What will you be doing on New Year’s Eve? Partying with friends? Partying at home? Going to bed at a reasonable time and letting 2022 ring itself in? Or will you be getting in one last anime to finish out the year? Fans online have …Read more »
Blade Runner: Black Lotus is just a few days away. Soon, we’ll get to see another window into the world of the enduring sci-fi universe. And while we don’t fully know what’s ahead, one thing is certain: the staff is spot on. Blade Runner has …Read more »
Nowadays, there are lots of places you can stream anime — just about any title you want! Crunchyroll and Funimation have simulcasts and impressive catalogs, and even mainstream sites like Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix are getting in on the anime action. But what if you …Read more »
We could use a little music to get our day going. Fortunately for us, anime is full of iconic pop stars — mega-stars, school idols, aliens, holograms, magicals girls, and more. Today, we’re giving it up for a handful of our favorites over the years. …Read more »
Let’s be clear: Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 isn’t a very good show in a lot of ways. At the same time, it’s also a wonderful show in ways that are intimately tied together with its flaws. Like a lot of anime series from the late-1990s—like …Read more »
“The more expensive the car, the more fun it is to blow it up.” This statement by Kenichi Sonoda at this month’s Sakura-Con in Seattle boils down both the Riding Bean and Gunsmith Cats creator’s style and enduring popularity into a single statement. It’s safe …Read more »
AnimEigo, one of North America’s first anime licensors, is using Kickstarter to help rerelease some of its classic properties on Blu-ray. It all started with Bubblegum Crisis , the classic cyberpunk 80s OVA originally released in the States by AnimEigo on VHS back in the …Read more »
With the recent success of Edge of Tomorrow and the release of Godzilla , it’s clear Japan’s pop culture franchises can be adapted into big-budget Hollywood films. While neither Edge of Tomorrow or Godzilla were based on anime or manga properties, Japanese cartoons and comics …Read more »
Hey, remember back when they used to release anime and the Japanese would include professionally made AMVs of their own stuff, such that when the show got released in the US, companies would just use the AMV as the trailer to sell the show? And …Read more »
The first one is usually free. You like it, and for a while you limit yourself to partaking of just that - but then your supply runs out and you start thinking "got anything else I can try, man?" One thing leads to another, and …Read more »
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