Eiichiro Oda has always been one to take inspiration from other sources and inspire others at the same time. Starting One Piece decades ago, he has seen the advantage of witnessing eras change and evolve with time. There are many famous mangakas who are openly giddy about the ideas that have come to fruition because of Oda’s contributions to the anime and manga industry.
Luffy in One Piece
Many of those include Gege Akutami (Jujutsu Kaisen), Yuki Tabata (Black Clover), and Kohei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia). In this widespread range, there was one particular comment made by Takehiko Inoue that struck Oda in the best way possible. So much so that it became an inspiring moment in return, making him want to write and draw more of One Piece.
Eiichiro Oda’s Had a Fanboy’s Dreams Come True
Eiichiro Oda, during a talk with Takehiko Inoue in 2009 to...
Luffy in One Piece
Many of those include Gege Akutami (Jujutsu Kaisen), Yuki Tabata (Black Clover), and Kohei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia). In this widespread range, there was one particular comment made by Takehiko Inoue that struck Oda in the best way possible. So much so that it became an inspiring moment in return, making him want to write and draw more of One Piece.
Eiichiro Oda’s Had a Fanboy’s Dreams Come True
Eiichiro Oda, during a talk with Takehiko Inoue in 2009 to...
- 5/4/2024
- by Adya Godboley
- FandomWire
Ahead of an April 7 premiere in Japan and subsequent simulcast on Crunchyroll , the third season of fantasy romance anime The Duke of Death and His Maid releases a main trailer at AnimeJapan 2024 today that provides another preview of the sequel's ending theme song, "Etoile Mémoires" by Ayumi Mano. Related: Crunchyroll Announces Spring 2024 Anime Season Lineup! Based on the manga by Inoue, Yoshinobu Yamakawa ( Hi Score Girl ) directs The Duke of Death and His Maid at studio J.C.Staff, based on the manga by Inoue. The anime stars Natsuki Hanae (Vanitas in The Case Study of Vanitas ) and Ayumi Mano (Natsumi in Date A Live ) as the main leads. If you're a fan of romance anime, check out the first two seasons in a range of subs and dubs, right here on Crunchyroll ! How can you fall in love when you can’t even hold hands? Due to a childhood curse, anything...
- 3/23/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
The One Piece anime has held fans’ hearts in its grip for a long time now, with a major reason behind weebs falling in love with the characters being the remarkable voice actors. Recently, this incredible cast of unarguably brilliant voice actors has faced an addition – one that has weebs screaming ‘Yaaay’ in excitement.
One Piece
Adding to this is the fact that this newest addition has further added what fans are calling a “plot twist” to the saga. Thus, this turn of events has baffled everyone because not only is the latest voice actor cast for voicing Monkey D. Dragon making Monkey D. Luffy’s father sound even better, but he is even linked to a very special character from the Naruto saga!
Warning: May Contain One Piece Episode 1097 Spoilers Ahead!
Monkey D. Dragon Gets a New Voice Actor in One Piece!
Monkey D. Dragon, one of the most...
One Piece
Adding to this is the fact that this newest addition has further added what fans are calling a “plot twist” to the saga. Thus, this turn of events has baffled everyone because not only is the latest voice actor cast for voicing Monkey D. Dragon making Monkey D. Luffy’s father sound even better, but he is even linked to a very special character from the Naruto saga!
Warning: May Contain One Piece Episode 1097 Spoilers Ahead!
Monkey D. Dragon Gets a New Voice Actor in One Piece!
Monkey D. Dragon, one of the most...
- 3/21/2024
- by Mahin Sultan
- FandomWire
After Hayao Miyazaki took three years to finish the initial storyboard for “The Boy and the Heron”, it became obvious that he needed help. With diminished stamina and failing eyesight, the legendary anime auteur was no longer able to control everything. So he invited Takeshi Honda (“Neon Genesis Evangelion”), the supervising animator on his hybrid CG/2D short “Boro the Caterpillar,” to join his upcoming feature.
Honda was flattered and told Miyazaki that he would think about it because he was already committed to “Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time,” the franchise film finale. “But at that time, Miyazaki san said, ‘I don’t have time — there is no one in the Miyazaki family who is over 80 years old.’ I thought it was a big deal,” Honda told IndieWire over Zoom through an interpreter.
Honda couldn’t refuse Miyazaki (now 82) and proceeded to spend the next seven years on a journey of a lifetime,...
Honda was flattered and told Miyazaki that he would think about it because he was already committed to “Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time,” the franchise film finale. “But at that time, Miyazaki san said, ‘I don’t have time — there is no one in the Miyazaki family who is over 80 years old.’ I thought it was a big deal,” Honda told IndieWire over Zoom through an interpreter.
Honda couldn’t refuse Miyazaki (now 82) and proceeded to spend the next seven years on a journey of a lifetime,...
- 12/28/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Fantasia, North America's largest and longest-lived genre film festival, returns in 2023 with an amazing selection of imaginative films from around the world, including a bounty of cinematic treasures for aficionados of anime and manga!
Best known for the world-renowned Dragonball, celebrated Japanese manga creator Akira Toriyama's many other works include the mini-epic Sand Land, a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic screwball romp published in 2000. It portrayed a mysterious desert world where water is the most precious resource, and follows Satan's son Beelzebub and his comrades on a desperate, dangerous quest. Toriyama's countless fans can rejoice because now, a quarter century later, an anime adaptation has further rekindled Sand Land's appeal. Fantasia's crowd can take particular pleasure in this news, because the director is the talented Toshihisa Yokoshima, a deft master of CG animation whose short film Cocolors won a Satoshi Kon Award at the festival in 2017. Canadian Premiere
Equal parts crazy cartoon caper,...
Best known for the world-renowned Dragonball, celebrated Japanese manga creator Akira Toriyama's many other works include the mini-epic Sand Land, a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic screwball romp published in 2000. It portrayed a mysterious desert world where water is the most precious resource, and follows Satan's son Beelzebub and his comrades on a desperate, dangerous quest. Toriyama's countless fans can rejoice because now, a quarter century later, an anime adaptation has further rekindled Sand Land's appeal. Fantasia's crowd can take particular pleasure in this news, because the director is the talented Toshihisa Yokoshima, a deft master of CG animation whose short film Cocolors won a Satoshi Kon Award at the festival in 2017. Canadian Premiere
Equal parts crazy cartoon caper,...
- 7/7/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Gkids has snapped up North American rights to Toei Animation’s film The First Slam Dunk, an adaptation of the hugely popular Takehiko Inoue manga, which Inoue wrote and directed for the screen. The film which has already proven a smash hit in other territories, grossing over $212M globally, will hit theaters in the U.S. and Canada in both its original Japanese language and an all-new English-language dub later this summer.
Marking Inoue’s directorial debut, The First Slam Dunk follows Shohoku High School’s “speedster” point guard, Ryota Miyagi, who always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryota had a brother who was three years older. And following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local player from a young age, Ryota also became addicted to basketball.
In his second year of high school,...
Marking Inoue’s directorial debut, The First Slam Dunk follows Shohoku High School’s “speedster” point guard, Ryota Miyagi, who always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryota had a brother who was three years older. And following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local player from a young age, Ryota also became addicted to basketball.
In his second year of high school,...
- 5/1/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The 17th season of one of the most iconic shonen anime and manga of all time was one of the most expected titles of the previous season, and thankfully, Studio Pierrot and director Tomohisa Taguchi did not disappoint, making the most out of Tite Kubo's original material, which is actually concluded by the Thousand-Year Blood War arc.
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The series starts by showing how much the main protagonists, Ichigo, Sado, Inoue and Ishida have improved, as they make short work of the giant Hollows that appear in town. However, soon, a new, more powerful than ever enemy appears in the face of a Quincy Army and their leader Yhwach, who is later revealed to have been beaten but not killed by Chief Yamamoto, a thousand years ago. Now Yhwach has returned with a huge army, which has caused the...
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The series starts by showing how much the main protagonists, Ichigo, Sado, Inoue and Ishida have improved, as they make short work of the giant Hollows that appear in town. However, soon, a new, more powerful than ever enemy appears in the face of a Quincy Army and their leader Yhwach, who is later revealed to have been beaten but not killed by Chief Yamamoto, a thousand years ago. Now Yhwach has returned with a huge army, which has caused the...
- 4/26/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Trapped in Makyo” doesn’t waste any time in being forthright. Right from the get go, the documentary clears that it does not in any way, encourage the participation in, nor promote or provide any gray area about the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult was responsible for the terror attack which killed 14 and injured more than 6,000 people in Tokyo on March 20, 1995.
Trapped in Makyo is screening at the Sf Indiefest
This drawing of the lines and simple assertion of stance is both informative and instructive, especially when the subject in itself, a cult, could pique and tease the public’s curiosity. Filmmakers are only expected to trust the audience’s own discernment, but in an era where crimes and their perpetrators have been been humanized in some documentaries and miniseries to the point where the victims’ stories are dismissed and their loved ones are re-traumatized, this spelling out of...
Trapped in Makyo is screening at the Sf Indiefest
This drawing of the lines and simple assertion of stance is both informative and instructive, especially when the subject in itself, a cult, could pique and tease the public’s curiosity. Filmmakers are only expected to trust the audience’s own discernment, but in an era where crimes and their perpetrators have been been humanized in some documentaries and miniseries to the point where the victims’ stories are dismissed and their loved ones are re-traumatized, this spelling out of...
- 2/10/2023
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
Screening in the Tokyo International Film Festval’s Nippon Cinema Now section, “Remember to Breathe” is director Sugita Masakazu’s second feature, following his 2014 “Joy of Man’s Desiring,” winner of a Special Mention in the Generation Kplus section of the Berlin Film Festival.
Based on an original script by Sugita, the film stars Inoue Mao as Yuko, a mature woman who suddenly finds herself living with her estranged mother (Ishida Eri), after the latter causes a fire in the house of her son and daughter-in-law. In course of the film we learn, more through her silent expressions than her spoken words, why Yuko finds it so hard to get along with her mom, who seems a fun-loving and even caring type, quickly making friends with a neighbor’s young daughter. But in the final scenes all is devastatingly revealed in a highly focused, carefully calibrated performance by Inoue.
“As I was writing the script,...
Based on an original script by Sugita, the film stars Inoue Mao as Yuko, a mature woman who suddenly finds herself living with her estranged mother (Ishida Eri), after the latter causes a fire in the house of her son and daughter-in-law. In course of the film we learn, more through her silent expressions than her spoken words, why Yuko finds it so hard to get along with her mom, who seems a fun-loving and even caring type, quickly making friends with a neighbor’s young daughter. But in the final scenes all is devastatingly revealed in a highly focused, carefully calibrated performance by Inoue.
“As I was writing the script,...
- 10/29/2022
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
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