Check out these cool-looking (but unfortunately, fake) movie posters made by fans imagining what the movie posters would look like for their favorite as yet unmade anime series.
Above is my favorite of the bunch, based on the Evangelion anime TV series. It’s so good you’d have to look twice to find out it isn’t legit.
There [...]
Hiroyuki Kageyama, an unemployed 20 year old man from Kakogawa City in Japan, was arrested for making online threats against Comic Market (also known as Comiket) doujinshi convention.
Kageyama posted the threat on popular online message board 2channel, stating that he was going to toss a grenade at the convetion site.
In repsonse to the threat, the [...]
For a parent, there’s a lot to complain about when it comes to your kids’ Pokemon addiction. It’s tough on the wallet, it distracts form schoolwork, etc. etc. But here’s a touching little story about a family trip to Japan that got really good thanks to that everpresent Pikachu and his adorable little critter friends. [...]
And now, the latest in the long and seemingly inexhaustible series of “only in Japan” stories is this one about a new line of commercially available contact lenses that are designed to give the impression of huge irises, just like in anime and manga.
I guess one man’s “kawaii” is another man’s “eeew”.
Anime expert Helen McCarthy has written a new book about, as stated in the title, 500 essential anime movies. Her well-researched articles are aside to be an enjoyable read, but will stand up to academic uses as well.
The book’s out now in the UK and will be out in the US in a few weeks. [...]
We already know Keanu Reeves is no stranger to playing comic book heroes on the movie screen but what about manga? Specifically, is there any truth to the rumor going around that Keanu is slated to play the intergalactic bounty hunter known as Spike in the live-action adaptation of the wildly popular manga and anime [...]
What do you call it, Otaku diplomacy? First the Japanese government declares manga and anime important national exports and “diplomatic tools”, and now it hosts the world championship in dressing up like anime and manga characters.
To be judged by a panel of anime-related celebrities, the finals are scheduled for August three in Nagoya.
The largest anime/manga convention in the United Kingdom is set to start off on August 8, 2008 (triple eights, for the superstitious folk out there).
And the organizers are giving away two tickets and “nearby accomodation” to the lucky winners of the Amecon ‘08 competition. If you’re over 18 and interested, fill out the stuff and [...]
The London Barbican will be having a special Osamu Tezuka Season that began on July 18, 1008 and will continue until Wednesday, September 24 of this year.
It will explore Tezuka’s legacy spanning manga and anime, as well as other interesting stuff about the “god of manga” and his influence on today’s stuff. The season will [...]
The latest issue of high-falutin’ academic journal Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal included not one, not two, but three separate anime-related scholarly papers. Imagine that, those university types. Hopefully this is a sign that intellectuals can start taking anime as seriously as an other type of film making.
The published papers include “Star-Spangled Ghibli: Star Voices in [...]