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Nobuhiko Obayashi Coming to France on Blu-Ray [Announcement]
Hello and welcome to today’s update. No review or editorial this week due to work obligations, but I did not want to leave an empty weekly s...
Samurai Kids (水の旅人－侍KIDS－, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1993)
A small boy grows closer to the natural world while guiding a tiny samurai on his journey to the sea in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s charming family adventure.
Legend of the Cat Monster (麗猫伝説, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1983)
A young writer falls prey to the dream of cinema while tasked with convincing a reclusive actress to return to the silver screen in Obayashi’s gothic tale of…
Seven Weeks (野のなななのか, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2014)
“A death is a history” in Obayashi’s intensely moving tale of the interconnectedness of all things, love, death, war, and memory.
Quick news recap
I had a few spare minutes today, so here are some neat things that either came up in the previous week, or I simply neglected to mention last…
Giant news recap
It’s been over a month since the last news roundup, due to numerous mundane responsibilities of life. Some of them were more fun than others, though, as I…
Late news recap
It’s another light news week this week, and another late recap. Kicking things off with Godzilla, as I’m sure you’re aware, we got a new poster for The…
April news recap
Long time, no update, due to a relative shortage of stuff to talk about and general business. We’ll see how that holds up over the coming months; somehow…
February news recap
Procrastination and distraction has gotten the better of me again, but the inundation of kaiju news items in the past couple of days has made it impossible to…
Quick news recap
Not a whole lot to talk about this week, but here goes: Has it already been a decade since Kamen Rider Decade? Evidently so, as Toei is reusing…
Quick news recap
Happy weekend! With the new year’s holidays, there’s not as much news as normally in a week, but there are a handful of doozies that snuck through while…
Quick news recap
Not a lot to discuss this weekend. As a reminder, the Tokyo Ghoul movie hits US theaters next week. Amanda saw it and, as a fan of the…
Almost timely news recap
How was everyone’s Halloween? Did you have a chance to go to Universal Studios Osaka and get menaced by a zombie King Kong? (The page is gone now,…
Slow news week recap
There’s not a whole lot of interesting developments this week, but in lieu of that, I encourage kaiju fans to support the Howl from Beyond the Fog Kickstarter…
Kaiju-fied news recap
In a rare event, there was actually so much kaiju-adjacent news in the past week that rather than posting at the standard biweekly rate, I’m opting to do…
Godzilla’s Eve news recap
As of this writing, the first wave of public screenings for Godzilla: King of the Monsters is impending quickly, so it’s about time to discuss some of the…
Split-second news recap
There really wasn’t much to cross the feed this week, but here’s a rundown: A new trailer for Promare looks about as Studio Trigger as it gets: Arrow is…
Slow news week recap
Between the Gridman podcast recording and the guest spot on Kaijucast, I didn’t have much time last weekend to do a news recap, but there also wasn’t a…
Mid-February news recap
It’s been a busy few weeks for me, between work, conventions, and preparing to watch Alita: Battle Angel. Speaking of which, have you seen Yukito Kishiro’s new poster…
Very late news recap
I had to work last weekend, and the one before that was sucked up in podcast editing (*insert self-deprecating joke here*), so there was no regular weekend news…
Actually weekly news recap
Hopefully this will mark a return to news recaps hitting on consecutive weekends (for a little while at least)! Not a whole lot to report, so let’s get…
Slow news week recap
Not a whole lot to report for the past couple of weeks, but here goes nevertheless. Starting on a sad note, RIP Hiroshi Sagae. He had a lot…
Post-Godzilla news recap
Hope everyone enjoyed Godzilla:King of the Monsters! Now we’re in the lead-up to the next big event, G-Fest XXVI in Chicago July 11-14, which is now only a…
2 week news recap
Hi all, another late news recap. I got offered a new job recently that’s requiring a fairly major move, and as someone with a sizable library of stuff,…
New Year’s news recap
Happy new year (admittedly a couple weeks late)! I’ve been distracted from putting together news recaps for a while, but that just means a lot more things to…
Mid-month news recap
Time for a quick recap of some of the interesting happenings in tokusatsu and anime in the past couple of weeks: Tsuburaya’s latest Ultra Fight series, Ultra Galaxy…
Mid-March news recap
Apologies for the laziness in news recaps, lately. By the time I get around to posting, people have already said that Hideaki Anno is making an Ultraman, then…
The Island Closest to Heaven (天国にいちばん近い島, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1984)
A young woman comes to a new understanding of herself while travelling abroad in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s laidback kadokawa idol movie.
Popcorn Pulse 112: RIP Rip Torn
As each year passes we lose a few more established actors. Once in awhile this news bubbles up to us and we make a show in remembrance of…
Only news recap this May
Another two-week recap this week, and unfortunately due to travel it looks like this will be the only one this month. (Awkward timing with the new Godzilla flick…
First news recap of 2019!
Long time, no post! It’s been hectic between holiday travels and computer malfunction, but now everything’s ready to take a quick gander at some of the latest happenings…
Nearly kaiju-free news recap?!
Another two-week summary here, since it’s been light. In fact, you’d hardly know there was any giant monster content this week if you weren’t looking for it. The…
Weekly news recap: Apocalypse uncancelled
The big buzz lately is, of course, the Pacific Rim Uprising trailer that played at NYCC this weekend. I’ve seen lots of people posting various re-uploads (with ugly…
Another slightly late news recap
I took a bit of a road trip last weekend to go to Ed Godziszewski’s presentation on his new Ishiro Honda biography (and also caught The Shape of…
X-mas weekend news recap
Merry X-mas! Hopefully the Ultra Father left you a nice present, your concert wasn’t crashed by a giant turtle, and nobody’s blood turned blue. We’ve talked so much…
Only slightly late news recap
Despite Thanksgiving weekend, I almost had a news recap ready to go yesterday… then a couple unexpected trips to urgent care sucked up several hours (nothing too serious,…
Understanding Obayashi: House (1977)
Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House is an incredible film, and here I talk about some of its cultural context and thematic meanings.
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (この空の花 長岡花火物語, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2012)
An emotionally arrested journalist begins to reconnect with the past through wartime stories of Nagaoka in Obayashi’s compassionate plea for a kinder future
RIP Funimation!
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Weekend news recap, plus panel announcements!
Before diving into the happenings of the week, here’s a breakdown of conventions I’ll be talking at over the summer! Anime Central: Neon Reference Evangelion – Saturday May 19th…
At long last, a news recap!
Long time, no post! It’s a busy time to be an otaku, as this last week saw the North American theatrical releases of Tokyo Ghoul S, Takashi Miike’s…
Weekly news recap: Heroes and Robots!
A smattering of henshin hero items, and a couple giant robot things to cover this week: Kraken is moving along with Garo releases, with the Kiba movie coming…
1.5 week’s worth of news recap
There was no news recap last weekend, for two reasons: The recap before that had come midweek. Netflix decided to blitz everyone with a new Cloverfield movie completely…
News recap: Discotek for the win
Discotek really went insane with their latest batch of acquisitions at Otakon this weekend. First, license rescues of Galaxy Express 999 (good, since the last release of that…
Weekend news recap: Godzilla’s birthday edition
Halloween sort of ate up the last weekend, but that just means a kaiju-sized recap for today’s holiday: Godzilla’s birthday. Yes, today is also the day that Blade…
Weekend news recap: Japanese poster madness
The Rampage movie was a lot more fun than I was expecting. Now I’m tempted to track down the poster by Kouji Tajima. Awesome Japanese posters for US…
RIP Rachael Lillis
It was just revealed that on August 10th, 2024, beloved voice actress Rachael Lillis, known for her roles in Pokemon as Misty, Jessie, Jigglypuff, and many others outside…
RIP Rooster Teeth
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RIP Kitaba-whatever
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