March is just around the corner, and with that come the conventions. Yes, those wonderful, glorious conventions where one can meet their favorite celebrity, author, writer, or…puppet, cosplay as their favorite celebrity, author, writer, or…yes, puppet, play their favorite game, reenact their favorite battle, LARP till their heart’s content, party like the rock star they [...]
Publisher: Dark Horse Writers: Various Artists: Various Release Date: February 2013 When Neon Genesis Evangelion hit the airwaves in 1994, it blew people’s minds both in Japan, and all over the world. Through its unconventional use of storytelling devices, complicated plot, and memorable situations, the series leaves a lasting impression on the viewers. On the [...]
This month Dark Horse Comics will be offering us a number of items well worth checking out. We have Ghost #0, Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise Part 3, and Oreimo Volume 1 TPB. In Ghost #0 we follow, Vaughn Barnes, a former journalist who joins the world of reality TV by working [...]
On the whole, movie adaptations of Anime and manga series tend to be hit or miss. When they work, they work splendidly. When they are bad, they are bad beyond explanation. Crying Freeman, Cutie Honey, and Blood: the Last Vampire were good adaptations, while Dragonball Evolution, Lupin 3rd, and Battle Angel Alita were not. The [...]
For animation fans, Yoshitaka Amano is best known for creating Vampire Hunter D, the 1985 cult Anime, but his body of work goes back to 1972. For comic book readers, his illustrations appear in Sandman: The Dream Hunters, Wolverine and Electra, and HERO, his ongoing comic book series. For Video Game players, he is best [...]
Battle Royale, the 2000 cult Japanese franchise, may become a CW television series. It has a similar premise to Hunger Games, the project CW really wants to make. This news has the potential to make certain sectors of the Internet angry, especially those that have the “adaptations suck” mantra in their minds at all times. [...]
In collaboration with Studio Ghibli, the Whole Hog Theatre will stage an adaptation of Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyasaki’s most recognized film and most successful film to date. Having made close to 200 million dollars worldwide, its success set the stage for Studio Ghibli’s partnership with the Walt Disney Company. Whole Hog Theatre Company describes the [...]
What began as a visual novel for the Xbox 360 has now spiraled into drama cds, an internet radio show, manga, anime, and even a board game. And with microwave time machines and a mad scientist, I have to imagine this sort of spiral was all part of some sort of time-traveling test-tube plan. Funimation [...]
When Legend of Korra was announced, many fans of the original show, Avatar: The Last Air Bender, were a little disappointed the show was going so far into the future. With many questions left unanswered, fans were hoping the next series would still follow fan favorite characters, Aang, Toph, Kitara, Zuko and Sokka. But the creators [...]
You’d be hard-pressed to find a nerd who hasn’t heard of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Studio Gainax’s first major breakout hit, the anime began in 1995, and since then has spawned an industry of merchandise, spin-offs, and side projects that’ve grossed more than 150 billion yen (or more than 18 million dollars). This is for one series. [...]
Osamu Tezuka is considered to be the “God of Manga” in Japan, a title he rightfully deserves. From 1950 until his death in 1989, he wrote over 700 unique stories in both animated and drawn formats. Every anime and manga artist alive today owes a debt of gratitude to Tezuka because his work directly or [...]
Although a Best Bad Anime list does not exist (yet), Mad Bull 34 would easily top it. Known for being over the top in the sex and violence department, it was also a poorly translated, incoherent mess. The main character, Sleepy to his friends, Mad Bull to everyone else, has no qualms about his ends-justify-the-means [...]
At the end of Sozin’s Comet, Avatar: the Last Airbender’s series finale, fans of of the hit show were left with a bunch of unanswered questions. Did Zuko find his mother? What happened to Azula? Did Sokka ever learn how to waterbend? Did he hook up with Suki? How did Aang find more air [...]
Curicon is a social network for all things nerd. It provides collectors of nerd culture with simple organization programs to keep track of their expansive collection. It also provides opportunities for collectors to get in touch with other collectors all over the world to talk obsessions and to get that one piece they need to [...]
When a child is asked what she wants to be when she grows up, there are a number of things that pop up as stereotypical answers. Maybe she wants to be a ballerina. Maybe a superhero. Maybe he wants to be a cowboy. Or maybe, he wants to be an astronaut. This anime is a [...]
Studio Gainax has taken a new foray into the territory of anime adaptions with the comedy Medaka Box. Serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump since May 2009, the series is relatively new and is still ongoing. The author of the manga, Nisio Isin, also wrote the popular, anime-adapted Bakemonogatari series as well. While I’m a huge fan [...]
For most of North America, Toonami was the first introduction to quality anime. Anime existed in the United States before Toonami, but was mostly garbage, or blatant hatchet jobs of existing footage. Without Toonami existing, very few in North Americans would have heard of shows like Rurouni Kenshin, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, as well as the [...]
Almost everyone who’s into anime has heard of the popular ninja series, Naruto. The anime has been running since 2002, in Japan and America, and has spawned an assortment of toys, novels, OVAs, and movies. The newest branch off of the franchise is the spin-off anime, Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals. Based off of [...]
Based on the 2006 visual novel by Idea Factory, Hiiro no Kakera isn’t your typical harem anime. Hiiro no Kakera is a reverse harem, or perhaps slightly more eloquently, otome. This series is produced by Studio DEEN (who has ties with everything from Ai Yori Aoshi to Gurren Lagann to Tiger and Bunny). It has not yet been licensed [...]
Accel World is an anime adaptation of the light novel series by Reki Kawahara. The light novels have been very successful in Japan, having already been adapted into two manga series and two unreleased video games (to be launched on the PS3 and PSP). The anime, slated for 24 episodes, began airing on April 6th. It’s [...]
