Tag: Japan

January 9, 2021 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. The decidedly colourful English dub for Cyber City Oedo 808 was adapted by John Wolskel. He adapted several other anime titles for Manga Entertainment as well, often “in-your-face” actioners where Wolskel was encouraged to make the dialogue as edgy (and sweary) as possible. In this interview with Andrew Osmond, Wolskel remembers how […]

January 3, 2021 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Masaaki Watanabe’s anime series Bartender is part of a long tradition of TV shows about smart loners who help others in secret. Its leading man is cut from the same cloth as many a medical maverick, discussed in the same tones of hushed admiration as the trouble-shooting physician Black Jack, as a […]

December 31, 2020 · 2 comments

by Chris Perkins . 2020 turned out to be a year none of us are likely to be forgetting in a hurry. But in its final month, news broke that will alter the streaming anime landscape forever. Sony Pictures Television’s Funimation bought their biggest rival, Crunchyroll, from owners AT&T/Warner Media for a deal worth over […]

December 28, 2020 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Millennium Actress comes loaded to the brim with references to Japanese film, although many of them, perhaps for legal reasons, have been tweaked a little so as not to be blatant hommages. So it is that we see leading lady Chiyoko with a robotic lizard, evocative of the iconic Godzilla, but not […]

December 22, 2020 · 0 comments

By Masaaki Yuasa. Up to this point, I’ve always had large casts in my work. That’s because I always had a desire to draw the entire World” of each piece. But in this project, Ride Your Wave, I thought it would be better to limit the number of characters to focus more on the characters’ […]