Question: Do you have confidence in New Line’s ability to faithfully adapt Monster into a live-action film given their evisceration of the original source material in the film
Question: Funimation been going ADV on us for a while now. They’re really taking the industry by storm. Do you think they planned this out carefully or do
Question: What is your take on Funimation and other anime companies’ recent forays into live-action Japanese TV and film? Does it seem to you like the industry as
Question: How many R2J [Japanese DVD Region 2] releases have an English sub? I believe most Studio Ghibli works have one. Can you recommend any other subbed titles
Question: Why don’t more R2J [Japanese DVD Region 2] anime releases include an English sub track for the foreign market? The expense is small compared to a dub,
Question: What are the chances of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and its sequel, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s being licensed for US distribution? Considering the fact that the
Question: Today’s question is a follow-up to yesterday’s article, “How Much Does Licensing Anime Cost?” 20,000 copies? My God! So where’s the benefit in licensing anime? Has any
Question: I was just reading the “Is America’s Anime Industry Out of Touch with Fans?” artice and started to wonder how much does an expensive anime cost compared
Question: A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending a panel featuring Shinichi Watanabe at the Detroit Film Theatre. During the Q&A session, several fans referred
Question: Do you think that the American anime distributon companies are out of sync of what anime fans want to see come over Stateside? For example, ADV is
Question: Since Viz is publishing the Naoki Urasawa manga “Monster,” does this bode well for a North American release of the anime series as well? I’ve been keeping
Question: It’s obvious that anime is slowing down in America, but with the upcoming titles, which do you think is more likely to succeed? Funimation has Basilisk, Trinity
Question: Despite the slow growth of popularity of anime in North America or more precisely the lack of acceptance of the genre in mainstream entertainment, the opposite seems
Question: I read somewhere that Evangelion ended a “slump” in anime and put Gainax on the map. Though this is highly subjective, I can’t help but feel that
Question: Why is it that anime endings almost always have an “epilogue” that runs through the ending credits or occurs after the credits? Is this exclusive to anime?
