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Month: March 2008
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Gonzo to Start Streaming New Titles
Looks like it’s suddenly going to be that much easier to follow new anime series that air here in Japan. GDH, parent company of Gonzo, are going to start releasing new series online (hosted on YouTube, Crunchyroll, and BOST) simultaneously with their Japanese TV air date, and including English subtitles. The first two series to…
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Kite Liberator Trailer
There’s a trailer out for the film KITE LIBERATOR, a sequel to Yasuomi Umetsu’s KITE. I’ve never seen the original film, but according to Imprint Talk, it caused a bit of a stir when it was originally released, back in 1998, getting censored or banned in a few countries. Umetsu was responsible for the visual…
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PingMag: YMCK
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I know a lot of YMCK fans read this site, so this should make them happy: PingMag interviews the band’s Takeshi Yokemura.
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Parallel Strokes
I already posted about Ian Lynam‘s book on type/graffiti creators, PARALLEL STROKES, but I really wanted to mention it again since I got my copy today (which I ordered from the site), and it really is a great little book that I think a lot of readers of this site would enjoy. Support small publishers…
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Happening in Tokyo
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Tonight you can catch “TAB Talks #3,” featuring a group of Tokyo-based French creators talking about living and working in the city. Start time is 21:00, at the Gotanda Sonic event space. Pecha Kucha Night celebrates an amazing 50th edition! It happens tomorrow (March 26) at SuperDeluxe, from 20:20 (of course). PSFK‘s global meetup, (likemind)…
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Vegie Shokudou
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The next big thing in guerilla retailing? One day a week restaurants, like Vegie Shokudou. As Ian Lynam reports on META no TAME: Neojaponisme contributor Dwayne Dixon and amazing vegan chefs Yoyo and Yuka offer up the tastiest vegan lunch in Tokyo on Wednesdays at Vegie Shokudou, a renegade restaurant inside of a bar in…