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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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We've been caling Chronicle the American Akira. And now you can hear about that influence, straight from the creators of this movie. 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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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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We've seen many a bizarre Tintin homage in our day, but this comic strip by the illustrator Yop! over at French comics site Mooloozone is especially neat. It's in French, but the plot should be pretty familiar to any X-fan. The only major difference is Wolverine mentions Loch Lomond. I always assumed he was a Canadian Club man. 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 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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The internet just made me scream like a little girl. Want to know how? More »
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Author Scott Westerfeld has announced a series of graphic novels based on his "dystopian plastic surgery" Uglies series. But this time, the story's protagonist is Shay, Tally Youngblood's best frenemy. Westerfeld also announced the latest progress on the Uglies movie. 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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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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If you're traveling to Canada, a country whose customs officials are notorious for playing the role of morality police, you'd better leave your Japanese comics at home — whether they're in print or digital. More »
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After getting expelled from their school for teenaged monsters, a trio of witches enrolls in an all-girl academy for monster hunters. To fit in, they'll have to hide their witchy natures and contend with a telekinetic queen bee. More »
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The Japanese editions of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire are a thing of beauty, thanks to covers by artists Ken Sugawara, Yasushi Suzuki and Noriko Meguro. Check out some incredible Manga-influenced Westeros art in our gallery. More »
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From earthquakes to slime molds, from zombies to the romance of decay, here are the manga you'll want to read to prepare for the End of Days. More »
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The next bit of heartburn-inducing Akira news has leaked all over the internet. Keanu Reeves is rumored to be tapped for the role of Kaneda. But we're doubtful that casting Neo can appease people's concerns about whitewashing. More »
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Star Trek legend George Takei is leading the charge against Hollywood's whitewashed version of anime classic Akira. He wants Warner Bros. to do the right thing and cast Asian actors in the saga. But will the studio listen? More »
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Before he wowed the world with his animated films, Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki worked in manga, and his first printed work was the 26-chapter People of the Desert (Sabaku no Tami). More »
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We've loved Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, an alternate history where the Napoleonic Wars fought with dragons. Novik continues to work on Temeraire books, but she's also taken some time out to create a manga-style superhero high school comic book series. We've got 9 exclusive pages from the first volume, "Will Supervillains Be On The Final?" More »
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In Dragon Ball, probably the most famous action manga of all time, the characters fighting those deadly-serious battles have names like Vegeta, Trunks, Freeza and Kiwi. More »
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Whatever David E. Kelley does with Wonder Woman, it's bound to be more dignified than this. The live-action TV series of the anime Cutie Honey features our heroine shouting "Honey Flash!" and then, well, flashing everybody. She turns ambiguously naked, with sparkles, and then her superhero costume (and wig) appear on her after a moment. Possibly NSFW, due to ambiguous nudity. More »
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The next time you enjoy your huge anime DVD collection, spare a thought for the pioneers of anime fandom stateside, who started out with next to nothing. A photo-essay over at Fanboy.com shows a meeting of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization (CFO) which met in the basement of a Polish Democratic Club on St. Mark's Place in New York. More »
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James Franco is rumored to be the live action face of Kaneda in the live action Akira movie. Well, at least it's not Zac Efron. More »
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Anime series Evangelion has mesmerized Japanese audiences since the mid-1990s with its story of angsty teens who fight Earth-destroying "angels" from the cockpits of giant robots. With Evangelion 2.0, its blend of teen drama, techno-action, and apocalyptic mysticism hits Stateside. More »
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Last night, we caught the world premiere of the live-action movie adaptation of Hiroya Oku's manga Gantz. While a bit slow, Gantz could be the future of science-fiction films, and it's only a matter of time until Hollywood remakes it. More »
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Yesterday we checked out Junji Ito's freaky sea monster tale. Today, we're going to take a look at Ito's 2002 horror tale The Enigma of Amigara Fault. It's about several thousand mysterious silhouette caves carved into a fault line. More »
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Did the parasites from Cloverfield wig you out? If so, you probably don't want to read Junji Ito's manga tale The Thing That Drifted Ashore. What's worse than a giant rotting oceanic kaiju? Find out here. More »
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With The Tempest, opening tomorrow, Julie Taymor and Helen Mirren bring a splashy fantasy vibe to the Bard. But science fiction and fantasy have been playing with Shakespeare forever. Here are the greatest Shakespeare homages and cover versions in SF. More »
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I spent the past week chasing otaku in Tokyo. Otaku are geeky fans who love comics, videogames, and music - and in Tokyo there are so many otaku that they have created their own nightlife scene. Here's what it's like. More »
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On November 24, IDW is releasing G.I. Joe: Future Noir, a two-part miniseries of manga-inflected Joe tales. Here's an exclusive preview of the Joe team involved in some dire espionage. More »
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Zac Efron in Akira? We're not surprised. Ever since Albert Hughes came on as director for the live-action adaptation of Akira, rumors of the studio demanding a more family friendly, PG-13 movie have followed. So why not cast Efron too? More »
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Hayao Miyazaki created movies like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro. Now you can see his brilliant, early film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind free online - it's about a biotech war, millennia after an eco-catastrophe. More »
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Check out this incredibly detailed, starkly rendered artwork from Katsuhiro Otomo's original Akira comic. You can see every beam and window of Neo Tokyo as it's destroyed. More »
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A gaggle of teen boys pass through a "gate" and wind up stranded in a mysterious land in Sol. It looks like Alive meets Stargate, so watch the trailer. Plus, here's the first official live action adaptation trailer for Gantz. More »
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US manga and anime fandom is at an all-time high, judging from the burgeoning convention scene. But manga sales have dipped since 2007. Could a lack of interaction between American otaku and Japanese publishers be responsible for this muted interest? More »
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Audrey Kawasaki paints part-manga, part-Art Nouveau scenes of women in supernatural settings. Kawasaki places her subjects in a "sensually esoteric realm," where sea creatures, skeletons, and beasts from Japanese mythology roam. It's some sexy-odd phantasmagoria. [Audrey Kawasaki via The Scuttlefish] More »
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Check out this sexy/weird scene from Air Doll, a new Japanese movie that's showing in select theaters in the U.S. this weekend. If you're looking for an alternative to the Airbender/Twilight monoliths, Air Doll is a decent choice. Spoilers below. More »
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