Big shout-out to Boing Boing, who have stumbled across and shared this amazing Tumblr full of high-quality production materials from Akira , the 1988 classic that needs no introduction (or shouldn’t, anyway, but as it ages, you do meet folks who haven’t seen it). Subject-28 …Read more »
A series of earthquakes hit the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto last week, leaving at least 44 dead and thousands injured, without electricity and running water and evacuated from their homes. In support, Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama has uploaded a new illustration to …Read more »
It’s been about a week since animator, character designer and blogger Sachiko Kamimura stirred up a lot of discussion – both in Japanese and English – about the low wages paid to new animators in Japan. Kamimura wrote in her original post that because animators …Read more »
This past Saturday, the official site for the upcoming Ninja Slayer From Animation, the upcoming series from Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill) was updated with the first entry of a production blog. Ninja Slayer From Animation, if you’ll recall , is “a ludicrous sendup of …Read more »
Tokyo Scum Brigade is another one of those killer blogs like Same Hat that everyone would do well to keep an eye on. They post a ton of great Japanese obscurities that would do a smashing job of titillating many of our readers, but perhaps …Read more »
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