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This month the Oxford English Dictionary is adding 23 Japanese words, including isekai and tokusatsu! OED’s website explains: Isekai is a Japanese genre of science or fantasy fiction featuring a protagonist who is transported to or reincarnated in a different, strange, or unfamiliar world. The …Read more »
Sad news in the world of Japanese film today. Sadao Iizuka, whose optical effects work graced legendary tokusatsu titles from Godzilla to Ultraman, has died at the age of 88. Iizuka’s cause of death was pneumonia. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Iizuka worked on effects …Read more »
Mangaka Daiji Kazumine, who made his manga debut in 1956 when he was only 21, has passed away at age 84. According to reports, he died late last month from cerebral hemorrhage and lobar pneumonia. His first manga was Karakuri Yashiki no Himitsu. He went …Read more »
Before it was an anime series, the Garo franchise started out as a live-action late night tokusatsu show. It made its debut in 2005, and at this past weekend's Monsterama convention Kraken Releasing announced that they licensed the original series. With distribution from Section23, Garo …Read more »
For the last ten years, Studio Ghibli (who really need no introduction, but just in case: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro ) have been holding exhibitions at Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art. This year, the studio invited famed anime director Hideaki Anno ( …Read more »
A veteran of the voice acting industry is no longer with us, as the agency for Shozo Iizuka announced that the revered VA has passed away at the age of 89. According to the agency’s announcement, Iizuka passed away on February 15 due to acute …Read more »
Yeah, so. That Toei Animation hack was a doozy. In short, a lot of our favorite shows will have to take a few weeks off as things get fixed. That includes One Piece, Digimon, and Delicious Party Pretty Cure, just to name a few. We’re scheming up …Read more »
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and it’s the perfect time to hang with your sweetie and eat chocolates, give flowers, and watch Japanese monster movies. What’s that about the last part? Pluto TV is offering up a Tokusatsu style Valentine’s Day. Starting tomorrow, …Read more »
ANN interviewed Pacific Rim: The Black showrunner Greg Johnson after the announcement of the second season. Johnson said he was a fan of Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim films, so when he learned there was going to be an anime, he worked with Craig Kyle …Read more »
Live-action tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Zero-One is about to appear in another form online. The Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club announced plans to turn the show into a series of spinoff web anime shorts, with the first episode of Kamen Rider Zero-One Short Anime Everyone’s Daily …Read more »
A user of Japan’s social media site 2channel has unearthed a 2012 interview with Evangelion / Shin Godzilla mastermind Hideaki Anno that’s stirring up a lot of passionate comments. In the interview, which was done to promote Anno’s then-running special effects exhibition , and the …Read more »
Go Nagai's Cutie Honey is getting another live-action adaptation in the form of a movie called Cutie Honey -Tears- . This time Mariya Nishiuchi plays the lead role, with Asai Takeshi directing the mix of live-action and CG, and a new teaser is here to …Read more »
Created by Eiji Tsuburaya, the man responsible for bringing the original Godzilla to life, Ultraman has become a Japanese sci-fi staple after the first entry of the series, Ultraman , aired in Japan in 1966. The weekly monster show was a spin-off of the highly popular …Read more »
This past April 1, it was revealed Hideaki Anno ( Evangelion ) and Shinji Higuchi (live-action Attack on Titan ) would be co-directing the new Japanese Godzilla film due out 2016. Both men, who have a long history as tokusatsu professionals and fans , are …Read more »
February 2015 been intense for the Power Rangers franchise. Not long after former Red Ranger Ricardo Medina allegedly murdered his roommate with a sword earlier this month, the violent and explicit bootleg "deboot" short film by Adi Shankar and Joseph Khan was released this week to …Read more »
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