ASIA ANIME BLOGS

Viz released the DVD for the second NANA movie recently, so into the Netflix queue it went. Got it last week, and was only able to finish it last night, with a lot of internal pep talk.

The Variety entertainment news source reports that Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company have acquired the live-action adaptation rights for Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Ninja Scroll action anime film from the Madhouse anime studio. Kawajiri wrote this tale about a wandering ninja fighting a conspiracy of demons, and he [...]

HOLY SHIT BARBIE DOLL NUDITY
The main point behind this whole feature was to watch all of the assorted anime on CDs and DVDs that we had squirreled away in our apartment so that we could throw them out and not have to schlep them around every time that we move. Right now I’m actually watching [...]

What can I say? The cellshaded, video game-like animation in this movie was awesome. Along with the superb direction of fighting choreography, the action in this movie was absolutely kickass. To tell the truth, if it was just another run-of-the-mill, hand-drawn, and digitally colored anime movie by Bee Train, I wouldn’t have payed attention to [...]

According to Moon Phase and Kadokawa’s exhibitor entry at the Tokyo International Anime Fair website, April’s edition of Newtype magazine (on sale March 10th) will mention about a theatrical version of the Gurren Lagann TV anime.