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Watch The Trailer For Ando Masahiro's UNDER THE DOG
Remember the epic chanbara anime Sword of the Stranger from 2007? For some time now, its director Ando Masahiro has been involved in a Kickstarter funded project you might or might not yet have heard of. While the latter would...
Rest In Peace, Origa
Earlier today, Anime News Network alerted its readers that Russian-born singer Olga Vitalevna Yakovleva, better known as Origa, has died Saturday after a battle with lung cancer. Origa was very popular in Japan, and known worldwide for singing the opening...
Camera Japan Review: SHORT PEACE Has Great Shorts But No Peace
(Otomo Katsuhiro once again searches for beauty in violence and destruction, and this time he has brought some friends...) Seeing anime on a big screen is always a special affair in the Netherlands, and there are only a few...
Funimation To Release COWBOY BEBOP For First Time On Blu-ray In North America
Cowboy Bebop is widely considered one of the all time great anime series, ever. And Funimation will release the complete series, fully remastered on Blu-ray, on December 16! You can sign up over at Funimation and be among the first...
Upcoming APPLESEED ALPHA Film Will Be A Reboot-Slash-Prequel
Masamune Shirow's manga "Appleseed" has been adapted for the cinema several times already, and according to IGN.com, this summer we can add a new one: Appleseed Alpha. Details are sketchy, but apparently this is a "reboot" taking place before the...
Teaser For Otomo-Curated Anthology SHORT PEACE
While Otomo Katsuhiro will always be best known as the director of Akira - based in turn on his own original manga - he has never allowed that one work to define him, constantly moving on with other projects -...
Review: INNOCENCE (Personal Favorites #4)
Mamoru Oshii's (Tenshi no Tamago, Patlabor 2, Sky Crawlers, Tachiguishi Retsuden) Innocence is without a doubt one of the trickiest accomplishments of his already rich and challenging career. From the get go the film was doomed to fail, back then...
Watch Cute Dance Clip For FRIENDS: NAKI ON THE MONSTER ISLAND
Kawaii is the exact word to describe this amusing clip from Takashi Yamazaki's animated kids flick Friends: Naki on the Monster Island (aka Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki, フレンズ: もののけ島のナキ). There's no actual footage from the film. Its just Kotake...
Watch Ten Minutes Of FRIENDS: NAKI OF MONSTER ISLAND, Plus Three TV Spots And Music Video
With the theatrical opening of Takashi Yamazaki's animated kids flick Friends: Naki of Monster Island (aka Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki, フレンズ: もののけ島のナキ) in Japan today, the audience has already spoken with approval or rather to be exact, feeling emotionally...
FRIENDS: NAKI OF MONSTER ISLAND Trailer Will Tug On Your Heartstrings
[UPDATE: The trailer is now available in our ScreenAnarchy player] More video content has been added to the official site of Takashi Yamazaki's animated kids flick Friends: Naki of Monster Island (aka Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki, フレンズ: もののけ島のナキ) and...
Baby Boy Goes On A Soaring Piggyback Ride In FRIENDS: NAKI OF MONSTER ISLAND Clip
Director Takashi Yamazaki (Space Battleship Yamato, Returner) may have a reputation for wowing audience with spectacular eye candy but in his animated film debut, Friends: Naki of Monster Island (aka Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki, フレンズ: もののけ島のナキ), he may...
Second Teaser For Animated Kids Film FRIENDS: NAKI ON THE MONSTER ISLAND
Not only does the animated kiddie flick Friends: Naki on the Monster Island (aka Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki, もののけ島のナキ) looks spectacular animation-wise (though no less surprising when visual effects wizard/director Takashi Yamazaki is onboard), its cute as heck. This...
SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO Director Goes Kid Friendly in FRIENDS: NAKI ON THE MONSTER ISLAND
Director Takashi Yamazaki (Space Battleship Yamato, Returner) is no stranger to live action filled with stunning visual effects but Friends: Naki on the Monster Island (aka Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki, もののけ島のナキ) will be his first foray into a full...
SciFi Anime APPLESEED XIII In Trailer Form
Anime fans hungry for whatever series would fill the gap post Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex have been keeping their eyes on Appleseed XIII for a good while now. It makes sense. The two series share a production...
New Trailer For The Theatrical Release Of GHOST IN THE SHELL SAC: SOLID STATE SOCIETY
Originally conceived as a feature length video release to conclude the Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex saga, Kenji Kamiyama's Solid State Society proved successful enough that it has been retrofitted in 3D and will soon be released theatrically...
GHOST IN THE SHELL Movie Being Converted To 3D
Originally created as a stand alone video release, Kenji Kamiyama's Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society - the feature length release that is the final entry in the Stand Alone Complex world - is being retrofitted...
NASU: SUITCASE NO WATARIDORI Review
Every year at the start of the summer vacation the biggest cycling circus of the world opens its doors for three weeks of almost inhuman labor. The Tour de France is without a doubt the biggest cycling event of the...
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 review
It's been almost 15 years since Mamoru Oshii blessed the world with his adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell manga. A true anime milestone and a film that flared the hunger for anime in the West. For the 2.0...
