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A bad idea on many levels, Toei is gearing up for a rerelease of Kinji Fukasaku's 2000 student-splat classic, based on Koushun Takami's 1999 novel of the same name. This time, however, the events that transpire on Okishima Island will be in... glorious 3D! Okay, …Read more »
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I haven't watched a new Kamen Rider series for quite a few years. Those who have been keeping up, and especially those who have been pleased with recent iterations of the tokusatsu franchise, will be up to their necks in Kamen Rider …Read more »
I already considered Hawaiians a bunch of lucky ducks due to their wise reverence for classic tokusatsu television shows like Kikaida and Kamen Rider . Now there's another reason to be mildly to very envious of them, because One Piece Film Strong World , the …Read more »
The latest One Piece DVD collection has me practically dancin' on the ceiling like Lionel Richie, because the Alabasta arc finally comes to a close. For the record I really enjoyed Alabasta, but I also dug it when I read the manga and again when …Read more »
No, that doesn't mean you'll be seeing Gaiking in full IMAX 3D city-shattering glory, but there is a connection there. Light Stage, known for CG work on films like Spider-man 2 , King Kong , and most recently James Cameron's Avatar , put their award-winning …Read more »
Recently, I was going through some older anime magazines and saw a blurb about the impending release of the Vehicle Team Voltron DVD sets… accompanied by a pic from the Lion team. I started looking through other publications and it occurred to me there’d been …Read more »
Though the question was never really "if" but "when," FUNimation has confirmed their licensing of Dragon Ball Kai , and is planning on a release for this fiscal year. The first word of this announcement was caught by Daizenshuu EX via a FUNimation report on …Read more »
About that headline... there's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is you're not going to be able to stroll over to Universal Studios and hop on the Going Merry any time soon; pardon the disappointment. The good news is anyone near the …Read more »
Not terribly shocking considering the series' popularity, but the tenth One Piece film, Strong World , had a killer debut in Japanese theaters, ultimately toppling the opening weekend box office gross of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo . The first filmgoers to attend Strong World screenings received …Read more »
The best part of year is upon us once more, still one of the few times I don't feel any jealousy of those living out west. I need a drastic change in climate to perfectly highlight the frights of October; dark, chilly nights to accentuate …Read more »
I talked a bit before about the filler of the last season two collection, mostly making points about how well it all manages to fit into the ongoing arc, thanks in no small part to mangaka Eichiro Oda's process of personally approving these little side …Read more »
The tale of Goku, the world's strongest and yet most strangely underdeveloped fourteen-year-old, begins here, in a world where almost everyone of any importance is incompetent, a pervert, or both. Akira Toriyama was in what I like to refer to as his "white hot" phase, …Read more »
Filler, thy name is disc one of One Piece season two. So begins a few paragraphs of grand disparagement then, right? Maybe if we were talking about a lesser series, but One Piece even manages to make the additives taste fairly fresh, and the filler …Read more »
As I mentioned in Otaku USA Issue 13, which i’ll just assume you read first because it saves me from having to re-explain the premise of the show, the 1986 theatrical movie for Fist of the North Star aka Hokuto no Ken is the primary …Read more »
If this signals the end of FUNimation's "season one" of One Piece , then it's an awfully good place to arbitrarily cut things off. Fourth Voyage serves as a nice transitional collection, both wrapping up the crew's battle against Arlong and his fishmen, and powering …Read more »
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