When a Ping Pong anime series was first announced in early 2014, I had to ask: Why? Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga had already been adapted to film back in 2002. Directed by first-timer Fumihiko Sori with a script by rising star Kankuro Kudo, the film launched the career of actor Shido Nakamura. It even came with songs by Supercar and Boom Boom Satellites. I couldn’t imagine anything better than that. When I learned Masaaki Yuasa was directing the series, I became even more curious – and confused. Yuasa was one of my all-time favorite anime directors (and still is.) His 2007 science fiction series Kaiba changed my vision of what TV anime could be. He would have been a great fit to adapt Yuasa’s epic No. 5 . Instead he was hired to go back over old ground. I didn’t understand why at the time. Now I recognize that of all Matsumoto’s comics,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Adam Wescott
- Crunchyroll
Inio Asano needs no introduction to fans of the Seinen genre. From ‘Goodnight Punpun’ to ‘Solanin,’ Asano’s beautiful art style and captivating stories have mesmerized fans for a long time. With a soaring demand for adaptations of Asano’s works, fans are finally getting their wish fulfilled. ‘Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction’ is finally receiving an anime adaptation.
Inio Asano’s ‘Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction,’ often referred to as ‘Dddd,’ was first serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits in 2014. With a total of 12 tankobon volumes, the manga concluded in February 2022.
In January 2021, the series received the Best General Manga award at the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards, and in 2022, it was honored in the manga category at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards. In March 2022, Gaga Communications announced an anime adaptation based on the series.
https://twitter.com/DEDEDEDEanime/status/1697021384734507102
On August 30, 2023, the official website confirmed that “Dededede,...
Inio Asano’s ‘Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction,’ often referred to as ‘Dddd,’ was first serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits in 2014. With a total of 12 tankobon volumes, the manga concluded in February 2022.
In January 2021, the series received the Best General Manga award at the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards, and in 2022, it was honored in the manga category at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards. In March 2022, Gaga Communications announced an anime adaptation based on the series.
https://twitter.com/DEDEDEDEanime/status/1697021384734507102
On August 30, 2023, the official website confirmed that “Dededede,...
- 9/3/2023
- by Md. Nahid Ull Islam
- Anime Alert
Music is transportive to the extremes in Masaaki Yuasa's works. In his 2008 anime "Kaiba," there's a heartbreaking organ scene that inspires a bitter old woman to reminisce on long-lost affection. In "Ride Your Wave," a cheesy love song summons the spirit of a deceased loved one, fleetingly, like an incantation. Yuasa and Science Saru's latest feature cocktail "Inu-Oh," steeped in the 14th century Muromachi period of the ruling shoguns, rolls out rock music that unleashes the restorative power to unlock revelations to mysteries, gives restless ghosts peace through lyrical storytelling, and allow two misfits to assert their place in the world.
Based on Hideo Furukawa's novel "The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters," Akiko Nogi's adapted screenplay kickstarts the film deceptively. At the behest of shady noblemen, young Tomona (Mirai Moriyama) opens an underwater cursed treasure that blinds him and kills his father (Yutaka Matsushige). The...
Based on Hideo Furukawa's novel "The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters," Akiko Nogi's adapted screenplay kickstarts the film deceptively. At the behest of shady noblemen, young Tomona (Mirai Moriyama) opens an underwater cursed treasure that blinds him and kills his father (Yutaka Matsushige). The...
- 8/12/2022
- by Caroline Cao
- Slash Film
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For many Yu-Gi-Oh! players, the love of the card game evolved from watching the anime in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Although the real game has evolved well beyond the accompanying show, there’s still a fervent nostalgia for that era’s classic cards, packs, and decks. The likes of the Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Kuriboh, and many more are ingrained for fans as part of why we took interest in the first place, and why we’re still playing.
Fortunately, Konami’s aware of this and, although the original starter decks for Yugi, Kaiba, Joey and Pegasus can now be quite pricey to get a hold of, several newer versions have been released that adhere to more modern standards of play. These sets still contain many of the cards associated with Yugi, Seto Kaiba and other favorites, but also come with spells,...
For many Yu-Gi-Oh! players, the love of the card game evolved from watching the anime in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Although the real game has evolved well beyond the accompanying show, there’s still a fervent nostalgia for that era’s classic cards, packs, and decks. The likes of the Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Kuriboh, and many more are ingrained for fans as part of why we took interest in the first place, and why we’re still playing.
Fortunately, Konami’s aware of this and, although the original starter decks for Yugi, Kaiba, Joey and Pegasus can now be quite pricey to get a hold of, several newer versions have been released that adhere to more modern standards of play. These sets still contain many of the cards associated with Yugi, Seto Kaiba and other favorites, but also come with spells,...
- 4/18/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Not too long ago, I made a list about the top five villains in the old anime show, Yu-Gi-Oh! Watching the show again brought back some great childhood memories, including all the human characters. However, it was the dueling monsters that I enjoyed seeing the most, and it reminded me how I sold all my cards (lame). Every character had their own unique deck which contained some awesome monsters, but there were just certain ones that stood out. From Yugi to Set Kaiba, each duelist treasured their cards like they were gold, and for good reason. There are many to
The Top Ten Dueling Monsters In Yu-Gi-Oh!
The Top Ten Dueling Monsters In Yu-Gi-Oh!
- 1/10/2020
- by David Martinez
- TVovermind.com
Daniel Kurland Oct 25, 2018
Mob Psycho 100 on Toonami is one of the most eye-popping anime that you’ll ever see.
"Your life's your own, Mob."
Adult Swim’s Toonami block of anime occasionally mixes it up with a departure from the norm, but by and large it’s a collection of shonen anime with overpowered main characters. Mob Psycho 100 is yet another shonen-style anime with a protagonist whose powers are substantially off the charts. Who cares? Well, you should, because Mob Psycho 100 is a true gift of an anime series that we do not deserve. It strives to push the medium as far as it will go and the results make for some of the most captivating, creative programming that’s been on Adult Swim, period.
Immediately, Mob Psycho 100 may look and feel a little familiar. It’s the second anime adaptation from writer One, whose previous series One-Punch Man blew everyone away.
Mob Psycho 100 on Toonami is one of the most eye-popping anime that you’ll ever see.
"Your life's your own, Mob."
Adult Swim’s Toonami block of anime occasionally mixes it up with a departure from the norm, but by and large it’s a collection of shonen anime with overpowered main characters. Mob Psycho 100 is yet another shonen-style anime with a protagonist whose powers are substantially off the charts. Who cares? Well, you should, because Mob Psycho 100 is a true gift of an anime series that we do not deserve. It strives to push the medium as far as it will go and the results make for some of the most captivating, creative programming that’s been on Adult Swim, period.
Immediately, Mob Psycho 100 may look and feel a little familiar. It’s the second anime adaptation from writer One, whose previous series One-Punch Man blew everyone away.
- 10/24/2018
- Den of Geek
(That guy on the left? That's what you will feel like once you realize you've seen all the episodes: as if someone punched a hole in your chest.) At long last someone released Masaaki Yuasa's "Kaiba" as an English-friendly DVD boxset. Or maybe I should say "dared to release" because this is one of the most emotionally devastating anime series I've ever seen, despite the artwork initially suggesting that "Kaiba" is something you'd stop watching after having turned four years old. This mix of seemingly childish art and very mature content is probably a marketing nightmare, and one of the reasons why we had to wait for so long. Well, rejoice. Thanks to Siren Visual in Australia we all finally can see what Matthew "Eight...
- 7/8/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Mark your calendar Australians! June 17 welcomes the release of the darkly satirical Welcome to the Nhk, which dramatises the outrageous interior life of isolationist Sato Tatsuhiro. Part of a growing silent majority of 'hikikomori', which is to say a socially withdrawn university drop out whose existence for the past four years has consisted primarily of being barricaded inside his apartment. Welcome to the Nhk fashions a compelling love story from the psychological residue of self-imposed loneliness, paranoia and alienation.June also sees Siren unveil the highly anticipated Kaiba. Recipient of an excellence prize for animation at the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival and helmed by Masaaki Yuasa, the award winning director behind the mind-blowing Mind Game, Kaiba fashions a dream world where memories are recorded and relived time...
- 3/23/2011
- Screen Anarchy
So someone in the West finally pre-licensed one of Masaaki Yuasa's creations, then. Why so exciting? A quick recap; the animation wunderkind shot to fame after production house Studio 4C gave him a shot at the director's chair on the 2004 movie Mindgame. Yuasa brought author Robin Nishi's esoteric cult manga to life with a staggering display of artistry and technical chops married to freewheeling narrative philosophising both playful and emotive, and quite unlike anything else seen in the industry up until that point.
But distributors were on tenterhooks given what they saw as potential lost profits given a growing army of fans had already picked up the Japanese DVD release (apparently mistakenly issued with subtitles). Few people saw Mindgame outside of festival-goers and animation enthusiasts until Madman Entertainment finally gave it an Australian release in late 2008. Undaunted, Yuasa carried on with two successive television series in the meantime,...
But distributors were on tenterhooks given what they saw as potential lost profits given a growing army of fans had already picked up the Japanese DVD release (apparently mistakenly issued with subtitles). Few people saw Mindgame outside of festival-goers and animation enthusiasts until Madman Entertainment finally gave it an Australian release in late 2008. Undaunted, Yuasa carried on with two successive television series in the meantime,...
- 5/25/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Katanagatari, or literally 'Sword Stories'. You might think you know what to expect; an enigmatic, moody hero, nods to every chanbara classic under the sun, an adversary of the week, limbs flying hither and yon. Yes and no; this is a Nisio Oisin creation, the successful light novelist behind the hugely under-rated Bakemonogatari, and anyone familiar with that show or any of the author's work will already know he does things a little differently.
Our hero, Shichika Yasuri, is the son of Mutsue Yasuri, an exile banished to a tiny island in the middle of nowhere after he made use of his fearsome prowess in the No-Sword fighting style to crush a rebellion against the Shogunate. No-one's been to visit the loose cannon for two decades until Togame, strategist for the Shogun's army, comes calling to find the father's long dead and only his son and daughter remain.
She tells...
Our hero, Shichika Yasuri, is the son of Mutsue Yasuri, an exile banished to a tiny island in the middle of nowhere after he made use of his fearsome prowess in the No-Sword fighting style to crush a rebellion against the Shogunate. No-one's been to visit the loose cannon for two decades until Togame, strategist for the Shogun's army, comes calling to find the father's long dead and only his son and daughter remain.
She tells...
- 5/18/2010
- Screen Anarchy
It seems you can’t safely travel through our forum anymore without stumbling on brilliantly written reviews. Again I lift one of these gems into the spotlight of the main page, and it’s no surprise the writer is Eight Rooks. We have used his reviews several times before already, most recently with ”City of Life and Death”.
This time he tackles the Japanese television series “Kaiba”, directed by Masaaki Yuasa who we all know and love for the Studio 4C movie “Mindgame”.
Once again the stage is all your’s, Eight Rooks!
Kaiba
For the love of God would someone please license this thank you.
I dunno, I’d just been meaning to write something about it lately, and you guys do profess to like Masaaki Yuasa. It’s an extraordinary animated series. “Kemonozume” was a disappointment, to a degree - why the ero episode? Why? - but this...
This time he tackles the Japanese television series “Kaiba”, directed by Masaaki Yuasa who we all know and love for the Studio 4C movie “Mindgame”.
Once again the stage is all your’s, Eight Rooks!
Kaiba
For the love of God would someone please license this thank you.
I dunno, I’d just been meaning to write something about it lately, and you guys do profess to like Masaaki Yuasa. It’s an extraordinary animated series. “Kemonozume” was a disappointment, to a degree - why the ero episode? Why? - but this...
- 6/9/2009
- by Ard Vijn
- Screen Anarchy
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