It’s an unmistakable setup: Someone from our world suddenly finds themselves transported into a distant, mysterious land, left to fend for themselves in often hostile conditions. It doesn’t matter if the transition came about through a rip in time and space or a virtual reality …Read more »
(Almost) too sexy for TV. That’s this week’s theme over at ranking site Goo, where they’ve asked their readers to vote on a list of anime heroines who just skirt the limits of what’s acceptable on broadcast television. Who made the cut by wearing the …Read more »
You want Nico? You’ve got Nico. The pop-up shop in Shibuya devoted to last season’s Kiznaiver may be gone, but in its place is another Kiznaiver attraction: this time it’s a mini-exhibition of key frames from the studio Trigger series. And if you were a …Read more »
Law & Order , CSI , True Detective : America loves its police shows, all right, but it doesn’t have a lock on genre by any means. To prove the point, ranking site Goo has asked its readers to list their 20 favorite police anime. …Read more »
Karina Antigua Photography Cosplayers often spend hundreds of hours making their cosplays or putting in long hours working toward the money to commission cosplays. Outside of going to a convention and showing off your work live, having your cosplay beautifully photographed can preserve it forever. …Read more »
Studio Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura (actually, ex-producer, as he made sure to point out in his apology) kicked up a ruckus last month when he declared that women are “realistic” as compared to “idealistic” men, making the former unsuitable for directing Ghibli films. Never mind …Read more »
Have you ever come across a series so outlandish and laced with over-the-top insanity, yet fully aware of itself to the point of borderline genre parody? To make it better, imagine a show like this that somehow manages to be badass and actually fun. That …Read more »
Let’s go for a ride. From giant robots to airborne gliders to 3D maneuver gear, from the beginning, the world of anime and manga has featured a wide and amazing array of rideable machines. Polling site Charapedia recently asked its readers what anime machines they’d …Read more »
Imagine a world where the whole of humanity and its actions can be quantified by a special number. That number is managed, recorded, and policed—and what’s more, used to judge whether or not they’re likely to commit a crime. That’s the world of Psycho-Pass , …Read more »
For the month of June, at least, Tokyo's fashion capital Shibuya gave Akihabara a run for its otaku money. Aside from the recent opening of Production I.G’s retail store , this month Shibuya was also host to no less than three anime-related shops, devoted to …Read more »
In BBK/BRNK (pronounced “Bubuki/Buranki”), a 2016 action anime TV series directed by Daizen Komatsuda and animated by Sanzigen, Azuma Kazuki is a young man on a mission. Banished a decade ago from his childhood home on the mysterious Treasure Island, in the present day Azuma …Read more »
And you thought the poll about the hunkiest Pokemon was weird. You have to give it up for ranking site Goo: they have left your standard top ten lists far, far behind. No “cutest girls” or “best anime of the year” for the sick, twisted …Read more »
Production I.G, the anime studio behind Ghost in the Shell , Kuroko’s Basketball and Psycho-Pass , has gotten into the retail game. The I.G Store, which opened April 16 in Shibuya’s Marui building, is up and cranking and is full of merch from I.G’s most …Read more »
The last time I talked about Only Yesterday in this magazine, I was lamenting the fact that it was one of only two Studio Ghibli films to have never received an English-language release (the other being Ocean Waves ). Now I’m back in the pages …Read more »
This current decade has been quite the phenomenal one for a character who made his anime debut roughly 45 years ago courtesy of an author whose pen name is ”Monkey Punch.” In the past six years alone Lupin the Third, anime’s greatest thief, has found …Read more »
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