Monthly Archives: May 2013

The first image has been released for Takashi Shimizu’s 2014 adaptation of Kiki’s Delivery Service, and it looks decent. The colorful, old-European aesthetic of the background building suits the story as well as the actress and costume, so hopefully the rest … Continue reading →

The magical girl subgenre seems ripe for a Super Robot Wars-style multi-franchise crossover, but there hasn’t been much produced (Magical Battle Arena is probably the best, but that’s an unlicensed doujin game). Enter news of Super Heroine Chronicle, an RPG … Continue reading →

Toy news time, for Bluefin, Importing Monsters, Henshin Justice, and other places! With the Figuarts Sailor Moon selling really well (#1 toy on amazon.com!), it was just a matter of time until more were announced. Here’s a sneak peak at … Continue reading →

No sooner does Kamen Teacher Black start when there’s news of a live-action TV version of Tohru Fujisawa’s Kamen Teacher manga, coming this summer. Since I don’t recognoze any of the cast members and there’s no trailers yet there’s not … Continue reading →

In case those Alex Ross-illustrated ADV DVDs of Tatsunoko’s original 1972 Science Ninja Team Gatchaman are too expensive to track down, Sentai Filmworks has announced that they’ll be re-releasing a 105-episode set of DVDs and Blu Rays in October. They’ll … Continue reading →

Time of Eve is a pretty good little science fiction net animation from 2008, about a future cafe where customers are forbidden from distinguishing between humans and androids. The series was short enough to easily edit into a movie (with … Continue reading →

Simon Strange has been posting some behind-the-scenes stuff for Kaiju Combat on youtube. Here’s a look at some of the Kaijuland characters translated over for the first game, which will now be called The Fall of Nemesis (really building up … Continue reading →

Here’s a trailer for the upcoming Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger 10th anniversary special. more details at jefusion

Knights of Sidonia, a manga about bioengineered humans piloting robots to fight space monsters in the far future (not to be confused with the Muse song), is getting an anime adaptation according to the latest issue of Afternoon magazine. This … Continue reading →

New publisher Kansai Club Publishing has launched a kickstarter campaign for Osamu Tezuka’s short story collection The Crater, by my count making it the fourth Tezuka title to raise publication funds this way. Only 2,000 copies will be published, so … Continue reading →

Here’s a trailer for The Asylum’s mockbuster Atlantic Rim, due out on home video just three days before Pacific Rim hits theaters. While I sort of hate all that The Asylum’s “plagiarize just little enough so we can win in … Continue reading →

Anime Sols is now up and running. It’s a streaming site for classic anime, with the twist that users can also pledge to crowd-fund a proper DVD release for each of the shows. What follows is a breakdown of show/studio/day … Continue reading →

Odd for a series that was initially conceived of as a co-production for CBS, Ultra Q has gone 47 years without so much as a fansub in English (heck, even this year’s Neo Ultra Q spinoff isn’t fansubbed). As a … Continue reading →

The first footage posted from Disney’s upcoming Big Hero 6 is devoid of characters, but at least it seems that the film is actually happening. Based on a somewhat obscure Marvel comic, the title was an odd choice for adaptation, but … Continue reading →

Here’s the English-language trailer for the Captain Harlock movie from Shinji Aramaki, due September 7. I sort of dig this Aussie take on Harlock’s voice; it reminds me of Mel Gibson in Braveheart.

Hiroyuki Imaishi’s new anime from Studio Trigger that was vaguely teased back in February now has a title: Kill La Kill. The premise is that of superpowered battling schoolgirls in a post apocalyptic world, and considering that it’s from the … Continue reading →

Discotek Media has been steadily chipping away at the list of anime only available in North America on VHS: The Sea Prince and the Fire Child, the Galaxy Express 999 movies, Unico, Space Adventure Cobra, Locke the Superman, Mad Bull … Continue reading →

Stills for the upcoming Pacific Rim video game provide some of the best looks at the monster designs that we’ve had yet. Since this looks like a fighting game, it could be pretty fun! More at PacificRim-movie.net

Special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen passed away today. His importance to the development of special effects cannot be overstated, and he is in many ways a progenitor of the entire giant monster (and by extension, giant robot) genre. Take a … Continue reading →

Here’s a teaser for BIMA the Garuda Warrior, an Indonesian henshin hero show that’s starting June 30th. The kicker is that it’s being co-produced with Ishimori Productions (I wonder if any of Ishinomori’s work is directly involved?), and Bandai’s got … Continue reading →

The better part of a decade ago, news of Norman England’s first feature film, The iDol, broke, and tokusatsu fans in the English-speaking community were stoked. We thought that as a reporter England had been living the dream of US … Continue reading →

Media Blasters’ Tokyo Shock imprint is hitting it hard with the Japanese zombie sexploitation (or, as it’s been called, “splatterotica”) subgenre lately, as Chanbara Beauty: The Movie Vortex is coming to home video in May and Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead … Continue reading →

Tohru Fujisawa is best known for his saga of titles featuring the Onibaku duo (Shonan Junai Gumi, Bad Company, Great Teacher Onizuka, Great 14 Shonan Days, and more), but he’s got a handful of genre titles under his belt as … Continue reading →