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Review: KIDS ON THE SLOPE is a Jazzy Coming-of-age Tale from COWBOY BEBOP'S Director
Watching Watanabe Shinichiro's Kids on the Slope having already seen his previous works Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo feels very much like watching Hosoda Mamoru's Wolf Children after seeing The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars. It feels... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

Watch The First Five Minutes Of Shinkai's GARDEN OF WORDS
With a Japanese release slated for May 31st, the first five minutes of Shinkai Makoto's Garden Of Words was broadcast on Japanese television a couple days back and that footage has now arrived online. Shinkai has long been loved for... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Theatrical Trailer For GHOST IN THE SHELL ARISE: GHOST PAIN
The latest entry in the hugely popular - and for good reason, they're great - anime series Ghost In The Shell hits Japanese theaters June 22nd with the arrival of Ghost In The Shell Arise: Ghost Pain. A series of... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Now on Blu-ray: THE WOLF CHILDREN, Hong Kong Release
(Kids: can't live with them, can't abandon them in the forest...) We are big fans of anime writer/director Hosoda Mamoru here and for a good reason. After the man left Studio Ghibli following a big row with Miyazaki Hayao over... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Fresh Images From Miyazaki's KAZE TACHINU

Great news everyone! This summer the latest work from genius animation director Miyazaki Hayao, Kaze Tachinu, will receive its release in cinemas across the land of the rising sun. Surely a person like me could write on for ages on... More »
  

Now on Blu-ray in Australia: PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA is a Magical Magical Girl Anime
The anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica belongs to the magical girl genre, where girls become magically transformed into costumed super-heroines who fight against evil. This brief description is probably all you need to know about the plot of the show,... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

KICK-HEART: Pro Wrestling Gets Animated And Exciting In Yuasa Masaaki's New Video
Anime director Yuasa Masaaki (Kaiba, Mind Game, The Tatami Galaxy) and Production I.G successfully ran a Kickstarter fundraising program for their new short film, Kick-Heart, in October last year. Stretch goals have allowed the film's runtime to be increased from... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

First Teaser For Live Action GATCHAMAN
The wait is finally over! After months of great anticipation, our first look at the live-action film adaptation of Tatsunoko's classic anime Gatchaman (aka Battle Of The Planets or G-Force depending on which version) has arrived in the form of... More »
By Al Young   
  

Imagine 2013 Review: Anime Movie 009 RE: CYBORG 3D Dazzles And Baffles
(After seeing this film I am "Himmelhoch jauchzend, zum Tode betrübt"...) One of the great things about film festivals is that they allow people to see Japanese anime films in a cinema. Being able to do so is such a... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Blu-ray Review: MARDOCK SCRAMBLE (SECOND COMBUSTION)
(Killing Machine Became Teenage Gambler...) It's almost ridiculous how fitting it is to review a Mardock Scramble film during Easter, what with the series' strange obsession with eggs so far. On top of that, it tells the continuing story of... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Interview: Hosoda Mamoru Talks WOLF CHILDREN, The Magic Of Hand-Drawn Animation And Parenting
Anime director Hosoda Mamoru hardly needs an introduction around these parts. Heck, our enthusiasm for his Summer Wars is just about legendary. Still considered a bit of an young upstart in his native Japan when compared to the old-guard animators,... More »
  

DVD Review: PRINCESS JELLYFISH Exhibits Other Kinds Of Otaku
(Me, I'm not an Otaku, I just collect stuff fanatically...) By now you just need to mention noitanimA and my ears will prick up. Over the past few years there have been so many interesting anime series aired in Fuji... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

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 -... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

DVD/Blu-Ray Review: TIGER & BUNNY (Ep 1-7) Will Be Up Right After The Break!
(And here we see Reviewer Man, arriving at the scene of the crime...) Last month, Manga UK and Kaze UK released the first part of the anime series Tiger & Bunny in the UK. This is a slick-looking series which... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Review: ALIEN 9 Is Unique And Compelling Anime
Let's first make something very clear: despite its title and scenes showing aliens inside humans' abdominal cavities, Alien 9 bears absolutely no relation to the beloved Alien movie franchise. Instead, it is a short 4-episode anime series that tells the... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

Watch The First Trailer For Shinkai's THE GARDEN OF WORDS
Japanese animator Shinkai Makoto has earned a loyal following around the world with his sensitive tales of love and loss. And while many fans felt somewhat disappointed by what felt like a deliberate - and only moderately effective - turn... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Anime Review: HAKKENDEN: EIGHT DOGS OF THE EAST, Episodes 1-4
Run for your lives! It's another reboot on the loose! Someone's taken one of the best animated shows of the nineties and turned it from a stunningly drawn, bloodsoaked chanbara fantasy into a goddamn airbrushed period sitcom with Beautiful Men... More »
  

Anime Review: KOTOURA-SAN, Episodes 1-4
Best. Opening. Ever. Well, maybe that's a little hyperbolic, but not nearly as much as you're probably thinking. I queued up Kotoura-San because hey, why not: a light anime comedy about a girl who can read minds, and the way... More »
  

Anime Review: AMNESIA, Episodes 1-4
You've all come across something, a TV show, a film, a book, that left you silently mouthing "What the hell", right? Unable to figure out what on earth was going on? Now this is okay as ideas go, as the... More »
  

Siren Visual Releases The Complete Collection of Detective-Twist Anime UN-GO On Australian DVD
Un-Go is the latest from the team behind anime smash Full Metal Alchemist and operates on a completely different level, although retaining the signature clean and cool BONES animation. Twitch colleague Charles Webb covered the US BluRay release extensively in his excellent review, the... More »
  
 
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