Anime
Galactic Heroes Live!
The anime Legend of the Galactic Heroes is probably one of the greatest anime never released in the U.S. Maybe because it’s about five billion episodes long. But it’s really great if you like space opera/military sf/incredibly complex plots/dudes in fringey uniforms with capes (and if you can find it subbed online…).
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Anyway, [...]
Toy Story’s Anime Cameo
So YM readers with rugrats may already know this, but there is a cameo in the new Toy Story 3 movie by an anime legend.
Totoro!
Pixar and Studio Ghibli are kind of connected so I guess it’s no surprise. Man, that 3D animated Totoro looks kind of creepy though, doesn’t it?
I would be impressed if the [...]
Hughes Brothers to tackle live-action ‘Akira’
Aint-It-Cool-News reports that directing duo the Hughes Brothers have signed on to bring Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira to the silver screen. I can’t say I’m a fan – From Hell was an abomination, but only because they jettisoned all the cool mystical stuff that made the original comic so amazing. In all fairness, I can’t see [...]
Oh My Goddess! DVD going out of print
The good people at AnimEigo recently announced that their license to produce the classic Oh My Goddess! OVA series expires at the end of February, 2010. In response, they’ve priced their remaining DVD stock at clearance rates. I’m fortunate to have picked up the DVDs myself fairly recently — having had it on [...]
TETSUOOOOO!
For many of my generation whose initial exposure to anime was through imported television series of inconsisten quality, the movie Akira was revolutionary in the artistic brilliance of its animation. Now one man has teamed up with Pittsburg’s ToonSeum to create The Art of Akira Exhibit, whose mission is “To teach the entire world [...]
Interview With Live-Action GitS Writer
I found an interview with Laeta Kalogridis, writer on the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie (I already made fun of her on this site for writing Pathfinder). She doesn’t give us much except the movie is based on the manga and is not a remake of the legendary anime film, and that it is [...]
DVD Review – Baccano!
Yeah, this is short. Give me a break; the baby’s crying.
At first, Baccano! seems like it’s going to be…madcap. Like a heist comedy, or one of those movies from the 1960’s with a huge ensemble cast where everyone is competing in a cross-country airplane race to win a prize. But only halfway through the first [...]
Live-Action Yamato Trailer!
Whoa!
Kinda makes you shiver a little, huh?
Happy New Year in Japan!
In Japan, people send elaborate New Year’s cards to each other (Thank God that’s not a tradition here; I barely get Christmas cards out. And forget those stupid family news letters. I just tell people I can’t say what we did all year because it was a black op). Anyway, anime studios and manga creators [...]
AnaKhouri Goes Nuts
So I went temporarily out of my mind a couple weeks ago and volunteered to run a panel at an anime convention. This is crazy because I HATE talking in front of people, and I don’t really have time to put a panel together. But they accepted, and Shapiro Keats is going to help, so [...]
GitS…With a Baby
So my mom got me hooked on watching DVDs of Bones and me and Shapiro Keats were watching one the other night. There was this episode where the main character, a very literal-minded science type, has to take care of a baby whose mom was murdered.
Me: “All these shows have these kind of episodes, the [...]
Go Nagai in Egypt
Go Nagai has created approximately 8,000 popular manga series, half of them about giant robots and the other half with ‘Devil-’ in the title. In my mind, the fact that he created Devilman Lady means he is one of the Great Manga Creators, and should have his face carved into a mountain next to Tezuka [...]
Bastard! MMORPG Goes Down the Tubes
I didn’t even know someone was making a Bastard! game, but now they’re not making it anymore I am sorry.
No Ninja Master Gai For Me!
Bastard! is one of my favorite anime, created well before all anime became aimed at 13-year-olds. And it’s not just the endless heavy metal references; it’s actually funny too.
It’s probably for [...]
Studio Ghibli Borrows a Classic
The next Studio Ghibli film will be based on another English-language classic (’cause Earthsea went sooooo well), Mary Norton’s 1952 novel The Borrowers.
ANN Article
It’s directed not by Miyazaki, but by the assistant director of Earthsea (joy). Shapiro Keats will probably want to see it. He likes stories about tiny litle people (The Indian in the [...]
Studio Ghibli’s New Film Revealed Dec. 16th
The new Srudio Ghibli film will be announced December 16th. It should be out sometime next year, whatever it is. It’s not a Miyazaki movie, but will be done by a new director (yeah, other people actually work at Studio Ghibli; amazing!).
As long as they don’t let his son Goro direct anything ever again, I’m [...]
