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Koihime Musou Gets Subtitles
Enter the world of the Han Dynasty as Japanese Anime distribution company, Marvelous Entertainment Inc., and the number one online destination for Anime and Asian Entertainment, Crunchyroll, are set to stream the action packed/comedic/fantasy fan-favorite KOIHIME MUSOU (episodes 1-4; subbed) to Crunchyroll Anime Members and fans worldwide starting Saturday; Sept. 12, 2009 at 5pm PDT. Inspired [...]
Continue reading...Hayao Miyazaki: Walt Disney of Japan
Saturday, August 8, 2009
3D animation is the future of the animation industry and this is apparent with the number of 3D films being released yearly. But this does not mean that we should forget the virtues of 2D. One of the firm keepers of the legacy of 2D animation is none other than the celebrated Japanese animator Hayao [...]
Continue reading...Torrent Downloads to Blame for Anime Recession?
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Just because anime is popular doesn’t mean that it’s proliferating. As Japan sinks deeper into a recession, even its seemingly stable animation industry has started to feel the curse of the economic plague. Even worse, we, anime fans, may have blood on our hands. Yasuo Yamaguchi, executive director of the Association of Japanese Animators, in an [...]
Continue reading...Three Ponyo Books Coming August
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Ponyo, the new animated film from Studio Ghibli and Academy Award-winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, will offer the official 4-volume full-color PONYO Film Comic, a PONYO Picture Book, and THE ART OF PONYO, which presents a comprehensive collection of original art, sketches, character designs and storyboards from the film. Walt Disney [...]
Continue reading...Emil Chronicle Online
Friday, July 17, 2009
Run Up Game will be the authorized Malaysia & Singapore distributor of the Korean Game developer the Gravity’s latest online virtual world game the Emil Chronicle Online! Emil Chronicle Online is the latest online game development of Gungho, Japan, The Emil Chronicle Online is designed as an all-direction game with the technological image frame breakthrough [...]
Continue reading...Growing in A Shinobi Generation
Friday, July 17, 2009
It was back in 2002 when people first witnessed the famous cartoon character and anime from Japan, Naruto and his struggles to become a chief ninja or Hokage in his village. However, things got complicated when one of his friends Uchiha Sasuke chose to leave their village to seek revenge against his own brother. Naruto [...]
Continue reading...Breakthrough’s Jimmy Two-Shoes Heads to Japan
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Breakthrough Entertainment has licensed television broadcast rights for the cartoon animation JIMMY TWO-SHOES to Walt Disney Television International Japan. Twenty-six half-hour episodes are scheduled to premiere Fall 2009. “The international response to JIMMY TWO-SHOES has been very gratifying,” said Nat Abraham, Head of Distribution. “The fun and humor in the series continue to spread across all [...]
Continue reading...Hello Kitty the Philanthropist
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
More or less, we have an idea how popular the cartoon character Hello Kitty is. Since we can’t really gauge this popularity quantitatively without delving into much boring statistics and table graphs, maybe the fairer question to ask is: “How useful is this popularity of Hello Kitty is to people and in popular culture?” For the few [...]
Continue reading...The Philosopher’s Stone in Mainstream Consciousness
Monday, June 22, 2009
The cartoon animation franchise Fullmetal Alchemist has already achieved critical and commercial success in both North America and Japan. With this acclaim, the series was renewed for a second series entitled Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood which is now hitting its stride since premiering in April this year. Created by Hiromu Arakawa, the popular anime and manga [...]
Continue reading...What if Doraemon Was Head of a State?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
In March of 2008, the Foreign Ministry of Japan appointed a certain cartoon character Doraemon into an anime ambassador. While it can be argued what exactly an anime ambassador does, it is a great honor for a cartoon character – and only those with such high status in the popular culture of a country (in [...]
Continue reading...Alternative Usage of Gundams if They Truly Exist
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
If the life-size likeness of a Gundam being finished in Japan is not enough testimony to how the concept of giant robots with massive firepower and fluid mobility has been scintillating the imagination of people for many years, then I don’t know what will. At one point in time, a person closely exposed to the [...]
Continue reading...Japan to Build 11.7- billion-yen Shrine for Anime
Saturday, April 11, 2009
The government of Japan has unveiled plans about a national anime center in the heart of Tokyo which will serve as a shrine to the contributions of anime, manga and video games not only to Japanese culture but also to the entertainment of the world. World-class animation is one of Japan’s most famous exports, with its [...]
Continue reading...2009 New York Anime Festival open for Online Registration
Friday, April 10, 2009
The 2009 New York Anime Festival (NYAF) announces that online registration is now live. The convention for anime, manga and Japanese pop culture will take place September 25-27, 2009 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan, New York, United States. Online attendee tickets are available now at discounted prices. Friday tickets are $35, [...]
Continue reading...Animation: Vehicle of Culture
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Since the opening of the gallery exhibit “Krazy! The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games” in downtown New York this March 13, 2009, many people from all ends of the spectrum – young and old alike – have been particularly drawn on the intricacies and richness of Japanese culture. Exhibited here were [...]
Continue reading...Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is a 2008 animated film by the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, it is written and directed by famed anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. According to reports Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea grossed $14.8 million over the three-day weekend of July 19-21 in Japan. Studio Ghibli’s last feature [...]
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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