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Category: Anime

  • Free Legal Anime on YouTube

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    Looks like Kadokawa — the company behind the terrific THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA series — will be allowing some of its content to be posted on YouTube for free viewing, starting next month. Here’s a link to Kodakawa’s YouTube channel. Via Japan Probe.

  • PingMag: Illustrator Yoshitaka Amano

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    PingMag interviews illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, a name fans of anime and gaming should be be well familiar with.

  • Animating Awareness

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    In order to bring attention the issue of Japanese citizens who have been abducted by North Korea, the Japanese government has a produced a short animated film that tells the story of Megumi Yokota, abducted in 1977 at the age of 13. The shot can be downloaded here, and is available in Japanese, English, Chinese,…

  • Little Nemo by Hayao Miyazaki

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    What could have been. This video is a test created by Hayao Miyazaki for an animated adaption of the classic strip ADVENTURES IN SLUMBERLAND STARRING LITTLE NEMO. Via AICN. Update: Seems that the video was produced by Studio Ghibli, but not directed by Miyazaki.

  • Ani-Kuri’s Third Season Streams

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    NHK have posted all five shorts for the third season of their ANI-KURI series online (the first two seasons are available as well). The third season has quite the line-up of directors: Shoji Kawamori (MACROSS), Satoshi Kon (PAPRIKA), Mahiro Maeda (BLUE SUBMARINE NO. 6), Michael Arias (TEKKONKINKREET) and Makoto Shikai (VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR).…

  • Neojaponisme: Root of Otaku

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    What exactly was the importance of Akio Nakamori’s new column that appeared in a little-read weekly soft-core porno comic (MANGA BURIKKO) back in 1983? “Otaku no Kenkyu” marked the first use of a word in a context we now know so well. Matt Alt translates that column for Neojaponisme.

  • Gonzo to Start Streaming New Titles

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    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…

  • Kite Liberator Trailer

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    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…