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Japan’s 3D CG feature “Friends”

Here’s a wild looking kids film coming later this year from Japan, Friends (mononoke shima no Naki). Toho is planning to qualifying it …

Here’s something a little different for fans of violent anime: My Last Day, a nine minute animated short commissioned by The JESUS Film …

This is a graduation film of Hiroyasu Ishida (a.k.a. Tete) at Kyoto Seika University. The mood, backgrounds and color style are very, …

“Nuclear Boy Has a Stomachache” explains the nuclear crisis in Japan through animation. The cute scatalogical analogies illustrate the …

Disney fans like to look for “hidden Mickeys” – but here’s one they may have missed. When Disney’s mouse became an overnight sensation in …

Forget Carlo Vinci and George Nicholas. This 1986 Japanese Flintstones anime promo featuring teenage Pebbles and Bamm Bamm is an absolute …

Veteran anime director Yoshiyuki Tomino (Brave Raideen, Mobile Suit Gundam) gave a realistic, yet somewhat harsh response to a student’s …

Add another title to the list of animated features opening in the US in 2011. According to

The nominations for the 34th Annual Japanese Academy Prize (Japan’s Oscar) were announced last week. The awards will be presented on …

Hatsune Miku is the latest J-Pop star – with a twist: she’s not real. In fact, she’s an anime “holograph” (Actually, she’s projected onto …

Today is what would have been the 82nd birthday of Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Fittingly, a book …

Enjoy: As best as I can make out, the animation combines a popular Japanese meme surrounding gay porn star Billy Herrington with a …

It’s not a good week to be a Japanese animation legend. Stop motion animator and puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto, passed away last Monday at …

Satoshi Kon passed away in Tokyo on Tuesday. He was 46–and in the middle of directing a new film, The Dream Machine. Kon was one of a …

Opening in several major U.S. cities today (New York, L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, etc.) is Studio Ghibli’s Tales of Earthsea, from …

Here’s the trailer for the Studio Ghibli/Level 5 game, Ni no Kuni, for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo DS. It’s causing quite a stir …

Our “Saturday Morning Cartoon” this week is an amazing student film mixing CG backgrounds with hand drawn “anime”. The Subway Time was …

Here’s a sneak peek (taped off a Japanese talk show) at Studio Ghibli’s next animated feature, The Borrower Arrietty. Based on Mary …

Here’s one for the history buffs: a link to a fascinating online archive of fifty vintage Japanese animated commercials. This site is …