Some nice news for fans of The Ancient Magus’ Bride: two books based on the manga are set for an English-language release courtesy Seven Seas. Those two books (short story collections, to be precise) are called The Golden Yarn and The Silver Yarn, and are …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka: legendary creator of Astro Boy , Black Jack and Phoenix , father of the anime industry, and… spectral spokesman for a Japanese cult? Controversial religious organization Happy Science has published a new book entitled Osamu Tezuka’s Ghost , in which they purport to …Read more »
The end of an era is at hand (or paw, rather) – Kanata Konami's Chi’s Sweet Home , the tale of titular feline Chi and her life with her owners the Yamadas – will wrap up this June, according to Kodansha. The final volume, set …Read more »
Hard to believe, but it’s been almost five years since the far-too-early passing of Satoshi Kon, director of films like Tokyo Godfathers , Paprika and the TV series Paranoia Agent . Satoshi Kon’s directorial debut was Perfect Blue , the thriller about an idol-turned-actress who …Read more »
Ken Sugimori is a cool dude. You might think the guy who helped co-create Pokemon would be a little arrogant, spending his days in some kind of ivory tower, sleeping on top of large piles of money, and generally being a media gadfly. But if …Read more »
I don’t think it’s any secret that Masaaki Yuasa is one of our favorite Anime People around these parts. The auteur director behind stuff like Kick Heart , Mind Game and Ping Pong The Animation , Yuasa is the kind of unique creative talent that …Read more »
Angel's Egg . Patlabor . Ghost in the Shell . Jin-roh . The Sky Crawlers . These films are all the creation of Mamoru Oshii, one of anime's most celebrated and influential directors. A thinking person's director, Oshii's films are full of religious symbolism, philosophical …Read more »
Patrick Galbraith, author of several books about anime and the people who love it, including The Otaku Encyclopedia and Otaku Spaces , is out with a new book called The Moe Manifesto , an in-depth look at just what this whole moe thing is all …Read more »
Norwegian Wood , the 1987 novel by Haruki Murakami ( The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ), has been adapted into a live-action film, a teaser for which recently made its way to the web. The film stars Kenichi Matsuyama ( Gantz , Death Note ) in …Read more »
It's been hinted at in various ways since around the time the lovingly titled Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt was announced, and now the next Gainax project has been officially confirmed. Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian (Dantalian no Shoka) is a light novel series written by …Read more »
Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan , made an appearance on a recent episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . In the clip, which is embedded below, Adelstein talks in brief about his many …Read more »
If just the small picture attached to this post piques your interest in any way, then you ain't seen nothin' yet. Toshio Saeki, well known to some for his erotic and grotesque artwork, will be hitting American bookshelves courtesy of Last Gasp, who are publishing …Read more »
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