For those not following the anime news, Yahoo! Japan is hosting a trailer for the Blu-ray and DVD release of Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance, the second in a tetralogy of films which rebuild the Evangelion story with new characters and story elements and all-new animation.  The trailer (at the link above) is 115 seconds and requires ( Read more... )

Toei animation recently announced a plan to produce computer-animated theatrical works for semiglobal release in 2012 as well as computer-animated remakes of Space Pirate Captain Harlock and Daikuu Maryu Gaiking, classing franchises more than thirty years old.  They've since posted some small but shiny teaser images for both Gaiking and Captain ( Read more... )

From sixteenbynine's Web site, from Ain't It Cool News (including info on live-action Akira).

Fantastic:

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Linked copied from bossgoji: Winter Olympics in a Polish newspaper. (Those familiar with anime and/or 4chan will understand.)

So holidays were decent. Head is too fuzzy to articulate things. There was more good Kashable food, time spent with friends and family, and also a newer, warmer hoody involved. Plus anime. bossgoji, mmsword, and I helped introduce taliabear to mecha shows. We only got through Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Aim for the Top!: Gunbuster while I was there, but ( Read more... )

I have a new AMN Anime/Eastern Image review for The Sky Crawlers, Oshii's latest philosophical epic.  I've taken to watching English dubs first, since I need to watch both versions and typically can't stand the English once I've seen the Japanese, and I'm not sure how much that may have impacted my initial impression.  The first time I watched it, ( Read more... )

sixteenbynine and I were recently discussing how uninterested we are in films like 2012 and how the sort of pseudo-religious nonsense used as a plot hook --- Maya was the oldest civilization? Really? Never mind the calendar silliness --- does not make for a compelling disaster flick.  I mentioned how I'd really like to see a disaster story that wasn't so silly ( Read more... )

I finished watching Episode 10, "Separate Destinations," of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the rewrite of the series which more closely follows the manga and is airing on FUNimation's Web site shortly after it airs in Japan.  From 11:13 to 11:17, there's a shot of a newspaper being read by Lt. Colonel Maes Hughes.  He and another officer are ( Read more... )

It's been five days short of twenty-seven months since I last updated my LiveJournal style, and I thought it was time for a change.  The old style was interesting but didn't quite work; the text was only so legible with the translucent backdrop.  I also got tired of the Verdana font; I've come to prefer the Georgia family for reading ( Read more... )

OMG so much tired in one body.