One Piece is incredibly popular anime. It’s the story of pirates, with zany humour and strange powers. Monsters and creatures are common hazards but it looks like zombies aren’t a problem for Luffy.
Majestic Prince trailer is full of space battles
This two minute plus trailer for the anime Majestic Prince has the space mech action up front. It’s the year 2110 and humanity is expanding across space to find more resources to harvest. Genetically tailored, evolved children, are the pilots of the mecha who have to battle against the alien lifeform called Urugaru.
The game designer challenge with Stan! Cyberpunk in Japan
Stan! is a name that many gamers are familiar with. Along with Hyrum Savage, Stan! is a co-founder at Super Genius Games where he is both a Senior Producer and Designer. In the run up to Christmas he managed a successful Kickstarter for the Littlest Shoggoth, a Cthulhu for kids book, which is now at […]
Ghost in the Shell: Arise trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfHdMgR7_HI The first trailer for the new Ghost in the Shell is out – although it falls under the YouTube category of “watch it before it’s yanked”. It’s hard to watch the trailer, consider the name and not conclude that Arise is a prequel. There’s no more debate as to whether Major Kusanagi looks the […]
New Ghost in the Shell announced: Ghost in the Shell Arise
There’s going to be a new anime of Ghost in the Shell. They’ve redesigned the super popular Motoko somewhat too as this image shows. What else do we know? Not much! Details are up at Cinema Today.jp which Google translate takes a good stab at. Production IG are involved, work starts this year and the […]
Armed Middle School Student Basket Army 5th short
Armed Middle School Student Basket Army is a 5 minute short animation based on a story written by Kazushige Nojima. Kazushige Nojima is best known for writing the scenarios of computer RPGs like Kingdom Hearts, Black Rock Shooter and some of the Final Fantasy series. This clip puts the spotlight on Toko Natori who becomes […]
Blue Exorcist movie trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwMi7f9JGuY Blue Exorcist is proving to be a hit outside of Japan. The new trailer for the Blue Exorcist movie will likely pick up quite a few plays. The first 500,000 movie goers in Japan get a Blue Exorcist figure wheras 100,000 get a New Year’s greeting card with an exlusive illustration from creator Kazue […]
Psycho-Pass trailer
Psycho-Pass is set in the near future and a future when it is possible to measure a person’s state of mind and personality. All this can happen instantaneously, is recorded and measured – hence the term “psychopass”. The plot follows Shinya Kogami, a police officer or enforcement officer, who fights crime in this world. The […]
Shanli, Chinese style anime
[wooslider slider_type=”attachments” limit=”20″] Yao Yao is a designer and an artist from Shenzhen China. Over on Behance, Yao Yao’s profile includes a range of fantastic art and a desire to work on a TV project. What do you think of the style? The title of this post calls it “anime” which, technically, can’t be right […]
Anime on Demand cancels payments
I subscribe to Anime on Demand. It’s a chance to watch legally streamed anime online and access shows I would never otherwise have access too. It’s a great deal for Viz Media as I only tend to access the service when I’m staying overnight in a hotel for business travel. If they have enough subscribers […]
