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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

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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...

Kid Fenris

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...

Collectr's Blog

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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…

Internet Pitstop

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…

joyousmenma93

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,…

joyousmenma93

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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…

Sakuga Blog

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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…

The Romantic Goldfish

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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…

Manga/Anime Memorandum

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 ...

Collectr's Blog

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…

All the Anime

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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....

Collectr's Blog

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…

All the Anime

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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.

The Normanic Vault

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 ...

Collectr's Blog

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"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…

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

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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!

The Normanic Vault

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…

All the Anime

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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 •…

Anime Top Scholar

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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…

Animétudes

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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…

Animétudes

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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…

Animétudes

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…

All the Anime

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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…

Ideas Without End

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,…

All the Anime

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...

Collectr's Blog

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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…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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…

All the Anime

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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…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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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…

Animétudes

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…

Genga Land

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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…

South Wind Subs

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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...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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...

Otaku News - World Edition

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…

All the Anime

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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…

www.live-evil.org

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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…

www.live-evil.org

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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...

Collectr's Blog

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.

Heisei Etranger

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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...

Collectr's Blog

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…

Weekly Shounen Sunday Edition

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.…

Animétudes

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Year 1 Issue 18

Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 18 April 29 - May 5, 2020 Oh gosh I'm so sorry for…

Arcadia Dragnet

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Year 1 Issue 16

Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 16   April 15 - 21, 2020 Welcome back to Arcadia Dragnet. Hope you all…

Arcadia Dragnet