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Crayon Shin-chan’s Creator Missing
According to the Japanese newspapers, Mainichi Shimbun and Zaikei Shimbun, an emergency call was received at Sakushi City Fire Department around 10:15AM on Saturday, September 19th, reporting the remains of a body with tattered clothing under a cliff in the mountains of the Gunma Prefecture.
Metropolis: Astro Boy Meets Akira
Do I have you intrigued? Metropolis is based on the comic by Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy) with the script being written by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and the animation by Madhouse Studios (Death Note, Devil May Cry and Paranoia Agent). The film is a highly imaginative, strange and heartbreaking tale, complete with robots.
Japanese Literary Works to Become an Anime
Recently, manga artist, Takeshi Obata, famous for his work on Death Note and Bakuman, designed a new cover for famous works of Japanese literature, including Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human and Soseki Natsume’s Kokoro, two of the most popular and highest selling books in Japan.
Angel Sanctuary Anime Review
Angel Sanctuary is definitely both an anime and manga that I’d warn is not for the weak of heart, as the concept deals with, war, angels, demons, incest, blood, cross dressing, resurrection, swords, and underlying tones of shonen ai, to be brief. Despite its heavy load of emotional and physical turmoil, this is an absolutely fascinating show and beautifully animated on top of it.
Trigun Anime Review
I bought Trigun recently on DVD because all I had were vague memories of a good show with an interesting and conflicted blond man as the main protagonist, but little else resided in memory since this was from when the show aired on Cartoon Network, dubbed and edited.
Naruto: Child Characters
What I find particularly interesting is the wide appeal of Naruto to adult anime and manga fans, considering the main characters are all children when the story begins. These boys and girls, not even out of academy when the reader is introduced to Naruto’s world, I feel appeals to such a large community…
Twilight of the Dark Master Anime Review
Twilight of the Dark Master is a forty-five minute anime based off the one-shot manga of the same name created by, Saki Okuse. It is essentially the story of demons and guardians, one side meant to destroy humans and the other meant to protect them. In the year of 2089, Tsunami Shijo is one of the few remaining guardians left on the planet, overlooking…
