My Top Ten Anime Features (Part 2)
Continuing my list of “Top Ten” favorite anime features, with a few I was personally involved with from my days with Streamline Pictures. 4. Laputa: The Castle in the Sky….
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My Top Ten Anime Features (Part 1)
All right, here is my list of Top Ten Anime feature films. To clarify, these are my favorites; not necessarily the ten best anime theatrical features ever made. Another way…
Anime “Jack And The Beanstalk” (1974)
Top Ten lists are popular. I have been asked (before Steve Stanchfield brought it up on Cartoon Research) what I think are the Top Ten (Japanese) anime features, or what…
Animated Knock-Offs #2: Not Quite ‘Mockbusters’!
Last week’s column covered the indisputable “mockbusters”; animated features made for DVD release just to impersonate popular theatrical features. This week’s focuses on ripoff packaging; foreign animated theatrical features repackaged…
Animated Knock-offs #1: The Real ‘Mockbusters’!
So I get a lot of spam from Amazon.com trying to sell me books and DVDs similar to those that I’ve bought before. Usually I don’t pay much attention to…
Americanizing Anime
The news that Japanese animation is made in Japan will shock nobody today in 2014. But before the 1990s, many American TV executives were paranoid about viewers realizing that any…
Exotic Animals for Animation
Which are more popular in animation — cats or dogs? Yes, I have been asked this question. But the more that I think about it, the more meaningless it seems….
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #9: “I Am Son Goku: The Osamu Tezuka Story”
I Am Son Goku: The Osamu Tezuka Story. Tezuka Osamu Monogatori: Boku wa Son Gaku August 27, 1989. 70 minutes, 10:00 p.m. to 11:25 p.m. Directors: Rintarō, Masami Hata. Development:…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #8: ‘Border Planets: Galactic Exploration 2100’
Border Planets: Galaxy Investigation 2100. Ginga Tansa 2100 Toshi: Border Planet. August 24, 1986. 73 minutes. 10:00 p.m. to 11:35 p.m. Original idea: Osamu Tezuka. Development: Osamu Uemura, Iuchi Shuji,…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #7: “The Three-Eyed One: The Prince of Devil Island”
The 8th annual Love Will Save the Earth TV Special – the 7th with Tezuka involvement – is one of the oddest of them all! Akuma Shima no Prince –…
