During an ANN Connect session yesterday, Dallas Middaugh shared some news about his mobile manga app Mangamo. Middaugh, who has previously worked for Del Rey, Kodansha, and Crunchyroll, is the co-founder and executive editor of Mangamo. According to Middaugh, the app has struck a deal …Read more »
Law & Order , CSI , True Detective : America loves its police shows, all right, but it doesn’t have a lock on genre by any means. To prove the point, ranking site Goo has asked its readers to list their 20 favorite police anime. …Read more »
Shinji Aramaki. Even if you don’t know his name, you probably know his work: he’s spent decades in the anime industry, starting out as a mecha designer on shows like Mospeada and Megazone 23 before reinventing himself as a director of CG films like Appleseed …Read more »
This month, an exhibition rolling through Japan is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ghost in the Shell . Though it's almost been overshadowed by the various anime adaptations , the Ghost in the Shell that appeared 25 years ago and serves as the template for …Read more »
The hype surrounding the recent Sailor Moon remake is yet another reminder that the Japanese animation industry is an unrelenting, ouroborosian machine that consumes itself just as fast as it reinvents itself. Sailor Moon ’s staggering popularity in Japan was matched in the U.S. by …Read more »
Bad news for any fans of the Japanese music scene: according to a statement released by record company Avex yesterday, Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder and prominent composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has been diagnosed with throat cancer. YMO is one of the most influential bands of the …Read more »
Every time I’ve written about some iteration of Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed , I’ve led with a comparison to Warhammer 40K by Games Workshop, but I promised myself that I wouldn’t do it again. The comparison is apt; both Appleseed and 40K combine a grimdark concept—a …Read more »
Funimation dished a couple of announcements fresh out of Katsucon this past weekend, one of them concerning the acquisition of To . To is a sci-fi OVA directed by Fumihiko Sori. Sori's previous animated work includes Appleseed (producer, 2004 film) and Vexille (director). He also …Read more »
I'm gonna cut right to the chase. Did you enjoy the 2004 Appleseed EX movie? Guess what: you're going to enjoy Vexille , end of discussion. Why are you even thinking about this? You could be watching Vexille right now. There is no need for …Read more »
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