This weekend marks the premiere of the first of two RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM compilation anime films in Japanese theaters, celebrating the series’ 10th anniversary. Now that the first one is out in the wild, it’s time to look ahead to the second, which got …Read more »
The Mawaru PENGUINDRUM anime is getting ready to come back in a big way, with the RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM anime film previously announced for an April 29 opening in Japan. While we wait for Kunihiko Ikuhara’s project to bring its re-edit of the 24-episode …Read more »
Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Mawaru Penguindrum anime has a compilation film on the way, and the official 10th anniversary account shared the first teaser trailer and a new key visual for the project. In addition to revealing an April 29, 2022 opening, the teaser announced a title …Read more »
One of the ways the Penguindrum anime is celebrating its 10th anniversary is with a new two-part anime film project, and a new visual is here to tease it. As one would expect from the series, the new visual is mysterious, and it’s fairly minimal …Read more »
Back in March, it was revealed that Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Penguindrum anime would be celebrating its 10th anniversary with a compilation film titled RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM. Now further details have surfaced, including the fact that the film will be split into two parts with a …Read more »
Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Penguindrum anime is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the first project to come out of the milestone is an anime film. Ikuhara has been announced as the director of RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM, which will add a completely new part to the compilation …Read more »
The Takakura siblings—triple protagonists of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Mawaru Penguindrum—have inherited a broken world. As heirs to the leaders of the Kige terrorist group that bombed Japan’s subway lines some 16 years ago, they have been left little by their vanished parents’ beyond their onerous reputations …Read more »
Let no one accuse Kunihiko Ikuhara of being boring. The director, who masterminded Revolutionary Girl Utena and Penguindrum , directed a decent chunk of Sailor Moon and has a pretty wicked sense of fashion, never fails to crank the weirdness up to 11. So we’re …Read more »
There's a scene in the none-more-otaku gag anime Lucky Star where the anime-obsessed American exchange student Patricia Martin is being asked about her taste in music. She stuns her friends by rattling off a surprisingly diverse list of Japanese pop artists, before it's revealed that …Read more »
Out of all the recent license announcements, one question remained on the minds of many: Where the hell is Mawaru Penguindrum ? Well, Sentai Filmworks answered that question this weekend with the announcement of the Brain's Base animated series, with plans for a release on …Read more »
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