Japanese crowdfunding has grown up. While the earliest successfully-funded anime ( Little Witch Academia 2 , Kick-Heart ) were financed via America-based Kickstarter, recent months have seen Japanese crowdfunding sites play a bigger role in anime projects. Case in point: In This Corner of the …Read more »
Harmony Gold, the company behind Robotech , canceled their Robotech Academy Kickstarter project August 2nd, six days before the project’s deadline. Robotech Academy had received about $200,000 in pledges, far short of the $500,000 goal. Robotech Academy , if successfully funded, was to have been …Read more »
If you pay attention to social media, you may have noticed that people have been talking non-stop about the World Cup for what feels like forever. If you keep up with current anime, you may have noticed that one of last season’s most interesting titles …Read more »
Noitamina, the alternative anime programming block on Fuji TV, is celebrating their almost-10-year anniversary with a series of interviews with creators who’ve worked on Noitamina shows. That impressive list includes Masaaki Yuasa, a highly regarded figure for anyone into anime that goes beyond (often way …Read more »
No secret around here at e-New s HQ that we really, really like Masaaki Yuasa, director of The Tatami Galaxy and Kick-Heart . So it was with joy we learned this week that Yuasa has a new series premiering this spring. Ping Pong The Animation …Read more »
What's a good newsletter without an end-of-year list? Nothing, that's what. We've pooled some of the top minds at Otaku USA e-News to tackle 2013 and reflect on some absurdly specific categories. It's how we roll. Most Controversial Anime Flowers of Evil (Aku no Hana) …Read more »
Ratings for Toonami's March airing of Evangelion 1.11 were good, with 959,000 tuning in when it aired, but the August 31 airing of its sequel, Evangelion 2.22 , did even better. The second Rebuild film pulled in 1.097 million viewers on Saturday. Those who stuck …Read more »
To commemorate Berserk Golden Age Arc III ’s June 19 release on Blu-ray, a special all-night movie marathon of Studio 4°C’s films was held June 21 at the Shinjuku Wald 9 Cinema, followed by a talk with a few of the directors and producers from …Read more »
Fans of director Masaaki Yuasa made their way to Tokyo’s Roppongi district May 26th for a one-of-a-kind event – the premiere of the long-awaited Kickstarter-backed short Kick-Heart . While backers await their imminent DVDs and download codes, a few lucky folks got a first glimpse …Read more »
Kick-Heart , the Masaaki Yuasa-directed anime that made waves with its success on crowd-funding site Kickstarter, is gearing up for its May 26 premiere in Tokyo. The Masked Ball event will feature a live painting by Yuasa, as well as a musical performance by Oorutaichi …Read more »
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