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Category: Anime

  • Interview with Satoshi Kon

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    Midnight Eye posts an interview with Satoshi Kon, talking about his soon-to-be-released film, PAPRIKA. The ads for this are now appearing on TV, really making me want to see it. Update: And if your in LA: “Satoshi Kon’s Paprika is screening at 10 a.m. at Laemmle‘s Grande 4-Plex in downtown Los Angeles through Sunday. This screening…

  • Multi-Media Blue Dragon

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    I don’t want to go out and say that BLUE DRAGON, out in early December, is going to be the Xbox 360’s savior here in Japan, but awareness for the title seems to be at an all-time high — ads are everywhere, even on the cash registers of all 7/11 stores — and now this:…

  • Katsuhiro Otomo's Mushishi

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    Katsuhiro Otomo is going live-action! Click here to see the trailer for his adaption of the MUSHISHI manga (which has also been adapted into an anime series), starring Jo Odigiri. Link via Anime News Network.

  • Trailers for the New Animes Season

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    Wanna have a look at what the new anime series debuting this month will look like? Anime News Network has got you covered with this post that offers up links to 30 trailers!

  • Next on the Plate for Hayao Miyazaki

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    Fans of Miyazaki, prepare to get excited: According to the Ghibli Production Diary, the storyboards for Hayao Miyazaki’s next movie have been completed and have been distributed to the main production staff. Animation production will begin this coming week. The storyboards for this project are notable because they were created in watercolor and the copies…

  • New Halcali Single

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    I’ll admit it, I have a soft spot for Halcali, and Patrick’s Agenda has word of a new single, that will also act as the theme song for the new anime version of the Powerpuff Girls (to be called POWERPUFF GIRLS Z), starting October 7. The single itself is only out in December.

  • Death Note Series Launching in October

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    I haven’t read the DEATH NOTE manga — or seen the live-action adaptation that came out earlier this year — but I’ve heard good things, and October 3 (at 00:55) sees the start of an animated series on NTV. You can get a quick peak at what the show will look like from the official…

  • Kemonozume

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    I finally got a chance to watch the first episode of KEMONOZUME the other day (it airs Saturdays at 00:30 on WOWOW), and I’m not even sure where to start. OK, let’s start by saying that this is one of the most interesting new anime series I’ve seen in while, and it feels good to…