When thinking of Asian Kung-fu Generation , Naruto is probably the first anime that comes to mind. The band’s iconic “Haruka Kanata” is a staple in the Naruto universe and helped set the tone for one of its biggest arcs: the Chunin Exams. It’s no wonder that this is one of the group’s favorite anime, but what other series does Asian Kung-fu Generation enjoy? We got the chance to ask the group about their all-time favorite anime, which is always a tall task, but they managed to narrow it down to 11 picks. Related: How Anime Led Asian Kung-fu Generation to Being on the World Stage Do any of Asian Kung-fu Generation's picks make your own personal list of best anime? Check out their favorites below! Asian Kung-fu Generation's Favorite Anime Naruto Erased Bleach Image via Hulu Fullmetal Alchemist / Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Naruto Shippuden Dororo Image via Hidive Bocchi The Rock!
- 2/3/2024
- by Guest Author
- 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
Disney has pulled back the curtain on its slate of Asia-Pacific films and TV shows set for its two-year-old streaming service. Among the fare set to run on Disney+ is Rookies, a romantic drama set at an elite police academy that stars K-pop sensation Kang Daniel, and Blackpink: The Movie, a documentary about the popular K-pop group tied to its fifth anniversary.
Those are among 20-plus global, regional and local-language projects revealed today as headed for Disney+ as South Korean drama series Squid Game has become a global phenomenon. Check out the slate below.
The new Apac projects include original productions from scripted live-action tentpole series including drama, comedy, fantasy, romance, sci-fi, crime and horror to variety shows, documentaries and anime from markets including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Greater China and Australia. Subject to local availability, the new Apac content titles will be available on the streaming service over the next year,...
Those are among 20-plus global, regional and local-language projects revealed today as headed for Disney+ as South Korean drama series Squid Game has become a global phenomenon. Check out the slate below.
The new Apac projects include original productions from scripted live-action tentpole series including drama, comedy, fantasy, romance, sci-fi, crime and horror to variety shows, documentaries and anime from markets including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Greater China and Australia. Subject to local availability, the new Apac content titles will be available on the streaming service over the next year,...
- 10/14/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
As one of the most prolific and certainly most original animators, Masaaki Yuasa has graced us with memorable series and feature films alike, most of which are available to watch on streaming platforms. With 22 films and series under his belt as a director, and many more as a screenwriter, key animator or animation director, Yuasa’s name has became a trademark in the animation film universe. It is to him that we owe the pastel beauty of “The Tatami Galaxy” (2010), the sobering reminder of the times we live, depicted in “Japan sinks: 2020”, the deeply touching anime “Ride Your Wave” (2019), to name just a few. His interpretation of subjects is always over the top, colourful and merciless in its depiction of events and people.
After a significant number of awards won at diverse international film festivals, among which – Sitges, Annecy, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Ottawa International Animation Festival, Yuasa has...
After a significant number of awards won at diverse international film festivals, among which – Sitges, Annecy, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Ottawa International Animation Festival, Yuasa has...
- 9/11/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
After releasing Lu Over the Wall to critical acclaim, director Masaaki Yuasa was met with a similar brief for his next feature, Ride Your Wave, by Japanese animation studio Science Saru.
“We were assigned with the same theme, ‘a love story involving a fantastic/out-of-this-world being,’” Yuasa recalls. “From there, we came up with the story about a guy who turned into water and a human girl.”
Turning into a meditation on loss, following Yuasa’s experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, Ride Your Wave centers on Hinako, a surfer whose life changes forever when the charming Minato rescues her from an apartment building fire. Thereafter, the firefighter tragically passes, but the romance between the two only continues to unfold, when Hinako finds that she can summon her lost love to appear, wherever there is water.
Distributed by Toho in Japan and by Gkids in the U.
“We were assigned with the same theme, ‘a love story involving a fantastic/out-of-this-world being,’” Yuasa recalls. “From there, we came up with the story about a guy who turned into water and a human girl.”
Turning into a meditation on loss, following Yuasa’s experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, Ride Your Wave centers on Hinako, a surfer whose life changes forever when the charming Minato rescues her from an apartment building fire. Thereafter, the firefighter tragically passes, but the romance between the two only continues to unfold, when Hinako finds that she can summon her lost love to appear, wherever there is water.
Distributed by Toho in Japan and by Gkids in the U.
- 2/8/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
With each New Year bringing feelings of new beginnings and vows to explore new talents (at least until we slip just once from our gym routine!), the Screen Anime channel is excited to head into 2021 with a line-up themed around new beginnings, led by Keiichi Hara’s Annecy Award-nominated biopic Miss Hokusai, as well as The Place Promised in Our Early Days, the feature film debut of the now world-famous director Makoto Shinkai, and more!
Joining them later this month are the intense and action-packed thriller Jin-Roh (written by Mamoru Oshii of Ghost in the Shellfame), and the eclectic short-film anthology follow-up Genius Party Beyond. These four great films are also joined by this month’s binge-worthy TV series The Tatami Galaxy, the acclaimed eccentric romantic comedy from Masaaki Yuasa.
All titles will be available on Screen Anime from 27 December 2020 until 25 January 2021. The four feature films will be available in...
Joining them later this month are the intense and action-packed thriller Jin-Roh (written by Mamoru Oshii of Ghost in the Shellfame), and the eclectic short-film anthology follow-up Genius Party Beyond. These four great films are also joined by this month’s binge-worthy TV series The Tatami Galaxy, the acclaimed eccentric romantic comedy from Masaaki Yuasa.
All titles will be available on Screen Anime from 27 December 2020 until 25 January 2021. The four feature films will be available in...
- 12/23/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Each Saturday, Tim has been taking a look at one of the films submitted for the Best Animated Feature Oscar. Today, two of them by the same artist.
Masaaki Yuasa is, to my mind, the most interesting director working in animation today. Ever since his first feature, 2004's Mind Game, he has subjected himself to a nearly constant process of self-reinvention, with every one of his major projects shifting to a new style, genre, or most likely both. He's mostly worked in television, but he had a very phenomenal 2017 with two extremely well-received features. Both of those were released in the United States in 2018 by distributor Gkids, and both are among the most stunning, even radical pieces of animation available on any screen of any size in the past twelve months.
The first one produced, though the second one released by Gkids, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl is...
Masaaki Yuasa is, to my mind, the most interesting director working in animation today. Ever since his first feature, 2004's Mind Game, he has subjected himself to a nearly constant process of self-reinvention, with every one of his major projects shifting to a new style, genre, or most likely both. He's mostly worked in television, but he had a very phenomenal 2017 with two extremely well-received features. Both of those were released in the United States in 2018 by distributor Gkids, and both are among the most stunning, even radical pieces of animation available on any screen of any size in the past twelve months.
The first one produced, though the second one released by Gkids, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl is...
- 12/29/2018
- by Tim Brayton
- FilmExperience
The Night Is Short, Walk on GirlNew York City’s remarkable summer of Asian film programming continues this week, when, just as the New York Asian Film Festival comes to a close, the Japan Society begins its annual series highlighting the best of contemporary Japanese cinema. This twelfth edition of Japan Cuts features 28 films over ten days, most of which are premiering for the first time in the United States. It’s an eclectic mix of arthouse and genre films from world famous directors as well as young unknowns. I was able to sample a handful of this year’s program, for the most part steering away from the biggest names1 in favor of less heralded filmmakers. In all I saw six films: three romantic comedies; a road movie; a 1980s pink film (Masayuki Suo’s Abnormal Family); and Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hanagatami, which is some kind of a historical drama.
- 7/19/2018
- MUBI
(If only I could watch this series again, knowing what I do know now... Oh wait, I can!) There are timetravel stories which allow people to visit faraway pasts, dinosaurs, pyramids, or faraway futures with wastelands, aliens, utopias, dystopias... There are other timetravel stories which allow people to re-do or re-view parts of their Own pasts and try to avoid certain mistakes. The noitaminA anime "The Tatami Galaxy" from director Masaaki Yuasa is such a story, or rather such a series of stories. Its eleven episodes depict a student doing the same two years of his life in different ways, seemingly all to the same disastrous effect. Australian distributor Siren Visual has released several of the recent noitaminA series on DVD, and "The Tatami Galaxy"...
- 5/6/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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