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Anyone who’s familiar with Taiyo Matsumoto knows he likes to be unusual, gritty and offbeat. And they will certainly get an unusual, gritty and offbeat experience from reading Sunny . There is no easy way of explaining this book. The Sunny of the title is …Read more »
Let's go ahead and get the obvious out of the way: Sakuran is a completely gorgeous manga from beginning to end. The art of Moyoco Anno— Sugar Sugar Rune , Happy Mania , wife of director Hideaki Anno ( Evangelion )—has its own flow and …Read more »
The Studio 4ºC ( Tekkonkinkreet , MindGame ) animated take on Kentaro Miura's Berserk manga— Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler —is set to open in Japan on February 4, 2012. To ease the wait, a slew of hi-res images were …Read more »
This has been a long time coming for fans of mangaka Taiyo Matsumoto, creator of such revered titles as Tekkonkinkreet and GOGO Monster . A new iPad app finally collects all of his series No. 5 , which previously only made it to the second …Read more »
Spring is in the air! Fat bees are buzzing! Butterflies swoop! And, best of all, a host of blisteringly hot new anime is arriving at Crunchyroll.com. Over the next few days and weeks, Crunchyroll will be announcing a slew of titles for their Spring 2011 …Read more »
As an otaku, or just a regular anime/manga/Japan-obsessed nerd, the holidays present a seemingly golden opportunity to introduce friends and relatives to your hobby. This is your chance to reach out to people. You are (practically) an ambassador of Japanese pop culture. Don't mess up …Read more »
Atlus has won over a lot of fans in the last few years with the bold direction of their Persona series, and for good reason. They've done an admirable job in diverging from the typical RPG style, and it looks like they're continuing to do …Read more »
Remember when pretty much every Saturday morning cartoon had white-hot opening credits followed by abysmal animation for the next twenty minutes? Warner Bros. Animation is looking to fix that issue with a revival of Thundercats —which was itself a co-production between East and West—by putting …Read more »
In America, 2D animation is on the downswing. Ever since Pixar came along and made truckloads with fully 3D CGI films such as Toy Story or Finding Nemo , and more traditionally animated 2D movies like Treasure Planet and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas …Read more »
Michael Arias is the director of Tekkonkinkreet . He's also the first American (or foreigner, for that matter) to direct a feature-length anime movie in Japan. Although Tekkon is Arias's directorial debut, the Japan resident of 15 years has long been active behind the scenes …Read more »
In the new episode of Karas , a gangster fat cat in a fur-lined coat shoves a gun in our hero's face and says it best, "This city takes in anyone that comes its way. Even the worst scum can find some small function to …Read more »
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