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Oh, this looks fun. Junji Ito — who you may know from such horrific manga tales as The Thing That Drifted Ashore and The Enigma Of Amigara Fault — is having his cyborg land shark tale Gyo transformed into a straight-to-DVD animated film. Watch that four-minute trailer above. It's totally fucking bonkers, like some R-rated SyFy Saturday night movie. More »
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What if, instead of hanging out with Ted Turner and going back in time to fight Hitler, Captain Planet and the Planeteers were the stars of an R-rated anime in which they threw out their sweet vests and became disaffected eco-terrorists hooked on endangered, psychoactive toads? More »
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It's really refreshing to see photos that put the "play" into "cosplay." And photographer Michael Smith at Emerald Coast Cosplay does a fantastic job of capturing the playfulness and silliness of cosplay. His photos from SukoshiCON Destin and some other recent conventions are just bursting with personality. More »
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Robotech rocked our worlds in the 1980s with its complicated characters and dense mythology. But where's our Robotech movie? Why can't we see Rick Hunter and Lisa Hayes on the big screen? Veteran book editor Jen Heddle makes a passionate case for why we need more Robotech now. More »
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If in 2007, manga was like a foreign movie star who had arrived on American shores to make it big, the last four years have been like watching that star run out of roles, run out of money, sell their house, go into rehab, and end up barely limping along in infomercials. More »
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Did you ever wish to star in your very own Gundam cartoon? For under $300, you can become the hero in a copyright-naysaying mecha epic! More »
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Oh, Blade Anime, you are so full of delightful quips and vampire murder! Check out the latest clip from the anime Blade, which has been dubbed for the English-speakers (sadly not by Wesley Snipes.) Fun Blade fact: Did you know that Blade has been wearing fancy spectacles for most of his existence, dating all the way back to the 1970s comics? More »
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Remember that unkillable American Akira adaptation starring Kristen Stewart and the other Tron Guy (not that one) as Kaneda the neighborhood suds dealer? According to THR, Amerikira is dead until producers figure out how to lop ~$25 million off of director Jaume Collet-Serra's $90-million production: More »
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Sure, we've seen a Japanese version of Spider-Man, but Wonder Woman artist Cliff Chiang has now created a Justice League straight out of 1970s anime and kaiju. More »
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If you have to limit yourself to one anime movie series in your life, or in the next week, Evangelion is one of your best options. More »
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Japan's 1:1 scale Gundam statue was built, disassembled, and subsequently reconstructed. Now, Gundam statue aficionado DarwinFish105 has recorded the statue's return to its former home in Odaiba. Here it is looking appropriately epic, surrounded by cloud cover. More »
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Back in August, the earth-shatteringly important topic that is Beyoncé's baby bump broke the world record for the most tweets per second (TPS). The singer's pregnancy reveal accrued a stunning 8,868 TPS. More »
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In this scene from the movie Starbirds — which was a mish-mash of episodes of the 1980s Japanese cartoon Tōshō Daimos — the formation of a giant robot requires a zip line, aggressive sloganeering, an entire hidden bridge, near-death experiences, and some interpretative dance for good measure. In the future, a bizarre strain of amnesia has seemingly drained humans of the cognitive capacity to make keys. More »
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The latest Full Metal Alchemist film, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, is coming to the U.S. in January, and here's the thrilling first trailer for U.S. audiences. Featuring some electrified wolf chimeras, a big metal bully, and lots of crazy action. More »
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Last night, Community launched an epic foosball battle that was so intense it turned Jeff and Shirley into screaming Anime figures (complete with hyper speed lines and a random kitty)! Plus last night also marked the return of Abed's take on The Dark Knight. So much amazing in one package. Seriously folks, let's save Community. More »
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A Vancouver casting call for extras has divulged some of the ways the Americanized, live-action Akira will differ from the original Japanese manga and anime source material. What's new? Kaneda owns a bar, Tetsuo's his brother, and, oh yeah, the role of the Colonel is apparently going to Ken Watanabe. More »
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The new anime movie REDLINE looks like addictive fun, thanks to a never-ending supply of pew-pew-pew lasers, heat-seeking missiles and vicious robots disrupting a huge race. Just check out the clip above — which is exclusive to io9 — to see a couple minutes of the car-racing, explosive action. More »
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Being the biased Super Nintendo owner that I am, I'm of the mind that the time-traveling RPG Chrono Trigger is probably the most unimpeachably perfect video game of all time (tied with Super Metroid, of course). So it leaves me absolutely tickled that the folks at Dorkly have decided to cater to my nostalgia and unceremoniously plop a Time Lord into the game's final battle. With a Gallifreyan around, Chrono Trigger would be over in five minutes. Hat tip to Zan!

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In this fantastically deranged sequence from the 1990s anime Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, the villainous Katejina attempts to hypnotize the heroic Üso with a totally unarmored cavalry. How unarmored are they? Well, let's just say it brings to mind a certain passage from Rendezvous With Rama. Thanks to Cesario for the heads up! More »
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The Americanized Akira remake is rattling forward, with the blandest possible red-carpet casting. Garrett Hedlund has been offered the role of Kaneda, and now Kristen Stewart has been rumored to be up for the part of his love interest Kei (presumably because Blake Lively was busy). More »
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Here's some horrible news coming straight from the Hollywood adaptation of Akira. Garrett Hedlund has reportedly been offered the role of Kaneda. Now we can trade in our fears about whitewashing for a new set of worries about the world's blandest Kaneda to ever ride a Huffy into a futuristic McDonalds. More »
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Disney has released the first ever English-dubbed trailer for The Secret World of Arrietty from Studio Ghibli (of Spirited Away and Ponyo fame.) It features the voices of Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett and Will Arnett. More »
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Last week, Fringe finally gave us the conclusion to a weird ghost story that's been simmering since last season. But Fringe isn't the only science fiction universe to dabble in ghosts — there have been hauntings and apparitions in Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars and countless other science fiction universes. More »
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Looks like Akira has been ripped out of development purgatory and dropped into production hell. Warner Bros. has reportedly greenlit director Jaume Collet-Serra's remake of the anime classic. More »
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Later this month, Madhouse Studio's X-Men anime will make its stateside debut on G4. In this animated series, the X-Men travel to Japan to do battle with nefarious mutant hunters known as the U-Men. More »
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It will set you back ¥69,000, but if you want to pledge allegiance to Neo-Tokyo's foremost motorcycle gang, this replica of Kaneda's leather Capsule jacket by Bandai Visual is a good place to start. It's being offered here to commemorate the movie's 30th anniversary. More »
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It's never great to watch a beloved science fiction hero die - but sometimes a memorable heroic death can help turn a science fiction story into a real epic. And some science fiction characters are unforgettable and bad-ass precisely because they died in a memorable way. More »
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Tomorrow at New York City's Japan Society is Films For Hope, an international showcase of movies and short features inspired by Japanese animation. The event's date is no coincidence, as it falls a decade after 9/11 and six months after the Tōhoku earthquake. Notes io9 friend Marcelo Gallegos of this event over at Cinespect: More »
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Before their sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo cult released a series of bizarre anime recruitment videos starring their bearded leader Shoko Asahara levitating, phasing, and using other ridiculous supernatural powers. More »
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As io9's resident ambassador for all music that sounds like Ming the Merciless' key party, it is my solemn duty to foist upon you "Distant Planet," a 1984 classic by italo disco group The Voyagers (who only made this one song). More »
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Welcome to the second io9 music smackdown! We're putting together the ultimate science fiction (and fantasy) playlist - all the music that everyone should have on his or her iPod. More »
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The internet just made me scream like a little girl. Want to know how? More »
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Remember that 1:1 scale Gundam sculpture in Shizuoka, Japan? Videographer Darwinfish105 (who previously did a time-lapse video of the statue) has now made a similar montage of the statue, now broken into pieces and surrounded by police tape. I'd hate to see the authorities' list of culprits. More »
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We love ourselves some Studio Ghibli around these parts, so it breaks our heart to see this unused pitch for a Ghibli-helmed Little Nemo in Dreamland. The studio's animators put it together in 1984, but Ghibli never developed the project in full. More »
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In America, politicians plus whimsical costumes tend to equal "ill-advised career move." But in Japan, cosplay is just one of those staples of existence, nobody gives a fig. More »
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When adapting the Ghost in the Shell manga into an anime film, director Mamoru Oshii chose to turn the real-life streets of Hong Kong into a hyper-stylized, dreamlike city of the future. What's astonishing is that Oshii captured the real Hong Kong so well in his submerged metropolis. More »
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Behold the Boy Who Lived and friends — redrawn with a Manga flavor! An amazing artist named Nakagawa has redrawn the entire gang from Hogwarts with an Anime edge. And it's actually pretty beautiful! More »
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We caught a peek at the Supernatural anime series from Japan, out later this month, with the two-part episode "All Hell Breaks Loose." Based on the season ender in the American series' second season, it pits our monster-hunting Winchester brothers against their first Big Bad, the yellow-eyed demon who killed their mother. More »
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It's apparently official: The live-action Akira film is dead. Director Albert Hughes walked away from it a while back, and by all accounts nobody else is stepping up. More »
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