Category: Ask John

Question: Which was the first vocal theme song ever created for or used for an opening or an ending. I heard or read somewhere that the 1963 Tetsuwan

Question: This is a new year and it is officially clear that anime/animesque type series is now more or less accepted internationally in Hollywood films and television. Some

Question: Is Netflix creating a revolution similar to that generated by the introduction of the OVA format? Answer: Inherent within the term “revolution” is the concept of “revolutionary,”

Every year Japan’s anime industry pushes more new anime out to viewers via television broadcast and increasingly by Internet streaming. By comparison, 2010 saw the broadcast of roughly

Ask John: Question: As a longtime anime fan, I must break the question. Surely, there is Good World Entertainment, the guys behind Voltron, and were the heads behind

Question: Have you see a video titled “Anime The Global Medium” by The Canipa Effect on Youtube? If you have seen it, what are you though about it?

Question: Could you provide a context for this animation, just to know its significance among anime titles? Answer: To address the initial question first, Children of Ether is

Question: I hear that Crunchyroll is partnering whit NBCUniversal to make anime. Some people are saying that anime as we know now will be changed, Americanized, like IGPX.

On March 26, 1994, I began writing rough drafts and notes for my original anime-inspired novel Bloody Angel. Twenty-three years later, I’m happy to say that I’ve finally

Paramount domestic distribution chief Kyle Davies has told CBS News that he believes widespread charges of whitewashing partially impacted the box office underperformance of director Rupert Sanders’ American

Question: Along with Osamu Tezuka, who are the most influential creators in manga and anime? I’d imagine Go Nagai for his work with super robots, Cutie Honey and

Question: What animators – Japanese or not – are worth following? The only contemporary, populist director I can think of who’s work is higher-quality-than-it-needs-to-be but still makes “normal”

In order to be most useful to readers, I need to preface my reflection on 2016’s anime by first explaining my own criteria for judgement. Despite having watched

Question: Like me you probably heard the sudden and untimely passing of Carrie Fisher October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016 aka Princess Leia of Star Wars from

Question: Do animes really care that much about diversity and “equal representation” like they do in the American media or is anime just content to use whichever characters