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Ever since the original Toy Story came out, Computer Generated imagery has ruled the big-screen animation output in the west. Fantastic as some of these films may have been, for lovers of the art of traditional animation, it’s hard not to feel something has been lost. Luckily for 2D fans, Japan has continued to fly … Continued

In New Port city everything, it seems, is connected. Information, like consumer technology, is everywhere. Almost everybody enjoys a certain level of cybernetic enhancement. Citizens sport prosthetic limbs and bodies and converse via electronic brain-to-brain communication. Machines and computers have become an integral part of the fabric of society, and everyone from the highest paid … Continued

Cool…, Dead Leaves just looks cool, and that’s exactly what this 50 minute OVA delivers. It’s a glimpse into the uber-creative minds at Production I.G – vivid character designs, hyper kinetic action scenes and just pure comic book violence. The fact there is barely a story to hold this whole thing together is merely a … Continued

It’s almost impossible to exist inside modern anime fandom without feeling the over-bearing influence of Mamoru Oshii’s landmark feature ‘Ghost in the Shell’, a film cited by many as a genuine classic of contemporary science fiction, let alone Japanese animation. Ghost in the Shell (the movie), while based inside the universe of Masamune Shirow’s ever … Continued

Set on a Japanese military air base at the beginning of the Vietnam War, a dangerous new type of monster is discovered: shapeshifting creatures known as teropterids, which feed on human blood. A team of secret American government agents send for a mysterious girl who is the only one able to kill the creatures: Saya, … Continued