Acclaimed anime screenwriter Mari Okada (Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Anthem of the Heart) makes her directorial debut with Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. We’ll get a chance to check it out in North America soon, because ELEVEN ARTS Anime Studio announced …Read more »
For yet more proof that critical acclaim and box office results have little to do with each other, look no further than Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. The film, which is referred to as SayoAsa in Japanese, has been getting good reviews, but ended …Read more »
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, known in Japanese as Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazaro, the directorial debut from screenwriter Mari Okada, is on its way to Japanese screens in February. Now, thanks to the folks at Anime Limited, we’ve got …Read more »
Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou, the directorial debut from acclaimed screenwriter Mari Okada, is due out in February 2018, and we’ve got our first look courtesy a new trailer and poster. The film, which is being called SayoAsa for short (the …Read more »
Mari Okada, the prolific screenwriter behind series like anohana and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans , will make her directorial debut with a feature film that will be released next February, reports Newtype magazine. The film is titled Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana …Read more »
Winter is slowly coming to a close, and that means out with the old and in with the new. New anime, that is. So what if the weather’s warming up? The Japanese fans who filled in this list for pollsters Charapedia will be happily sitting …Read more »
Studio Trigger, the folks behind Little Witch Academia and Kill la Kill , are many things, but lazy is not one of them. The studio is at work on not one but two original anime series set to hit screens this April, and now we’ve …Read more »
Nikkei Entertainment, a pop culture magazine published by the Japanese media giant of the same name, has an anime-centric issue out this month, and it’s highlighted five anime directors fans might want to keep their eyes on. Let’s check out the list. In no specific …Read more »
Wondering which site is going to stream the new Gundam series? The answer is, basically, all of them. Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans will premiere in North American on October 4 on Gundam.info, Daisuki and Hulu. It’ll also move to Crunchyroll and Funimation a week later on …Read more »
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day , the popular 2011 anime series about a group of friends who reunite after a tragedy splits them apart, will be adapted into a live-action TV drama this year. The series will air “this year,” though a more …Read more »
The team behind Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai , known by its far easier to remember shortened name Anohana , is working on a new anime film , and the first key visual from the film has been (accidentally, …Read more »
The production team behind Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day , is hard at work on a new animated film to be released in 2015, says anime news site Anime Anime. What is known so far about this new film? Very little. The official …Read more »
The world is full of great mysteries, but perhaps none are more potent than this one: How did Daryl Surat manage to get hooked on an anime like AKB0048 ? Thankfully, his feature in our latest issue answers all those burning questions and more as …Read more »
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