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Category: Anime

  • Professor Layton Goes to the Movies

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    If you’re a fan of the Professor Layton series of DS puzzle/mystery games, then you’ll be happy to hear that an animated film is on the way. Professor Layton: The First Movie is set to come out in Japan in January 2010, and will tell a new story. The voice actors from the game are…

  • Marxy and Macias Talk Cool Japan

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    Well, the title says it all: Marxy and Macias, together again, this time for a new Néojaponisme podcast covering the topic of “Cool Japan.” I’m just waiting for the them to take their shtick on the road.

  • The Beast Player

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    Some great news on the anime front: Starting January 10, NHK will begin airing The Beast Player, a series based on novels by Nahoko Uehashi, author of the Moribito novels. I absolutely loved the Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirit) series, and so quite happy to find out about this. The new series is…

  • First Squad Trailer

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    I remember reading something about upcoming anime series First Squad a while back, and now we get to see a trailer for it. The series is a Russian-Canadian collaboration with Studio 4C. Directed by Mind Game director Yoshiharu Ashino, it’s set in a WW2 where Russian teenagers with super powers face off against the Nazi…

  • Kappa no Tabi

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    Enrico Casarosa has turned the comic page he made for the Totoro Forest Project into an animated sequence, which you can watch here.

  • Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

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    Although I usually get pretty excited when a new Hayao Miyazaki film comes along, I can’t say I’ve been particularly pumped for Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. I didn’t much enjoy the teases I’d seen for the film: the deformed and simply drawn main character pointed to a loose style of animation that…

  • Totoro Forest Project

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    The “Totoro Forest Project” needs your help! From artist Enrico Casarosa: 200-plus international artists are trying to help save Sayama forest — also known as Totoro Forest — all as a “thank you for the inspiration” to Miyazaki-san. We’re planning an art auction event, an art book and an exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum…

  • Astro Boy Made of Tickets

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    Ping Tentacle reports on the Astro Boy pictured above, made up of 138,000 recycled subway tickets, on display at the Shinjuku Takashimaya department store.