anime Archives

The first English-dubbed episode of the military anime Cat Shit One, in its entirety in high definition for the next two weeks. Based on Motofumi Kobayashi's manga about American soldiers as cute animals in the special forces unit Cat Shit One, released in the US as Apocalypse Meow. Amazon has the full anime on DVD and Blu-ray[...]

"I really hope no one photoshops this image" Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you how ten of the biggest Japanese publishers had withdrawn from the government sponsored Tokyo Anime Fair after the city's governor Shintaro Ishihara, who is on the board of the TAF, supported a bill being passed through municipal government to restrict the sale of[...]

In Japan, 'otaku' carries even less positive meaning than 'geek' does in the West.  Japanese manga and anime tends to take awhile to get to the West, though the window has been getting closer recently with US companies like Funimation and Crunchy Roll licensing rights to stream current-running anime series the same time they're broadcast[...]