Anime

Watch the unbelievable first 6 minutes of Evangelion 3.0, starring Space Pirate Asuka

I personally prefer the original Evangelion TV series, warts and all, over the old Eva movies or even the new movie series. But I’ll tell you one thing the new movies have that the original TV series doesn’t: Pirate Asuka fighting an Angel in space. You can watch the first six-plus minutes of Gainax’s newest…

Movies Rob Bricken Feb 21

Check out the new Ghost in the Shell prequel anime, Arise

While I was hoping the recently announced new Ghost in the Shell anime would involve more cyber-police work than existential ennui, it turns out Arise will be a four-part prequel showing the history which eventually led Motoko Kusanagi to become a cyborg who fights crime while in her lingerie. I can dig that. Each of…

io9 Rob Bricken Feb 12

Awesome Lego Gundam Must Become an Official Set NOW

It may not be as huge as the 59-foot-tall impossibly cool full Gundam in Tokyo, but this perfect Lego reproduction of the RX-78-2 Gundam is a lot more fun—made to minifig scale and fully posable. The detail and construction are as good as the real thing. Gyuta—its creator—should submit this to Lego Cuusoo. It will…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 4

Ghibli’s new movie features blistering coming-of-age-in-tranquil-1960s-Japan action

WARNING: The above trailer for Studio Ghibli’s next film, From Up on Poppy Hill, may not be suitable for all viewers. Specifically, if you have a fussy 2-year-old who does not like the vivid, flashing colors that virtually any animated video contains, or maybe if you have a racist grandfather who fought in WWII or…

Trailers Rob Bricken Feb 4

The 15 Dumbest, Goofiest, and Otherwise Most Impractical Gundams Ever

Gundam has long been called the Star Trek of Japan, because of its long-running popularity, and its many, many incarnations. This means there have been hundreds, if not thousands of Gundams and other assorted mecha designed for the Gundam anime series, and not all of them have been winners. For every RX-78 from the original…

io9 Rob Bricken Feb 1

Captain Harlock‘s new trailer reminds us why he’s the baddest BAMF in space

Star Trek who? Episode what? It turns out that the only sci fi flick we really need to be looking forward to is Toei’s CG movie remake of the classic anime Space Pirate Captain Harlock, which just had its first English language trailer released. Sure, Harlock doesn’t have the budget of those big American movies…

Movies Rob Bricken Jan 31

It‘s the Cartoon Apocalypse, and No Quality Animated Series Shall Survive

So you know how I was a wanderer who took shelter in an abandoned mail truck, put on the deceased driver’s uniform, and now I deliver mail to the ragtag settlements of post-apocalyptic America? Well, I had a buddy who did the same thing, except he ended up in a fire truck. Things were going…

io9 Rob Bricken Jan 30

7 Japanese Kids’ Anime That American Kids Will Never, Ever See

Some of the most popular anime in Japan have never set foot on American shores. Oh sure, we have Naruto and Pokémon and Dragonball Z, but what we don’t have are the kids shows — the Japanese anime equivalent of SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer and the like. Why? Because while you’d think they’d be…

io9 Rob Bricken Jan 22

Get your cyber-brain-jacks ready for more Ghost in the Shell

Tucked into the February issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Young Magazine was an all-text page proclaiming the return of the quite popular Ghost in the Shell franchise to anime sometime this year. Here’s what we know: Very little. It’s subtitled Arise, it will be a series, and probably on TV, given the franchise’s popularity. Kazuchika Kise,…

io9 Rob Bricken Jan 15

Why Robotech is the greatest love story of the 20th century

Literary types often regard Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita as the greatest love story of the 20th century. They’re close, but it’s actually the ‘80s cartoon series Robotech – specifically, it’s the Macross section of Robotech, based on the 1982 anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the first of the three Japanese cartoons that were cobbled together and…

io9 Rob Bricken Dec 24

The Walking Dead‘s Gale Anne Hurd is getting into anime with a Gaiking movie

Gale Anne Hurd, queen of the genre legend and tastemaker, is getting into the giant robots business. Perhaps it was something she say in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim trailer? https://gizmodo.com/monsters-vs-giant-robots-in-the-first-trailer-for-guil-5968031 According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Walking Dead producer is backing a live-action, feature film adaptation of the classic anime Gaiking. Her production company…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 20

Catch Gatchamania with the first live-action Gatchaman movie footage!

Everybody has their first exposure to anime, and for many kids in the ’70s, it was Battle of the Planets, an awkwardly edited cartoon was based on the super-popular anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, about a group of five teens who dress like birds to thwart alien terrorists. The first footage of Japan’s live-action Gatchman…

Movies Rob Bricken Dec 19

The Total Recall remake vs. Resident Evil 5: Which bland sci-fi flick should you care less about?

The Total Recall remake and the newest Resident Evil movie dominate this week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases. Say, do you know the difference between Total Recall director Len Wiseman and Resident Evil’s Paul W.S. Anderson? …that’s not a joke. I’m genuinely asking. They make impossibly bland, effects-heavy genre movies and they’re both married to super-hot…

io9 Rob Bricken Dec 18

The best anime series you’ve probably never seen

Urusei Yatsura was the sci-fi Simpsons of ‘80s Japan. It was funny, clever, and creative to the point of insanity. It starred a sexy alien in a bikini. It was The Simpsons of Japan before The Simpsons had even aired in America. And by now, many people have forgotten it. Here’s why it’s time to…

Television Rob Bricken Dec 17

Japan is finally building the ultimate anime theme park

What do Dragonball Z’s Goku, One Piece’s Monkey D, Luffy and Naruto from Naruto have in common? They’re all some of the most popular anime characters in the world, they all star in the Shonen Jump weekly manga anthology, and they’re going get their own theme park in Japan later this summer. Namco Bandai announced…

io9 Rob Bricken Dec 17

This live-action Dragonball Z fan movie is not only better than the real movie, it’s good

Saying that something is better than the 2009 live-action Dragonball: Evolution movie is not exactly a compliment. There are car accidents I’d prefer to be in before watching that movie again. So when I say this fan-made trailer for a live-action DBZ movie is better than the Hollywood movie, please don’t use that as an…

io9 Rob Bricken Dec 5

This week on DVD and Blu-ray: Will Smith battles a Conchord, kids bust ghosts, and Stargate Atlantis’ popularity contest

In this week’s releases, Will Smith somehow manages to make a third Men in Black somewhat worthwhile, Paranorman tries to get out of Frankenweenie’s shadow, and nobody likes Stargate: Atlantis season 2 for some reason. • Men in Black 3 Between the 10 -year delay and the wacky ‘60s setting, I was fully expecting that…

io9 Rob Bricken Nov 27

The world’s most depressing anime movie is getting a live-action adaptation

Grave of the Fireflies is an anime masterpiece, one of the greatest anti-war movies ever made, and a chilling look at two children trying to survive amidst the 1945 bombing of Kobe during World War II. It is also, as you might imagine, incredibly fucking depressing. It has also just been optioned in England as…

io9 Rob Bricken Nov 26

The flat-out weirdest piece of anime comedy you will see this year

The insane comedy series Hokuro Kayodai — Full Throttle! (Mole Brothers) came out a few years ago, and watching it is basically like putting your brain in the blender. The show, created by Katsuhito Ishii, is insanely funny and weird, from the constant punching and close-up sweat faces, to the anime parodies which include at…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 23

A children’s anime series with rainbow-colored, gut-wrenching lessons in ethical philosophy

One of the classic kids’ anime shows that made its way across the Pacific was Monkey Magic, and it was full of fighting, jokes . . . and very deep lessons about philosophy and ethics. I love this one in particular, where Monkey meets Buddha, and learns that he is but a puny dot in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 21

Watch the unbelievable first 6 minutes of Evangelion 3.0, starring Space Pirate Asuka

Check out the new Ghost in the Shell prequel anime, Arise

Awesome Lego Gundam Must Become an Official Set NOW

Ghibli’s new movie features blistering coming-of-age-in-tranquil-1960s-Japan action

The 15 Dumbest, Goofiest, and Otherwise Most Impractical Gundams Ever

Captain Harlock‘s new trailer reminds us why he’s the baddest BAMF in space

It‘s the Cartoon Apocalypse, and No Quality Animated Series Shall Survive

7 Japanese Kids’ Anime That American Kids Will Never, Ever See

Get your cyber-brain-jacks ready for more Ghost in the Shell

Why Robotech is the greatest love story of the 20th century

The Walking Dead‘s Gale Anne Hurd is getting into anime with a Gaiking movie

Catch Gatchamania with the first live-action Gatchaman movie footage!

The Total Recall remake vs. Resident Evil 5: Which bland sci-fi flick should you care less about?

The best anime series you’ve probably never seen

Japan is finally building the ultimate anime theme park

This live-action Dragonball Z fan movie is not only better than the real movie, it’s good

This week on DVD and Blu-ray: Will Smith battles a Conchord, kids bust ghosts, and Stargate Atlantis’ popularity contest

The world’s most depressing anime movie is getting a live-action adaptation

The flat-out weirdest piece of anime comedy you will see this year

A children’s anime series with rainbow-colored, gut-wrenching lessons in ethical philosophy

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