Spend enough time in anime fandom and you hear a common refrain: "They don't make shows like they used to anymore." Do they? There's plenty of great anime still being made: Fall 2022 alone brought an incredible bumper crop of anime series across multiple genres. Some may prefer the masterpieces of the past, but those masterpieces were exceptional even then. Even so, it is indisputable that certain kinds of anime are simply not made anymore. Original anime series are scarce. Modern shows rarely last beyond 12 or 13 episodes. Robots drawn in traditional 2D animation, outside of specialist studios like Trigger or Sunrise, are rare. Even the newest "Gundam" series, usually the industry standard for 2D giant robot shows, struggled weekly to maintain the standard of its mechanical animation. To find series like the long-running psychological thriller "Monster," or the slice-of-life mystery "Haibane Renmei," you have to go back 20 or 30 years in the medium's history.
- 1/25/2023
- by Adam Wescott
- Slash Film
In 1973, Osamu Dezaki took the zero-to-hero sports shojo written by Sumika Yamamoto about high school freshman Hiromi and made a 25-episode TV animation series. Six years later, the successful Nippon Television show was put on the big screen by the same director. Being one of the best-selling shojo manga of all time, the tennis drama is a groundbreaking story that puts a strong female character in the lead and can be seen, together with “Attack No.1” (1969), as a precursor of future anime.
“Aim for the Ace!” will screen at Japan Society
“Aim for the Ace!” tells the story of Hiromi Oka, a high school student, who joins the tennis club because of her admiration for senior student Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki, spoken by famous voice actress Masako Ikeda (“Galaxy Express 999” ), is the best player in the team and in the course of the film Oka gets the chance to play double with her.
“Aim for the Ace!” will screen at Japan Society
“Aim for the Ace!” tells the story of Hiromi Oka, a high school student, who joins the tennis club because of her admiration for senior student Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki, spoken by famous voice actress Masako Ikeda (“Galaxy Express 999” ), is the best player in the team and in the course of the film Oka gets the chance to play double with her.
- 3/22/2020
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
At the 1973 Berlin Film Festival, overenthusiastic parents, eager to take their kids to a "family-friendly" animated film, crowded into a German theater for a recently released Japanese anime film with an unusual title: Belladonna of Sadness. They expected something that might distract their kids for 90 minutes, a sort of proto-My Neighbor Totoro; instead, they were treated to an opening scene that climaxes with a brutal prima nocta gang rape, a devil disguised as an impish phallus worming his way between the heroine's legs and, in between surreal orgy scenes,...
- 5/11/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Win a DVD copy of One Piece Collection 12! Another epic adventure with the straw hats! Luffy defies all the rules and brings a new wave of Pirating to the world in One Piece Collection 12 (Uncut). Prepare for hijinks on the high seas as Luffy and his crew get into unforgettable mischief as they hunt for the location of the greatest treasure known to man.
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We have one copy of One Piece Collection 12 on DVD to give away to one lucky winner! Just answer the following question…
Who created One Piece? Was it:
a) Eiichiro Oda
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c) Osamu Dezaki
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Own it from 28th December (Manga Entertainment). Pre-order here: http://amzn.to/229Oe67
We have one copy of One Piece Collection 12 on DVD to give away to one lucky winner! Just answer the following question…
Who created One Piece? Was it:
a) Eiichiro Oda
b) Mitsuru Adachi
c) Osamu Dezaki
Email your answer to NerdlyComps@gmail.com, making sure to include your name and address. You can also leave your answer on our Facebook page, just make sure to like us first or your entry will be invalid.
- 12/22/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
From the world famous anime and manga series comes the feature length One Piece Movie: Strong World.
When the Straw Hats catch wind of trouble in the peaceful waters of the East Blue, they quickly set a course for home! But before they reach their destination, fate leads them into the deadly path of Golden Lion Shiki. This gravity-defying madman needs a navigator, and he wants Nami! Shiki scatters the Straw Hats across the far corners of a floating island filled with ferocious, genetically-mutated monsters, and issues Nami and ultimatum: join his crew – or her friends die!
One Piece Movie: Strong World is out to own on DVD and DVD/Blu-ray Double pack on Monday 30th June from Manga Entertainment UK. For more information on Manga UK releases, please visit http://www.mangauk.com/
We have one copy of One Piece Movie: Strong World on DVD/Blu-ray combo pack to...
When the Straw Hats catch wind of trouble in the peaceful waters of the East Blue, they quickly set a course for home! But before they reach their destination, fate leads them into the deadly path of Golden Lion Shiki. This gravity-defying madman needs a navigator, and he wants Nami! Shiki scatters the Straw Hats across the far corners of a floating island filled with ferocious, genetically-mutated monsters, and issues Nami and ultimatum: join his crew – or her friends die!
One Piece Movie: Strong World is out to own on DVD and DVD/Blu-ray Double pack on Monday 30th June from Manga Entertainment UK. For more information on Manga UK releases, please visit http://www.mangauk.com/
We have one copy of One Piece Movie: Strong World on DVD/Blu-ray combo pack to...
- 6/26/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
More than fifteen years after its release, Katsuhiro Otomo’s adaptation of his own magna Akira has rightfully taken its place as a 20th Century classic, a fantastical and hypnotic flight of imagination serving both as a two hour journey of escapism and as a portal into the then booming world of anime based storytelling. By bridging the gap between Japanese spiritualism inspired thematic imagery and plotting familiar to a Western audience – as well as the unmistakable style of animation – it introduced a niche genre to a huge new market across the world, paving the way for universal success enjoyed by the likes of Hayao Miyazaki and the late Osamu Dezaki. Already a cult success abroad, Otomo made anime a globetrotting dynasty. Finding the reason for Akira’s resonance with all manner of audiences is not particularly difficult, since it is the zenith of great narrative-meets-dreamlike philosophical reality bending. However,...
- 12/1/2013
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
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