Jean Snow [.net]

Category: Anime

  • Riding the Cultural Wave

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    Japan is considering expanding the Tokyo International Film Festival to boost the country’s “cultural content industry,” which in addition to books and film involves animation, comics, music and game software, the industry minister said Tuesday. Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai said at a press conference the film festival, which has been held 18…

  • Bandai Museum to Move

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    Remember the Bandai Museum I visited recently (see Flick photoset here)? Seems like it’s about to move into a new facility. Gunota reports Bandai Museum has announced it will close its Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture on August 31st. Bandai will open a brand new cultural facility, “Toytown Bandai Museum”, next year at Mibu, Tochigi Prefecture. Meanwhile,…

  • Oshii on Gedo Senki

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    Mamoru Oshii has done some animation work for the upcoming Ghibli film TALES FROM EARTHSEA (GEDO SENKI), directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro, and here’s what Oshii has to say about the controversial remarks that have come from the father (he has stated that he doesn’t believe his son is ready to helm a feature):…

  • Bandai Museum

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    If you don’t read my weekly Gridskipper contributions, I’d like to point out that one of my posts last week was for my recent visit to the Bandai Museum in Chiba, for which I also put up a Flickr photoset with 34 pictures.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Cafe Add+Ress Bandai Museum You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • More Ghibli News

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    There are supposed to be two new trailers on the Ghibli World site, one for Kazuo Oga’s TANEYAMAGAHARA NO YORU (NIGHT OF TANEYAMAGAHARA) and one for Isao Takahata’s GAUCHE THE CELLIST (here and here), but I can’t get them to load. Also, they’ve launched an official site for the LEGEND OF EARTHSEA film. I usually…

  • Second Trailer for Legend of Earthsea

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

  • Freedom Project

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    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…