Hyped across the board as “the next Evangelion,” the brilliant Puella Magi Madoka Magica certainly has turned heads since it aired at the beginning of 2011. So it was no surprise when animation studio Shaft and series director Akiyuki Shinbo announced that they would be …Read more »
Anticipation for the third chapter in Hideaki Anno and Khara's series of four Evangelion rebuild films is high, so even the quick, 30-second burst of animation that recently debuted on niconico should excite fans. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo ( Evangelion Shin Gekijō-ban Q …Read more »
As usual, some licensing went down at this past weekend's New York Comic Con, and FUNimation came out with a couple of enticing new additions to its anime lineup. Chief among them is Toriko , the anime adaptation of Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro's gourmet hunting Shonen Jump …Read more »
FUNimation has officially announced its fall simulcast schedule, with six new shows joining its streaming anime lineup. Subscribers to the FUNimation Elite Video service will be able to watch the new shows in HD and without ads when they debut. The lineup includes Code: Breaker …Read more »
photo by Grenouille Vert With over 40 years of experience, Masao Maruyama is one of the great stalwart figures of the anime industry. Originally an animator at Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Productions in the 1960s, Maruyama left to co-found legendary animation studio Madhouse in 1972, along …Read more »
The fall anime licensing flood is still underway, but Crunchyroll has already announced a bundle of new shows for their fall lineup, many of which will also be released on home video in 2013 courtesy of Sentai Filmworks. One of the biggest announcements came yesterday …Read more »
Some of the most interesting news to come out of anime in recent memory has been spreading around the Internet today, with the debut of a Kickstarter aiming to fund a 10-minute anime short. This isn't just any anime short, though. Kick-Heart is a project …Read more »
Hints have been floating around, but a countdown on the official website for the Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos anime has officially confirmed that a second season is on the way. Nyarko-san is based on the light novels by Manta Aisora, and the first season of …Read more »
Humanity Has Declined ( Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita )—based on a series of light novels by Romeo Tanaka—has a title that's much more dire than its subject matter. What sounds like a post-apocalyptic pity party is really a somewhat nonsensical comedy with a bright color …Read more »
K is an original anime series heading to Japanese television on October 4, but it's not stopping there, thankfully. Viz Media took to Twitter to announce the acquisition of the series, which will make its way to Viz Anime next month. K is being directed …Read more »
One big advantage of living in Tokyo for the geek-inclined is the city’s plethora of used bookstores, offering on the cheap what U.S.-based fans pay dearly for in convention dealers’ rooms across the country. Everything’s in Japanese, natch, but if you can read a bit …Read more »
Just how much can a film hope to accomplish in two hours? Some hone in like a laser on one thing, seeking to make us laugh or cry, to make a point or defend a point of view, to create an atmosphere, or to thrill …Read more »
The Gintama anime, based on the manga by Hideaki Sorachi, is almost ready to return to television in Japan. Previous seasons of Gintama , which has been streaming on Crunchyroll , ran from 2006-2010, and April 2011-March 2012. The alt-history comedy's third season kicks off …Read more »
One does not care to acknowledge the mistakes of one’s youth. I admit it. I cosplayed once, back in the days when all you needed to pretend to be your favorite anime character was some felt and a little fabric glue and more enthusiasm than …Read more »
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan , the anime based on Hiroshi Shiibashi's Weekly Shonen Jump manga, is making its way to the Neon Alley streaming service, and Viz recently unleashed a sneak preview of the English dub. The manga is coming to a conclusion …Read more »
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