Anno and Hikawa speak at an earlier panel at TIFF. Acclaimed director Hideaki Anno of Evangelion fame held a special panel entitled, “Anno and Hikawa’s Collection of Showa TV Manga Openings” at movie theater Wald 9 in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on November 8. …Read more »
Kamen Rider: Battride War II recently hit PlayStation 3 and Wii U in Japan, providing another ample dose of action that blends the worlds of Neo-Heisei-era Riders and the gameplay stylings of the Dynasty Warriors franchise. Needless to say there's an endless well of beating …Read more »
The live-action superhero series Garo has had a major (likely pachinko-fueled) revival in the last few years. Garo's a Makai Knight, a Kamen Rider-like superhero. The show borrows the structure of a kids' hero show, but the contents are a little darker, the hero not …Read more »
Like Emperor Tyrannus, the supreme commander of the super dinosaurs, my editor Patrick Macias is a master of mesmerism. It’s the only explanation for how some of the silly things that Patrick does on the Internet have such a profound effect on my conscience. In …Read more »
My collection is too massive. It’s a monster, a monster that feeds on disposable income, time, and space. Yesterday I bought a sixth bookshelf in a feeble attempt to contain the onslaught of movies, manga, and roleplaying books threatening to burst out of my bedroom …Read more »
For the last ten years, Studio Ghibli (who really need no introduction, but just in case: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro ) have been holding exhibitions at Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art. This year, the studio invited famed anime director Hideaki Anno ( …Read more »
Yukio Yamagata is known by many Sentai fans as the opening theme singer of the sentai series Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger . Gaoranger was the 25th production of the Super Sentai series, and gained great popularity alongside the Ultraman and Kamen Rider series. In every episode, …Read more »
Nobody quite expected Tiger and Bunny , a recent Japanese animated TV series about American-style superheroes, to be the big hit anime series of 2011. Where had Japan been hiding the people who could make such a show? For the answer, let's look back in …Read more »
Headed directly to video in Japan, Kiba: Dark Knight Gaiden is a spin-off movie featuring Masaki Kyomoto and Mika Hijii reprising their roles from the dark tokusatsu series Golden Knight Garo . Directed by Iria/Zeiram creator Keita Amemiya, and also featuring singer/model Leah Dizon in …Read more »
I've been slacking on my Kamen Riders for a while, until recently at least. I jumped right back into things with Kamen Rider OOO , which, while holding on to many of the problems that tend to plague more recent iterations, leans toward the fun …Read more »
That's right, THE Daisuke Ban. Known most fondly for his role as Jiro in the '70s tokusatsu classic Kikaida —though equally heroic and awesome in the lightning-powered superhero series Inazuman —Ban will be making an appearance at the Nisei Week Festival in LA this month. …Read more »
We can all identify with the existence of those otherworldly masked wonders in one way or another, but who is that familiar man with the windblown hair dressed up as Kikaida's Jiro below!? Why, it's none other than our fearless Editor-in-Chief, Patrick Macias, pictured once …Read more »
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I haven't watched a new Kamen Rider series for quite a few years. Those who have been keeping up, and especially those who have been pleased with recent iterations of the tokusatsu franchise, will be up to their necks in Kamen Rider …Read more »
What is Mega Monster Battle , you ask? I'm glad you're curious, because it never gets old to talk about a movie that features fifty, count 'em FIFTY Ultramen working together to put a stop to Ultraman Belial and his monstrous horde. Thus is the …Read more »
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