Once upon a time, three of anime’s most interesting creators got together and made a little anime called Serial Experiments Lain, which was lauded for its dark, atmospheric cyberpunk vision. Those three men, character designer Yoshitoshi ABe, screenwriter Chiaki J. Konaka and director Ryutaro Nakamura, …Read more »
Pixiv Zingaro, a anime and manga-centric gallery in Nakano, Tokyo, is this month the host of an exhibition of works by Yoshitoshi ABe, character designer and doujinshi artist responsible for anime like Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei . The exhibition marks 20 years since …Read more »
Fans of the late 90s cyberpunk anime Serial Experiments Lain (myself very much included) were psyched by the announcement in 2009 of a new anime, Despera , that would reunite Lain ’s screenwriter, Chiaki J. Konaka, character designer Yoshitoshi ABe, and director Ryutaro Nakamura. However, …Read more »
Matt Schley
