meta: Japan and Elsewhere
Let's Not Film This: 'Naruto' August 03, 2015
Of all the anime/manga projects to film as a Western live-action production, you could scarcely find a harder sell or a worse fit than 'Naruto'
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'Seraphim: 266613336 Wings': Oshii And Kon's Fragment February 24, 2015
An unfinished but tantalizing collaboration between two of anime (and manga's) most idiosyncratic creative personalities, Satoshi Kon and Mamoru Oshii, this book inspires a close reading -- and no end of wonder about where one man's imagination began and the other one's ended
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A Critical Path To Japan January 19, 2015
Is our enjoyment of anime enhanced by having an intimate knowledge of Japan, or is that something only those who call themselves critics should worry about?
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Scarlett Johannson And The Half-Shelled 'Ghost' January 06, 2015
Casting Scarlet Johannson as Motoko Kusanagi is proof the live-action 'Ghost in the Shell' is as misguided a production as any previous Western attempt to adapt anime
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