The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, the enormously successful Japanese manga and anime franchise, brings the series to a truly global audience.
Twenty-five years on from his promise to become “the very best”, Ash Ketchum has won the Pokémon World Championship. But for a franchise that’s always evolving, this is far from the end.
Critics praised the film for its stunning visuals.
Studio Ghibli
Despite the fact that many of its elements were alien to American audiences, the film became a sensation.
John Cho plays iconic anime bounty hunter Spike Spiegel in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of ‘Cowboy Bebop.’
('Cowboy Bebop' 2021 Netflix trailer/'Cowboy Bebop Netflix anime trailer)
‘Cowboy Bebop’ drew international viewers with its genre-bending fusion of American mafia movies, Italian westerns, Japanese cyberpunk, Hong-Kong style martial arts and its eclectic soundtrack.
It’s widely known as a crowdfunding record-breaker, but the painstaking work to recreate Hiroshima in a new anime film is a nod to its traditional roots.
Is it game? Is it a film? The lines are blurring.
Square Enix
It is a strange and transitional time in the history of cinema. As the medium itself shifts irreversibly from celluloid to computation, the last generation of true film-makers is gradually, but inevitably…
Emerald L King, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
I’m standing in a line at Brisbane Supanova 2013, a pop culture convention, when I’m approached by a young family with a tiny girl in a sparkly Snow White gown, complete with bright red hair bow. “We were…