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It is not very common for manga stories to tell an whole American myths, but Me and the Devil Blues is certainly something else. This is a development of the story of Robert Johnson and the Blues
... Independent Propaganda for introducing me to this great company. For people that love the Chinese and Japanese comics they seem really great. Magna is getting an increasing market in the American...
...which is how it is written in the manga & anime). And New Manhattan is a city that is rebuilt by Japanese money." I try to imagine the whole story taking place in New Manhattan or t...
...t combines all of the best elements of the Naruto Nintendo Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS RPG games in Japan delivering a brand new portable RPG game for North America. Naruto: Path of the Ninja ...
...asp on the setting. The world of Naruto is a fantasy realm that contains many parallels to feudal period Japan, though modern and advanced technology does exist. There are really five major countries,...
...ver. If the plans for the VGAi re-release include redoing the subs to be more faithful to the original Japanese script (I highly doubt they'll redo the really screwed-up dub, since that would cost a...
...w about anyone else, but I love both the anime film and the anime OAV. You'd think, being such a popular Japanese character, they'd have made more animes of him., no?...
Hey, everybody! I came across a reference to Japanese Sakuda cards. Heke? What are they? Can anyone point me to a link? Dobre utka, Pete Holland Jr.
Pretty kick ass comic, I don't think its a Japanese comic, hence, odds are there'll never been a anime of it. ::sigh:::
...ewing of the US Manga release of the first many months ago, but I wasn't looking either, and my grasp of Japanese is poor at best. 'Nn I I eh er a I I n was n n n do I believe te pe te it depends on...
...ys ago an Tanzanian friend of mine asked if me if there any anime series with black characters. He likes Japanese cartoons but I wouldn't recommend Argento Soma to him as the near-fetishization of you...
I'm watching NHK at the moment. Several talking heads try to figure out why exactly Japan is k3wl. Several anime clips are shown including Kiki's Delivery Service, , Spirited Away, Pikachiu, Appleseed
... the duration of the corporate copyright (95 yrs) or a limited term? And is it revokable by the original Japanese studio? If it is for the duration of the copyright, then I think that licensees may ha...
...little surprised that 'Saiyuki' didn't go to ADV, who after all have the original series. Maybe even the Japanese licensors were put off by the dub... ? Finally, what the heck is 'Cybuster'? - dbm...
...nder. A shoujo show that doesn't exclusively pander to girls, this is the story of a girl who moves from Japan to the US to audition for a circus troupe that's loosely based on the Cirque du Soleil. B...
This is the question I was always curious about...especially since I became hating anime music and J-pop in general. (The only 2 recent opening theme songs I like are GITS:SAC and Paranoia Agent...)
CN is going to show it from October, just when the show ends in Japan. That would be the fastest airing of an amime to date, wouldn't it? I hope Funimation gives FMA the Fruits Basket treatment :)
Interesting read about how movies and TV are translated and distributed in Japan. I'm sure it won't cause a flame war. ;-)
...h Daioichi (Fruits Basket, Now and Then Here and There) this summer called Grrl Power (I forget what the Japanese name is). Interesting thing is this new series is going to North America first and the...
...want to get the whole series, but I don't want to get a version that's more cut, etc. Ideally I'd like a Japanese Language version...
...ay too much to produce). I think it will open the floodgates for a lot of other CG-savvy game studios in Japan to start producing videos like this. We'll learn more at E3....
Of about 130 million Japanese total: http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~aslan/pfe/jpeak.htm
I know there are so many people who hate Japan. And also there are so many Japanese people who don't understand why people from other countries hate them. Learning and teaching history with least, v
...the same. We have in each: - Innocent non-human girls learning about life on earth - that is, life for Japanese high school students. - Innocent non-human girls falling for 'special' human teenage...
...'. HQA & N interpreted the same dialogue as 'large-breasted girl'. I know there are a lot of homonyms in Japanese but the context leaves no doubt as to the correct translation. What appeared to be r...
mflo seems to be getting popular singing with ppl like boa and chemistry... wut do u guys think abt japanese rappers such as mflo??
...Los Angeles at UCLA, April 23-24. Did any of you attend? I'd especially like to hear about their speech 'Japanese Animation - Why Americans Don't Get It, But Europeans Do'. Can any of you summarize it...
Depends who you ask. In Japan, any cartoon is 'anime'. Even stuff brought over from the US. For some American otaku, it's 'animation made in Japan'. That's the definition I go with, so I'll discuss th
Reading the Mainichi Daily News (a Japanese tabloid newspaper's webpage) I see the infamous 'Kobe Schoolboy Killer' has been released from his detention. This case was famous even outside Japan. It's
Well, would you? *SHAKES FIST*
Toei will release the SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HERLOCK TV series in a DVD boxset on July 21st. The set will have all 42 episodes along with the short movie 'Mystery of the Arcadia' on I think 6 DVDs with
...e 6th and final .Hack//Sign DVD is on the market now. Overall, it's a good DVD. I recommend watching the Japanese dub, with English subtitles - you get more accurate info about Morganna, Aura and the ...
...* of her! I mean, come on...If Megumi Hayashibara just quit one day, and you found yourself working in Japan with someone with the same name, who looked and sounded like her...wouldn't you at least ...
I resently got in to anime/manga and I have ? bout fansubbers. Are they japanese that know's english/american language. Or Americans/European taht know japanese. And whats the deal with licensing. Evn
Or horseclaws. :) Do giant, rideable birds figure strongly in Japanese mythology?
... with their skin. I'm afraid your possession may already be at an advanced stage. Actually, in ancient Japan, people were often possessed by shape-changing fox spirits and other legendary blouse-wea...
Dave, Thanks for the review! I'm looking forward to seeing this, but since I don't speak Japanese ... Have you seen any fansubs yet ? Regards,
I had seen Japanese Anime like Ranma a very long time back and really liked them. I want to download them. Do you guys know where (which website) can I download them from? Thanks in advance!
...of the palette used) but the arcs within the episodes don't seem to be rigidly formulaic. (Actually, the Japanese might argue about the autumn bit: the whole point about Japanese cherry blossoms is th...
...erent from what I remember'. About five minutes into it I realized that it was an English dub and not in Japanese, as I am used to seeing it. Pretty weird that it took me so long to figure it out. -...
Bear in mind that war with Japan was forced by FDR. Its one of the greatest held myths of all time. FDR didn't like the growing Japanese empire undermining US pacific control. He blocked Japans oil su
... wife hooked on Cardcaptor Sakura. While discussing CLAMP and how they are the only all female studio in Japan, when a question came up: 'What made them decide to call themselves 'CLAMP'?' What is...
...rs posts of anime fans about their fav anime songs, most of those songs being either not very popular in Japan or not anime at all (rather J-pop). Since I always preferred to like what Japanese guys l...
Talking about Japan raising its terror alert to its hightest status ever... Leno noted that Japan has an alert system similar to the US in that it has several levels. From lowest to highest they are:
...r of 'Excel Saga') given higher billing than Funimation. At least the Funimation logo is bigger than the Japanese studio's, unlike last month, when Gonzo's name was all but above the title and I had t...
In the prologue, the final scene before the OP kicks in... about a half-page of Japanese (on an old manual typewriter, I might add). Does it actually say anything, or is it just gibberish?
...ren't they supposed to have come out with number 1 already and is that what the cover looked like in the Japanese original? The image I saw for the cover looked absolutely abysmal and it's bright blue...
...ry filler). I've been wondering how they can do this. I mean, I'm told that manga is far more popular in Japan than anime is so one might imagine that everyone who's watching the anime already knows t...
There has been a lot of talk lately about how Japanese people treat foreigners and whether they treat blacks worse than whites. Here are my observations from a year in Japan. Apartments: I was put i
...r.asp) that details Asian pop culture and its march around the globe. While the range of topics is broad Japanese anime and its offshoots seems to be figuring highly in the show. For those of you who ...

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