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From left: UFO from Battle in Outer Space, Gamera, Godzillla, Ultraman, Yamato Hey, this is Patrick. And what would you know? Another year is actually coming to an end, which means that the inter-dimensional space-time anomaly known as “2010 is 1980” is about to conclude. …Read more »
Roman Album book cover for the 1979 Galaxy Express 999 movie. Boffo b.o.! Call me old-fashioned, nostalgic, or just plain crazy IF YOU WILL, but I just can’t stop thinking about the year 1980 and what it meant to anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture …Read more »
Now that's what I call ART: Nirasawa's creepy creatures! Document Four: “Mysterious Thief - Electromagnetic Transmission Burglar” *Spoilers* Being sick on your own in Japan can be a drag. I know the hard way because that was me a few weeks back, suffering the slings …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! -Is That Some New Godzilla?! -Japan stages A Clockwork Orange?! -And Doctor House takes on...Doctor Blackjack?! All that, and what it sounds like when doves cry in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: …Read more »
It’s probably a dead horse by this point, but the Japanese con experience couldn’t be any different from the American. For those used to the chaotic socializing of the West, experiencing something like the bi-annual war that is Comiket can be an alienating experience …Read more »
Give it a glance and you may mistake it for an Osamu Tezuka original. Who could blame you, it looks enough like the real thing after all. That's the whole point of Keiichi Tanaka's gag manga Minari no Seishun : the god of manga raunchified …Read more »
We can all identify with the existence of those otherworldly masked wonders in one way or another, but who is that familiar man with the windblown hair dressed up as Kikaida's Jiro below!? Why, it's none other than our fearless Editor-in-Chief, Patrick Macias, pictured once …Read more »
It's a shame that Dark Horse's release of the first two Dirty Pair novels by Haruka Takachiho went unnoticed upon their 2007 release in America. I myself didn't become aware of them until that year's Otakon when the first book, the Seiun Award-winning Great Adventure …Read more »
Download it here! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! • Somebody actually licenses something from BEFORE 1993?! • Three New Ultraman Shows?! • &nb...
If the name in this article's subheader doesn't ring an immediate bell, then you need some serious schoolin'. I don't say that in a remotely belittling way, either, because you already know who Ishiro Honda is, whether you're aware of it or not. The man …Read more »
Mark your calendars for Friday, March 5, a notable night that kicks off the lecture series Tokyoscope: The Wild & Crazy World of Japanese Cult Films. As the title suggests, this series is hosted by none other than our mad EIC, Patrick Macias, and the …Read more »
Stop me if you've heard this one before; It's the 90's. A guy walks into a video store and goes to the anime section. After looking through and not seeing a certain title, he goes up to the register and the following exchange takes place: …Read more »
Sinking of Japan (2006) is a massive disaster and disappointment directed by Shinji Higuchi, who was once the greatest special effects director in Japan , creating the stunning FX for Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera films. Sinking of Japan is a remake of 1973's Submersion of Japan, …Read more »
Remember how I said two issues back that the reason I'm into tokusatsu nowadays is because of Ultraman ? My dad and my aunt watched the United Artists dub of Ultraman along with a majority of the other shows that were being dubbed and shown …Read more »
Hiroyuki Tamamizu opened his very first store back in October 1985. But, its name, U.S. Toys, didn't refer to the United States or even American toys as many overseas collectors might assume. Tamamizu-san merely took the initials of the names of two people who made …Read more »
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