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AnimeLet’s Compare Tough Anime Dudes To Their Live-Action Movie Versions
One of the fascinating things about live-action adaptations is comparing how the actors bring the animated characters to life. So, with the upcoming Tokyo Revengers movie, let’s do just that! What can make live-action anime or manga adaptations so difficult is the ensuing film can look like people playing dress-up instead of embodying the characters…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2021 -
AnimeEvangelion Teams Up With Japanese Sake Maker To Recreate Misato’s Apartment
If you’ve seen Evangelion, then you’ve watched Misato Katsuragi drink at home. Her beer of choice? Ebisu. Her sake? Dassai. This is not cheap sake and underscores the fact that Misato takes her drinking seriously. Plus, as evident in the anime, Misato has a wide variety of different Dassai releases—not just the brewery’s standard stuff,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 6, 2021 -
AnimeSuper Cub Anime Is A Love Letter To Adolescent Freedom
Teenagers in many countries look forward to the day they get the freedom of their driver’s license, letting them explore their increasingly widening world. In rural and suburban Japan, where trains and busses may not be reliable or common, this freedom is given form in a moped, scooter, and motorbike license, obtainable at the age…
By Kat Callahan Published May 31, 2021 -
AnimeThanks To Demon Slayer, Fans In Japan Rush To Donate Blood
In Tokushima, the Red Cross featured Demon Slayer characters on blood drive posters. Sign up and give, and the prefecture would give out one of those posters as a present. Fans were more than happy to oblige. According to Livedoor News, in April, 464 people donated, reaching 77 percent of the prefecture’s target. In the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2021 -
AnimeWoman Arrested For Alleged Arson Threat To Attack On Titan Anime Studio
A 25-year-old woman from Miyagi prefecture has been arrested for allegedly emailing an arson threat to Wit Studio, which is best known for animating the first three seasons of the Attack on Titan anime. According to Yomiuri News, the suspect was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of forcibly obstructing a business. Kyodo News reports…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2021 -
AnimeAnime Super Cub Breaks The Law, Yes, But Is Fiction
In a recent episode of Super Cub, the anime about schoolgirls and the Honda motorcycle, two characters are shown riding on the same motorcycle. That is illegal in Japan. In Japanese, two people riding on the same motorcycle or bicycle is called futari-nori (“two riders”). Those who violate this traffic law can be fined up…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2021 -
AnimeHow Demon Slayer Energized A Japanese Canned Coffee Brand
Japan is famous for its canned coffee. But with consumption on the slide, canned coffee makers needed to wake up sales. They found it: Anime. As Mainichi News reports, Osaka’s DyDo Drinco launched its Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba line of “collab-cans” in October 2020. Featuring 28 different designs, some “Kimetsu-can” as they’re called were…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2021 -
AnimePikachu Just Got Arrested On The Pokémon TV Anime
Things sure got real on this week’s episode of Pocket Monster, the latest Pokémon TV anime series. As teased last week, Pikachu got arrested—cuffed and everything. Fittingly, the episode is titled “Yougisha Pikachu?!” or “Pikachu the Suspect?!” In it, large amounts of electricity are being stolen from houses in Vermilion City, and a Pokémon that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2021 -
AnimeHideaki Anno Is Not Remaking A Famous Anime, Says Studio
Recently, an article on a Japanese news site claimed that Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno was doing “a new version” of an anime that “everyone knows” in Japan. The article added that the original iconic anime was directed by someone else, and the information claimed to be from a studio staffer. Speculation ran wild. Online, people…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2021 -
AnimeFans Polled Over Which Anime Or Manga Should Be Live-Action And Most Replied “None”
Yikes! A Japanese poll asked one thousand men and women, ranging in ages from teens to 60s, to name which anime or manga they’d like made live-action, courtesy of Hollywood. The reply that took the number one slot should surprise no one, really. It was, well, “nothing” or “none.” Here, via Yahoo News! Japan, is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2021 -
AnimeHow Studio Ghibli Helped With The Latest Evangelion Film
Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno has a history that goes way back with Studio Ghibli—before it was even founded. One of the first big jobs he got in the industry was working on Hayao Miyazaki’s 1984 classic Nausicaä. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time was made on computers, but when Anno needed to do some analog…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 13, 2021 -
AnimeDragon Ball Super Getting Another Movie Next Year
After the Dragon Ball Super TV anime ended in spring 2018, it returned to Japanese movie theaters later that year in a feature film continuation called Dragon Ball Super: Broly (pictured, above). Now, DBS is coming back once again in 2022. The official site has an English language announcement from creator Akira Toriyama, which reads:…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 10, 2021
