| 12:52pm | “3D” Super Robot Wars Neo is Very 3D | | | | The first trailer for the Wii-based Super Robot Wars NEO is out, and as you can see from above, the game has gone to great lengths to be a rather odd egg in the SRW franchise. Not only are all the robots being modeled in 3D, something usually shunned by SRW fans as a whole, but the cast list was a... |
| 7:11pm | Bokura no Garadoubla | | | | One of the most amazing and shocking reveals in the world of giant robot villainy was the discovery that Mazinger Z’s infamous first two adversaries, Garada K7 and Doublas M2, were actually once a single sentient entity known as Garadoubla. Garadoubla turns out to be a heroic figure to the Mycenae... | | |
| 8:38pm | Tomino vs Imagawa, NYC vs Atlanta | | | | Anime Weekend Atlanta has announced that one of their guests of honor will be Imagawa Yasuhiro, acclaimed director of the Giant Robo OVA and the currently-running Shin Mazinger TV series. AWA is running this year from September 18-20. Meanwhile, New York Anime Festival, running September 25-27, has... |
| 6:57pm | Ninja Warrior’s Subtitles | | | | “Ninja Warrior” and “Women of Ninja Warrior” known in Japan as “Sasuke” and “Kunoichi” respectively, are competition shows taken from Japan where men and women compete to complete increasingly difficult obstacle courses to prove their ninja prowess. And... |
| 1:13pm | My Modern Take on the Tezuka Star System | | | | Tezuka Osamu, the “God of Manga,” is famous for many innovations in comics and basically influencing the entirety of the manga industry we see today. His techniques for cinematic paneling, use of comics to tell long and drawn-out stories, as well as breadth and depth of topics basically... |
| 1:13pm | My Modern Take on the Tezuka Star System | | | | Tezuka Osamu, the “God of Manga,” is famous for many innovations in comics and basically influencing the entirety of the manga industry we see today. His techniques for cinematic paneling, use of comics to tell long and drawn-out stories, as well as breadth and depth of topics basically... |
| 2:11pm | Did You Listen to Me the First Time? I Said, “Watch Shin Mazinger” | | | | Back when Shin Mazinger first began, I told everyone to go check it out based purely on the strength of its first episode. I assume some of you followed my advice, but there are probably many readers who were still unsure. Maybe they checked out the first episode (which acts like a final episode),... |
| 4:32pm | The Trickiness of Taste | | | | Discussing artistic taste is always a mine field no matter the subject, and anime and manga are no exception. People can have very different backgrounds, mindsets, and approaches to anime and manga, and when there is a rift separating two people on many levels, misunderstandings occur. When you have... |
| 6:03pm | We’ll Pull Through Somehow: Onanie Master Kurosawa | | | | Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A young man is an outcast among his peers, and he spends each day barely interacting with them. When he’s alone though, his true personality emerges, and he makes grand displays of superiority, insisting that he is above everyone else. Here’s... | | |
| 3:52pm | Vertical Vednesday July 29, 2009: Light Novels | | | | To the otaku in the New York City area eager to learn a thing or three about the media we love so very much, I must inform you that there is once more a “Vertical Vednesday” tomorrow, July 29. The topic? Light novels, something that has had a great degree of difficulty penetrating the US... |
| 8:54pm | Detroit Metal Tiny Podunk Village: Amateur Wrestling Ken-chan | | | | Before manga author Wakasugi Kiminori created his most famous work, Detroit Metal City, he created a gag comic called Amateur Wrestling Ken-chan. Seeing it at Book Off one day, and seeing that it was just a single volume, I decided to pick it up. Having read it now, I can say that Wakasugi has improved... |
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