As something of a follow-up to last week’s news that Monster would be getting the live-action treatment courtesy of Guillermo Del Toro, the Weinstein Co. announced it has obtained worldwide distribution rights to a live-action adaptation of Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 OVA Kite. When “anime” meant …Read more »
Sam Pinansky of Yomiuri TV Enterprise appeared on the Anime News Network ANNCast on May 3 to talk about “Anime Sols,” a new web site he helped found that might just change the way anime is sold in the west. The goal of Sols is …Read more »
“Anime Bancho,” the experimental Youtube Channel started by CoMix Wave Films at the end of 2012 scored a direct hit with Inferno Cop , a terrifying frappe of absurdist humor and non-sequitors that, like gdgd Fairies and Straight Title Robot Anime , seemed to be …Read more »
My goodness, I hope this one ends up happening. Guillermo del Toro, director of live-action films like Hellboy II , Pan’s Labyrinth and the upcoming Pacific Rim , is reportedly going to be directing a live-action version of Naoki Urasawa’s epoch-defining horror/suspense manga Monster for …Read more »
Wait no longer. Acclaimed abstract animator and artist Mirai Mizue has created a new short film entitled WONDER (we talked about it a bit for the last e-newsletter), and he’s looking to use Kickstarter to help raise the remaining $17,870 to complete finishing touches on …Read more »
Has Japan been bombarded by enough Evangelion merchandise? No way, Jose, says Evangelion copyright holder studio Khara, for whom Eva continues to be a golden goose regardless of the critical reaction to the films themselves. April 24th will see the latest deluge of Evangelion products, …Read more »
At this point, everyone should be well acquainted with the full-scale RX-78 Gundam statue, currently residing between a parking lot and a shopping mall on the man-made island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. Despite receiving a considerable amount of media attention over the past few …Read more »
In the new issue of Otaku USA , one of our features by Daryl Surat dives into the latest anime movie from Studio Ghibli, From Up on Poppy Hill . Though the film is directed by Goro Miyazaki—son of beloved Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki ( …Read more »
From Up on Poppy Hill is Studio Ghibli’s latest feature and the highest grossing box office hit in Japan in 2011. It’s the second film directed by Goro Miyazaki ( Tales From Earthsea ), son of Hayao Miyazaki, and it was shown in the U.S. …Read more »
The used anime section is a cultural wasteland. Younger anime fans may not remember the days when anime on American home video didn’t generally come in full-season or half-season chunks. In the late Nineties and early Aughts, a typical twenty-six episode television series would run …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is approaching its penultimate episode, with chapter six making its debut in Japanese theaters on March 2. After that, the episode will make its way to DVD and Blu-ray in Japan on March 22. With the release so close, commercials are …Read more »
If November 2012 belonged to any one film it was unquestionably Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo . The Evangelion hype machine caused many to forget about the release of another significant (artistically, if not financially) theatrical anime film: Gothicmade . The name Five Star …Read more »
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