Category: anime
by Sean - August 31 2010
In the 1980s, some of the best designers working in the Japanese animation industry worked at ARTMIC. The Kichijoji-based design studio wasn’t a traditional animation studio; instead, they’d work up plans and designs for an OAV, film or TV series and sho… more »
by Matt - August 14 2010
For the vast majority of its history, Studio Ghibli has been a two-man show. Recent years have seen new directors like Goro Miyazaki (2006’s disaster Tales from Earthsea) and Hiromasa Yonebayashi (last month’s reportedly excellent The Borrower Arrietty),… more »
by Jeff - July 4 2010
It might come as something of a shock to more novice Japtoon fans, but there was a time when Koichi Mashimo, the founder of one-time Production IG subsidiary Bee Train and director of every single fucking animated installment of the .hack// multimedia fr… more »
by Mark - June 12 2010
The so-called “Fred Patten ideal” of anime (named for the first person to write about Japanese cartoons and comics in the United States) is not exactly dead as some would tell you, it is merely in traction and hooked up to an IV drip cocktail of dextrose… more »
by Matt - June 8 2010
And we all thought Tenchi would never get laid.To recap: the Tenchi Muyo franchise is, by and large, pretty insufferable. Tenchi, the story of an awkward, indecisive teen who nonetheless has babes from all over the universe clamoring for his attentio… more »
by Dave - June 6 2010
When I heard that a fansub of a TV special based on Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki's Oishinbo had just been released-- finished for years but only released just now, the project broke up the group that subbed it for reasons we'll get to later-- my obscu… more »
by Dave - May 30 2010
Japan also makes big-budget crowd-pleaser movies out of comic books these days, you know. In fact, as anime fans sit back and worry about Hollywood adaptations like Akira, Robotech, and Evangelion that may never materialize, Japan's been cranking them ou… more »
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