NewsAnime/manga
Cos-play, Japanese Style (video).
If you like cos-play and you like anime, then over in Japan they have a massive con that blends the two in a…
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Anime/manga
Anime, manga and Japanese culture.
November 2020
October 2020
NewsAnime/manga
Masamune Shirow: the God-Emperor of manga (video).
In this one-hour-long special, Ed and Jim get togther to explore the fabulous manga works of creator Masamune Shirow. Do you love your…
September 2020
NewsAnime/manga
Hayao Miyazaki exhibition to feature at new Academy Museum (news).
Hayao Miyazaki and his works will be the Academy Museum’s inaugural temporary exhibition, marking the first North American museum retrospective dedicated to the…
NewsAnime/manga
Alice in Borderland (Netflix anime) (news).
Netflix has hired 14 actors for its 8-episode Japanese anime series Alice in Borderland, directed by Shinsuke Sato and starring Kento Yamazaki (Kingdom,…
August 2020
NewsAnime/manga
Hayao Miyazaki: anime’s greatest master (documentary: video).
A fascinating half-hour-long documentary on the greatest of the anime creators, Hayao Miyazaki, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli and such great films as…
NewsAnime/manga
Avatar: The Last Airbender reboot from Netflix loses creators (news).
Michael Dante DiMartino broke the news on his personal web site that the Avatar The Last Airbender reboot from Netflix has been bailed…
NewsAnime/manga
Tokyo’s geek heaven: Nakano Broadway (video).
Nakano Broadway in Tokyo is the mecca for anime and manga geeks – called ‘otaku’ in Japanese. This street has such megastores as…
July 2020
NewsAnime/manga
Gundam: life-size giant robot tested (video).
Here’s a video of the testing of a life-size giant robot Gundam at Gundam Factory Yokohama – an amusement center themed after the…
NewsAnime/manga
Samurai Rabbit The Usagi Chronicles (new Netflix cartoon based on Usagi Yojimbo comic-book).
Netflix are developing a new animated series, Samurai Rabbit The Usagi Chronicles, based on the 35-year-old comic book, Usagi Yojimbo. Are they going…
NewsAnime/manga
Fifteen Years at Studio Ghibli: Steve Alpert interviewed (video).
Steve Alpert is the author of a new book titled Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli, and…
June 2020
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Cyberpunk Edgerunners Netflix anime … based on Cyberpunk 2077 game universe (news).
Netflix, is producing an original anime series, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, set in the same game universe as Cyberpunk 2077. That’s ‘edge’ runner, not blade,…
NewsAnime/manga
Space Battleship Yamato (aka Starblazers): a retrospective (video).
Rowan J Coleman sits down to examine Star Blazers, the English-language animated television series adaptation of the Japanese anime Space Battleship Yamato, first…