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Reevaluating the Films of Hayao Miyazaki and the Anglophone Discourse Around Him and His Works
Promoting "Porco Rosso" in 1992 A few months ago I saw that a new version of the “Director Hayao Miyazaki's Works Collection” blu-ray box wa...
The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan
The Boy and the Heron, Akado Suzunosuke, Lupin III, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, Mononoke
Dive Alert: Sub Average
Dive Alert keeps underappreciated company. It’s on the Neo Geo Pocket Color, a fantastic handheld system unfairly cut down when the pachink...
Future Boy Conan, Mega Man, Time Fighters, Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
Nayuta
Nayuta is a 1986 sci-fi OVA,based on a three volume manga by Sasaki Junko. (The manga is not available in English.) It's another show that a...
Mobile Police Patlabor, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Akuma Tou no Prince: Mitsume ga Tooru, Botchan, Fist of the North Star
The Beauty Of Anime Backgrounds
https://www.apari-shop.com/?ref=internetpitstop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apariart/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ApariArt Shoutout @inakyu for the collab shoutout to https://twitter.com/Holdsworthands for the decades of the backgrounds pixel art map! A very short analysis deep dive into anime background art and…
MUSHI-SHI, Sailor Moon, Soul Eater, Spirited Away, Angel's Egg
Review Index: 70-79/100
Heres the index for all reviews rated 70-79 out of 100. Arte - 79/100 Ascendance of a Bookworm - 79/100 Astra: Lost In Space - 79/100 The Case…
Bloom Into You, Kemono Friends, Little Women, Little Women, Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy
Nightwish - Nemo
Rating : 57/100 So...this exists. And apparently its come into the limelight now because somehow, for some reason, the streaming website Mubi somehow got their hands on it,…
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, Candy Candy, Future Boy Conan
The Weight Of Hayao Miyazaki And Ghibli – The Boy And The Heron / How Do You Live?
Hayao Miyazaki’s storytelling is built upon the dreamlike, empowering physics of the animation that builds his worlds. This offers a fascinating contrast with his latest film The Boy…
Porco Rosso, Spirited Away, The Boy and the Heron, The Wind Rises, Future Boy Conan
What I Watched This Week – 9/10- 9/16
Future Boy Conan – I bought this TV series directed by Miyazaki and other Ghibli staff on Blu-Ray a while ago, and thought I should probably put it…
Tips for The Boy and the Heron [2023 Sept. 22 draft]
This post includes a lot of spoilers for The Boy and The Heron. If you have not watched the film, I don't recommend reading it. Introduction Hayao Miyazaki's…
Berserk, Future Boy Conan, Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, The Boy and the Heron
Maken Liner 0011 Henshin Seyo!
Maken Liner 0011 Henshin Seyo! ( Wonderdog Liner 0011 Transform! ) is a 1972 Toei sci-fi anime movie. It seems like a descendant of 1970's ...
Cyborg 009, Dororo, Future War Year 198X, GeGeGe no Kitaro, Graveyard Kitaro
Future Boy Conan at the Ghibli Museum
By Andrew Osmond. For all fans of Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, we’d like to remind you that Miyazaki’s first anime, the adventure series Future Boy Conan, is available…
Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep19-21
The seventh volume of Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament is the pivot point between the mythic and "historical" parts of the Bible....
Cowboy Bebop, Witch Girl Meg, Nozomi Witches, Yamato 2520, Initial D First Stage
Manga: Shuna’s Journey
By Andrew Osmond. In the last twelve months, we’ve had the first ever English-language releases of two vintage Miyazaki works, both forty years old or more. The first is his…
Future Boy Conan Part 2 (Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray) Unboxing
The second half of Hayao Miyazaki’s 1978 anime series Future Boy Conan in 4K is now finally here for the UK.
Sugata Sanshiro
When Orphan released Botchan , I mentioned that YES raws had an equally good rip of the 1981 TV special, Sugata Sanshirou , just waiting to ...
GeGeGe no Kitaro, Gude Crest: The Emblem of Gude, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Ushio and Tora, Future Boy Conan
"Future Boy Conan" Special Exhibition ~ Exploring the charm of manga films
Special Exhibitions. A new special exhibition, "Future Boy Conan", starts on May 28. One of the characteristics of the works of film director Hayao Miyazaki is that "when…
Future Boy Conan Part 1 (Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray) Unboxing
Hayao Miyazaki’s 1978 anime series makes its UK debut and on 4K Ultra HD for the first time. For now we have the first half of the series!
NEWSWIRE: June 2022 Pre-Orders
A new month is here, and June is a month with some big releases on our store, as our work on the likes of BELLE and Future Boy…
Ranking Retro Anime Watch Priority
List of anime: • Aim for the Ace • Akage no Anne • Akira • Angel’s Egg • Ashita no Joe • Barefoot Gen • Beck • Belladonna of Sadness • Berserk • Birdy the Mighty • Bubblegum Crisis •…
Berserk, Cipher, Ghost in the Shell, Master Keaton, Crusher Joe
Notes on Takahata & Miyazaki
The previous article on this blog, dedicated to Anne of Green Gables, contains a detailed discussion of Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki’s respective artistic evolutions between 1976 and…
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables is one of the most popular works in the World Masterpiece Theater series, both in Japan and in the English-speaking sphere. According to many…
The Story of Perrine
Like its 1977 predecessor Rascal the Raccoon, 1978’s The Story of Perrine is among the least-known World Masterpiece Theater entries in the English-speaking sphere. Such does not seem…
Dog of Flanders, Future Boy Conan, Perrine Monogatari, Anne of Green Gables
Future Boy Conan & the Ratings
By Jonathan Clements. In a tongue-in-cheek reminiscence, Yasuhiko Tan, the NHK producer who greenlit Future Boy Conan over dozens of other possible projects, wrote of his interest in…
Attack Of The Robot Dinosaurs From Outer Space (This is Not a Getter Robo Post)
I was really looking forward to writing a review of Horizon Forbidden West because I knew it would let me actually revisit even more exciting things, like the…
Future Boy Conan
By Andrew Osmond. Future Boy Conan is the Hayao Miyazaki anime that few of Miyazaki’s Anglophone fans, even the ones who know the director’s films back to front,…
Choujikuu Romanesque Samy: Missing 99
Choujikuu Romanesque Samy: MISSING 99 ( Superdimensional Romanesque Samy: MISSING 99 ) is a 1986 sci-fi fantasy that makes no sense along m...
Katte ni Shirokuma, Rurouni Kenshin, Sangokushi, Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings, Reign: The Conqueror
Future Boy Conan – Miyazaki’s Directional Debut is Pretty Cool
I can’t believe that I am writing about this. 2021 Had a lot of miracle announcements and releases of anime that would not have been possible otherwise. Maybe…
Books: The Incredible Tide
By Jonathan Clements. The novelist Alexander Key (1904-79) is best known outside anime fandom for Escape to Witch Mountain, the sci-fi story that has thrice been adapted for…
Anime and the Loneliness of the Beach
So, this is yet another post that I just had in my head recently and just had to write about it for good or for bad. I’m writing…
Rascal the Raccoon
The World Masterpiece Theater entry for the year 1976, Marco, pushed studio Nippon Animation and the artists associated with it to their limits. As a result, the year…
A Roundtable Discussion With 8 Female Animators (Animage, June 1990): A DeepL “Translation”
NOTE: This is by no means a professional translation, this was done via machine translation. As such, not every meaning may be reproduced with 100% accuracy or flow well…
Mashin Hero Wataru, Madonna, Maison Ikkoku, City Hunter, Future Boy Conan
Future Boy Conan
EN – Today we complete The Attic, the page dedicated to our predecessor group Aventurierii Spaţiului, with the addition of Future Boy Conan (Mirai Shōnen Konan, 1978). Kai…
The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 105: The World of Future Boy Conan with Dave Merrill
Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This month on the podcast, we’re...
Anime Limited Announce Future Boy Conan UK Release on Blu-ray and 4K UHD Blu-ray
Anime distributors Anime Limited have just announced that they have the UK rights to Future Boy Conan. The hugely significant and influentia...
Anime Limited to release Future Boy Conan in the UK
Greetings everyone! It’s been a little while since we’ve gathered you for a major new license acquisition announcement, but we simply can’t keep this to ourselves any longer…
Future Boy Conan licensed by GKIDS
Hello all. The unthinkable has happened. GKIDS has officially licensed Future Boy Conan! Future Boy Conan has never been released…
Future Boy Conan licensed by GKIDS
Hello all. The unthinkable has happened. GKIDS has officially licensed Future Boy Conan! Future Boy Conan has never been released…
Gude Crest
Orphan's presents a new English release of the 1990 sword-and-sorcery OVA Onna Senshi Efe & Jira: Gude no Monshou ( Woman Warriors Efe & Ji...
The Fashion Boy is Cool, Twin Spica, Ai no Kusabi, All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, Alpen Rose
Birth of the OAV: Talking Dallos and the Emerging Rental Market with Shigeru Watanabe
In this mid-80s Animage interview with Shigeru Watanabe, he talks about the reception of the first OAV Dallos and the emerging home video rental market.
Makoto-chan the Movie
Some western anime audiences are familiar with Crayon Shin-chan , a very long running Japanese anime series about a five-year-old boy with l...
Dr. Slump, Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!, Makoto-chan, Rose of Versailles, Time Bokan Series: Yatterman
Sunday anime Surplus (Takhashi/Kumanomata/Hata interview pt.1)
Hello, hello! You were expecting Marion or Jecka but instead you get me--Yeah it's Sakaki, and I'm finally posting in my own blog again. Of course if you…
The history of TMS – Part 6 : Lupin the Third
In the 70’s, TMS and its subcontractors managed to create two aesthetics of their own, one centered around the A Pro comedies and the other the Madhouse dramas.…
Year 1 Issue 18
Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 18 April 29 - May 5, 2020 Oh gosh I'm so sorry for…
Natsume's Book of Friends, Breakers, Gal & Dino, Ghost in the Shell, Kimagure Orange Road
Year 1 Issue 16
Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 16 April 15 - 21, 2020 Welcome back to Arcadia Dragnet. Hope you all…
Cyborg 009, Mewkledreamy, A Certain Scientific Railgun, A Certain Scientific Railgun T, SING "YESTERDAY" FOR ME
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (Marco): The Series Playlist
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Grave of the Fireflies, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Moomin, My Neighbor Totoro, Anne of Green Gables