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 »
The live-action superhero series Garo has had a major (likely pachinko-fueled) revival in the last few years. Garo's a Makai Knight, a Kamen Rider-like superhero. The show borrows the structure of a kids' hero show, but the contents are a little darker, the hero not …Read more »
You either love Naruto 's Rock Lee or not, but hopefully you do, because he's about to get his own animated series, as announced in the first monthly issue of Shueisha's Saikyou Jump magazine. The anime is based on Kenji Taira's Naruto spin-off comedy manga, …Read more »
Zombie-related entertainment used to be something I would flock to blindly; all I needed was a hint that the shambling dead would be present and I was ready and rarin'. Sadly, as is the case with most great things—like ninjas, pirates and cats—the Internet has …Read more »
Coming a whopping 26 years after Ryousuke Takahashi's Armored Trooper Votoms originally aired, Sōkō Kihei VOTOMS: Gen-ei Hen ( Armored Trooper Votoms: Phantom Arc ) is an OVA that aims to close out the long-running series for good (which could just mean "for now" for …Read more »
Hey, remember pogs? How about Troll dolls? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry. It’s only a matter of time before someone tries to bring them back. The same is true for our entertainment. Whether talking about America or Japan, the last …Read more »
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