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Tag Archives: anime
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Steamboy
Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. Steamboy looks great in the trailers. The camera swoops through an impossibly detailed animated world filled with elaborate machinery emitting clouds of exquisitely rendered fog: steampunk in sepia. So you rush to buy your … Continue reading
Susan J. Napier’s Anime: From Akira To Howl’s Moving Castle
Napier, a professor of Japanese literature and culture, originally wrote this intriguing analysis of anime in 2001. Following the worldwide critical and commercial success of Miyazaki Hayao’s Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle movies, she decided to revisit and revise … Continue reading
Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. I saw this movie at the El Capitan theatre in Hollywood. A Democratic fundraiser was going on across the street, and there were about six people protesting. A young man with a pink Mohawk, … Continue reading
Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Princess Mononoke
Maria Nutick wrote this review. Many Americans perceive Japanese animated films, or anime, as either graphically violent, sexually explicit material aimed at teenage boys, or as loud garish cartoons designed to sell collectibles to small children (think Pokemon or Digimon). … Continue reading
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Tagged anime, hayao miyazaki
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Yuhki Kamatani and Kunihisa Sugishima’s Nabari
The anime series Nabari is based on the manga series Nabari no Ou by Yuhki Kamatani. It’s one of those series with a lot of comedy and very serious undertones. In broad outline, the story is rather simple: Rokujo Miharu … Continue reading
Toshifumi Takizawa: Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai 7, The Complete Series
In spite of the title, this is not exactly Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. It is, rather, an anime adaptation of the classic film, set in a dystopian future that contrasts the rural simplicity of the peasantry with a steampunk version of … Continue reading
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Yuhki Kamatani and Kunihisa Sugishima’s Nabari
The anime series Nabari is based on the manga series Nabari no Ou by Yuhki Kamatani. It’s one of those series with a lot of comedy and very serious undertones. In broad outline, the story is rather simple: Rokujo Miharu … Continue reading
Mizuna Kuwabara and Susumu Kodo’s The World of Mirage of Blaze
Mirage of Blaze began as a series of boys’ love novels by Mizuna Kuwabara, later adapted to manga with art by Shoko Hamada, finally becoming an anime television series. Rebels of the River’s Edge, also included in this set, came … Continue reading
Spray/Visual Arts, You Higuri and Yukina Hiro, Gakuen Heaven: Boy’s Love Hyper
Gakuen Heaven started off as a computer game called Gakuen Heaven Boy’s Love Scramble. The franchise also includes three PlayStation 2 games, drama CDs, a manga series, and this anime. It’s a delightful bit of BL fluff, and everyone I … Continue reading
Tite Kubo and Noriyuki Abe’s Bleach: Memories of Nobody
Tite Kubo’s Bleach, an action-packed supernatural adventure, has been a phenomenally successful manga series (approaching 40 volumes in English) and anime TV series (275 episodes). (The irony here is that when Kubo first offered it to a publisher, it was … Continue reading