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The Hiromasa Yonebayashi-directed Studio Ghibli film The Secret World of Arrietty finally fell out of the box office top ten, but still ended up with one of the most successful Ghibli theatrical runs in North America. Now, thanks to some retailer listings, we know when …Read more »
The 14 th and 15 th Pokémon movies came to the U.S. in English-dubbed editions in December 2011 after attaining the second and third spots in the ranking of the year’s domestic box office hits in Japan (beaten only by Studio Ghibli’s latest, From Up …Read more »
Goro Miyazaki has to be the unluckiest man in the anime industry. His legendary parentage aside, no one could envy his position of having been promoted from landscape architect to suddenly directing a movie based on an epic fantasy universe spanning a half-dozen books. …Read more »
“The next Miyazaki.” In an industry seen as slowly drying of talent, perhaps no other person in anime has had this label applied to them more than Makoto Shinkai. This might owe more to his staunchly self-driven, independent approach to animation than to his actual …Read more »
Somewhere in Japan, there’s a couple of men likely planning to add yet another intricate techno-thriller to their already impressive resume. Their most recent work, Eden of the East , has captured many anime fans' attention due to its intense plot and thrilling pace, which …Read more »
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but I’m pretty certain that this is the single most screwed up One Piece movie ever made. One Piece reigns supreme as the top-selling manga in Japan and one of the most watched anime. According to Japan’s …Read more »
Yoshinobu Nishizaki in his early '80s prime. Note gold rope and watch you can't afford. “Galaxies collide ! An empire crumbles! An entire planet is flooded!” Sunday, I woke up to read the news online that Space Battle Yamato producer and co-creator Yoshinobu Nishizaki—a towering …Read more »
Xam'd: Lost Memories is a show that's taken a curious route to reach the anime-loving public. It first dropped in June of 2008, as a launch-day exclusive for Sony's new Playstation Network online service. This is interesting not just because it makes Xam'd an early …Read more »
Living in the future leads to mixed feelings. Even five years ago, we struggled against our 56kb connections to get even the smallest scrap of news. Nowadays, we got information on all sides: Facebook on the window behind, Twitter on the iPhone and some podcast …Read more »
Ever since Spirited Away took the Oscar in 2000 for Best Animated Picture, Studio Ghibli seemed to have hit a creative doldrums. Howl’s Moving Castle was pleasantly forgettable, Tales from Earthsea was execrable; and Ponyo was overall delightful but disappointing for those expecting something meatier. …Read more »
Mai Mai Miracle (or, to literally translate the Japanese title, Mai Mai Shinko and the Millennium-old Magic ) could have been a Studio Ghibli film. Like Isao Takahata’s I Can Hear the Sea and Only Yesterday , Mai is a nostalgic film with a slightly …Read more »
Continued from Part 1 . Next they discussed a bit the tendency in Japan for the auteur theory to be pretty heavily used, at least in terms of the storyboarding process: "In Japan, it's a normal method to have the director draw the storyboard. So …Read more »
A few weeks ago, Berkeley's Center for Japanese studies awarded Hayao Miyazaki with the Berkeley Japan prize for, among other things, "[furthering] our understanding of Japan and its contribution to global culture." "Rare opportunity" sounds really cliché, but honestly, that's what we had – how …Read more »
Many have come and gone before us with one simple thought: "Wouldn't this be cooler... in SPACE?" We saw it happen to the critters of the film series Critters , and we even saw it happen to Jason Vorhees in Jason X . But what …Read more »
Publisher: Del Rey Story and Art: Yuko Osada Toto! is a about a young boy named Kakashi who lives in a small town on a small island where nothing ever happens. He's determined to get off the island and find adventure, and thus continually involves …Read more »
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