Last year, we learned Kenichi Sonoda is working on a new short anime about Bean Bandit, the hero of 1989 classic Riding Bean. It looks like progress on the short is underway: the main cast has just been announced. Bean Bandit will be played by …Read more »
“More maniac! More extreme!” is the exclamation that kicks off the Kickstarter pitch for Gunsmith Cats and Riding Bean creator Kenichi Sonoda’s new project. Sonoda took this weekend’s Anime Central convention as an opportunity to announce plans to crowdfund an original 5+ minute anime starring …Read more »
If you were watching anime in the 90s, there’s little doubt you saw something either created or character-designed by the legendary Kenichi Sonoda. The director/writer/creator’s been out of the game for a while (running his family’s centuries-old confectionery, apparently!) but it was recently announced he’d …Read more »
AnimEigo, one of America’s oldest anime licensors, has been giving its back catalog an HD upgrade thanks to backers on Kickstarter, who have so far provided the funds for Blu-ray releases of classics Bubblegum Crisis and Otaku no Video . Now a third title from …Read more »
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