Category: Anime

  • Second Trailer for Legend of Earthsea

    Ghibli World shares a second trailer online for Ghibli’s upcoming LEGEND OF EARTHSEA film. Link via AICN.

  • Freedom Project

    I’ve been meaning to mention the new advertising campaign for Nissin’s Cup Noodle that includes art (and some cool animated TV commercials) by Katsuhiro Otomo, and this post (and the picture you see here) by Digiki reminded me of it. I first noticed it about a week ago in a few stations, and this “Freedom…

  • Idoru as Anime

    What’s with all the crazy good anime news today!?! NOW PLAYING magazine reports that William Gibson’s IDORU is going to be adapated to anime by director Alex Steyermark. Read the full article here.

  • Tekkon Kinkurito

    Something to really get excited about in the world of anime: Studio 4C (MIND GAME) is adapting Taiyo Matsumoto’s TEKKON KINKURITO (BLACK AND WHITE). There’s a trailer for it here, but I still haven’t been able to load it. Link via AICN.

  • EVA at Work

    “EVA at Work” is a collaboration art project celebrating arguably the most important anime series in recent times, NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. PingMag has the scoop. The image you see here is of a pillow made to look like Angel #10.

  • New Tales from Earthsea Trailer

    The Studio Ghibli site is hosting a new longer trailer for their upcoming film, TALES FROM EARTHSEA (out in July).

  • Last Week on Gridskipper

    Cinemart Roppongi The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Chess Boxing in Cologne Milano Salone 2006 Otome Road You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Make Mine Madhouse

    Everyone, we must all get on our knees and bow to the fine folks at Madhouse. First this: AniPaged Daily reports that Masaaki Yuasa, director of the brilliant anime film Mind Game will be producing a TV series for Madhouse (Ninja Scroll, the various CLAMP adaptations). Kemonozume (Claw of the Beast or Canned Beast), is…

  • GITS Turns into a Movie Again

    Last week I posted about Production I.G.’s plans to follow-up their GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX series, and it turns out that instead of a new series, we’re getting a movie. Production I.G has revealed in a stock disclosure that the upcoming Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society will…

  • More GITS

    This is going to make a lot of GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX fans happy. Anime News Network points out that Production I.G, animators of the previous Ghost in the Shell anime, FLCL, Kill Bill and numerous other works of high caliber anime, have announced a third Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone…