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If you’re aiming at the side of an elephant with a shotgun, likelihood is that you’ll hit it when you pull the trigger. However, it’s another thing to try and hit a small moving target…and even if you do, the shot won’t likely do much damage. This is, essentially, the problem with This Is Greenwood. [...]
Ryuichi Ikegami is one of the best-known artists in the manga community both in his homeland and the US. His photorealistic work is simply unmistakable; no one else draws characters like him. Because of the eye for detail and his own personal taste for violence and erotica (as he states in the back of some [...]
For a while now, it’s been OK to come out of the closet in America. Somewhere between Ellen Degeneres and Rosie O’Donnell, between Will and Grace, The L Word, and Queer as Folk, talking about homosexuality has become an acceptable thing on television. Kizuna is one of the few Japanese shows brought to the US [...]
Peanut butter and jelly. Bert and Ernie. Cake and ice cream. Whimsy and the apocalypse. Hmm…the last two just don’t go together the same way, do they? It’s stereotypical, but anime about the destruction of the world are usually filled with humongous explosions, carnage on an unprecedented scale, and somebody named Shinji whining about how [...]
While I definitely don’t love every title put out by ADV Films, I have to say that the spring of 2007 has been an especially noteworthy one for them in terms of “fantastic titles I’d never heard of before.” Coyote Ragtime Show has been a fun intergalactic romp, and Utawarerumono is an intriguing mystery set in [...]
If you’re aiming at the side of an elephant with a shotgun, likelihood is that you’ll hit it when you pull the trigger. However, it’s another thing to try and hit a small moving target…and even if you do, the shot won’t likely do much damage. This is, essentially, the problem with This Is Greenwood. [...]
Ryuichi Ikegami is one of the best-known artists in the manga community both in his homeland and the US. His photorealistic work is simply unmistakable; no one else draws characters like him. Because of the eye for detail and his own personal taste for violence and erotica (as he states in the back of some [...]
An unconfirmed report on the Japanese 2channel message board states that Masashi Okita’s high school comedy light novel series Okami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi (Ms. Wolf & Seven Friends) will be getting an anime adaptation. The romantic comedy series revolves around Ryoko Okami, a high school freshman girl known for her “wolf-like” characteristics and her [...]
A flash intro on the official Japanese homepage for the Soukyu no Fafner anime franchise reveals that a new “project” titled “Soukyu no Fafner: Heaven and Earth” will launch next year. There’s no clarification on whether the project will be anime, manga, a game, or something else. The original Soukyu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor anime [...]
Fuminori Kaneko (Kisarazu Cat’s Eye) will direct a live action film adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s acclaimed historical fiction manga series Ooku: The Inner Chamber. The film will adapt the manga’s first story arc with Arashi J-pop group member Kazunari Ninomiya taking the lead role as the latest member of the shogun’s harem and Kou Shibasaki [...]