Clik here to view.
that time of year again
Yes, it's September, and that means I go down to Anime Weekend Atlanta and spend three days immersed in that sea of costumers, anime fanatics, lost children, hucksters, and confused parents known as an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
you know, for kids
Here's a fun thing, a translation of a children's book from the 1982-83 Nippon Sunrise anime series SENTO MECHA XABUNGLE. Let your children drift off to dreamland with this tale of one man's search...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top Ten Least Essential OVA Of The 80s
The internet is filled with sequentially numbered, attention-getting listsicles all claiming to be the authoritative judgment on the top fifteen party schools to visit after you master your five best...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PlaWres Sanshiro, King Of Robot Wrestlers
Let's say your name is Sugata Sanshiro. No, not THAT Sugata Sanshiro, quasi-fictional judo-master star of Kurosawa's first feature film and later parodied in a series of ads for the Sega Saturn -...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TCJ, part one
Somebody - St. Francis Xavier, I think - said “Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man”. That’s what happened to me with Japanese cartoons. My young brain endured years of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TCJ Part Two
Last time, we looked at TCJ’s start and their early series, including Sennin Buraku, Tetsujin-28, 8 Man, Yusei Shonen Papii, and Fumio Hisamatsu’s Super Jetter. Hisamatsu’s manga work would inspire...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dr. Zen And the Magic And Poorly Animated Machine
We like to think of Japanese animation as brilliant world-class entertainment, able to hold its own against the cartoon arts from around the globe. Occasionally that’s the case. But often what we see...
View ArticleClik here to view.
world's most wanted
(this review of Pioneer's 2003 DVD release "Lupin The 3rd: The World's Most Wanted" originally appeared in 2003. Pioneer's no longer in business and this DVD is out of print, but I had a lot of fun...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sufficiently Directed: Insufficient Direction
Insufficient Direction by Moyoco Anno, published in the United States by Vertical Inc., $14.95 US/$16.95 CND Moyoco Anno is a manga artist whose body of work stars everything from cutesy magical girls...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anime North time
Yes gang, it's time once again for Canada's pre-eminent Japanese cartoon festival, Anime North. And for me that means doing some panels and events, and THAT means a lot of time assembling clips and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
the return of prince planet manga
Remember a couple years back when we posted some translated pages of Yusei Shonen Papii (aka Prince Planet) manga from the 1960s? Remember how those pages were scanned out of a tattered, yellowing 1965...
View ArticleClik here to view.
it's candy candy's world, we're just living in it
Our heroine’s about to be sold into Mexican child slavery, and that’s when the casual viewer begins to sit up and take notice, to realize that the girl’s cartoon Candy Candy is going to go way, way...
View ArticleClik here to view.
leftover Candy
I had a bunch of images that for whatever reason didn't make it into last time's Candy Candy post. In the weeks since posting the article, I also found some more interesting Candy imagery out in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
our 20th Anime Weekend Atlanta
It's that time of year again, when my already slow blogging pace slows down to a crawl and everybody starts wondering what happened. Well, what happened is what happens every year around this time,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE SUPER GALAXY REVUE: CYBORG 009; THE REVUE; OCT. 8 2014
A few weeks back I had a chance to join nine special people on a fantastic trip to the outer reaches of the cosmos – and all I had to do was ditch work for a few hours! The Revue on Roncesvalles is an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shogakukan TV Picture Book: Psycho Armor Govarian
Psycho Armor Govarian (sometimes spelled “Govarion”), perhaps Knack Productions’ most visually appealing SF anime show, aired from July to December of 1983. One of several series whipped up by Go Nagai...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The "Space Cruiser Yamato" Generation
This is an article from Japan Echo vol VI, No. 1, 1979, about the Space Cruiser Yamato phenomenon as seen by Mitsuru Yoshida, whose qualifications to speak on the subject are beyond dispute; he served...
View ArticleClik here to view.
and now back to our long distance dedication
Hello, this is Casey Kasem, back from the beyond to count down the 10 biggest classic-anime hits in the 50 states. And now for our long distance dedication. Here's one we can all understand, whether we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
a look at Gigantor's new adventures
The New Adventures of Gigantor! Sure, this 1980 remake of the popular 1963 boy-and-robot anime series (based on the Mitsuteru Yokoyama manga) didn’t make it to American TV until thirteen years after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yuusha Raideen, UHF Subtitles & The Great Fuji-TV Freakout Of 1998
The FCC started licensing UHF TV stations back in the early 50s, it wasn’t until 1965 that all new televisions were required to receive UHF signals, and it was 1975 before Ted Turner turned his local...
View Article