anime
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A major Japanese media company known for producing manga, anime and video games appears to have paid nearly $3 million to Russia-linked hackers following a data breach earlier this year.
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Peter Jackson is co-executive producer of a new animated Lord of the Rings prequel called The War of the Rohirrim. “Set in an epic world 183 years before the events of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the King of Rohan is forced into a last stand in ancient Hornburg after a sudden attack…” explains…
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Everyone has had the same question for Shinichirō Watanabe since the late 1990s: When can we get more Cowboy Bebop? Or at least more sci-fi action anime resembling his work on Cowboy Bebop, a show that helped the entire anime industry cross over as a global industry? But after meeting up with the anime titan…
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After being left feeling deflated by the first episode of Nier: Automata Ver1.1a, an adaptation of the outstanding video game from Yoko Taro and PlatinumGames, I didn’t think I’d return to it. It played like what a cynic would expect: an almost one-to-one recreation but with uglier 3D animation; it felt like it was missing…
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It’s official: we’re getting another anime in the Cyberpunk universe.
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Dandadan is one of the most highly anticipated anime coming out in 2024. Fans of sci-fi horror manga about a pair of hapless teenagers thrown into a bunch of supernatural nonsense won’t have to wait until October to see the anime however, as film distributor GKIDS announced on Monday that the beginning of Dandadan will…
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Netflix’s continued investment in anime has yielded fruit over the past couple of years. The streaming service has amassed a selection of some of not only the most popular and iconic anime series in recent memory, but also a host of impressive original anime titles. It has secured the platform’s position as of the go-to…
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Students at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology use virtual reality headsets in class – Copyright AFP Peter PARKS
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Anime, a category of animation that goes back at least to 1958’s The Tale of the White Serpent, has nothing to prove at this point—though non-Japanese audiences are sometimes still surprised by the variety and depth of the films it encompasses, which are generally a lot broader and more varied than American animation (still mostly…
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With almost half of January upon us, we are fully immersed in the winter anime season. These first two weeks of the year have brought a good flood of new releases with some of the most anticipated series of the year. And, of course, and after the success of the original manga, the one that…
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Anime is an element of pop culture that seems to be becoming more and more mainstream in every year. Although two decades ago it was a rather niche hobby in many places around the world, today it has enormous power. And the viewing figures for Japanese animations and sales of the manga on which these…