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Masami Kurumada's classic Saint Seiya series is getting the computer animated treatment in a film that's set to arrive in Japan this summer. Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary will be Toei Animation's attempt at delivering a "top-level budget" 3D CGI film, with a story covering …Read more »
It looks like Crunchyroll is going for the gold when it comes to popular shonen anime adaptations. The latest of the big ones to join its streaming lineup is none other than Toriko , based on the manga by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro. Toei Animation's series is …Read more »
Back at the beginning of 2013, we ran a story about Anime! Real vs. Dream , a book on the state of the anime industry written by insiders at Studio Madhouse. What kind of insights lie inside? Let’s take a look. Anime! Real vs. Dream …Read more »
In the 1970s, Mazinger Z and Getter Robo invented the giant robot cartoon genre and made an entire generation of kids into cold-hearted psychopaths ready to destroy any threat to their homeland with a barrage of rocket punches, giant tomahawks, and heat rays fired straight …Read more »
Studio Kara’s Hidenori Matsubara has been working in the trenches of the anime industry for over 25 years. Chances are he’s worked on something you liked without your even realizing it. The list of his key animator credits alone is staggering: Evangelion , Patlabor: The …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki is leaving the world of film animation. That’s according to Studio Ghibli President Koji Hoshino, who announced this past Sunday at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival in Italy that the world-famous anime director will “retire from the production of feature-length …Read more »
Last week, we brought you a transcript of Mamoru Hosoda's public Q&A session on Wolf Children at the New York International Children's Film Festival. We were also able to get some one-on-one time with the famous anime director to discuss things in further detail. Q: …Read more »
After a few years of largely uncontested reign over (legal) anime streaming sites, Crunchyroll now faces competition from the Japanese themselves. The new streaming site Daisuki! is a collaboration of heavy hitters like Aniplex, Toei, TMS, and Sunrise, along with quite a few production and …Read more »
While Akihabara is sold to the west as the anime capital of Tokyo, the truth is a little more complex. While Akihabara caters to both Japanese otaku and foreign shoppers interested in anime and comics, there’s relatively anime actually produced there. The majority of actual …Read more »
Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock has been in the works as a CG-animated feature, first showcased in 2010 as a proof of concept alongside a CG Gaiking project. Well, it looks like things are moving along smoothly, as Captain Harlock has been confirmed, with a release …Read more »
According to a report on web site animeanime.jp , some of the biggest news in the 2012 anime industry centered on the return to stability for some of the oldest studios in the industry while others saw their most important staff and talent leaving to …Read more »
The results are in for the opening weekend of One Piece Film Z , which premiered in Japanese theaters this past Friday. The film, to which series creator Eiichiro Oda contributed heavily, debuted with a whopping ¥1,372,050,000 (about $16,339,700), topping Evangelion 3.0 's opening take, …Read more »
Hopefully you're feeling a little bit nostalgic, because the second season of Digimon has been officially scheduled for DVD release next year. Collected on eight discs, the 50-episode season is priced at $79.95, and is set to hit retailers on March 26, 2013 courtesy of …Read more »
This past weekend saw the announcement of two new licenses from Discotek Media, and they're a couple of real doozies for fans of classic anime. Discotek saw fit to dip into the iconic catalog of Go Nagai by picking up both the complete 1973 Cutie Honey …Read more »
The Viz Media-backed Neon Alley network is looking more and more promising, and the latest addition to its anime lineup is a real doozy. Announced via newsletter this morning, One Piece will be joining the roster of shows on the network, which is set to …Read more »
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