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Exciting news for fans of the work of Sunao Katabuchi (In This Corner of the World). You can now get your eyeballs on the director’s long-gestating film The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black via a pilot film. The 3:45-minute pilot shows …Read more »
Fortunately for giant robot fans, there are lots of games out there that let you pilot robots—known and unknown. Super Robot Wars turns your favorite mecha anime into a tactical, fully voiced visual novel. Armored Core lets you take on missions and square off against fellow pilots. But …Read more »
Saint Seiya, or Knights of the Zodiac by Masami Kurumada, is a popular manga series that has received multiple adaptations. In 2023, there was a live-action Knights of the Zodiac, but this is not the first time the franchise has used live-action. In fact, in …Read more »
There’s something truly fascinating about lost media, and like the recently uncovered American Sailor Moon pilot, it’s thrilling when we finally get to see these relics for ourselves. Another such treasure was unearthed when animator Seth Kearsley brought the long-lost pilot for the proposed Kingdom …Read more »
Also known as ‘Saban Moon,’ the Americanized version of Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon was always considered a piece of lost media… until now. Thanks to the efforts of YouTuber Ray Mona, who has been producing an amateur documentary on the hunt for the pilot episode, …Read more »
Hey, remember when a new Patlabor series got announced in 2017, then there were, like, years of silence? Okay, there was a little worldwide pandemic and all, but still. Anyway, good news for folks looking forward to Patlabor EZY: there are signs of progress! Namely, …Read more »
Doraemon co-creator Fujiko Fujio A passed away last month, but he’s back in the news because his long-lost Fūta-kun anime pilot has been found! Fūta-kun was another manga of his, and he created the anime pilot for NTV. This was back in 1967. The pilot …Read more »
The typical anime giant robot didn’t have a cockpit until 1972, when Mazinger Z normalized having mecha pilots actually in the machine. Since then, we’ve seen lots of very cool setups for pilots. And a few… less so. While some get heroic control panels or one-to-one …Read more »
What happens when Japan’s Gundam Café collaborates with Namjatown for some new Gundam pilot goods? You get some extremely feline takes on everyone’s favorite Mobile Suit Gundam stars, from a few of the heroes of Gundam Wing to pilots from Gundam 00 and Iron-Blooded Orphans. …Read more »
The world is going through a lot right now, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic isn’t making things any easier. It’s understandable if some folks are having a harder time than others, which is why it’s so important to work together so we can all get …Read more »
Last week, Kotaku unveiled a pretty amazing piece of long-form anime journalism about the quest to find a strange piece of 90s anime history—a pilot for an American Sailor Moon. Writer Cecilla D’Anastasio details the making, in the mid-90s, of a pilot based on Sailor Moon …Read more »
If we had to estimate how many pilots had stepped into robotic vehicles in the long history of Japanese animation, we’d have to say: a lot, man. But just who is the strongest mecha pilot in anime history? That was the question put to readers …Read more »
Cannon Busters: The Animated Series —which comes from LeSean Thomas , who worked on The Boondocks , the animated Black Dynamite series, and The Legend of Korra ; and the talented folks at anime studio Satelight—was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2014 . Now the …Read more »
Flashing back to Pilotwings 64 seemed like a great way to kick off the 3DS experience. But wait, remember when the Nintendo 64 was considered 3D graphics? How will we ever learn to distinguish sooo late 20th century vs. eye-popping? I'll just go ahead and …Read more »
Mike Dent, Otaku USA contributor and audio mastermind behind our podcast, Friday ACE, has really done it this time. With the help of a fine cast and his production know-how, he's whipped up a spicy little radio drama for the Internet starring none other than …Read more »
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