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The Seventies were a simpler time, a time when being the undisputed martial arts champion of the world sometimes meant you had to karate chop a bull in the skull. It was a time when your whimsical walks on the beach were often interrupted by …Read more »
Fairy tales are fearsome and cruel. Don’t let the Disney-fied versions fool you; the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen penned little morality plays that had all of the subtlety of a mace to the face and all of the delicacy of an abattoir. And …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! • Super Sentai VS The World?! • An Anime AV Parody That Nobody Asked For! • And Ouran is headed to the movies!? All that, and a knight in shining armor, in this …Read more »
In tribute to the passing of anime director Osamu Dezaki, I decided to pull this piece out of mothballs. Hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane. I was sitting around recently rummaging through my VHS collection when I came across an old favorite: …Read more »
Christianity gets all the good movies. Oh sure, they get quite a few stinkers, but if a Left Behind is what it takes to get a Jesus of Montreal or The Gospel According to Matthew (which was produced by a gay communist for crying out …Read more »
Mark your calendars, kids, because that's the date you can officially (read: legally) start watching Toei Animation's adaptation of that Gourmet Huntin' hoss, Toriko . It was really only a matter of time, but it's nice to get a firm start date for the not-quite-simulcast. …Read more »
The "premiere" of animated Toriko was technically the crossover movie with One Piece , but now that the official series has begun, we can dig into the adaptation proper and see just how it compares to Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro's Weekly Shonen Jump manga (reviewed here and …Read more »
The Adieu 999 dream team. From left: Kauzo Komatsubara, Yoshio Takami, Rintaro, Kamura Mukuoda. Part Two: Working on the railroad Ok. I’m gonna do it. I’m really gonna to do it! I’m going to celebrate the 30 th anniversary of my favorite anime movie of …Read more »
As seen on TV! Poster art for the first Gundam movie. In the last breathtaking installment of “2011 is 1981”, I dipped back into the dusty mists of history to investigate the anime titles that debuted on the airwaves a mere three decades ago. This …Read more »
Those obnoxious aliens! The cast of Urusei Yatsura Don’t act surprised. You knew it in your heart of hearts it would happen. The calendar on the wall may claim that the year is 2011, but the truth is much, much stranger. Arale-chan from Dr. Slump. …Read more »
The cover of Animation 1980 featuring Osamu Tezuka's should-have-been-massive Phoenix 2772. This is it. The final revelation of the sweeping saga known as “2010 is 1980”… The last glance back at what the heck the anime and manga scene looked like an incredible thirty years …Read more »
Hey, this is Patrick here to drop a little more info for those interested about the nuts-and-bolts behind the making of the newest episode of my web series OTAKU-VERSE ZERO . This episode—number five for those of you counting—is set inside the legendary Tokyo grindhouse …Read more »
Walter Amos, Tim, Matsumoto, Gwyn Campbell, Anton Kholodov, and Patrick Macias Sword Takeda, Patrick Macias, Gwyn Campbell, Walter Amos, and I convened in Shinjuku on the evening of December 4 and blasted off to Oizumi Gakuen, the Matsumoto-themed train station near Toei Studio in the …Read more »
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but I’m pretty certain that this is the single most screwed up One Piece movie ever made. One Piece reigns supreme as the top-selling manga in Japan and one of the most watched anime. According to Japan’s …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka and Fred Patten once conspired to make you "watch cartoons in a language you can't understand". As even casual observers of paradox and head-scratching conundrums know all too well, the life of a time traveler can get complicated fast. Just a few days …Read more »
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