Ever since 2010, the Japanese Government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs has chipped in money (about $2 million annually) to the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA), who then go on to distribute that money to studios as part of what they call the Young Animator Training …Read more »
There’s been a lot of talk about the future of the anime industry lately, a lot of it doomy and gloomy. Many of the masters of the medium are retiring or dying with no clear heirs to step up and replace them, wages and working …Read more »
3331 Arts Chiyoda, a multi-purpose modern art museum close to Akihabara, Tokyo, has been the sight of a few anime-related exhibitions over the years, including a huge Katsuhiro Otomo retrospective back in 2012. Last week, it hosted a pretty amazing exhibition dedicated to two recent …Read more »
Jason Moses
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