I’ve been watching anime for a pretty long time (no comments from the peanut gallery, Editor in Chief Sean Aune). I’ve fallen off in recent years, but I go back long enough with the medium that I’ve watched fansubbed shows on VHS and rented some of my first anime from Blockbuster. I’ve watched anime studios and publishers come and go, and I was there for the original Sub vs. Dub wars....
Sony Pictures Television Networks announced this week that it will acquire a 95 percent majority stake in anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment. The acquisition values the company at $150 million, and will have founder and CEO Gen Fukunaga retaining his position and a minority stake in the company. At 95 percent, Sony’s buy in is $143 million, Variety reports. “With the...
One of the most popular anime series in years is now available for streaming through Netflix. One-Punch Man is a success story in the making after starting out as a webcomic and becoming popular enough to make the leap to full-fledged anime. One-Punch Man follows the exploits of an average man named Saitama who becomes a superhero simply because it's his hobby. However, after obtaining...
Makoto Shinkai's anime hit Your Name, Kimi no Na wa in Japanese, has surpassed Hayao Miyazaki's classic Spirited Away as the biggest anime box office hit. The film has earned over $281 million worldwide, beating Spirited Away's previous record of $275 million. Of course, the film was a huge hit in Japan, where it stormed the box office for several months, and its three main songs have...
I'm not into anime so much these days. Not that the shows are of a lower quality or that I much prefer the shows that were on back when I was into it. I'm just plain, old-fashioned not into it anymore and definitely don't have the time to binge watch as I once did back in college. Still, back when I was into anime, it was an era not unlike the Gold Rush, a time I like to call it the "...
I listened in to a recent episode of Retronauts, excellent retro gaming podcast if you are interested, and I've been thinking a bit about how I became such big fan of Japan. I mean, it's quite a strange phenomenon really. Before the long reach of the Internet, how could a small kid from New England have stumbled across enough pop-culture from a country on the other side of the planet to...
Hey everybody! E3 2015 is going pretty great, huh? Lots of exciting, next generation games! So many galleries and trailers. For all the excitement though, you have to expect a few casualties along the way. We've all had an interesting game that popped up at a trade-show only to never see the light of day. Overstrike remains a big one for me, but today we are going to be digging even...
Tom Clancy and anime? There are two topics that I never thought would appear in the same headline, unless Tom Clancy secretly wrote an anime. That would be sweet. Anyway, both are having a sale on the PlayStation Store this week where you can pick up a few great games cheaply. The Tom Clancy sale is pretty straightforward. Everything with the author’s name must go, and there is no...
Without any warning, home video service Hulu announced that it will be expanding to Japan by the end of the year. The URL Hulu.jp is already live and serving up the page that you see above where you can sign up for updates on when it will launch. According to the report, the service will be serving up premium video on PCs, TVs, mobile phones and tablets, but no word on what exactly...
Mobile Suit Gundam premiered on Japanese television on April 7, 1979, and since that time it has spawned an endless number of television series, OVAs (Original Video Animation, i.e. straight to video productions) and movies. The series was an instant hit, and in July 1980, the first Gundam plastic model kit, also known as "Gunpla" was released. Due to the timing of the series and...