Frequent Otaku USA readers are well aware that it’s a hard world out for young Japanese animators. The industry is awash in profit, but very little of that profit seems to be trickling down, with newbie animators making so little money they have to live …Read more »
In the wide world of storytelling tropes, the student-master relationship is a fan favorite. Watching a young, impudent learner grow thanks to a wise old sensei never seems to get old, and in the rare instance it does, someone comes along to give the old …Read more »
An offhand joke or a premature announcement? It’s anybody’s guess as to how serious Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans ’ voice actor Kengo Kawanishi was when he signed off a livestream Saturday by saying “see you in the movie version!” But fans of the series …Read more »
The next stage of the Gundam Build Fighters franchise has been revealed in the form of a new video from Sunrise. Gundam Build _Extra Battle Project is the announcement fans have been waiting for since April 28, when the official website teased a reveal for …Read more »
The next episode of the Mobile Suit Gundam the Origin anime adaptation will be the first to enter the series' Loum Arc, and the Gundam.info channel is here with the first preview. Gundam the Origin V: Clash at Loum will make its theatrical debut in …Read more »
Fans of Gundam Build Fighters , take note: there appears to be more building on the way. So said Build Fighters producer Masakazu Ogawa in a tweet today, promising “one more special chapter” and more details in early May. The Gundam Build Fighters series aired …Read more »
Takanashi promoting the Blu-ray release of Macross II . Minoru Takanashi, a Bandai Visual producer who worked on hit series like Escaflowne , Macross , Gundam and others, has died, animator Nobuteru Yuki reported Wednesday. Takanashi’s impressive list of credits also includes series and films …Read more »
The history of giant robot/super robot/mecha/whatever-you-wanna-call-it anime is long and full of cool-lookin’ robots. But ranking site Goo decided to sharpen the focus for their latest poll, which asked Japanese fans to choose the coolest mecha of the current decade, from 2010 to now. Let’s …Read more »
Fans of Gundam: Reconguista in G will be delighted at a comment Mobile Suit Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino made during this weekend's Romics event in Rome. Tomino was a special guest for a screening of Reconguista in G , and he mentioned that the series …Read more »
As Sunrise mecha shows slowly but surely appear on Western streaming services, one title has remained conspicuously absent: Mobile Fighter G-Gundam . That is… until now. Originally airing in 1994, G-Gundam broke with series tradition by eschewing the Gundam franchise’s usual attempts at depicting gritty …Read more »
As you may have heard, 2017 is kind of a big deal for the history of anime. The first piece of animation made in Japan was produced in 1917, making this whole Japanese animation thing a century old. What better time, thought the folks behind …Read more »
Its official site doesn’t go live until tomorrow, but there’s early word that the latest Gundam series will be based on the serialized web novel Twilight Axis . Twilight Axis , a web novel that runs on Sunrise’s Yatate Bunko imprint, takes place in Gundam …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 's return to North American home video is official. Nozomi Entertainment confirmed plans on Twitter , announcing that the series will be coming to Blu-ray and DVD this year. They followed that up with a note that the release will include …Read more »
Looking to stream some of Sunrise's many Gundam mecha anime series? You're in luck, because Hulu just added five to its library, including 1995-1996 TV anime Mobile Suit Gundam Wing , 1996 OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team , the remastered version of 2002's …Read more »
Gundam Wing served as many Americans' first exposure to the Gundam franchise, but it was the original 1979 series and its Universal Century (UC) timeline that started it all in Japan. With Right Stuf now releasing a string of Gundam series on home video, it's …Read more »
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