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What If Disney Remade Akira? [Disney's Akira]io9 - Dec 2, 2008 Take a look at this hilarious and pretty scary cartoon, showing what it'd be like if Disney got their hands on the ultra violent anime Akira. Gone are the blood splatters and super bad-ass weaponry, replaced with … Also tagged: video, movie, akira, disney s akira |
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Barnaby Ward Pits Cute Girls Against Monsters and Giant Robots [Art]io9 - Nov 30, 2008 Nearly all of Barnaby Ward’s comics and narrative illustrations feature beautiful young girls, slender, hip, with unruly hair and too much eyeliner. But these girls provide an anchor for Ward’s far wilder depictions of … Also tagged: art, robots, illustration, drawings, mecha, giant robots |
io9 - Nov 24, 2008
Classic anime TV movie Toward The Terra is finally coming out on DVD. Based on Keiko Takemiya's award-winning manga series, the 1980 movie follows Jomy, a boy who grows up in a world run by supercomputers which …
Also tagged: tv, movies, television, anime, toward the terra
io9 - Sep 26, 2008
Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Earlier this week, I joined a team of experts from Gizmodo Japan on an expedition to the world's most famous geek …
Also tagged: japan, travel, feature, top, akihabara, anime, cosplay, akiba, figurines, mangobot
io9 - Sep 16, 2008
The creator of rocket-booted Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka, has had an apocalypse movie, MW, on the back burner for sometime now. But the shroud of mystery over the movie version of the popular Manga title has lifted and now …
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io9 - Sep 8, 2008
Though certain Western politicians may act like supervillains, you’d be hard-pressed to find one who admits to digging comic books. Not so in Japan, where the love of manga runs deep: Meet 67-year-old Taro Aso, who in …
Also tagged: japan, comics, taro aso, manga politics
io9 - Sep 5, 2008
If you've seen the Cutie Honey anime, you know that Honey fights for love — and she does it generally by showing her underwear, as well as brandishing a sword with her super-strength. This 2004 live action Cutie Honey …
Also tagged: movies, nsfw, anime, found footage, go nagai, cutie honey
io9 - Aug 28, 2008
A new, longer trailer has come out for 20th Century Boys, the live-action apocalyptic Japanese movie based on a best-selling manga series. It's moody and disturbing, with a weird masked figure and a scary hand/eye …
Also tagged: movies, japanese, 20th century boys, apocalypse, post apocalyptic
io9 - Aug 26, 2008
Now that they have conquered the comic store and the movie multiplex, Marvel have decided to move onto a whole new market: Anime. America's biggest superhero publisher is teaming with one of Japan's most famous …
Also tagged: anime, marvel comics, madhouse
io9 - Jul 2, 2008
Manga, or Japanese comics, have been brainfood for hipster pop culture fiends for decades. Sold in fat anthologies like Shonen Jump, the gorgeous, violent, and sometimes romantic titles are imported to the U.S. through …