It's been hinted at in the recent past, and now we have official confirmation of a TV anime set to adapt Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma manga. The confirmation comes from the cover of the November issue of Shueisha's Comics …Read more »
Takeshi Kitano, director of such films as Zatoichi and Sonatine , also known as Beat Takeshi, comic host of Takeshi’s Castle and star of Battle Royale , was awarded the first ever Samurai Award this week at the Tokyo International Film Festival. During his talk …Read more »
Adapting manga and anime to live-action is the new black, apparently. Japan, America, even Korea is doing it. A trailer for the latest manga-to-live-action adaptation hit the internet this week, so let’s take a look. This time around, it’s the feature film of Clover. Not …Read more »
Hideaki Anno, director of Neon Genesis Evangelion , announced Sunday at the Tokyo International Film Festival his company, Khara, would be teaming up with media company Dwango to launch a new site called Animator Expo. Animator Expo is a website devoted to showing animated shorts …Read more »
39-year-old Robul Hoque received his second conviction over the possession of illustrated child pornography when the Teesside Crown Court of Middlesbrough, England hit him with 10 counts of possessing prohibited images. None of the images were of real people, but the drawings—both still and animated—were …Read more »
Little Witch Academia 2. Kick-Heart. Under the Dog. The list of successfully crowdfunded anime projects keeps on growing, and with every success, another producer says to himself "hey, we should get on that!" Let's check out the new projects that hit Kickstarter this week. First …Read more »
Y’all had a chance to check out Gundam: Reconguista in G ? How you liking it? I’ll tell you who’s not a fan – Toshio Okada, co-founder of Studio Gainax and so-called king of the otaku, or Otaking (if you’re watching Aoi Hono, you can …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks updated its Tumblr with a nice announcement for fans of the Log Horizon anime. With collection 1 coming to Blu-ray and DVD on November 25, Sentai took a moment to announce the full English dub cast. Here's the full list: Director Kyle Colby …Read more »
The original The Tracey Ullman Show incarnation wasn't the only alternate version of themselves the Simpsons family ran into in the latest annual Treehouse of Horror episode. In addition to Adventure Time , South Park , Archer , and other versions, The Simpsons showcased some …Read more »
Big new development in the case of the Dreamworks-backed live-action Ghost in the Shell adaptation. According to Hollywood news site Deadline, Scarlett Johansson has been offered the main role in the film after talks with actress Margot Robbie went south. Johansson has starred in a …Read more »
The first hint of a new Macross came our way back in March, with a very quick video posted to Youtube promising a new series, but not a whole heck of a lot more. Macross fans waiting with baited breath for any sliver of new …Read more »
This past Saturday, the official site for the upcoming Ninja Slayer From Animation, the upcoming series from Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill) was updated with the first entry of a production blog. Ninja Slayer From Animation, if you’ll recall , is “a ludicrous sendup of …Read more »
With a live-action film , Takeshi Koike-directed special , and a Castle of Cagliostro rerelease , we had dubbed 2014 the “Year of Lupin .” Turns out we might’ve been off by a year. 2015 will see the debut of a new Lupin III television …Read more »
You knew it had to happen: MOVIC, the anime goods company, has created a 1:1 scale replica of the 3D maneuver gear from Attack on Titan . The replica, which is officially licensed, can be had for a mere 99,800 yen, or about $1,000. C’mon, …Read more »
For most fans with a casual knowledge of anime history (myself included), there’s a pretty massive gap in the chronology between the black-and-white debut of Tetsuwan Atom ( Astro Boy ) in 1963 and, say, the superhero team shows of the early 70s like Gatchaman …Read more »
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