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Though Shunji Iwai is a relative newcomer to the world of anime, he’s one of Japan’s most beloved independent filmmakers. Now the auteur behind films like Love Letter , Swallowtail Butterfly and All About Lily Chou-Chou is bringing his classic short film Fireworks, Should We …Read more »
For three years in a row, the Tokyo International Film Festival has honored an anime director with a series of retrospectives and talk events based around that director’s filmography. Two years ago, it was Evangelion ’s Hideaki Anno ; last year, Mobile Suit Gundam creator …Read more »
The Boy and the Beast was a big hit with casual fans in 2015. For folks interested in the business of anime, the release of the Association of Japanese Animation’s yearly industry report is something akin to Christmas. A dry, numbers-filled Christmas. Still, for industry geeks, …Read more »
In a world in which new Pokémon movies are an annual given and the overall machine of child-centric anime programming rolls on undeterred, it’s unusual for something like new Digimon anime to feel so novel. Maybe it’s the way promotions rolled out, or maybe the …Read more »
At yesterday’s Japanese Movie Critics Awards, which for the first time included a special anime category, Girls und Panzer ’s Mai Fuchigami walked away with the Best New Voice Actor Award – but not before making a very personal confession. Fuchigami, who played Miho Nishizumi …Read more »
Production I.G, the studio behind anime like Ghost in the Shell , Psycho-Pass and Blood: The Last Vampire , will open a store based around their properties in hip Tokyo neighborhood Shibuya, reports Anime Anime. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to visit. The …Read more »
The Tokyo Anime Award Festival is, well, pretty much what it sounds like: a yearly award show that bestows prizes on the best anime of the year. The nominations for best anime of the year are out for this year’s TAAF. Let's check out who …Read more »
Funimation is celebrating the upcoming US theatrical run of Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast with the acquisition of the director's first original anime film , 2006's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time . A home video release is planned for this summer, which …Read more »
About a month ago, we posted a list of the top ten anime films of 2015, according to Japanese fans. As readers know, though, there’s often quite a big difference between “good” and “able to rake in a ton of cash.” Today anime news site …Read more »
On this final day of 2015, forgive us one more best-of list, won’t you? This time, it’s from the guys over at Anime Anime, who have asked their readers to rank the top ten anime films of 2015. And just what did they choose? 10. …Read more »
I Am a Hero , Kengo Hanazawa’s manga about one man’s fight for life in a zombie apocalypse, is getting a live-action adaptation, and the first trailer has hit the net today. The film, which debuted earlier this year at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, …Read more »
Over the past few years, the organizers of the Tokyo International Film Festival have been adding one of Japan’s biggest cultural exports, anime, to the mix, featuring films and talks with directors including Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. This year, TIFF also rolled out a …Read more »
We weren’t sure what to expect when we met Toshio Maeda. Known as the “Tentacle Master,” Maeda created some of most infamous hentai manga of the 80s and 90s, including Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfield and Demon Beast Invasion, which changed adult manga world forever …Read more »
It’s 2015! A big Happy New Year and akemashite omedetougozaimasu to you guys. It’s been another fun year of blogging all things otaku here at e-News, and we thought we’d take this January 1st to take a look back at some of the most memorable …Read more »
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