Are you familiar with any 80-year-old cooler than Kazuo Umezu? Yeah, didn’t think so. The octogenarian behind legendary horror manga like Orochi , Cat Eyed Boy and The Drifting Classroom has teamed up with fashion brand X-Girl for a line of jackets, shirts and sweaters …Read more »
Kichijoji, a neighborhood in west Tokyo, has had a long relationship with anime. It’s host of several anime studios, the Ghibli Museum, and a healthy assortment of anime, manga and subculture-related shops and cafes. Since 1999, Kichijoji’s also been the host of Kichijoji Anime Wonderland, …Read more »
Pioneering horror manga author Kazuo Umezu is taking a big step at age 77 and directing a horror movie, Mother , that’s set to come out in September. Shochiku, the film’s distributor, released a short teaser for the movie last week, and it looks… about …Read more »
It's no secret that we love Kazuo Umezu here at Otaku USA. This adoration can be sung ever louder in October, especially as we approach Halloween, a time in which Umezu's creations absolutely thrive. There's no better time than now to go pick up what's …Read more »
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