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: 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
Question: What would you say are the top Precure series overall? Which would you recommend most out of the ones since Heartcatch, as that’s the last one I
By my personal rough count, 2015 premiered 217 new television & web broadcast anime. My list excludes new seasons that continued the name and episode numbering of the
