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Category: Anime

  • TB.Pensar 13

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    What is TB.Pensar? Find out here. How fitting that this is the lucky number 13 edition of this series of posts. Damn my stupid pollen allergies!!! Aarggghhhhh… Sorry for the loss of control, but it’s really been a rough week, with no end in sight. It’s sad, really, because this time of the year used…

  • Batman Gotham Knight Trailer

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    BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT is what happens when you get Japanese anime studios (Studio 4C, Madhouse, Production I.G) and directors and let them loose on the Batman mythos. Think ANIMATRIX, but done for Batman, and it’s coming out on DVD in July. Warner Bros. has launched a teaser site that features a trailer — you may…

  • Appleseed TV Series

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    Last night I started watching the sequel to 2004’s beautiful cell-shaded CG film APPLESEED, 2007’s EX MACHINA, and I’m loving it. They’ve managed to one-up the original film by creating a look that’s more detailed, yet still uses cell-shading (can’t say yet if the story will match the original though). I’m also rather happy to…

  • New Sky Crawlers Trailer

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    The official site for Mamoru Oshii’s upcoming animated film, THE SKY CRAWLERS, is streaming a new trailer. It also announced the release date: August 2. Via Anime News Network.

  • Spring Anime 2008

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    A new TV season is just around the corner (end of March, early April), and so it’s time to start looking over the new anime series that are scheduled to start, and see what is worth checking out. Big thanks to Paul Baron for pointing me to the “Spring Season Preview” post on the Star…

  • Neojaponisme: Macross

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    Matt Alt takes on the Macross saga over at Neojaponisme.

  • NHK’s Ani-Kuri Shorts Online

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    Japan’s NHK broadcaster has just posted 2 seasons of their ANI-KURI series. Each season comprises of 5 animated one-minuted shorts from a who’s who of the anime world (a 3rd season is currently airing, but not yet online). The site is in Japanese, but you can see the full rundown in this Anime News Network…

  • Himitsu to TV in 2008

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    I’d never heard of Reiko Shimizu’s philosophical sci-fi manga series HIMITSU – TOP SECRET (or any of her other works, like MOON CHILD and KAGUYA HIME), but the news that it’s being turned into an anime series for the spring 2007 season sounds good to me, especially after having read this description: The story takes…