Posted on April 2, 2010. Filed under: anime, Consuming, history, Japan, pictures | Tags: cosplay accessories, Disney, Dollfie, Guillermo del Toro, Hi no Tori, Hieronymus Bosch, Leonardo da Vinci, National Gallery, Osamu Tezuka, Parastone Studios, Phoenix 2772, Space Firebird, tamagotchi, Terry Gilliam, Ultraman monster |
Before Ultraman, before Shigeru Mizuki, long before Todd McFarlane and Guillermo del Toro, artists were creating monsters scary enough to take on anything the modern media have created, yet quirky and charming enough to function as ultraGoth Tamagotchi.
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Posted on December 16, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films, history | Tags: anime history class, British Museum, Digital Meme, Disney, Dragonball Z, early anime, Georges Melies, Hayao Miyazaki, Jun Aoki, Kenzo Masaoka, Leiji Matsumoto, Mitsuyo Seo, Osamu Tezuka, Satoshi Tomioka, Toei Animation, wartime anime, Workers Educational Association, Yukinobu Hoshino |
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Posted on August 17, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films, Japan | Tags: anime, Castle in the Sky, Disney, Goro Miyazaki, Hakujaden, Hans Christian Andersen, Hayao Miyazaki, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, Panda and the Magic Serpent, Ponyo, Shakespeare, Spirited Away, The Little Mermaid, Toshio Suzuki |
Hayao Miyazaki’s little mermaid has a long line of elder sisters in world literature, as well as in his works. But does she mark an ongoing shift in how he presents female characters?
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Posted on August 1, 2009. Filed under: anime, books, Consuming, Creating, history, Japan, manga, writing | Tags: anime, Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Astro Boy, Disney, Go Ito, Ma-chan's Diary, manga, Marc Steinberg, merchandise, Mushi Pro, Norakuro, Osamu Tezuka, Shishido Sako, Suiho Tagawa, Tamaki Saito |
Anime and manga characters have been merchandised for eighty years, but the relationship between the original material and its spinoffs is changing. A new study on anime character merchandising started me thinking about the changing relationship of source material and spinoff.
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Posted on July 13, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, Creating, films, Japan, writing | Tags: Barbican anime lecture, Clements Musker, deBlois Sanders, Disney, Isao Takahata, Lilo and Stitch, Miyazaki anime, Robert Louis Stevenson, Spirited Away, Stephen King, Studio Ghibli, Toshio Suzuki, Treasure Planet, Ursula K. LeGuin, Workers Educational Association |
Studio Ghibli has influenced and been influenced by world animation. One of the strongest cross-currents has been between Ghibli and Disney.
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Posted on June 27, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, events, films, Japan | Tags: anime, Disney, Ghibli, Japanese Art Festival, Ocean Waves, Only Yesterday, Tomomi Mochizuki, Umi ga Kikoeru |
Optimum Releasing have announced that their August 2009 UK release of Ocean Waves will premiere at the Japanese Art Festival in Richmond, Surrey on 11-12 July 2009. Admission is free.
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