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The Bobby Book: Toshio Hirata Interview
"I wanted to adapt it into a pleasant, animated film composed of a series of imagined landscapes and refreshing, cinematic poetry."
Read here: karageko.com/2025/09/01/t...
"I wanted to adapt it into a pleasant, animated film composed of a series of imagined landscapes and refreshing, cinematic poetry."
Read here: karageko.com/2025/09/01/t...
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New episode of the The Anime Business is available to watch!
John Sirabella talks about @media-blasters.com, CPM, and Surviving the DVD Crash.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC9H...
John Sirabella talks about @media-blasters.com, CPM, and Surviving the DVD Crash.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC9H...
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New episode of the The Anime Business is available to watch!
John Sirabella talks about @media-blasters.com, CPM, and Surviving the DVD Crash.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC9H...
John Sirabella talks about @media-blasters.com, CPM, and Surviving the DVD Crash.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC9H...
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NEW BOOK: I’m excited to announce that Zimmerit will be publishing a full-color zine featuring the model work of long-time contributor kvltworx.
Details and release date TBD.
Details and release date TBD.
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
NEW BOOK: I’m excited to announce that Zimmerit will be publishing a full-color zine featuring the model work of long-time contributor kvltworx.
Details and release date TBD.
Details and release date TBD.
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Discotek pre-orders for January 2026 are up at the MediaOCD store!
Project A-ko in 4K, Space Adventure Cobra with the Yello soundtrack, the Kikaider movie, Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl, Shin Aim for the Ace, & Tomorrow's Joe!
www.mediaocd.com/category/dis...
Project A-ko in 4K, Space Adventure Cobra with the Yello soundtrack, the Kikaider movie, Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl, Shin Aim for the Ace, & Tomorrow's Joe!
www.mediaocd.com/category/dis...
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Discotek pre-orders for January 2026 are up at the MediaOCD store!
Project A-ko in 4K, Space Adventure Cobra with the Yello soundtrack, the Kikaider movie, Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl, Shin Aim for the Ace, & Tomorrow's Joe!
www.mediaocd.com/category/dis...
Project A-ko in 4K, Space Adventure Cobra with the Yello soundtrack, the Kikaider movie, Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl, Shin Aim for the Ace, & Tomorrow's Joe!
www.mediaocd.com/category/dis...
Just found out that first 4K UHD BD of Nobuhiko Obayashi's live-action adaptation of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) will be out in America this upcoming January! Up for pre-order now: mailchi.mp/cultepics/pr...
Really like the slipcase art on this 🙂
Really like the slipcase art on this 🙂
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Just found out that first 4K UHD BD of Nobuhiko Obayashi's live-action adaptation of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) will be out in America this upcoming January! Up for pre-order now: mailchi.mp/cultepics/pr...
Really like the slipcase art on this 🙂
Really like the slipcase art on this 🙂
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「泣ける」の評価に「失敗だった」 戦後世代がガンダムで描いたもの
www.asahi.com/articles/AST...
あれはやっぱりよろしくないんですよね。戦争の犠牲に意味を求めると、どうしても美化につながってしまう。
今、ポケットの中の戦争は「泣ける」とか言われますが、泣かすために作ったんじゃないのに……。それはもう、作り手としての失敗です。完全にメロドラマになってしまっているという――。
www.asahi.com/articles/AST...
あれはやっぱりよろしくないんですよね。戦争の犠牲に意味を求めると、どうしても美化につながってしまう。
今、ポケットの中の戦争は「泣ける」とか言われますが、泣かすために作ったんじゃないのに……。それはもう、作り手としての失敗です。完全にメロドラマになってしまっているという――。
「泣ける」の評価に「失敗だった」 戦後世代がガンダムで描いたもの：朝日新聞
1989年の「機動戦士ガンダム0080 ポケットの中の戦争」（日本サンライズ〈現・バンダイナムコフィルムワークス〉）はシリーズで初めて、原作者の富野由悠季さん以外が監督した作品だ。戦争のリアルを描い…
www.asahi.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
「泣ける」の評価に「失敗だった」 戦後世代がガンダムで描いたもの
www.asahi.com/articles/AST...
あれはやっぱりよろしくないんですよね。戦争の犠牲に意味を求めると、どうしても美化につながってしまう。
今、ポケットの中の戦争は「泣ける」とか言われますが、泣かすために作ったんじゃないのに……。それはもう、作り手としての失敗です。完全にメロドラマになってしまっているという――。
www.asahi.com/articles/AST...
あれはやっぱりよろしくないんですよね。戦争の犠牲に意味を求めると、どうしても美化につながってしまう。
今、ポケットの中の戦争は「泣ける」とか言われますが、泣かすために作ったんじゃないのに……。それはもう、作り手としての失敗です。完全にメロドラマになってしまっているという――。
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move over Beavis
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
move over Beavis
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We promised a big announcement today, and it'll take a few posts in a thread to introduce a big one...
Project A-ko Perfect Collection 4K!
A-ko in 4K is a big deal & this is probably our craziest kitchen sink disc yet, so let's have a quick introduction to what the release will be...
Project A-ko Perfect Collection 4K!
A-ko in 4K is a big deal & this is probably our craziest kitchen sink disc yet, so let's have a quick introduction to what the release will be...
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We promised a big announcement today, and it'll take a few posts in a thread to introduce a big one...
Project A-ko Perfect Collection 4K!
A-ko in 4K is a big deal & this is probably our craziest kitchen sink disc yet, so let's have a quick introduction to what the release will be...
Project A-ko Perfect Collection 4K!
A-ko in 4K is a big deal & this is probably our craziest kitchen sink disc yet, so let's have a quick introduction to what the release will be...
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Thanks to the efforts of @geraldawo.bsky.social the full run of Animag magazine can now be seen on the Internet Archive. I wrote a bit about the magazine's history and the time and place it was published: bit.ly/animag2
On the Precipice of Professional Anime Magazines: Animag
In 1987 fans from the Bay Area published what was, for its time, the closest thing to a professional anime magazine in English.
bit.ly
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Thanks to the efforts of @geraldawo.bsky.social the full run of Animag magazine can now be seen on the Internet Archive. I wrote a bit about the magazine's history and the time and place it was published: bit.ly/animag2
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To celebrate the English release of his beloved manga, Hōjō-sensei shared memories of his early work, including how his editor backed up City Hunter in the face of criticism.
Interview with Cat's Eye, City Hunter Manga Legend Tsukasa Hōjō
www.animenewsnetwork.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
To celebrate the English release of his beloved manga, Hōjō-sensei shared memories of his early work, including how his editor backed up City Hunter in the face of criticism.
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New episode of The Anime Business is up!
This time it's Jerry Beck talking about Streamline Pictures, Akira, & anime in theaters!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHg9...
This time it's Jerry Beck talking about Streamline Pictures, Akira, & anime in theaters!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHg9...
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New episode of The Anime Business is up!
This time it's Jerry Beck talking about Streamline Pictures, Akira, & anime in theaters!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHg9...
This time it's Jerry Beck talking about Streamline Pictures, Akira, & anime in theaters!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHg9...
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New Anime Business with Jerry Beck!! Coming up at 9am PDT/noon EDT!
youtu.be/BHg9UMc1fBA
youtu.be/BHg9UMc1fBA
The Anime Business - Jerry Beck on Akira, Streamline Pictures and Anime in Theaters
YouTube video by AnimEigo
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New Anime Business with Jerry Beck!! Coming up at 9am PDT/noon EDT!
youtu.be/BHg9UMc1fBA
youtu.be/BHg9UMc1fBA
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We now have the complete run of Animag, the first professionally published anime magazine in English on the #OtakuArchive, check it all out! archive.org/search?query...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We now have the complete run of Animag, the first professionally published anime magazine in English on the #OtakuArchive, check it all out! archive.org/search?query...
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The last missing issue of Animag courtesy of @terebifunhouse.bsky.social has been uploaded to the #OtakuArchive. SPT Layzner, Lodoss, Crusher Joe, updates from US Renditions and a whole lot more. archive.org/details/anim...
October 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The last missing issue of Animag courtesy of @terebifunhouse.bsky.social has been uploaded to the #OtakuArchive. SPT Layzner, Lodoss, Crusher Joe, updates from US Renditions and a whole lot more. archive.org/details/anim...
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Just finished uploading Animag Volume 2 Number 2 to the Otaku Archive over at Archive dot Org- enjoy all 72 pages of this 1992 anime magazine, including articles about SPT Layzner, Shurato, Xabungle, Lodoss War, and Maison Ikkoku! archive.org/details/anim...
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Just finished uploading Animag Volume 2 Number 2 to the Otaku Archive over at Archive dot Org- enjoy all 72 pages of this 1992 anime magazine, including articles about SPT Layzner, Shurato, Xabungle, Lodoss War, and Maison Ikkoku! archive.org/details/anim...
『オネアミスを翼』を語る、山賀博之氏（監督）と貞本義行氏（キャラデザ）
『アニマグ』という米国発行アニメ雑誌に掲載されたインタビューの初日本語訳を投稿しました
掲載日は明らかではないが1988年前半は確かです
短いですがご興味のある方どうぞ
→ wp.me/p96sjb-2g8
『アニマグ』という米国発行アニメ雑誌に掲載されたインタビューの初日本語訳を投稿しました
掲載日は明らかではないが1988年前半は確かです
短いですがご興味のある方どうぞ
→ wp.me/p96sjb-2g8
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
『オネアミスを翼』を語る、山賀博之氏（監督）と貞本義行氏（キャラデザ）
『アニマグ』という米国発行アニメ雑誌に掲載されたインタビューの初日本語訳を投稿しました
掲載日は明らかではないが1988年前半は確かです
短いですがご興味のある方どうぞ
→ wp.me/p96sjb-2g8
『アニマグ』という米国発行アニメ雑誌に掲載されたインタビューの初日本語訳を投稿しました
掲載日は明らかではないが1988年前半は確かです
短いですがご興味のある方どうぞ
→ wp.me/p96sjb-2g8
Animag Interview: Hiroyuki Yamaga and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto on Wings of Oneamis
(Royal Space Force)
I couldn't determine the publication date, but it's clear that it was in the first half of 1988 based on the other contents in Vol. 1 No. 3.
Read here → karageko.com/2025/10/16/a...
(Royal Space Force)
I couldn't determine the publication date, but it's clear that it was in the first half of 1988 based on the other contents in Vol. 1 No. 3.
Read here → karageko.com/2025/10/16/a...
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Animag Interview: Hiroyuki Yamaga and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto on Wings of Oneamis
(Royal Space Force)
I couldn't determine the publication date, but it's clear that it was in the first half of 1988 based on the other contents in Vol. 1 No. 3.
Read here → karageko.com/2025/10/16/a...
(Royal Space Force)
I couldn't determine the publication date, but it's clear that it was in the first half of 1988 based on the other contents in Vol. 1 No. 3.
Read here → karageko.com/2025/10/16/a...
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Long time reader and friend of Zimmeri @austin.karageko.com translated a contemporary convention report about Daicon IV and allowed us to publish it.
Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/daicon-iv-tr...
Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/daicon-iv-tr...
Comic Margarita’s Daicon IV Travelogue
A translation of a Daicon IV convention report originally published in the pages of the short-lived Comic Margarita.
www.zimmerit.moe
October 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Long time reader and friend of Zimmeri @austin.karageko.com translated a contemporary convention report about Daicon IV and allowed us to publish it.
Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/daicon-iv-tr...
Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/daicon-iv-tr...
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I haven't seen it mentioned yet (and is isn't even mentioned on Dark Horse's page for it), but the upcoming Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Book Three reportedly includes the original Riding Bean manga by Sonoda that ran in the short-lived Comic Noizy magazine.
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I haven't seen it mentioned yet (and is isn't even mentioned on Dark Horse's page for it), but the upcoming Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Book Three reportedly includes the original Riding Bean manga by Sonoda that ran in the short-lived Comic Noizy magazine.
In advance of the JP 4K Angel's Egg screening, a 2-page JP interview with Mamoru Oshii that serves as a partial retrospective on his early career. He accepted that a director doesn't have to be an "author" (i.e auteur), and he almost directed an episode of Naruto.
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b56...
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b56...
【押井守】不遇の時代を迎えて気づいた「作家である必要はない」理由（アニメージュプラス） - Yahoo!ニュース
『GHOST IN THE SHELL／攻殻機動隊』が世界的に評価されるなど、日本を代表するアニメーション監督として知られる押井守。そんな彼が「ファイナルファンタジーシリーズ」のキャラクターデザイン
news.yahoo.co.jp
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
In advance of the JP 4K Angel's Egg screening, a 2-page JP interview with Mamoru Oshii that serves as a partial retrospective on his early career. He accepted that a director doesn't have to be an "author" (i.e auteur), and he almost directed an episode of Naruto.
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b56...
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b56...
I realize very few people care about locked subtitles on anime BDs, but by any chance did anyone archive the list on lockedsubs.byethost7.com before it went down?
I never expected it to just disappear (and wayback machine doesn't seem to have useful captures) 🙁
I never expected it to just disappear (and wayback machine doesn't seem to have useful captures) 🙁
DNS Resolution Error - Domain Not Found, Or Domain not added to hosting account
lockedsubs.byethost7.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I realize very few people care about locked subtitles on anime BDs, but by any chance did anyone archive the list on lockedsubs.byethost7.com before it went down?
I never expected it to just disappear (and wayback machine doesn't seem to have useful captures) 🙁
I never expected it to just disappear (and wayback machine doesn't seem to have useful captures) 🙁
The upcoming Nov 2025 Issue of bimonthly model kit magazine Space Aviation will be focused on the jets of Royal Space Force. Supposedly includes some full scratch builds (so not commercially available) as well.
www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FP4W7KVK
www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FP4W7KVK
October 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The upcoming Nov 2025 Issue of bimonthly model kit magazine Space Aviation will be focused on the jets of Royal Space Force. Supposedly includes some full scratch builds (so not commercially available) as well.
www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FP4W7KVK
www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FP4W7KVK
World Expo Gundam Pavilion Thread
Surprisingly they allowed all photography and video recordings.
Due to the nature of it, the experience can't really be captured on a phone recording, which will be kind of obvious if you look at the videos I took.
Some of these will be reposted photos/videos.
Surprisingly they allowed all photography and video recordings.
Due to the nature of it, the experience can't really be captured on a phone recording, which will be kind of obvious if you look at the videos I took.
Some of these will be reposted photos/videos.
October 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
World Expo Gundam Pavilion Thread
Surprisingly they allowed all photography and video recordings.
Due to the nature of it, the experience can't really be captured on a phone recording, which will be kind of obvious if you look at the videos I took.
Some of these will be reposted photos/videos.
Surprisingly they allowed all photography and video recordings.
Due to the nature of it, the experience can't really be captured on a phone recording, which will be kind of obvious if you look at the videos I took.
Some of these will be reposted photos/videos.
Reposted by Austin
お待たせしました。ダーティペア40th Anniv. WWWA OFFICIAL REPORT、先ほど急遽、取り扱いを開始しました。DVDカテゴリーになってますが、DVDではありません。マジに急遽でしたから。なお、数量の都合で11月30日が受注締切で、予定数に達したら締切前でも受注終了になります。よろしくご了承ください。
www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FQMZNXG1/
www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FQMZNXG1/
Amazon.co.jp: ダーティペア 40th Anniv. WWWA OFFICIAL REPORT[グッズ]＊この商品はDVDではございません [DVD] : ダーティペア: DVD
Amazon.co.jp: ダーティペア 40th Anniv. WWWA OFFICIAL REPORT[グッズ]＊この商品はDVDではございません [DVD] : ダーティペア: DVD
www.amazon.co.jp
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
お待たせしました。ダーティペア40th Anniv. WWWA OFFICIAL REPORT、先ほど急遽、取り扱いを開始しました。DVDカテゴリーになってますが、DVDではありません。マジに急遽でしたから。なお、数量の都合で11月30日が受注締切で、予定数に達したら締切前でも受注終了になります。よろしくご了承ください。
www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FQMZNXG1/
www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FQMZNXG1/
The "making of" video for the Dungeons and Television is great! Especially for the cel-animated opening. They visit the Osaka University of Arts to observe the photography rig used at Mushi Pro, and then construct their own.
Starts on 8:44; EN subs available
youtu.be/6kpLhpQ173M?...
Starts on 8:44; EN subs available
youtu.be/6kpLhpQ173M?...
セルという透明な迷宮 | ダンジョン&テレビジョン メイキング・ドキュメンタリー映像
YouTube video by 巡宙艦ボンタ JunchukanBonta
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The "making of" video for the Dungeons and Television is great! Especially for the cel-animated opening. They visit the Osaka University of Arts to observe the photography rig used at Mushi Pro, and then construct their own.
Starts on 8:44; EN subs available
youtu.be/6kpLhpQ173M?...
Starts on 8:44; EN subs available
youtu.be/6kpLhpQ173M?...