“First Squad” Anime Film to be released in the uk?

Katsuhiro Otomo’s Memories consists of three stand alone stories, each with their own different styles and messages. We have ‘Magnetic Rose’, a story based on a manga short by Otomo and directed by Koji Morimoto. ‘Stink Bomb’, another story that was created by Otomo, has been directed by Tensai Okamura (who helmed the fantastic Wolf’s … Continued

DAY 1 Transcription of the Q&A session at Scotland Loves Anime with Berserk’s Character Designer and Chief Animation Director Naoyuki Onda as well as one of the producers, Fuko Noda. [Text in square brackets was inserted by transcriber for clarity, or to reflect audience behaviour.] With the exception of the people directly on stage or … Continued

A trailer for Berserk – Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme King has been released. Due out in Japanese theatres in January 2012, it is the first of a trilogy of movies adapted from Kentarō Miura original manga. Animated by Studio 4°C, it has been directed by Toshiyuki Kubooka who has worked as … Continued

If any director’s work deserves a blind buy, it’s Katsuhiro Otomo; the man who arguably brought Japanese animation to serious Western attention with his 1988 cyber-punk thriller AKIRA.His dystopian vision of Neo-Tokyo made a worldwide impact thanks to its racy subject matter but more importantly, its gritty post-apocalyptic animation; it was a chilling and brutal … Continued

Studio 4C released Attraction, an anti-smoking interactive institutional anime. To get the full experience, the anime requires access to your webcam for you to interact with it showing colours to the camera or even moving your head around to look for a way out of a “maze”. While still an institutional video, the distinguishable animation … Continued