Village Vanguard, named after the famous New York jazz club, is a popular chain of bookstores/hamburger shops (yes, you read that right) in Japan, and they also run a brand of clothing called VV Wear. VV Wear has teamed up with Studio Trigger ( Little …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 »
Domo. Ninja Slayer is a Japanese light novel series that was definitely written by Bradley Bond and Phillip “Ninj@” Morzez and which was definitely translated into Japanese by Honda Yu and Sugi Leika. It is absolutely not written by Japanese people who are just having …Read more »
Ever since 2010, the Japanese Government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs has chipped in money (about $2 million annually) to the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA), who then go on to distribute that money to studios as part of what they call the Young Animator Training …Read more »
3331 Arts Chiyoda, a multi-purpose modern art museum close to Akihabara, Tokyo, has been the sight of a few anime-related exhibitions over the years, including a huge Katsuhiro Otomo retrospective back in 2012. Last week, it hosted a pretty amazing exhibition dedicated to two recent …Read more »
You may recall when we first posted about Little Witch Academia , a short from Studio Trigger ( Inferno Cop ) that was created for the government-funded Anime Mirai Young Animator Training Project. It made its debut in Japanese theaters last month, and Studio Trigger …Read more »
Studio Trigger is home to a number of former Gainax animators, including co-founder Hiroyuki Imaishi, director of Gurren Lagann . You may have seen some of their oddball web series, Inferno Cop , and now the studio is back with a preview of the anime …Read more »
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