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The official homepage for the upcoming Playstation 3 action game Mobile Suit Gundam Senki has released a brilliant new trailer featuring gameplay and original anime footage. The two promotional videos are linked on the game’s homepage, but they’re restricted to viewers located in Japan only. The latest trailer is now accessible worldwide on YouTube. The [...]
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Question: Why isn’t there some sort of Dirty Pair anime revival in Japan? They got sequels and spin-offs of a lot of old shows including some obscure Go Nagai mech anime from I.G and even Casshan in spite of the live action movie bombing. They even brought back Bubblegum Crisis in spite of Crash, and [...]
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Question: With Capcom releasing Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars on the Wii internationally later this year, could we possibly see a new interest in Tatsunoko properties over here? Could it give a show like Casshern SINS a better chance at getting licensed? Could a company like ADV or Media Blasters possibly license rescue the Casshern, [...]
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Question: Is it really impossible to do a good anime adaptation of Blade of the Immortal? What does Blade have that works as a manga that just can’t make it as a manga in motion with sound? Isn’t the problem not that Blade can’t be adapted but that it was adapted poorly? It’s hard to [...]
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Question: was Hamlet ever turned into an anime in any way shape or form? Answer: I think that we, as anime fans, may frequently overlook the fact that knowing what isn’t available in anime form is as much a part of knowledge about anime as knowing what has been adapted. I’ll be the first to [...]
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Question: Why do we have no magical girl robot anime aimed at any age group? Recently animators have been making new works by mixing genres. Sailor Moon + fighting aimed at girls makes Pretty Cure; aimed at otaku it makes Lyrical Nanoha. Is it just a matter of time before we get Sailor Moon + [...]
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Question: I love the anime Basquash, but after reading that both the chief animator and director have been replaced, I’m wondering what that means for the show’s future, and is a move like this common for a show halfway through it’s run? Answer: Considering the collaborative and creative nature of anime production, I’m sure that [...]
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n its simplest sense, anime refers to a cartoon television series or movie made in Japan. The word anime is derived from the word animation. In a Japanese anime series, the characters traditionally have extremely large, doe-like eyes and spikey or long hair. Anime is, however, more than just a “cartoon” to its …
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