Search Results for: Evangelion
Universal Studios Japan continues to make itself a prime destination for the otaku crowd. The Osaka-based theme park has previously hosted attractions based on Neon Genesis Evangelion, Resident Evil and Attack on Titan, among others. Now for 2018, it’s adding the classic anime and video …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: What originally started as an 8-minute ONA (original net animation) from the Rebuild of Evangelion project’s anime studio Khara is now a feature-length adventure! The Dragon Dentist follows a girl with a mighty, nay, colossal task ahead of her, and it can be …Read more »
Zoom zoom. Taking a star turn in a new commercial for the Honda Civic is none other than Hideaki Anno, director of Evangelion and Shin Godzilla , who stars alongside band ONE OK ROCK. This isn’t actually the first commercial work Anno has done: he …Read more »
Late last year Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara held a huge Tokyo exhibition to celebrate its 10th anniversary which included a charming short film about the studio’s trials and tribulations up to now. Now Khara has released that film on YouTube for all to enjoy. The …Read more »
Being somehow psychically scarred by a scary, depressing or otherwise disturbing piece of entertainment is an experience most of us share – and as a medium, anime certainly isn’t lacking in series or films with some pretty distressing elements. Ranking site Goo recently asked its …Read more »
Title, subtitle and premise all suggest that Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions is another negligible addition to the isekai fantasy subgenre so prominent in anime and light novels these last few years. “Grimgar” is exactly the kind of name a teenager obsessed with a particularly violent kind of power fantasy might ascribe to the …Read more »
You may recall when Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno's current anime production house, Studio Khara, sued his former studio Gainax last year. The suit came about as a result of unpaid royalties and other fees related to a substantial loan, and a Tokyo District Court ended …Read more »
Over the last few years, the Tokyo International Film Festival has been devoting a lot of energy to anime: the festival has hosted auteurs like Hideaki Anno ( Evangelion ), Yoshiyuki Tomino ( Gundam ) and Mamoru Hosoda ( The Boy and the Beast ). …Read more »
This year, Megumi Hayashibara, the voice actress and singer behind some of anime’s most iconic roles (and theme songs), celebrates both her 50th birthday and her over 30 years in the business. Hayashibara, who debuted in 1986 on the series Maison Ikkoku , has starred …Read more »
The anime world is full of tropes, but this is one of our favorites: the female perpetrator of ultra-violence. Simultaneously frightening and attractive, this character type (variations on which are referred to in Japanese as tsundere, yangire and yandere) probably made its way into the …Read more »
This new line of stamps is making me wish I sent more letters. Japan Post, the Japanese equivalent of the USPS, has announced a line of Super Mario-themed stamps sure to make recipients jump for joy. The stamps, which go on sale June 28, feature …Read more »
“The more expensive the car, the more fun it is to blow it up.” This statement by Kenichi Sonoda at this month’s Sakura-Con in Seattle boils down both the Riding Bean and Gunsmith Cats creator’s style and enduring popularity into a single statement. It’s safe …Read more »
You wa shock. There’s nothing more shocking in fiction than the death of a beloved character, and the history of anime and manga is full of deaths used to great narrative effect. But what are the medium’s all-time most shocking deaths? That’s the question ranking …Read more »
Universal Studios Japan is giving anime fans visiting yet another reason to skip Tokyo and head straight down to Osaka. The theme park, which already has rides based on Attack on Titan , Evangelion and more has now announced a 4D attraction based on the …Read more »
As you may have heard, 2017 is kind of a big deal for the history of anime. The first piece of animation made in Japan was produced in 1917, making this whole Japanese animation thing a century old. What better time, thought the folks behind …Read more »
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