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New Anime book by Ladd and Deneroff

Harvey Deneroff has announced on his blog the forthcoming publication of his new book with Fred Ladd, Astro Boy and Anime Come to the …

Madhouse’s 2006 film, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, is going to get a limited U.S. theatrical release next month through Bandai …

As I admitted in a post below, I’ve always been a fan of the original 60s anime of Speed Racer. One of my proudest moments came in the …

The Wachowski Brothers Speed Racer movie opens this week. I hope the new film is as much fun as the video below. In it, Speed Racer goes …

The tortured history of the TMS feature film Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland (1992) could rival that of Richard Williams The Thief …

Perhaps the most obscure of the pioneering anime series imported to the U.S. in the 1960s was Osamu Tezuka’s The Amazing Three. Why has …

A pair of animated films, discovered last year at an antique market in Osaka, have been identified as two of the earliest cartoons ever …

David Gerstein and Cole Johnson found this delightfully primitive 1934 Japanese cartoon about a war in 1936(?). Clearly inspired by …

Heads up, East-coasters! Several worthwhile anime screenings are scheduled for later this month. The Japan Society, in New York, …

If you are anywhere–and I mean anywhere–in the DC area on February 15 and 16, then mark your calendars for the American premiere of …

Last August Jerry wrote about one of the newest animation fads sweeping through Japan: a crude, borderline inept, series of animated …

Isn’t it ironic that the big New York Anime Festival, occurring next weekend at the Javitz Center, begins on Pearl Harbor Day …

My friend Ben Applegate is working for Digital Manga, a Japanese comics publisher that owns a tour outfit called Pop Japan Travel. They …

From Thursday’s Wall Street Journal: Score one for the nerds! Shares of Japanese companies involved in the production of animated films …

You can’t make stuff like this up. The Japanese Butt Biting Bug is the latest fad from that wacky island in the Pacific. (Thanks Eric …

(Thanks, Billy Bond)

In honor of the forthcoming big budget TRANSFORMERS movie, we hereby present this low tech fan tribute:

Looks like they’ve nailed it. Considering the track record of most cartoon-to-live action movies, I’m not getting too excited about …

In the photo above, the guy on the left is yours truly, Jerry Beck, blathering on about the fine points of American animation to the guy …

The L.A. Times wrote about this film last month. We told you about it exactly one year ago. From the studio that brought you Mind …