you’ve spent any time around a television in Japan, you know the average evening of entertainment is, well, bad. Swathes of primetime programming are filled with soap opera-quality scripted programming, or worse, Japan’s dreaded “variety” shows, in which quasi-celebrities sit around a set commenting …Read more »
Last month we posted about Funimation setting Makoto Shinkai's your name. anime film up for Oscar qualification , and its consideration has since been confirmed. your name. is officially on the list for consideration in the Best Animated Feature category, and its qualifying run will …Read more »
Chichibu, the city used in anohana , is a popular pilgrimage spot. When fans travel to a city or specific location used in their favorite anime series or film, it’s known as an anime pilgrimage. These pilgrimages have brought in a ton of cash to …Read more »
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