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Prince Of The Sun
The movie starts. The Toei logo fades to a windswept landscape and a wordless struggle between a boy and a pack of wolves; no soundtrack, no dialogue, just panting and grunts and the whistle of a...
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your anime north 2015 schedule
It's that time of year again and it means I've been spending important anime-blogging time working on presentations for Anime North! If you're in the area and had the forethought to pick up your...
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Ride With Captain Ken
Six-guns and space ships! Cowboys and aliens! Gunfights at the OK Corral on Mars! Itâs all happening in Digital Mangaâs release of Captain Ken, a tremendously entertaining Osamu Tezuka manga that mixes...
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pledge your support
As many of you know, when I'm not writing about classic anime here at Let's Anime (which, admittedly, is most of the time), I'm usually working on something at Mister Kitty, which is the website myself...
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top 11 autos named after classic anime characters
Did you know that many automobiles were named after classic Japanese animation characters? Itâs a fact! No no, donât check up on it, just trust us, automakers around the world chose to name their...
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Anime Weekend Atlanta is 21
Next weekend is the 21st annual Anime Weekend Atlanta. Â Back when we started the show in 1995 we never figured it would get as big as it has or last as long as it has, but we've been pleasantly...
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Class Of '85
In September I presented this piece at Anime Weekend Atlanta. Thirty years back (!!), I was part of Atlantaâs local anime club, making library meeting rooms a welcoming place for anime fans. I was a...
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10th anniversary of 15th anniversary of Metal Skin Panic Madox-01
This review of AnimEigoâs Madox-01 15thAnniversary Special Collectorâs Edition first appeared in 2005. Since then, Iâve learned a few more things about Madox-01, namely that Hideaki âEvangelionâ Anno...
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at the movies
Movies! Everybody loves 'em. And if you're reading this blog, chances are the kind of movies you like come from Japanand are animated! And chances are also that if you were a kid in the 60s or even...
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air quotes required; the story of "Japanimation" the magazine
The exciting thing about the independent comic boom of the 1980s is that pretty much anybody with 32 pages of content and a line of credit at a printer could be a comic book publisher, right up there...
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show me your space
The theme song asks us to show it our space, a mighty jungle call echoes as a hero swings from vine to vine, and a beautiful space traveler escapes evil robots! Is it Tarzan or Star Wars - or both?...
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"...I Promise Never To Lower The Standard Of The Galactic Patrol."
SF NEW CENTURY LENSMANdazzled with state of the 1984 art techniques and a heroic pulp-fiction pedigree, but left behind only VHS tape and a few well-designed toys. In its wake Western SF readers were...
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Stronger Than Poop: The Cinema Of Dr. Slump
Akira Toriyama kickstarted the 80s with a one-two manga punch of (1) wonderfully round cartoony characters squirrelling around a fully realized universe of pint-sized automobiles, fat little...
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your May '16 update
Hey gang! Â Been a busy season here at Let's Anime - well, busy everywhere, to be honest - Â and I wanted to drop a quick note and let you know what's going on.First off, Let's Anime now has a Facebook...
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defender of the universal remote
From days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the UHF dial, from television producers starved for toyetic robot action, it's Voltron! Â Here in the future we're faced with the prospect of yet another...
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some notes from the meeting of the Real Deal Thunder Sub Club
The following is a transcription of a recent assembly of one of the foremost Thunder Sub fan organizations, and is presented to the readers of Let's Anime as a public service in the hopes that this...
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what I did on my vacation '16
Summer's just about over and that means it's time to look back and reflect on what you did on your time off. Where did you go? What did you do? And how long will you be paying the credit card companies...
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Anime Weekend Atlanta 2016
Yessir, it's time once again for Atlanta to bestir itself down to the Cobb Galleria Center, and the Waverly, and what soon will be the new Braves stadium, and gird its loins for the 22nd annual Anime...
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gravity sabers at 10 parsecs: Queen Emeraldas
If you're familiar with Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock or Galaxy Express 999, you're likely familiar with Emeraldas, the lady cosmo-pirate with the giant space blimp who's prone to surprise...
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Prince Planet At Fifty
Fifty years ago a Japanese candy company, a Tokyo cartoon studio, an American production outfit, a future biker-movie star, and TV stations across America would join forces to bring us adventures that...
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